NZBDrone could download the first 3 episodes of a show and then once I have watched episode 1 in Plex or XBMC and it’s marked as watched episode 4 could start downloading in NZBDrone. This way we’d always have the next few episodes we want.
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Interesting idea. It kinda depends on watched status though, which we intend to do via trakt. (see https://trello.com/c/v0MyY4Mv/157-trakt-integration)
I’ve added your suggestion to the checklist, we’ll see if it’s possible to implement.
This sounds overly complicated, especially when files aren’t always 100% available depending on the series and take downs.
Why wouldn’t you want everything to be grabbed and waiting? and possibly deleting it after its been watched https://trello.com/c/0eiAYXSg/240-auto-delete-episodes-after-certain-criteria-is-met
Markus, I’m thinking for people who don’t watch plenty of episodes in a row and don’t have that much storage available.
As always, I’d say make the # a config option.
Also, maybe make it an option to be automagic or manual per series?
Thats Monitored status.
Not quite.
What I was thinking is ‘I watched s01e03 of Sons of Anarchy, so now Drone goes and grabs eps 4, 5, 6, but not more’
That’s a little different than monitored.
I think this would be a good extra feature, but low priority.
Yeah, working it through trakt integration should work well. Thanks for adding it to the list 
I was going to put in a feature request for this very idea. I like the idea of gradually downloading episodes as needed, automatically. For folks with a monthly data cap this would help avoid consuming it all in a few days.
Of course you can just download a few episodes or a season at a time, but the best part of Sonarr is that it can automate the whole process.
It’s also handy for non-technical members of the household. My wife texts me she wants to watch some new show. I pop into Sonarr remotely and add the show, and it downloads episodes “on demand”.
I haven’t used trakt yet as I haven’t needed to, but happy to if this feature will rely on it.