3.0.3.717 <— i’m on this version but the issue has been there since the previous version.
When adding torrents via sonarr, it over-rides qbittorrent “Do not start the download automatically” therefore starting the download anyway, however, when I add a torrent manually and directly to QBT then the torrent is added paused. I have tested both methods several times with same results.
Win7SP1x64
QBT-4.1.9.1
Did you set Initial State to paused in sonarr’s settings for qBittorrent?
Thank you,
No it was set to ‘start’, I changed it to ‘pause’.
How/why does sonarr setting over-ride the settings for the torrent-client, is it just for this setting, some, most, or all?
So if the torrent client is set to start but sonarr is set to pause then any torrents/magnets added via sonarr will be added as paused?
I’m assuming that in the future when I want my torrent downloads to be automated, I will have to change this back to start, correct?
Is there a way to prevent sonarr from automatically updating(sonarr application update), there is supposed to be a box under >settings>general>updates to disable/untick it but it is missing. I just checked on sonarr after 9hrs and noticed that sonarr had crashed around 3:18am just after the “RssSyncService”<—can this be disabled/turned-off as well?
Lots of questions 
How: I don’t think there’s more than what you see in the qBit download client settings in sonarr, together with the completed download handling toggles which are global for all download clients.
Why: to allow sonarr to do things for sonarr-specific downloads, e.g. start/don’t start them anyway when adding, despite global settings in your downloader. Apply a sonarr-specific label so sonarr doesn’t have to check the entire download clients’ queue and as a bonus you can do things with those torrents in your client that only apply for sonarr. E.g. run a script to unrar content, re-encode, … which you may not want to run on all torrents.
Yes.
Yes. If you let sonarr add them paused, it will still track them and process them automatically when done, but you are in control when to actually start downloading them.
If you let them start automatically it becomes a hands-off operation.
Not on Windows if I recall correctly, sonarr will always update and no way to disable. A dev will have to back me up on this one.
No. That is an inherent feature of sonarr, to regularly check your indexer(s) RSS feed(s) and parse the results to send torrents/nzb’s do your download client(s) if they match wanted episodes…
If this regularly happens it’s probably best to turn the logging up to debug and start a new topic specifically for that issue.
Thanks,
Yes, I just read somewhere where the rss is critical for the indexing.
I will monitor it and if it continues to happen I will start a new topic for it.
Will it prevent updates even if the branch field is set to something like?:
0000phantom-develop0000
I have sonarr on a separate system as all my media and I have mapped drive letters to that other system. I have sonarr configured to one root folder where I temporarily load my new downloads to the same location set in QBT but then after processing those files for verification/hash-check/etc, I move them up one folder level where all my individual loose episodes/series are with no folders/directories.
So I’m planning on mass importing them into sonarr, so once this task is completed, I assume sonarr will recognize all the existing and any future files that I move from the temporary download location to where all the other loose files are? I’m assuming that sonarr is regularly refreshing in order to maintain a record of what has already been downloaded. Will I need to manually set a 2nd root mapped folder to this imported location as well?
Currently I have everything unchecked/disabled under ‘Download Clients’ for “completed download handling” except for the ‘Remote Path Mappings’ where i currently have the remote path set to the same as my temporary downloads location on the other system and the local one set to a directory-folder called “Downloads” in the root drive. The two options beneath ‘Failed Download Handling’ is basic self-explanatory to the two options beneath the ‘Completed Download Handling’, except for the ‘Automatically import completed downloads from download client’?, what will this do if enabled?
Also, what is ‘Use hardlinks when trying to copy files from torrents that are still being seeded’?<----is this associated with the automatic import of completed downloads from download client? I read that the hardlinks shortcut maps/references from one location of the file to the other without actually copying the physical file, is this necessary to enable?
But… why?
Mixing download folders and sorted files: no. Just… no. Don’t do this please. It causes all sorts of issues.
By sorted files I mean the folder that sonarr is in charge of. Sonarr should be the only process that touches files/folders in that location.
That is, if you ever want to use automatic download handling (the true power of sonarr, imo).
Exactly what it says. Sonarr monitors your download client, and when something is completed* it will see that and then process the file (move to sorted files, rename as per the naming scheme defined in sonarr, generate metadata if enabled, …, remove the torrent from your client).
*Completed: whatever term is used in qBit. Usually this is a state where the file is downloaded 100% and the seeding ratio is met, or the torrent is stopped, or something like that. Really depends on qBit, I don’t know that client.
If applicable and possible, sonarr will hardlink the file (kind of like a shortcut). Let’s say your torrent is at 100% so you could watch the episode, but seeding goals are not met: sonarr can detect this and already hardlink the file in your sorted downloads directory for you to watch (e.g. through plex or kodi which look at your sorted files). Meanwhile the torrent can merrily keep on seeding.
Not sure if this is applicable/possible on separate systems, but in my very humble opinion it can’t hurt to turn it on.
Unless there is a necessity to update eg.(security, stability, missing-feature, etc.), I always preferred to have the option to enable/disable updates as this can cause unexpected instability to the application/system.
So sonarr cannot be configured to control or monitor two folders? There is an option to add another folder in the ‘series>import’ category and ‘settings>media management’ category.
I keep 99% of all completed/processed media files in a root-folder and the temporary/incoming on a separate subfolder of that root-folder; as of now, I have sonarr accessing only the subfolder. If this is a conflict issue for sonarr then yes I will map sonarr to only the root-folder and also use it for all temp/incoming media files as well.
As for moving, sorting, renaming, and metadata, I prefer to do that manually if/when it is necessary so I will keep this disabled for now, at least till I have adjusted as to how reliable and consistent sonarr is, which is another reason that for now I allow files to be added as paused so I can make sure it is what I prefer.
So far sonarr has automatically added four files that I already had even when all settings are set to ‘future episodes’ only. To confirm, I reset the season pass to ‘future episodes’ just to make sure, however, since I have not yet mapped/imported the root-folder in sonarr, then sonarr assumes that those episodes are not there so when the indexer releases new release-group files from previous recent episodes that sonarr does not yet know are stored in the root-folder then it automatically adds them to the torrent client. So the ‘future episodes’ only apply as long as sonarr has a record of the location where those recent previous episodes are stored.
There are several options and settings in sonarr that I will need to experiment with as I’m new to both QBT and Sonarr. I have always done most of this manually in order to maintain a minimum level of errors, mistakes, and inconsistencies.
Is it possible for sonarr to import other database data from any format like, xml, csv, txt, etc.?
Are tags explicit? In other words, will sonnar not download a particular file unless it matches the ‘tag’ set for that series? or does the quality-profile take priority and download a file not matching the set tag(s) as long as it matches the quality-profile?
How is it possible to add ‘other’ torrent indexers that are not listed in sonarr? or would i need to use something like jackett?
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