Config help with KAT/utorrent

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My Sonarr PC is running on a separate host to my NAS but has SMB access/Drive mapping.
I am looking to making use of torrent indexer/downloader. I am using KAT and utorrent.
By using restirctions eztv/ettv on the indexer, I am able to constrain Sonarr to the torrents im after (so far, but i suspect this wont be accurate enough in long term and I will need to be more sophisticated)

The way i wish to use sonarr (if its possible) is to have it download ONCE any episode and any proper, that conforms to certain keywords/ users on KAT and put all episodes in single folder. From there i can move them to the nas for ingestion.(from here my nas will ingest to correct media folders). I dont require sonarr to monitor anything in the long term, im just looking for it to place the files in a folder as and when they are available on the indexer…

Qu 1. Is it possible to config sonarr in such a way (in a robust intended way for my use case), so that sonarr downloads episodes and their propers from all shows and places them in a SINGLE folder on the sonarr pc, which i can can easily manually move to a folder on my nas . I dont need sonarr to monitor anything on an ongoing basis, just to download each episode and its proper (if exists) ONCE when found on the indexer.

Qu 2. Is there a better way/possibility, asides from restrictions on indexer to point sonarr to the desired torrents… eg. preferred users on KAT, keywords in torrent title, extension of filename, codecs, release groups…Not all releases come under keywords eztv, ettv. Can i set preferences rather than absolute requirements, eg prefer .mp4 to .avi…prefer user X’s torrents to any other user. What other options are there to point Sonarr in the desired direction - what do other users do?

Qu 3. the quality settings don’t seem to match KAT torrents. for example the keywords in my preferred torrents are HDTV, x264, NOT 720,…this turns out to be sonar’s SDTV quality profile…but its counter intuitive…is there an explanation for this so i understand it better.

Qu 4. Sonarr wont use drive mappings as folders for series in the normal ui, is there a work around for this…if i did want to sonarr to manage my media folders on a long term basis…

thanks for advice

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  1. No, it’s not possible to drop it all in one folder. and nope, Fire-and-Forget isn’t exactly a workflow we like to support, but we have a trello card for it https://trello.com/c/PRYBRH2h/498-fire-and-forget-downloading.
    Don’t expect that anytime soon though, coz from our perspective it’s a broken workflow that defeats a lot of Sonarr primary features.

  2. No, most users just set rejections on what they don’t want.
    https://trello.com/c/yXPCg3pC/859-preferred-words-more-release-restriction-awesomeness
    But if that’s ever implemented, it will only work on the release title, not on other criteria such as poster.

  3. We have 3 ‘sources’ and 3 ‘resolutions’. each combo has a quality, so 9 qualities.
    TV sources: SDTV, HDTV-720p, HDTV-1080p, (HDTV, SDTV, PDTV etc are all non-HD TV sources, hench SDTV.)
    WEBDL sources: WEBDL-480p, -720p, -1080p. (atm Webrip is in there as well, but it’s a bit awkward due to different quality)
    Disk sources: DVD, Bluray-720p, -1080p. (BDRips, which are normally 480p, go there as well).

  4. This is an incredibly common issue has to do with services and permissions, check: https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/wiki/FAQ#why-cant-sonarr-see-my-files-on-a-remote-server

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thankyou for your advice.

so it all really comes down to the same core…if i can configure sonarr in such a way that i trust it is as good as me at picking the right torrent, then i should hand over responsibility to sonarr to get it right…

ill run it in an offline mode first to gain confidence…
so far by using…
quality=sdtv
indexer restriction = ettv or eztv
indexer restriction = x264 not xvid
i seem to be getting the torrents i want…

if i use hardlinks rather than copy i’m hoping i can just use my torrent download folder in interim as the single folder as i gain confidence…need to investigate…

i think the challenge will be the odd show with different indexer restriction requirements but i think sonarr will handle that with tag exceptions…need to investigate.

thanks