Monitored Status Doesn't Change After Drone Factory Import

I just recently started playing around with Sonarr on my Windows box and I’m having a little trouble getting it to work the way I would like. I have an unusual setup because I just use Sonarr to automatically send the NZBs to SABnzbd but once the file is done downloading, I manually convert the files to an “.m4v” format to play nice with my Apple TV. I’ve then been manually copying the files to the appropriate directory on my NAS. This works fine for me, but the problem I’ve noticed is that after I manually copy the file to the correct the directory, the “monitored status” for that episode does not switch off. Sonarr reports the status for the episode as downloaded, but it’s still monitoring for that episode as well.

Since I want to perform a conversion after the file has been downloaded but before it is imported, I don’t believe I can use the CDH functionality. So instead I tried using Drone Factory, and this worked as expected. I dropped the converted file into the monitored directory and was imported. However, the “monitored status” still did not change after importing via the Drone Factory. Am I missing something? Should the monitored status be updating or is that only something that gets done when importing via CDH?

Depends what you mean by the monitored status. If you mean that the episode is still monitored then thats expected, the monitored flag isn’t changed when something is imported.

If you mean that Sonarr still sees it as downloading and shown in the queue thats because the path thats used when its imported from the Drone factory differs from the path that SAB reports and Sonarr doesn’t know they are the same release, turning of CDH would solve that (it would get removed immediately after the download is finished in SAB).

You can, thats one of the benefits of using CDH, it waits for scripts to finish running before it executes (at least when your client supports post processing scripts, which SABnzb does). You’d need to have SABnzbd execute the script after the download is unpacked and have your script clean up the original video file, but it should work without any further customization and gives Sonarr the ability to track the download from grab through the downloading, unpacking and script execution and finally import it.

Oh, so maybe it’s just me misunderstanding how it is supposed to work…

If I load a new episode to my NAS, then run the “Update Series” and Sonarr finds the episode stored on my NAS, should I expect the “Monitored Status” flag to be removed? I guess the real reason I was expecting it to work this way was because when I initially installed Sonarr and pointed it to the TV Shows on my NAS, it scanned all of my episodes and did not set the monitored status flag for all the episodes it found on my NAS. So I was thinking once an episode was downloaded and imported, that monitored flag would get unset.

So if Sonarr sees that I already have an episode downloaded, does that mean it will not download another release of that episode, regardless of the monitored flag?

EDIT:
Now that I’m thinking about it more, I might be understanding why it wouldn’t unset/remove the monitored flag. Feel free to correct me if I’m on the wrong track, but I figure that it will not remove the monitored flag even after importing because then it would no longer be looking for an upgraded quality of the same episode (assuming you haven’t already downloaded the highest quality you’re looking for). What I mean is that, say Sonarr downloads and imports an HDTV quality release and if it removes the monitored flag, it would no longer be looking for any higher quality releases assuming you had it configured to upgrade until you have bluray quality. Logically this makes sense to me anyway…

Yup, you nailed it, thats exactly it. If the cutoff was met and you didn’t want upgrades then unmonitoring would work, but later if you changed your mind you’d be stuck. Since the profile will prevent another download anyways its enough to stop and the monitored flag can stay as it is.

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