I’m a new user to Sonarr and am loving it. First just a couple of quick questions:
I have created a shortcut to Startup for NzbDrone.exe, but it wants to pop up a browser window on launch. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?
uTorrent is my torrent program, finding new episodes is easy enough to do but I would like my files renamed automatically and moved to their folders. I set my rename profile after searching for new episodes, do I need to cancel all downloads and start over for this to work successfully? I would also like to specify where each episode file goes after being downloaded and renamed, can this be done on a per show basis? I would like to move my completed (ended) shows on their own harddrive and have updated (newly aired) shows on a fairly empty drive.
I would like to access Sonarr remotely, be that through another computer on my network, or remotely from my phone. When I type in my local IP:port from another computer it doesn’t show anything but localhost:port works from the HTPC machine. How can this be done correctly to access Sonarr from another computer?
Also, one more question: I am using Plex Media Server / Player and am loving them both. What would the benefit of using both connect -> PlexClient and connect -> PlexServer be within Sonarr?
There is an option in General Settings. Make sure the Windows Service is disabled though, or it will still just launch the browser.
As long as they are labeled the same as Sonarr queued downloads they will be picked up (as long as Sonarr can figure them out).
When you add a series you select the path where Sonarr will sort the files to, but you can only choose one location per series and it needs to be unique for each series.
Check out our ((FAQ)), this is covered there.
PlexServer - Auto update the library
PlexClient - Support for the legacy Plex Media Center, for Plex Home Theatre use XBMC and change the port, this can be used to show GUI notifications.
It looks like the renaming is happening now - thanks! A few of them didn’t get caught before I put the rename rule in. Perhaps I can do so manually using theRenamer for those files.
OK, that’s good to know. However, what I am finding is that there are duplicate files - the automated uTorrent downloads will save incomplete downloads to /Downloads/ and move completed downloads to /Downloads/!complete/. (This is my setting within uTorrent for where to store torrents in progress and torrents that have finished downloading). The issue seems to be that Sonarr is making a duplicate of the completed files and copying them over to the show directory. Is there any way to rename and move the files directly or automatically delete the uTorrent downloaded files if copying the files will be necessary?
Thanks - I had a good read through that page and managed to change my the permissions checkbox to “Run this program as an administrator” for NzbDrone.exe. Gave everything a reboot but still am not able to access the Web UI from another machine. I have tried the IP:port and also the name of the machine (htpc:8989) but bot provide the following result in Chrome. Here are some screenshots: Any idea what I may be doing incorrectly?
from another machine (doesn’t work - same message appears with router IP:8989):
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PlexServer - Auto update the library
PlexClient - Support for the legacy Plex Media Center, for Plex Home Theatre use XBMC and change the port, this can be used to show GUI notifications.[/quote]
Thanks! It looks like Plex is already fetching info for the files on it’s own, so perhaps this is not necessary in my case for “PlexServer” at this present time.
Can you access it by IP on the system running Chrome?
Also double check that the port has been opened properly in the Windows firewall, depending on the way the connection is setup Sonarr may not be able to do it automatically when run as administrator.
Awesome! Thanks, markus. Windows Firewall settings to “Public” for NzbDrone.exe fixed it. I’m now able to access the Web UI from another computer. It sure makes things faster than using TeamViewer to remote access the HTPC machine’s browser.
Any idea what may be causing the duplicate issue from /downloads to the show directory?
If uTorrent is reporting the file as still seeding Sonarr won’t delete it. If the torrent is downloaded and then moved within the same hard drive you could enable Hard Linking (in Sonarr’s settings), which will only consume the disk space of one copy. Once the torrent finishes seeding Sonarr will clean it up though.
Hmmm, I must be doing something incorrectly here. I have enabled Hard Linking in Sonarr advanced setting and when the file has finished downloading it shows up in uTorrent Web UI as green (seeding). So I press delete to remove it from Web UI (which is the only way that I know how to stop seeding completely), but the file doesn’t get deleted from the uTorrent completed download folder. The file has already been copied over to the show directory too.
I am aware that I can “right click-> remove torrent & download” from within uTorrent Web UI but it puts it into the recycle bin which is not desired. I am hoping to have the file hard deleted after it has been copied or moved to the show directory.
Thanks for all your help, markus. Sonarr is really incredible - absolutely amazing work when it comes to Sonarr + Plex syncing. I will look into HTTPS for torrenting (possible ISP safeguard?) another day, as well as PlexClient notifications, can’t seem to get PlexClient connected. Not sure what the host and port are meant to be for, I am entering in my PlexPass username and password but they won’t connect. Will try again this weekend on a refreshed mind.
It looks like it will remove it from the completed folder when I press stop on the seeding torrents, but the original non-renamed uTorrent download goes into the recycle bin. (Not the torrent file, the full download). I need to go into TeamViewer to delete these from my HTPC machine. Do you know of any way to have uTorrent delete these files for good when it is successfully finished working with Sonarr?
Awesome - delete is working correctly now, no more files in the recycle bin. I just have to be careful not to go onto my HTPC and press the delete key accidentally, it could end up wiping out a lot more than I realize.
Just a few more questions I have bumped into:
For downloads that are in batch files and need to be extracted, can Sonarr or uTorrent do this automatically?
If I hook up a SSL certificate, will this prevent my ISP from spying in on the downloads? Also just curious if this is a good idea to use for Telus Optik (Canada) where I have been told Television and Internet both run from the same modem and bandwidth type. And will uTorrent run any slower with SSL enabled?
Sonarr can’t you will need to sort out how to do it with uTorrent.
No. That would be to encrypt the connection between Sonarr and uTorrent. Use a VPN to “hide your traffic”, but this isn’t the correct forum for figuring that out.
Encryption slows things down, but unless you’re running on a low powered device it doesn’t matter enough to be worried. Again not really the correct place for this.
