I'm interested in moving from SB to Sonarr, but as it stands, you have to disable TV sorting in SAB.

I started a topic on the Sonarr forum here:

https://forums.sonarr.tv/t/how-do-i-avoid-turning-of-sab-tv-sorting/4467

 

The response I got made it seem like they don't really care about your current setup, they need you to adapt to how they have things now. So I know some people are using Sonarr on unRAID... Do you ust let Sonarr move everything straight onto the array, or do you have some trick to setting it up so that it still can be put on the cache and then moved using the mover later?

Use cache on the tv user share. Then everything is put on the cache automatically first and moved when mover runs.

Read your post over at the sonarr forums.

 

Currently I use Nzbget not SabNZBd

 

Sonarr grabs download and sends to Nzbget which does the needful, hands it back to Sonarr, that renames it according to how you specify and places it in my cache drive TV folder which is then moved to the array using mover.

 

The only difference I can see is that you want SABnzbd to do the renaming as a post process?

 

Unless your doing some sort of transcode then I can see an issue but one way around it would be to have sabnzbd move the transcoded file into the "Sonarr factory folder" which would then move it to the TV folder on your cache drive.

 

Just try it, I thought about switching from sickbeard to sonarr for a long time, but wish I'd switched sooner.

Use cache on the tv user share. Then everything is put on the cache automatically first and moved when mover runs.

Ah... well that's far better than the final answer over there... which I did NOT understand, lol

 

"Ideally Sonarr would still sort them so it knows immediately that the file has been imported (otherwise it will show as missing).

Not really a supported option, but you could do:

What you could do is disable Completed Downloading Handling (CDH) in Sonarr, point your Drone Factory folder at the cache drive and disable its automatic scan, then with your script call Sonarr's API, the command endpoint and call the downloadedEpisodesScan command (check the wiki for more info) then Sonarr will see the files as soon as it imports them after that scan."

Sonarr use the SAB API to post process which works really well. If the TV share is set to use the cache it'll just be put there first.

 

Just make sure the /downloads volume for both SAB and Sonarr are set to the same directory on your server if you run it via docker or the post processing will fail.

 

I looked at both and it's prettier but other than that I really didn't see how it was so much better. I guess it really pissed me off when during testing a download didn't complete and I could not figure out how you re-try the same download.

 

 

 

 

Sonarr use the SAB API to post process which works really well. If the TV share is set to use the cache it'll just be put there first.

 

Just make sure the /downloads volume for both SAB and Sonarr are set to the same directory on your server if you run it via docker or the post processing will fail.

 

I looked at both and it's prettier but other than that I really didn't see how it was so much better. I guess it really pissed me off when during testing a download didn't complete and I could not figure out how you re-try the same download.

 

I don't use Docker at all... And that kind of worries me! It seems that in order to switch to Sonarr I kind of have to be all in, since it will require me removing the TV sorting in SAB.

Do whatever your comfortable with and works for you.  I felt exactly the same, had a Sab/SB setup and kept hearing about NZBget and NZBdrone (at that time) resisted for ages as couldn't be a**ed with setting it all up.  In the end curiosity got the better of me and I ran both SB & drone simultaneously (for different shows obviously) for a while then migrated to nzbdrone completely after a few weeks.  Kept using Sab for a while then  changed to Nzbget but kept my sab all setup "just in case" then finally deleted sab.  Wouldn't go back now and don't miss anything about sickbeard or sab.

 

I get better speed with nzbget and I believe it unpacks faster too, I believe it's lighter on resources.

 

Sonarr, just amazing once you learn how to use it.  I get far less incomplete downloads as it's so much better automated.

Do whatever your comfortable with and works for you.  I felt exactly the same, had a Sab/SB setup and kept hearing about NZBget and NZBdrone (at that time) resisted for ages as couldn't be a**ed with setting it all up.  In the end curiosity got the better of me and I ran both SB & drone simultaneously (for different shows obviously) for a while then migrated to nzbdrone completely after a few weeks.  Kept using Sab for a while then  changed to Nzbget but kept my sab all setup "just in case" then finally deleted sab.  Wouldn't go back now and don't miss anything about sickbeard or sab.

 

I get better speed with nzbget and I believe it unpacks faster too, I believe it's lighter on resources.

 

Sonarr, just amazing once you learn how to use it.  I get far less incomplete downloads as it's so much better automated.

 

Well... I guess I'm sold! I hadn't even thought about NZBget. I'll have to look at that after I get Sonarr out of the way... I don't know anything about the docker stuff though. I wish Phaze would create a plugin for it!

Docker is much much easier than plugins, keep your setup exactly as it is now.  Get docker up and running, no desperate rush, install sonar and take it from there, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, docker is one of the reasons I came back to Unraid and plugins were one reason I left in the first place.

Docker is much much easier than plugins, keep your setup exactly as it is now.  Get docker up and running, no desperate rush, install sonar and take it from there, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, docker is one of the reasons I came back to Unraid and plugins were one reason I left in the first place.

 

Okay, that wasn't so hard! I added the https://github.com/gfjardim/docker-containers/tree/templates repository... I noticed now under that there are 2 different NZBget templates... how do you decide which one to use? Do these auto update when they get updated on github, or do I need to do something manually? Phaze setting his stuff up to auto update (along with the dependencies) is one of the reasons I love his plugins so much.

Docker is much much easier than plugins, keep your setup exactly as it is now.  Get docker up and running, no desperate rush, install sonar and take it from there, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, docker is one of the reasons I came back to Unraid and plugins were one reason I left in the first place.

 

Okay, that wasn't so hard! I added the https://github.com/gfjardim/docker-containers/tree/templates repository... I noticed now under that there are 2 different NZBget templates... how do you decide which one to use? Do these auto update when they get updated on github, or do I need to do something manually? Phaze setting his stuff up to auto update (along with the dependencies) is one of the reasons I love his plugins so much.

I am using needo's. You can specify the version when you set up the docker by clicking Advanced View and setting the EDGE variable. You have to give it a little time when it starts to build the version. You can follow the progress in the docker log. Once you get a PID it's ready.

 

I just finished updating to 1228.

Sonarr is running... I added a show that my daughter asked for. No problem.

NZBget docker is up and running... NZBget options confused me, but whatevs...

Sonarr sent NZBs to docker no problem.

Once they are downloaded Sonarr can't import them because of the differnce between the container path and the host path... how do you solve this?

 

I mount /downloads to mnt/cache/downloads in both Sonarr and NZBget then when NZBget says, "Hey Sonarr that stuff you asked for I downloaded it and left it in mnt/cache/downloads" then Sonarr says "I got it, Thanks" as they both will have the same location in their mappings for /downloads, at the moment you've mapped /downloads to two different places.

 

So NZBGet thinks /downloads means one place and Sonarr thinks it's in a completely different place.

 

This is one thing with docker you need to get your head around rather than a Sonarr or Nzbget thing mappings need to be transferable and identical between containers.

 

There is another way around it but it's way more complicated. And involves an advanced option in Sonarr.

I mount /downloads to mnt/cache/downloads in both Sonarr and NZBget then when NZBget says, "Hey Sonarr that stuff you asked for I downloaded it and left it in mnt/cache/downloads" then Sonarr says "I got it, Thanks" as they both will have the same location in their mappings for /downloads, at the moment you've mapped /downloads to two different places.

 

So NZBGet thinks /downloads means one place and Sonarr thinks it's in a completely different place.

 

This is one thing with docker you need to get your head around rather than a Sonarr or Nzbget thing mappings need to be transferable and identical between containers.

 

There is another way around it but it's way more complicated. And involves an advanced option in Sonarr.

 

No... That already all made sense, and I was hoping it wouldn't be the answer. I'm running a plug-in for Sonarr, and docker for NZBget. I don't want to go all docker, as everything else I have works well... SB still actually works well, I just like the retrying failed downloads on TV shows in Sonarr. Bummer... Gonna sleep on it and see how things look tomorrow.

Oh, OK then in that case..

 

Go to Sonarr - settings - download client enable advanced options then set remote path mappings.

That's a reason for running Dockers for both. Still, NZBget appears to returning a path starting with /downloads which is how you need the path to start in Sonarr so it should be close to working.  But something isn't correct in the string.

 

If you go to the Settings in Sonarr and pick the Download Client tab then click on the folder beside the Drone Factory line near the bottom you can start going through the downloads directory structure and see what the Sonarr path is to the directory storing the file.

 

 

I keep reading Sonarr has fewer failures. Maybe I didn't find any advantage because I index the Usenet groups used for TV myself so I rarely have failures. The use of the API is a much cleaner solution than scanning a directory or the Sickbeard post processing setup though.