[SOLVED] How to set up Sonarr for auto renaming and importing

[LegendsCoach]

Mike
After working for many months Sickrage went on the fritz last week and completely stopped working. While researching how to fix it I read about all the discord with their development group and so after several days with no apparent answers I decided to switch to Sonarr. I'm glad I did, I like it. One issue though I don't understand how to set it up so that it works with NZBGet like Sick Rage did and automatically rename the downloads and then move them over to my download library. Since I made the switch I've been renaming the files manually and then manually importing then through Sonarr. How do I set things up so that it all works automatically? NZBGet downloads the files to W:\usenet\complete\TV. One problem that I see is that the downloads that lands there are not renamed and appear to be just an unpacked folder and they just accumulate there without Sonarr apparently recognizing that they are there. How do I set up Sonarr to fix this?
Thanks

[manne]

These are my settings for Media Management:

Settings > Media Management >

Advanced Settings: yes

Rename Episode : yes
Replace Illegal Characters : yes

Standard Episode Format
{Series Title}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{Episode Title} {Quality Full}-{Release.Group}

Daily Episode Format
{Series Title}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{Episode Title} {Quality Full}-{Release.Group}

Anime Episode Format
{Series Title}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{Episode Title} {Quality Full}-{Release.Group}

Series Folder Format
{Series Title}

Season Folder Format
Season {season}

Multi-Episode Style: Extend


Folders
Create empty series folders: no

Importing
Skip Free Space Check: No

Use Hardlinks instead of Copy: No

File Management
Ignore Deleted Episodes: yes

Download Propers: Yes

Analyse video files: Yes

Change File Date: none

It's when you are adding your shows where you are telling sonarr where to put the shows:
Mine are created in /mnt/usbstorage/TV/

Then comes Folder with the title of the series
After that: Season01 and so on.

Here you have a basic guide configuring Sonarr:
http://www.htpcguides.com/configure-nzbd...usenet-tv/


Have fun!

[LegendsCoach]

(Jan 28, 2016, 05:48 AM)manne Wrote: These are my settings for Media Management:

Settings > Media Management >

Advanced Settings: yes

Rename Episode : yes
Replace Illegal Characters : yes

Standard Episode Format
{Series Title}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{Episode Title} {Quality Full}-{Release.Group}

Daily Episode Format
{Series Title}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{Episode Title} {Quality Full}-{Release.Group}

Anime Episode Format
{Series Title}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{Episode Title} {Quality Full}-{Release.Group}

Series Folder Format
{Series Title}

Season Folder Format
Season {season}

Multi-Episode Style: Extend


Folders
Create empty series folders: no

Importing
Skip Free Space Check: No

Use Hardlinks instead of Copy: No

File Management
Ignore Deleted Episodes: yes

Download Propers: Yes

Analyse video files: Yes

Change File Date: none

It's when you are adding your shows where you are telling sonarr where to put the shows:
Mine are created in /mnt/usbstorage/TV/

Then comes Folder with the title of the series
After that: Season01 and so on.

Here you have a basic guide configuring Sonarr:
http://www.htpcguides.com/configure-nzbd...usenet-tv/


Have fun!

Hi Manne

Thank you for your help. I've actually have my sonar set up according to Mike's guide but once NZBGet downloads a show and unpacks it, it never gets renamed and then moved from W:\usenet\complete\TV (where NZBGet puts it) to X:\ (my media library). It just stays as an unpacked folder. These locations are both on separate NAS drives and Sonarr is running on an Intel NUC with Windows 7 for an operating system. I'm assuming that I need to tell sonar something about my download folder. What is that and where do I put it?

Thanks

[manne]

What does the log in sonarr say?
It should give you some kind of indication why. Often it's permission issues.

Do you see your shows under the activity tab? Queue? If yes, what does it say?

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https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/wiki/Co...d-Handling

[LegendsCoach]

(Jan 28, 2016, 12:08 PM)manne Wrote: What does the log in sonarr say?
It should give you some kind of indication why. Often it's permission issues.

Do you see your shows under the activity tab? Queue? If yes, what does it say?

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https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/wiki/Co...d-Handling

Hi Manne

Again thank you for responding. I'm not at that location so I can't look at the log right now but my set up is set up a little weird in that I have what I call my Download Cache where NZBGet send the downloads set up on a different machine (a Banana Pro with 1TB SATA attached) from the machine that I have my NZBGet and Sonarr installed on (an Intell NUC) and then my media libraries are spread out over different NAS drives on my network. Everything was working fine when I was running Sickrage (that development group is killing their app with all their fighting) so I would question whether the problems are related to permissions but how would I check this? What appears to not be working is the renaming process in Sonarr. It doesn't appear to be seeing the location NZBGet is downloading the TV shows to. Sonarr seems to be able to communicate with NZBGet and it knows the status while things are being downloaded but it doesn't seem to see the download afterwards to rename and move it. I've read that pathing (UNC vs Mapped Drives) can be an issue with Sonarr and my drives are cache and libraries mapped. Do you have any idea how might I over ride Sonarr and give it a UNC path to my cache?

[manne]

No. But I recommend you to copy this info and post on sonarr forum. Markus and the team are really good and they reply real fast. Just describe the problem and what kind of hardware, software you are running and they will help.

But check your logs at home and update us.

I have had similar issues, look what I did and he said.

https://forums.sonarr.tv/t/sonarr-nzbget...ing/5843/7

[LegendsCoach]

(Jan 28, 2016, 01:33 PM)manne Wrote: No. But I recommend you to copy this info and post on sonarr forum. Markus and the team are really good and they reply real fast. Just describe the problem and what kind of hardware, software you are running and they will help.

But check your logs at home and update us.

I have had similar issues, look what I did and he said.

https://forums.sonarr.tv/t/sonarr-nzbget...ing/5843/7

here is an example of what the log says

Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Sonarr: W:\usenet\complete\TV\Criminal.Minds.S06E03.720p.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H264-NFHD

Here is a like to the thread I started on their forum

https://forums.sonarr.tv/t/how-to-set-up...gendscoach

Thanks

[manne]

@LegendsCoach I told you that Markus was great.

I will mark this thread as Solved!

[LegendsCoach]

(Jan 29, 2016, 05:36 AM)manne Wrote: @LegendsCoach I told you that Markus was great.

I will mark this thread as Solved!

I want to pass this along for the next person. The solution was to not run Sonarr as a service AND to put an entry in the Remote Path Mapping property on the Download Client tab under settings as follows

HOST: NZBGet
REMOTE PATH: \\DOWNLOADCACHE\usenet\complete\TV\
LOCAL PATH: W:\usenet\complete\TV\

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