Some help please?

[daveinermo]

Hey

I have used Vuze for years and manually downloaded through RARBG etc for years until someone at RARBG support said I should use Sonarr when I asked a couple questions - no explanation what it was, how it works or why I should use it so kind of in the dark.

I am guessing its a way to automate my downloads - I managed to setup the indexer, put in Vuze as the client, and I have chucked in a couple series, setup Vuze and I think they are playing nicely together but Sonarr has grabbed a coupled eps I know are there on RARBG right now, I manually selected them in Sonarr, it shows them as grabbed but I don’t get how Sonarr gets Vuze to initiate the download.

But if someone can point me in the direction of a noobs install manual thats all I need really and I can muddle through from there.

There was one listed in a pinned post but its been deleted from google docs.

Any help appreciated

[malakia2966]

Would appreciate a similar document.
ie:
Welcome to Sonarr (what is it)
What it does/how
What are the different streams
1) Identify what you watch/want
2) Tells Sonarr where u manage your torrents
3) Tell Sonarr where to get your new downloads (i.e. Website, NNTP, etc.)
Then get into the features specific to Sonarr.

Something like this would be brilliant and infinitely useful to Noob’s.

Thanks,
M.

[daveinermo]

I know right? I am a reasonably technical person and thought it was all setup correctly but downloads wouldn’t start for some unknown reason. Everything was set the way (I thought) it should be but when a download became available it just sat there.

Once this lockdown goes full blast in Australia I am sure I will have more than enough time to tweak this stuff lol

[Thirrian]

The first part of the readme shows you in a nutshell what sonarr is: https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/blob/phantom-develop/README.md

Probably the FAQ can clear up some things as well: https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/wiki/FAQ

Almost everything in sonarr is pretty self-explanatory and/or has a (?) icon that gives more information or links to an article on the wiki.

I’d say just go for it and see how far you get?

(advanced: if you’re wanting to do docker, please please read the common pitfalls listed on the official site in the downloads section: https://sonarr.tv/ )