This weekend I’ve finished setting up Sonarr with Transmission on my Raspberry Pi. Automatically downloading series and then correctly moving/renaming them seems to go well in general.
There are a few episodes in almost every TV show however that will not start downloading automatically, even though I’m sure that a proper download exists of that episode. I thus use manual import to also download these episodes. I have no problem downloading them and Sonarr correctly shows the download progress. Once it reaches 100% these downloads do not get moved, however.
S08E21 was downloaded automatically through Sonarr. nearly always
goes well. Succeeded in this case
S08E22 was downloaded manually through Sonarr. Sometimes
fails, sometimes correctly renames and moves. Succeeded in this case
S08E23 was downloaded directly from KAT. Nearly always fails. Failed in this case. I also noticed the following message in the activities tab: Download wasn’t grabbed by Sonarr and not in a category, Skipping
Do you mean manual search? Importing is for importing a completed download, manual search lets you queue up an episode to download by picking the release you want.
If you manually grab a torrent you need to set the category to match the category set in the Download Client settings in Sonarr, be it Deluge, Transmission or something else. If you didn’t set Sonarr to use a category you need to.
I’m somewhat doubting it now. Setting a category would cause a subfolder to be used for Sonarr downloads inside the transmission download-dir. If I change the download dir of transmission-daemon to ‘/home/pi/harddisk/downloads/series’ then setting a category would make the downloads of Sonarr go to ‘/home/pi/harddisk/downloads/series/series’. This would just move the problem instead of solving it.
Is this correctly formulated? Or am I missing something?
Ah yes, sorry, you don’t want to change the default download directory for Transmission, just set a category. If you download something manually you need to set the folder either before or after starting the torrent.
So there is no easy way to let both Sonarr-picked automatic searches and hand-picked KAT searches work without changing the data-dir back and forth after every manually downloaded torrent?
It happens quite often that Sonarr cannot find a certain episode yet when I search for it myself there are tens of versions of that episode that all satisfy my Sonarr search criteria. It would be nice if I could select to use only the renaming functionality when I want in such cases.
Anyways, since it cannot be done the easy way, I’ve done it in a harder way:
Transmission-daemon download-dir is ‘/home/pi/harddisk/downloads/’
In the Sonarr Download Client menu the field Category is set to ‘series’. Automatically searched episodes are thus in ‘/home/pi/harddisk/downloads/series/’
Drone factory is set to watch ‘/home/pi/harddisk/downloads/manualDownloads/’
A script moves all manually picked, from KAT downloaded, files from the default download-dir ‘/home/pi/harddisk/downloads/’ to ‘/home/pi/harddisk/downloads/manualDownloads/’
Sounds like KAT isn’t returning them because of naming or they are from unverified posters, try changing the KAT settings in Sonarr to include unverified results.
You could also use a browser plugin to set the proper path when you need to manually download the torrent, for Chrome I use the Remote Transmission ++ plugin which sees the torrent download and lets me choose the download path and send the torrent to
That would be a nice solution. It would however require me to do more work and I’m trying to reduce that to a minimum instead ;). Thanks for your help!