Text from the FAQ:
How does Sonarr find episodes?
Sonarr automation doesn’t search for episodes: It parses the indexer’s feed of recently posted content for episodes it knows are wanted. The feed typically includes the 100 most recently posted episodes and by default Sonarr will download it every 15 minutes. Because of this, Sonarr is designed to be installed on a system that is running most of the time. However, for indexers supporting ‘pages’, Sonarr will fetch older pages in the feed in an attempt to cover the gap when it has been offline for a few hours.
Active searching (via the indexer’s API) is only done in a few situations:
- Clicking the Automatic or Manual Search buttons on a specific episode, season, or series.
- Adding a show using the Add and Search button.
- Using Wanted -> Missing or Wanted -> Cutoff Unmet to do multiple searches.
Sonarr is searching allright. There are 13 pages of ‘Missing’ and none ‘Unmet’… I also see 4 pages of 'Blacklisted’
Why didn’t Sonarr grab an episode I was expecting?
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First, make sure you read and understand the section above called “How does Sonarr find episodes?” Second, make sure at least one of your indexers has the episode you were expecting to be grabbed. See comment above
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Click the ‘Manual Search’ icon next to the episode listing in Sonarr. Are there any results? If no, then either Sonarr is having trouble communicating with your indexers, or your indexers do not have the episode, or the episode is improperly named/categorized on the indexer. Manual search gives me plenty results
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If there are results from step 1, check next to them for red exclamation point icon. Hover over the icon to see why that release is not a candidate for automatic downloads. If every result has the icon, then no automatic download will occur. Some of them have exclamations signs but a lot of them do not. Clicking the ‘download button’ results in a succesful download.
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If there is at least one valid manual search result from step 2, then an automatic download should have happened. If it didn’t, the most likely reason is a temporary communication problem preventing an RSS Sync from your indexer. It is recommended to have several indexers set up for best results. I don’t see any temporary connection problems in the logging.
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If there is no manual result from a show, but you can find it when you browse your indexer’s website - This is a common problem that is most frequently caused by having an insufficient number of indexers. Different indexers index different content, and not all shows on your indexer may be tagged properly, which would cause Sonarr’s search to fail. Having several indexers active is the best solution to this problem.
Here’s some logging. The errors are clear but I don’t know what the reason could be:
Task Error: database is locked
database is locked
Downloading nzb for episode ‘star.trek.discovery.s01e07.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife-Pre’ failed (https://api.nzbplanet.net/getnzb/7719f32e42e5b97eef3c248468a37aa3.nzb&i=352121&r=133a494049e465d072b84f7e93f4ab0a): Failed to read complete http response
Couldn’t refresh info for [80275][Starship Farragut]: The request timed out: ‘http://skyhook.sonarr.tv/v1/tvdb/shows/en/80275’
These are the indexers configured in Jackett:
And here are my download clients.
What’s funny is when I go to Download Station and…
It opens up the ‘video/TV’ directory although the files are not there but in the directory mentioned earlier.
Edit:
Part of the files are in the ‘Internet Download/Synology’ directory and part of them are in ‘video’ on the Synology. But none of them are in ‘video/TV’. I’ve been struggling a while so it is possible that changes I made over time have caused the files to be put in different places of course. But the least I can say that it’s strange that none of them are in the ‘video/TV’ directory.
Ok, here’s one that does find results via indexers but can find it’s destination somehow.
Looks like a permission thing. Changing the destination directory to ‘video’ instead of ‘video/TV’ allows the download. I am the owner of the directory but it is possible Sonarr or Download Station has no permissions to read/write into it.
Ok, it starts to work. Cleared the ‘Blacklist’ and reactivated the search. There are now more than 30 in the ‘Activity’ list and in Download Station and growing.
Thanks for all the help people.
Looks like everything starts to work for me. Several downloads started in Download Station. Not all mind you, still see a lot of broken links.
