I am testing out Sonarr thinking about moving from SickRage. I imported a current series. I do not have all the episodes for this series…for example I have all of 3 seasons, I am missing several episodes from other seasons, and a couple of seasons I don’t have any episodes.
What I would expect is that this shows yellow on the Series view and on the Season views were I am missing episodes. It doesnt though. It basically shows me the number of episodes I have of the number I have…for example:
Season 2 I only have 2 of the 24 episodes downloaded. I would expect it would say 2/24 and be yellow but instead it shows 2/2 and is green. All the episodes are listed there and under status the ones I don’t have show the exclamation point in the triangle.
If they aren’t monitored, Sonarr assumes you don’t want them at all, and thus doesn’t count them at all. I guess you could say it is the equivalent of Ignore status in SickBeard (which I can only assume also exists in SickRage, as I haven’t used it.)
SickRage has skipped also though, that shows the episode as missing…but not necessarily wanted. I use this on a lot of shows that I don’t care about having everything “yet” but still want to know they are missing. Is there something similar in Sonarr?
I figured the legend shows orange for “Missing Episodes Series Not Monitored”…I figured thats what I was after.
My understanding is that orange is based on if the series itself is monitored, and doesn’t count the monitored status of particular episodes within the series. In other words, I don’t think that Sonarr has something that is exactly equivalent to Skipped in SickBeard/SickRage.
Dang…that might be a show stopper for me. Being able to see what shows are missing episodes without actually going out and grabbing those episodes is kind of key for me. I guess I could disable the show monitor, but that doesn’t work in all cases because some shows I am updating current episodes to keep up with it, but have not actually watched the show yet (so I have not grabbed previous seasons for example).
Dont see why, sonarr isnt going to go out and search for those, unless you click on search/search missing, as it only gets episodes via RSS as standard
mark the missing episodes back as monitored, and you can easily see from the series list which ones your missing. It doesnt mean sonarr is going to go out and get them automatically without your intervention
I almost posted the same advice, but often enough there are reposts put up for downed content, or content comes out in new qualities, which are often posted long after an episode has aired.
Its true if something does appear on the RSS feed for something that is monitored + missing then it would grab that, but that would be something that happens “rarely-occasionally” compared to everyday,
So I guess Sonarr does not perform “backlog searches” like SickRage (or SickBeard) does? I assumed if something was monitored and not downloaded, it would search for that on some regular basis. If it doesn’t then maybe that is Ok for my purposes. If something does get reposted and shows up in RSS as NoxMetus mentioned, then it would just download it I guess…not a huge deal unless it happens to be an entire season and fills my download queue with a show that I am not ready to download.
Question then: If I set the episodes to monitor, can I then set the show to “not monitor” and it wont download them even if they show up in the RSS?
Maybe this is worth a feature request to add the “skipped” type setting for episodes like SB and SR have?
If you set the available episodes to a quality equal or higher then the cutoff in your profile for the series, you can leave monitored on without it ever downloading a different version.
Can you explain what you mean here, I don’t understand. The episodes I am talking about are ones that are not downloaded yet…so I can’t set their quality to anything. Maybe I am missing your point?
I found the part of the Wiki that talks about this topic and after reading it, it makes perfect sense to me why you don’t need a backlog search if a file is monitored:
“If the episode wasn’t there the last time the search was performed, why would it be there now? It would be if it was reposted, but if it was reposted, the automatic process that gets new episodes would see it was posted and act on it.”
Makes perfect sense. I don’t think that SickBeard or SickRage do that…but I am not sure. If an episode is not found, then I set it “wanted” I believe it only looks for those when the backlog search runs…not on the daily RSS feeds. If that is true, then the way Sonarr does it is much better in my opinion.
I do like being able to see what episodes I am missing though without actually monitoring them at the moment. It makes my library more “complete”. But I see both sides of it too…people want to ignore certain episodes too…so maybe a setting for each would be worthwhile at some point.