I’m completely new to Sonarr and from what I’m seeing so far for the most part I like it. I just have a few questions. First I know it’s working cause just about an hour ago I got the latest episode of The Good Doctor via torrent, so simply fantastic and now to my questions.
Can I set a specific size limit for all files downloaded? I would like no larger that 300 megs(480p to 720p) per file downloaded. The Good Doctor was a 2.3 gig download. I changed some of the sliders under quality after seeing that and the lowest I seem to be able to is is 800+ megs.
Do I need to keep my browser open or will Sonarr still download the torrents and pass them to Deluge with the browser closed?
Lastly can I run Sonarr behind a VPN? I have Browsec in Vivaldi and my other browsers and would prefer to have it enabled when Sonarr is going to download anything.
Thanks for the info on the browser not having to be closed. Now as for the VPN my experience has been that I never get a DCMA notice if I have the VPN on in the browser and the encryption enabled in my torrent client.
The browser is just accessing the webUI for Sonarr on a local address (e.g. 127.0.0.1), so a browser based VPN is not hiding any of Sonarr’s actual internet traffic, and it’s definitely not hiding Jackett’s searches or Deluge’s downloads.
Yes a browser VPN does hide the activity from one’s ISP. Now if someone want to take the time to dig down to the actual IP they can, but over 95% of the time they won’t. I and others have used this particular method for years with only getting a rare DCMA notice.
I think you’re misunderstanding me. I’m not suggesting you’re using a poor quality VPN, or that browser based VPNs are bad, rather that they only hide the traffic sent and received by your browser.
Sonarr is not part of your browser, nor is Jackett, and Deluge definitely isn’t (which is the main source of traffic you’d want to be hiding).
Thank you, now that makes more sense. That said I have had a few downloads Sonarr sent to Deluge and none of them have been flagged yet. So look like my ISP for whatever reason isn’t paying any real attention to certain traffic. That said I have a couple more questions and I believe I’m all set.
When I download a torrent it and it’s files go to a folder called Torrents. Once it’s done I remove it from the torrent client, move the file(s) to a folder called Last Night’s to be renamed properly and watched. Once they are watched I move the particular episode to it’s series/season folder. As for downloads in general EVERYTHING no matter what is used to download the item it’s downloaded to one central folder to be scanned, used, and then filed. What I’d like to know if there is a way to stop Sonar from moving the show files once they are downloaded by Deluge, and not redownload a episode I’ve manually moved? Thanks
If you’re interested, here’s an easy check for you, click Activate under Torrent Address detection and add it to Deluge - https://ipleak.net/
Your ISP doesn’t care, it just gets sent notices from 3rd parties who monitor the swarm and your ISP forwards them on.
You can use hardlinks if you don’t want Sonarr to actually move the files (basically just create a quasi-shortcut to it). As for not redownloading your moved episodes, you can set it to unmonitor/ignore deleted episodes. You can find both options under Media Management in Settings.
I don’t think I’m getting you about the links helpfulness. This might help a bit.
Show gets downloaded, moved to Last Night’s, renamed using Rename my TV Series(examples rename below), watched, moved to it’s series/season folder. from what I’ve seen in Sonarr unless I’m missing something Sonarr doesn’t use the same format I have setup in RMTV for renaming.
9-1-1 Lone Star (2020) S01E02 Yee-Haw.mkv
Star Trek Discovery (2017) S03E03 People of Earth.mkv
OK I checked to have Sonarr not monitor deleted episodes. I also set it not to create season folders. I’n assuming it will still create the series folders which I can live with, cause I can keep doing things like I’ve been and simply do a search in the Sonarr TV folder for video files and delete them cause I would have already copied and renamed them from my main downloads folder.