Just been forced to do a full server reinstall for one reason or another and thought I’d try and set things up properly this time round!
Before using Drone I would download to a single TV folder and then move/format individual files one by one using a custom shell script. It renames them and sends them to their final destination on various mapped network shares on my NAS. Some I keep, some I watch and delete. All my machines run Linux.
Sabnzbd downloads to /home/lee/downloads/complete/TV/ which I also had set as my drone factory folder.
I tried setting each series with its final network share folder (/media/TV/US/The Flash/, for example) but that seemed wrong as it took ages to set up and didn’t seem to do anything useful like scan for existing episodes, so I started putting them all in one folder. I also started getting ‘path is already configured as a root folder’ errors.
What’s the best way to set drone up to fit with my setup? I’m concerned about it deleting things it shouldn’t so I’m not sure if I should point it to my NAS?
What’s the correct drone factory location to use? Should I use completed download handling? Is it safe to point it to my NAS folders for each series?
You can skip the drone factory folder and use completed download handling instead (it will get the path from SAB and import from there as long as drone has access to the path).
For adding existing series, add the folder that contains the series folders, so in your example, you would add /media/TV/US/ and The Flash would have a folder that is linked to that series and so on for every other series in that folder.
Each series in drone needs its own folder, the parent to those folders is called a root folder, so the error you’re getting is saying the path you’re assigning is already set as a root folder (added when you chose import existing), you can remove it as a root folder by going to add series, import existing and removing the folder from the list.
Let us know if you need anything else to get you up and running.
That’s great, thanks for clearing up the confusion. Before now I had a different path for each series.
Everything seems to be working ok but my completed shows are now disappearing as soon as they hit the complete folder. I can see them moving and then when they finish they just disappear. To try and figure out what’s causing it, I set off a download from Drone and then disabled the api key. The download went through as normal and this time when it completed the file stayed put. As soon as I turned the api back on again, the file disappeared.
Yep, Drone was moving them. I looked in to it some more and found that my fstab wasn’t being loaded at startup because of a debain bug. That meant that Drone was creating new folders directly in /media but they weren’t pointing to the shares. I added ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no to /etc/default/rcS, the shares mounted and everything now works
I have a similar question and I still haven’t found proper clarification.
I’m using a QNAP NAS with both SABNZBD and SONARR on the same box.
What folder should I have the TV category in SAB download items to?
Everything else in SAB goes directly to the final destination (Movies to Movies folder, etc.), but it seems like I’m supposed to use a separate folder for TV so that Sonarr can pick it up and move it, is this correct?
And then for the Drone Factory folder, is this supposed to be the default SAB download folder (e.g. /sabnzbd/complete/)? I understand this is legacy, but is helpful for having a place to have manual torrents and one off downloads send files to get picked up. That is if I’m understanding it correctly.
Here’s my current config that helps:
SABNZBD has TV category which sends those items to: /share/Download/sabnzbd/qsonarr/
Sonarr has Completed Download Handingl enabled and Drone Factory set to: /share/Download/sabnzbd/complete/
Does this look correct? I’m just not finding clarification as to why I don’t set the TV category to send files directly to my TV folder like I did before Sonarr. Thank you.
To keep sorted and unsorted files separated, which avoids potential issues of them being in the same folder, such as trying to import sorted files, this is more an issue with the drone factory being used, but still good advice.
