Converted from SickBeard and require some help please

Help & Support
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Hi,

I’ve been a longtime user of SAB and SickBeard and have just moved over to NZBGet and Sonarr (as well as Headphones and Couchpotato), so I know how all this stuff works generally, and it’s just a lack of familiarity with Sonarr that’s getting me.

I understand it works differently to SickBeard, that’s fine. I know I have to do backlog searches manually, also fine.

Now, I have about 40 series in Sonarr, all pretty up to date (only set it up a few days ago). I manually asked it to grab episodes that I’d missed in the crossover, and it passed them to NZBGet fine, downloaded and post-processed with no problems…brilliant…all set.

Only this morning when I looked at it, the latest episodes of a few of my series shown over Wednesday, Thursday and last night (Friday) have not been snatched. I’ve snatched them all manually with no problems (via Sonarr).

I don’t use RSS feeds.

Is this normal behaviour? I can’t see anywhere that says, “Sonarr will search your indexers every x second/minutes/hours for the latest episodes”. Searching through the logs seems to indicate it’s not automatically searching at all for latest episodes, but all the relevant series/episodes have a monitored status. How often are they monitored?

Thanks for any help. If it’s easier to set up RSS then I’ll do that, but I’ve never needed to in 4 years of using NZBs. Indexers are Miatrix and SDoY (for my sins). Providers are Eweka and Astraweb European server block account.

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Hi,

It does search when this has happened to me I have manually downloaded a quality higher than I told sonarr to look for. If you look at the manual list of nzb’s there be circle next to them saying ssomething to the effect of quality not requested. (Set it to ANY rather than SD. This though will cause it to back fill at times with a better quality as they become available.)

If it is not this it is just the poll cycle.

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I’ve just noticed with my settings. I had the RSS Sync Interval set to 0 as I’m not using RSS, but I note the tooltip sais this will stop all automatic grabbing. So I’ve set the interval to 15 minutes just to see if that’s the problem.

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this is your problem, enable the RSS checkbox on your indexers. RSS is the primary way Sonarr gets new shows/upgrades.

there is alot about how this works with RSS and the API if you search around the forum.

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I’ve enabled search in all my indexers now, and set the interval to 30 minutes and all is working brilliantly now.

Simple when you know how!

Thanks.