I’d prefer not to turn it off, because I want to warn users about not having set up anything (although I suppose in v3 we’ll get rid of it entirely since there’s only one option then).
However we have an idea of adding an option to the Completed Download Handling section of the Settings where you can select the type of logic you’re using. “External” would be enough to make Sonarr shut up, but still show items that haven’t been imported. But gotta think about that a bit more and discuss it with @markus101.
Does that sound good?
In the other thread I asked if you included the downloadClientId in the API. I’d still like to know that since that affects the above proposal.
As a workaround in the meanwhile you could enable CDH and use Remote Path Mapping to point it at an empty directory. That will prevent CDH from importing anything, but it will still track the downloads and show them in the queue till iFlicks transcodes and gets them imported.