Selfhosted @lemmy.world ScoobyDoo27 @lemmy.world 1y ago

Is this the place for help with setting up Sonarr/Radarr?

I was told this community might be able to help me....I’ve spent my entire day setting up sonarr/radarr on my Synology DS423+ NAS within docker. I got most of it figured out on my own but I’m stumped on how sonarr/radarr takes the files from my torrent client downloads folder and moves them to my media folder for plex/jellyfin to view.

I’ve followed this guide for how my folder structure is setup: https://wiki.servarr.com/docker-guide

Could someone point me in the direction of what I need to do so that when a file is finished downloading it automatically moves to my media folder?

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Hi,

You need to set up the folder paths within the docker side and the application side in order to do this properly.

Luckily there's a set of guides that describes exactly what you need: https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Synology/

Read this guide and the other pages to get a full idea of the setup required.
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- Great, thank you. I will spend some time and go through this.
  
  Good luck, don't be afraid to ask questions. It's a lot to take in the first time you go through it all, especially if you're not familiar with Docker and the concepts of containerisation but once you crack it, it's seamless.
You have to give sonarr access to your top level media folder. Then you set sonarr up to hardlink the downloaded files to your media folder.

E.g. if you have home/media/tvshows and home/media/movies, give sonarr access to home/media. Your download client should probably have a folder like home/media/downloads in your sonarr app map the downloads folder to a sonarr folder in the downloaded client settings. Then set all imports to hardlink, instead of copy.

Your Plex/Jellyfin server should point to home/media for your library where the hardlinking occurs.
- I half follow. I have given radarr access to the top level folder (/data, not /data/media) so it should see everything. qbittorrent is linked to /data/torrents for my downloads. Where in radarr might I map the folders so it's hard linking instead of copying?
  
  I ran into these issues with sonarr. I believe my fix was how the volumes were labelled. My understanding is they communicated the directory but if the other sonarr doesn’t know where to look for it, it won’t be able to find it
  
  Torrent client - data/downloads:/var/data/downloads
  
  Sonarr - data: var/data
  
  This was when the torrent client is passing the location to sonarr is says thesimpsons.mp3 is located in data/download/the Simpson.mp3 and sonarr can then locate it
  
  So for all docker apps use just /data and for jellyfin you can use /data/media
  
  In Radarr: add root folder /data/media/movies add download client with radarr category
  
  In qbittorrent: Eddit your radarr category and set download path as /data/torrent/movies
  
  In jellyfin: Add movie library with path /data/media/movies
  
  So when you add a movie in radarr, it will start downloading it in '/data/torrent/moviesand once its finished it will be renamed and hard linked todata/media/movies`
  
  Hard linking is by default, but you can check in Settings - Media Management - Importing (make sure to enable "advanced" in radarr)
  
  In settings --> download clients. Underneath qbittorrent you'll see remote path mappings. Make sure qbittorrent's internal path mapping is mapped to radarr's. So if qbittorrent downloads to /data/torrents, the mapping should be path internally in qbittorrent /data/torrents maps to path internally radarr /data/torrents.
  
  Then in Radarr, whenever you do an import or download a new movie, point it to /data/media/ and choose hardlinking on import, typically bottom left in the import gui.

This should just be part of configuring Sonarr/Radarr settings correctly. Do you have a red message in the settings that says a download client is missing, or have you filled out the download clients settings section with your torrent client info? If yes, have you checked the “auto import from client” box? and, have you set your root library folder in the media management section?

This. I remember being amazed that it just handled it.

The only catch I remember running into is that Sonarr must be aware of all storage locations. That is, if I didn’t see the path in Sonarr’s system info, the auto copy and rename didn’t work right.

Yes, I have a message in radarr that states "You are using docker; download client qbittorrent places downloads in /downloads but this directory does not appear to exist inside the container. Review your remote path mappings and container volume settings." I'm confused because I mapped /data to /data in my docker settings so it should be able to see the downloads folder, no?

I do also have the auto import from client box checked and I do have my /data/media/movies folder selected under the media management section.

That's helpful; this sounds like a docker issue or qBit issue then. The default qBit location for torrents is /downloads, but you'd need to make sure to point it towards the container volume mapping you're setting up in docker.

my relevant qBittorrent compose volume mapping is as follows:

    volumes:
      - /volume1/shared/torrents:/data/torrents

Personally, I don't separate my torrent downloads by type; I use incoming & completed folders. Here's how I set up my qBittorrent config:

Original Value	New Value
Session\DefaultSavePath=/downloads/	Session\DefaultSavePath=/data/torrents/1_completed/
Session\TempPath=/downloads/incomplete/	Session\TempPath=/data/torrents/2_incoming/
Downloads\SavePath=/downloads/	Downloads\SavePath=/data/torrents/1_completed/
Downloads\TempPath=/downloads/incomplete/	Downloads\TempPath=/data/torrents/2_incoming/

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When you add a request you can select the target directory where you want the files to end up (Root Folder). If you follow the Linuxserver.io setup, you should have created a bind volume called /media for where you want your media to end up for the use of Jellyfin which you can use.
Sonarr and Radarr need to have the directories be the same as your torrent client and newsreader.

Sonarr/Radarr read the. Directory that the API reports as the save destination and moves it from there

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