Is there a way to have Sonarr/Radarr download to Seedbox but monitor my local Plex server? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by GeorgeZip@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I use my seedbox to download and I synchronize it to my local Plex server via syncthing, however, I don't want to permanently store the data on the Plex server. I want to move it off once the download completes.

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[-] GeorgeZip@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

The Seedbox is just a remote download server I use to download from Usenet/Torrents via Sonarr/Radarr. It then moves off that server to my Plex server via Syncthing. I was able to successfully connect to my Plex server via "Connections" in the settings, but I can't seem to get it to see what I have there. I have several instances where it downloaded the same movie four times in different formats, even though I have it set to only 1080p. Maybe I'm just missing something in the setup or a true understanding of how those apps work. I'm pretty new at this.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It could be downloading the same movie if it's having connection errors with your seedbox. I have everything running locally and run into this occasionally. The radarr logs should tell you what happened.

The other possibility is your quality profiles aren't setup properly. When you view a profile, the way the formats are sorted (4k remux, 1080p Blu-ray, 1080p Web-DL, etc) tells radarr the priority of qualities you want and it'll keep upgrading until it hits the cutoff. With brand new content, there's also a delay setting so that it'll wait a set amount of time to download something when it first hits the internet (e.g. wait 30 minutes before choosing a file to allow for better quality uploads).

And as the other user said, with media that you already had when you setup radarr, you'll need to manually import it.