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I use almost exclusively usenet. It has many traits that are desirable for Sonarr/Radarr - fast speeds, no seeding, built-in unrar processing, and so on.

Get an indexer. For someone just starting out, I would recommend nzbgeek. It's got good coverage and it's always open for registrations.

Get a provider. Again, for someone just starting out, get an Omicron/Newshosting reseller. Thundernews has a deal right now for $60/year unlimited, and NewsDemon (who I prefer) will price match competitors.

They're going to be fast, but they get DMCA'ed pretty quickly. It's good for automated tools like Sonarr and Radarr.

You're also going to need a usenet download program. The 2 choices are SABnzbd and NZBGet. SAB is basically install-and-go. NZBGet utilizes external scripts to make it more flexible, but requires some time to get set up. They are both the same speed unless you're running on a low-power system like a pi, in which case you should go with NZBGet because it's written in C and will run faster on those machines.

Usenet has a learning curve. Don't get frustrated. Google and /r/usenet are your friends (search, don't post for every little thing - someone has asked your question a million times before).

Eventually, I think. Maybe. Right now, the Sonarr devs are working on V3, which is an entire overhaul of the UI (see Lidarr if you want a preview of what V3 will look like).

There are a couple of tools people have built to integrate with Trakt lists. https://flexget.com/Plugins/List/sonarr_list and https://github.com/tomtom602/TraktToSonarr are two.

NordVPN does not offer port-forwarding for understandable security reasons. So until you get some ports forwarded - you'll not be able to reach web-GUI. Theoretically, you can achieve it with custom Firmware router and add split-tunnelling, but only if you can host the web-GUI outside LAN. That might be too troublesome, but you can always try.

https://trakt.tv/shows/anticipated for me.

Not an integrated approach like /r/radarr has, so it's a manual process. But at least the trakt link shows me what's coming down the pipe.

Also, feel free to comment/vote on this issue request for Sonarr as well. https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/issues/309

Change your DNS servers to 1.1.1.1 & 1.0.0.1. Blocking fixed. Guide on how to change DNS on their page.

Also, check out Jackett. TorrentDay is supported.

Ok. I grabbed both of those, and they're fine.

The issue is your sab version. They are up to version 2.3.9, which as you can see is WAY ahead of what you're running. Perhaps this would be useful to you. https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/installation/install-ubuntu-repo

Edit: Also, holy crap, the version you're running was released in November 2014. Even the current version, 2.3.9, is 340 days old. Update.

Does TheTVDB.com show 5 seasons? If so, thats the problem. If it shows 6 seasons there, then refresh the series in Sonarr. If it still happens, reply back and let us know the show name.

It's not rocket science; it is literally just basic Unix permissions.

I'll assume Ubuntu

And it appears you failed to read the instructions

https://sonarr.tv/#downloads-v3-linux-ubuntu

> During the installation, you will be asked which user and group Sonarr must run as. It's important to choose these correctly to avoid permission issues with your media files. We suggest you keep at least the group name identical between your download client(s) and Sonarr. If you need to correct these after installation, please run dpkg-reconfigure sonarr. See debconf for more information.

Also you don't tell sonarr where anything is downloaded; it gets that information from the download client's API

Yours seems awfully expensive.

An NZBPlanet or NZBGeek (Indexers) subscription is like $10/year (I went ahead and just bought lifetime memberships to both since they're so cheap).
A quick Google search for "Newshosting discount" (Usenet provider) and you'll be able to find a $99/year subscription that includes VPN.

in, that's $109/year, half (or less) than what you're paying. Any idea where the difference / delta is?

Since Internet etiquette has still not done away with the "Never mind I found it, and won't post the solution for anyone else" problem: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qbittorrent/files/qbittorrent-win32/qbittorrent-3.3.12/

well looks like you have a couple things going on and you didn't really do much troubleshooting on your own.

1) only 1 entry is in Sab's history, which tells me this is likely part of your issue https://wiki.servarr.com/Sonarr_Troubleshooting#Download_client_clearing_items

2) these two lines

>21-5-10 12:58:27.9|Trace|DiskScanService|55 files were found in F:\TV\Home Economics S01E04 1080p WEB H264-CAKES.2 >21-5-10 12:58:27.9|Debug|DiskScanService|0 video files were found in F:\TV\Home Economics S01E04 1080p WEB H264-CAKES.2

tell me that Sab is likely configured improperly. It should be set to +Delete, you probably have it at only Download or Repair. https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/extra/job-options

If it is set to +Delete and is not unpacking the releases, that's something for you to troubleshoot with sab's support methods.

Thank you for the reply and info. I suspected the data was from that website.

I suppose the best thing I could do is register and assist thetvdb.com with keeping things up to date.

Install and setup Jackett, put all your torrent indexers in there. Point all your entries in Sonarr for torrent trackers to them in Jackett instead. Your life will be +100 better.

Ahh, I gotcha. How come not use a solution like Plex?

I have a similar thing, where I wont watch TV for a while or a movie, and Plex keeps track of what I have watched. Further, if you have other users in your house or that you share your media with, it keeps track of them individually. That way if someone watches something that you have not seen, for their user its marked as watched, and for you, its not.

Maybe that doesn't fit for you (as you would know you best, of course), but perhaps that helps or would fill the need?

You don't need VPN when using Usenet. None of the Usenet providers that I am aware of have any logging.

I think I am paying $8 a month with Astraweb. And $9 a month for supernews. These two providers are on SEPARATE servers so when a piece is missing from one, it can find it on the other.

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Indexer - I think I pay $18 a year for nzbgeek.info

Why usenet. No ratios to maintain. No linking anything to your IP that you are uploading.

basic ownership and permissions and a lack of reading the installation instructions.

Sonarr by default - unless you change it when prompted at install - runs as user/group sonarr

https://i.imgur.com/qThsoHu.png https://sonarr.tv/#downloads-v3-linux

the user sonarr has no access to your user's home directory.

Check out FileBot. It will fix titles and move things for you. It has Plex naming settings already built-in. You'll have to confirm things before it does anything, but at least it will do most of the heavy lifting for you.

^ This is very likely to be the problem, if there are lots of seeders but you're not connecting to them. If you don't have a working port forward, you can only connect to people that do have a working port forward. So you can see that by not having it setup correctly, you really limit the number of peers you can connect to.

Don't forget to use a VPN and to pick a VPN provider that supports port forwarding, like PIA or AirVPN (I'm sure there are many others, but I don't know them). There are some VPN providers that claim to be torrent oriented, but don't support port forwarding at all which sucks.

Chiming in to highly recommend NZBPlanet (I also use NZBGeek as a backup but it’s rarely used). Newshosting has also treated me well (VPN included too), but never pay full price on their website. SUPER easy to find half off subscription codes and such.

FIXED - It seems Cloudflare are using project honeypot lists of IP addresses to block, and the AirVPN exit IP I had was on the list. I routed traffic to outside of my VPN tunnel and it fixed it.

For anyone's future reference the Drunkenslug IP range is 104.16.0.0-104.31.255.255 or in CIDR 104.16.0.0/12

I use NordVPN through OpenVPN on pfSense on a separate VLAN that is only allowed to NAT through Nord. If the connection goes down for any reason, it will not connect to the outside through my WAN. The server I have all my indexing and downloading on is on this VLAN. Pretty slick.

Step 1:

Figure out which Usenet provider (server you download from) you want to use. They all have different pricing, and some have limits (data per month). Newshosting and Eweka are popular choices. They also have different retention (how long a certain file is available). So it's up to you to do some shopping to see what fits your need.

Step 2:

Figure out which indexer (search engine) you want to use. Nzbgeek is popular and has a 2 week free trial so you can try it out, but there's a ton out there. Depends a bit what sort of stuff you want to get your hands on.

Step 3:

Get a download client. I personally use Nzbget.

Step 4:

Enter information into download client as requested, set up the indexer and download client in Sonarr (no need to use Jackett) and you're good to go.

Depends on your operating system obviously. Digital ocean usually has some good guides.

I'd search for something like "Setting up openvpn server on (your OS)"

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-16-04

https://trakt.tv/users/sp1ti/lists/anime-spring-2021?sort=rank,asc is what I use. It's not popular seasonal anime, rather all the currently airing seasonal anime.

He does every season and adds any newly airing anime to it. Set it up once and just leave it.

plenty of sources for "popular right now", one of the most popular being trakt.tv which features user-generated list integration with Sonarr.

but, there's hundreds of shows per season across equally as many networks in several nations! so the only real way to keep track is literally googling release schedules.

Agreed - if you only port forward the VPN port then you only have one way in, and you can lock down the VPN itself pretty tight.

However, VPN access can be a bit cumbersome at times (esp. for novice users), so I actually moved away from this approach and went with a single nginx server reverse proxy. So now only port 443 is the way in, and that is using basic auth at the nginx layer.

I still see this as more secure than having each app (sonarr, radarr, etc.) using their own port and/or custom auth implementation (that just gives a much wider attack surface, and honestly I doubt these implementations are as well vetted as nginx's is).

Obviously you probably want to run something like fail2ban as well.

Another cool option I was only made aware of recently is CloudFlare Access, which basically acts as a much fancier reverse proxy (supposedly free as well).

This is a known issue with qBittorrent version 4.3.0 and newer.

Downgrade to qBittorrent 4.2.5 (here) and your problems will go away. You may need to re-add any active torrents after you downgrade.

confused me at first too.

You're actually downloading a shit load of different parts of a file. If you're using SABnzbd you can see this by clicking the wrench on the top right, connections, then show "show active connections". You can be concurrently downloading as many file parts as your provider allows, but each connection is so fast that usually 10-20 will saturate your connection.

Basically, we're used to downloads being SO SLOW in bitorrent that trying to do multiple at a time made more sense. With usenet your connection gets saturated SO FAST that it's fine/normal for it to work on one file at a time because they're broken down into pieces and it's eating your entire bandwidth at all times.

There's not a great native way to set priorities so Shows go before movies, but you can do it with a pre-queue script https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/scripts/pre-queue-scripts.html.

Until sonarr implements trakt/imdb/whatever else list integration, if you want to go the route of hands off for at least trakt to sonarr integration for now, I'd suggest looking into flexGet and the Sonarr List Plugin. Once you get things setup you will rarely if ever have to go in and add a show manually to sonarr anymore.

You may be able to use it for more than trakt to sonarr, like IMDB to sonarr but I haven't exactly looked into it, as all I use is trakt.

Sonarr gets its info off of TVDB and they have one huge season and a few smaller ones listed: https://thetvdb.com/series/batman-the-animated-series

I don't know what episode titles you have but if they don't match you must have downloaded some other Batman cartoon instead.

sounds like it's it not running then, but you're not supposed to edit the service file

https://sonarr.tv/#downloads-v3-linux-ubuntu

> During the installation, you will be asked which user and group Sonarr must run as. It's important to choose these correctly to avoid permission issues with your media files. We suggest you keep at least the group name identical between your download client(s) and Sonarr. If you need to correct these after installation, please run dpkg-reconfigure sonarr. See debconf for more information.>

v2 -> v3 you should backup before upgrading... from the official documentation

>Sonarr v2 migration Sonarr v3 will automatically convert the existing Sonarr v2 installation. Sonarr v2 stored it's database in C:\ProgramData\NzbDrone, which will be automatically converted to C:\ProgramData\Sonarr. It's advisable to make a backup of the v2 data first.

<https://sonarr.tv/#download-v3>

for v3 to go from service to tray, I'm pretty sure you can just disable the service and then set the tray app to start on startup, no reinstall needed (may be wrong on that)

Hi. To delay the sonarr service startup a bit you need to go into your services settings and set up to delayed following these steps:

1. Press Win + R (to get the run dialog)
2. type services.msc and press enter
3. find the Sonarr service in the list (v2 may be called nzbdrone, i'm not sure)
4. double click the service and change it from automatic to automatic (delayed start)
5. OK and close out

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To upgrade to v3 is simple, the installer migrates everything for you. follow the simple steps here https://sonarr.tv/

The download page says it should work, but won't be supported much longer. And XP is right out. Maybe give it a try and when it stops working, just +3 your Windows and join us in the modern era? :)

I think https://sonarr.tv/#downloads-v3-linux is the better source now.

The best way to do it probably depends on how you installed it. On Arch Linux, we have the sonarr-phantom package you can use.

Sonarr was pretty easy to just point it back at the media folder and re-add everything. Then I sorted by "Continuing Series" and just re-activated the watch lists. Plex has a guide that goes over how to move the database, but it did not go smoothly for me (windows to Ubuntu), I just ended up using the Trakt.tv plugin to save my played/unplayed status, wiped the whole thing and started fresh.

No i am not, this is from my history of the episode:

Name:[HorribleSubs] Tokyo Ghoul re - 11 [1080p].mkv

Indexer:Jackett - Nyaa

Release Group:HorribleSubs

Info:https://nyaa.si/view/1045235

Download Client:Deluge

Age (when grabbed):66.3 minutes

Published Date:Jun 8 2018 6:12:00am

and when i go into the actual file, its just a bunch of garbage

>Radarr does publish a swagger / openapi doc, but that is very out of date and also doesn't reflect the actual API either.

https://radarr.video/docs/api/

Point me to what is out of date or what doesn't reflect the actual API if you would please. Thanks.

Don't dislike Jackett at all!

In fact with Prowlarr we very much appreciate Garfield's work on the YML defs that we use.

The only sticking point with Jackett - and even their devs concur it should not be used - is the /all endpoint. As its always a support headache.

Ref: https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett#aggregate-indexers

do you have the right jacket version?

>JackettConsole.exe, version: 1.0.0.0

Current release is v0.10.97

https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases

Also what is in the Jackett logs? Not the Windows system logs.

I use Cardigann which doesn't natively support reverse proxy which is my setup, but Jackett appears to. Here are the relevant parts to my docker-compose, shown for Transmission:

version: '3' services: vpn: container_name: vpn image: dperson/openvpn-client restart: unless-stopped cap_add: - NET_ADMIN devices: - "/dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun" volumes: - /path/to/vpn/config/files:/vpn command: -v "vpn.server.url;login;password"

web: container_name: web image: dperson/nginx restart: unless-stopped ports: - "80:80" - "443:443" - "9091:9091" links: - vpn:transmission command: -w "http://transmission:9091;/transmission"

transmission: container_name: transmission image: "dperson/transmission" restart: unless-stopped volumes: - /path/to/volume:/volume environment: - GROUPID=1000 - USERID=1000 network_mode: "service:vpn" depends_on: - "vpn" - "web"

Feel free to ask any questions.

The link to jackett in that post is super old and outdated, if you use the most recent version of jackett, that does now have public support again, you'll be good.

Good Jackett, I use both those indexers without issue.

Cardigann doesn't have nearly as many indexers as jackett.

OK cool then it should work for you. The setup is pretty easy. I still don't know if there's a problem with my PC or with Sonarr cause when I use rarbg through Jackett it works but through Sonarr it doesn't. Anyway, hope everything works out for you.

~~https://github.com/dreamcat4/Jackett-public

This appears to be a fork based on the last version of Jackett that supported public trackers

Edit: Apparently, this one is not compiled, so it might require some additional work to get running. ~~

Edit 2: Go here: https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases?after=v0.7.42

Download the 0.6.45.0 executable version.

Add in TPB as a source (Note - you will have to update the URL to the correct one, this has an older .mn url)

Test Jackett's connection to TPB

Follow the directions to connect TPB-Jackett to Sonarr

Test that connection.

You should be good to go from there.

I'm assuming it must be tough to implement because the devs are generally quite receptive. People still vote on it all the time, may as well add your name to the list!! LOL.

I've been trying to figure out a work around for this using something like Dropit , but I just haven't figured it out. In my case I don't care if it gets downloaded, but if it's more than 2 months old it can get deleted, so this would probably work. But in your case, you're saying don't bother downloading something if it aired a few days ago and wasn't posted.... that is definitely tougher to implement.

This sounds like a possible issue with port forwarding. How do you have your router configured for port forwarding? Are you using UPNP. What port is Transmission configured to listen on (I don't use Transmission so pardon my ignorance with the specifics of this client).

Unfortunately NordVPN doesn't do Port Forwarding IIRC. Perhaps people over in the /r/nordvpn will be able to help you with configuring your client.

Saw your message right after I just finished setting everything up... using , NZBHydra, NZBget :D oops. I'm paid up for a year with Newshosting now, and NZBGeek is one of the providers i'm setting up in NZBHydra. But do you think I should use sabnzbd instead of NZBGet? What's the difference, for headless use? Googling it, all I can find is people's opinions of the UI.

I tried turning off my VPN (I use Private Internet Access) and it seems to fix the issue. This is weird because I've been using PIA with Sonarr for a long time with no issues.

I wonder if Rarbg is blocking IPs from PIA?

How did you try the reverse proxy, in theory if you're using say "cheesemonkey.com" as your domain, you should be able to go to cheesemonkey.com:8989 and be directed to sonarr, you can check your port forwarding and port access by going to yougetsignal port checker simply enter the custom port and do "check" , if port forwarding is correct it should be green and say open.

I highly recommend using NGINX reverse proxy infront of all your externally facing services , you can follow this very well used DigitalOcean guide and be sure to include Let's Encrypt as they're free SSL certificates.

Hi, Is there any guide I can refer to setting up all these with docker? I currently have all of it installed directly on a windows host machine and have Mullvad enabled for all of it. With split tunnelling I am able to access the Jellyfin interface locally, but I am not able to do so with Radarr or Sonarr. I think the approach you mentioned might help with that. But I don’t know where to start the migration.

1. I am not, because the configuration I need to access the internet is only possible through the PIA desktop app. I asked and they said specifically their UDP/53 config is not available for Linux CLI. Their desktop app probably has the keys/certs I would need to get openvpn to work.
2. This was a culprit, thanks for pointing it out. The first time I docker-compose up'd it was with the default UID 1000, which created the volume. I changed it to 1010 a while ago but re-upping it had no effect since the bind mount was already created.

I can save the config now and connect Sonarr to my NZBGet downloader. In the meantime since asking this question I've added Prowlarr to my stack and put it in charge of the indexers which works for a good number of them (way more than manually adding indexers to Sonarr, Radarr, etc.) but not 100% of them. And specifically, NZBGeek: tests great, fails later.

I am no longer dead in the water, but I am super curious as to why the Usenet options are failing and hope to find a solution before the end of my Newshosting trial subscription.

I use a pfSense box for my router and run my own VPN server for my personal, remote connections. I also have OpenVPN connections from my pfSense box to IPVanish and ExpressVPN to route all of the internet traffic from my house. This way I can connect to my house via VPN through either VPN tunnel or my public WAN address depending on how I configure the server.

Interesting. I feel I wanna go with Wireguard if I can figure it out. Just because I already have it and Mullvad at the moment.

I'm able to do most of all I want to do remotely as far as accessing my PC or starting downloads away from home but the main draw, for me, to NZB360 is having it all in one place with a nice GUI.

I can access Sonarr and Radarr on NZB360 with my VPN off but cant do anything but look at it. If I want to add a new movie or show I have to turn my VPN on and so the whole thing for me (as of right now) is kind of pointless. So I just use remote desktop and do it all that way at the moment.

Sorry, I misunderstood your original post. I thought you meant you were connecting to a VPN you were running from your house, not an external privacy VPN. Check the logs on your firewall/router that you are forwarding the ports through. It might give you some idea as to why your connection is getting dropped while you're connected to Mullvad. Sometimes ISP's and home firewalls will block traffic from IP's registered in certain countries for security purposes. If you don't see the attempts hit your firewall/router then it's most likely your ISP, otherwise the logs might point you to where the issue is.

Personally, I use OpenVPN on my firewall to connect to my local network when I'm away from home. That way I don't have to open up all of the *arr services to the world and then NZB360 works just like I'm sitting at home. That method should work regardless of your connection to Mullvad and will keep your local network more secure.

I'm running Windows 10 no docker containers. I'm using Mullvad as my VPN. I've had a lot of trouble setting up port forwarding within Mullvad but have all my port forwarding correctly set up on my router.

I've set rules within my firewall to allow the ports I need as well.

Networking is the most confusing thing to me. I'm fairly competent at most other things on my PC.

I've also added Sonarr along with some other programs to Mullvad's split tunneling. But I'm not sure if that is necessary.

Hey, thanks for your reply.

I've spent the last few days reading comments like yours and basically googling everything there is to learn and damn Mullvad seems pretty cool. Especially their pricing guide.

I originally planned to get the windows automated plex off the ground then crack at Docker as a test server till I had it fully setup. I guess I'll have to sleep on this and decide what I'm doing.

Thanks for the convincing "specific situation" paragraph & thanks for your reply. I really appreciate it!

Hey, thanks for your reply.
I've spent the last few days reading comments like yours and basically googling everything there is to learn and damn Mullvad seems pretty cool. Especially their pricing guide.

I originally planned to get the windows automated plex off the ground then crack at Docker as a test server till I had it fully setup. I guess I'll have to sleep on this and decide what I'm doing.

Thanks for the convincing "specific situation" paragraph & thanks for your reply. I really appreciate it!

- Change your VPN (Mullvad is golden)
- Go Docker. It will change your life, I promise.

Plenty of people have walked this path ahead of you and will be willing to help, man, and you're going to end up with a significantly more secure, more private, more reliable, better experience home server if you go with the right tools here, I promise.

Here's why you want Docker right here in your specific situation, whether or not you change your VPN. With docker:

- create a bridge network to allow Sonar (etc) to exist on your home network while also talking to your indexer/downloader

- disallow your indexer/downloader from accessing your actual home network

- create a second bridge network between the relevant containers to protect the specific containers that should be protected

- create a VPN container to serve as the internet path for those other containers

- disallow Sonarr/other-arrs from incoming connections

Thanks to Docker's container-specific networking, you'll end up much happier with your Sonarr/etc. I know I did.

You can connect your VPN as a proxy within prowlarr itself so only the indexers that need a proxy will go through it (or all of them if you need to). I've done it with NordVPN for a couple of indexers.

NordVPN Meshnet has let me access Qbittorrent, Sonarr, Radarr and Jackett remotely. Very simple setup, just input the NordVPN Meshnet IP address of the device that runs Radarr/Sonarr etc., into 'Primary Connection Address'.

I'm only having issues when trying to setup SABnzbd.

NordVPN is broken. Split tunneling doesn't work, and they have broken a key component that allows the arrs to talk to apps behind it.

Uninstall nordvpn and get a different vpn. That will solve your problem.

I had this exact same problem with Deluge-VPN using NordVPN. If even a single download was running, my whole network would grind to a halt. If I paused the download(s) or stopped Deluge VPN, network springs back to life. Ping -T showed frequent packet drops and massive latency. Again, the 2nd I paused the downloads, issues subsided.

I have my total connections limited to 50 in deluge and, though it takes a while to download stuff (Max 1MBps/8Mbps from my 25MB/200Mb fibre) , my network is at least stable. Alas, I lack the expertise the fix it, I wish you the best of luck!

Update:

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Servers:

Omicron = Newshosting - $30/yr

Block Accounts:

Abavia = Bulknews,

= ,

UsenetExpress = NewsDemon.

Indexers:

AltHUB,

NZBGeek

NZBPlanet

Hi yes moved to VM.

I am using my own router (FritzBox) and all working well.

However split tunnelling appears to not work with the latest NordVPN windows client.

I am curious about AdGuard home and the encrypted DNS. How is that setup? As currently when I have the split tunnelling VPN ON my remote access for Plex breaks. Honestly a bit unsure why but I’ll sort it.

Ye I suspected NordVPN have added some lease timer for consistent connections to free up their server naturally or something. I just toggle the container and it resolves the issue likes it's just refreshed the connection

Its not Sonaar related so that woud probly not be the right sub but I am having the same issue.

Its not just with Deluge, but with all torrent clients I think. I tried with qbitTorrent and Transmission. I also use NordVPN so I think that might the common culprit here. No idea why it does that. I have to bascially remove the proxy config and starts a download. A sson as it gets peered, i stop it and then config the proxy again by using a different server and get downloads running again.

Maybe the issue could be put with NordVPN... but i dont know if there anything they can do with that.

Hey, yeah I completely did a dumb by not even thinking about the fact that there would be a web GUI for most of it. So I got Sonarr installed without any issue - the documentation was great. Prowlarr so far has been a bit more of a pain. It seemed like they were strongly encouraging the use of the community script, however there were a couple of issues. For example Sonarr when installing suggests using the same group for everything, so when installing Sonarr I named the group "arr" but when installing prowlarr they insisted on it being named "prowlarr", so I'm going to see how things go or if I'll have to go back and change the Sonarr group to prowlarr as well.

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But now that I've just got Sonarr and Prowlarr setup I'm going to look through the settings you mentioned and see about running those tests. Then once I verify all of that is setup I'm going to work on getting Deluge setup and then see about Deluge using my NordVPN for security purposes. While I've never used Deluge much less on an Ubuntu Server, it seems to be what a lot of people have gone with so I figured I'd see about using it and when I went through their installation docs it appears they also have a web gui you can run once it's installed so I'm hoping that works. But I'm sure setting all of that up - especially with the VPN connection - will be a whole other path to focus on that I'll hold off until I finish up checking on the Sonarr/Prowlarr end of stuff.

Ok, seems that Im reaching a good way.. I decided to buy the NordVPN for one month (to test it). Its super fast and seems that I almost did not lose any speed. Need to search for the Killswitch - its the only thing missing here. I have no words to express my gratitude for all your explanations about this subject - it help me a loooot

Just put your download clients behind the VPN, not Sonarr, Jackett or Plex. I use arch-qbittorrentvpn in Docker which works great. It supports OpenVPN and WireGuard out of the box.

For peer discovery, you’ll need to forward the port on the VPN server-side. I use Mullvad VPN and it’s pretty easy to set up. I don’t know if ExpressVPN has the port forwarding feature on their site.

You're welcome! I'd recommend against running anything as root. Digital Ocean has some decent guides on getting your environment set up: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04

I was previously using a reverse proxy to forward each of my services, including sonarr, radarr, jackett, plexpy, pihole and deluge. I also setup SFTP for access to the files themselves when I wanted a hard copy of something as opposed to streaming over plex.

I made the switch yesterday to using an openvpn access server, and it's great. It was easier to setup in the first place and is simpler to maintain, plus I can control client access. Now, I only have one secure tunnel in and not many. I don't have to update the reverse proxy each time I want to add a new web service.

The reverse proxy was definitely good but I also didn't like having to login to sonarr, for example, on my home network, because I had set it up with authentication. I'm sure that if I knew more about nginx and reverse proxies that I could've set it up to be perfect and used htaccess for everything, but for someone who had only moderate experience, the VPN has been the better result for me.

I'm on Linux Mint 18.1 (based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) and this guide got me setup https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-16-04

sonarr uses tvdb whereas people who release anime use anidb which creates endless conflicts particularly with shows that are multiple seasons and very long. it's very hit and miss. the only way i've found to have a nearly perfect anime experience using sonarr is to use BTN since it requires all content to be uploaded using tvdb's standards. if you try to do something insane like pull down monogatari or gintama you are to have a catastrophic failure, and if try to grab something long with a million seasons (like inuyasha) you are going to have a bad time.

the only real solution that i've found if you aren't using btn is to download all of the content manually and then manually import it into sonarr.

https://thetvdb.com/series/inuyasha/allseasons/official https://anidb.net/anime/144

So two things.

First, thanks for making me add yet another marvel show, like I don't have enough already.... :)

But I'm also getting the same problem.

https://hastebin.com/ilesuqaruh.apache

Running docker on Linux, version 3.0.6.1196

They are executing, I ran chmod +x on both files and autodl irss give this.

On sonarr log I get only this:

RssSyncServiceRSS Sync Completed. Reports found: 944, Reports grabbed: 0

pmDownloadDecisionMakerProcessing 944 releases

Is this what I am supposed to see?

Also I have indexers activated, do I have to deactivate them since I do not need to check the RSS?

Here is a snippet of my autodl.cfg w/ just the ipt stuff. I'll put my sonarr/radarr scripts in another pastebin in a moment. I think mine differ from what is on github now-a-days.

what file was downloaded and please just upload the logs - not screenshots

Plex runtime does not matter

TVDb runtime does https://thetvdb.com/series/and-just-like-that/episodes/8860838

38 minutes, so

38/60 * (504MB/1024MB/GB) min and 38/60 * (1.3GB) max

yup certainly seems odd.

> It was a command line installation, so there was no walk thru.

Either you didn't follow the official instructions and followed some random third party guide that's not supported or you blindly bashed your keyboard. Upon install you are prompted for what user and then what group to run sonarr as. the instructions also specifies how to change that as well

https://sonarr.tv/#downloads-v3-linux

cool that actually helps.

Another question. With a list, which is mixed TV/Movies, does sonarr instantly sift throught shows instead?

im trying ot import this list, but nothing happens

https://trakt.tv/users/preecy/lists/tv-shows?display=show,season,episode,person&amp;sort=title,asc

well let me tell i do not use it directly but i use moviesfad and seriesfad on my android phone and in those 2 apps i link my trakt.tv account which i just created for later been able to import them into radarr and now sonarr. so what i do is i keep track on all the movies and tv shows i want to see and i add them into my watchlist then radarr will every day (you can choose how often) will check my list and see if everything on that list is already on radarr and if it is not then it will add it and monitor it and even download it automatically..

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now with sonarr i will be doing the same. the advantage i see with radarr that sonarr still do not have or i have not checked is that when i set the movie in the app as watched, it will dissapear from my watch list and them when radarr run the list again, it will see it is not there anymore and it will actually unmonitored the movie from radarr and every month or so i'll go and filter by unmonitored and clean those movies from my radarr.

like i said i do not use trakt.tv at all but the link i have with the app i used make the perfect bridge between one and the other

if you have a list of tv shows on trakt.tv then you can just add it there and it will be in sync so every time you add something to the list it will automatically be added to sonarr. in radarr if you delete the movie from your list, you can set it to also delete it from radarr or to unmonitored it

> 2022-01-21 13:29:01.8|Debug|DownloadDecisionMaker|Processing release 'And Just Like That S01E08 PROPER WEBRip x264 ION10' from 'ShowRSS'

Not a Sonarr issue - ShowRSS does not report sizes.

• https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr/blob/1bfcb99f313d86dabda48b9799306c745943efd1/src/NzbDrone.Core/Indexers/Definitions/ShowRSS.cs#L167
• https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/blob/ec8e141ac991abded930e624b54283487ad0e6fa/src/Jackett.Common/Definitions/showrss.yml#L51

I bought a mini pc for around $300 (Canadian) on Amazon, to replace my aging laptop that was taking up too much space and running too slowly, and it works like a charm.

This is the one I picked up: Mini PC Windows 10 Pro Intel... https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B097JLHXQ4?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I have a NAS that all my shows are stored on.

I use Mullvad for the vm container all my docker containers like sonarr radarr etc and it works like a charm using kill switch and auto connect when the vm Starts up.

VPNs work by making your default route the vpn tunnel (tun0 for OpenVPN or wg0 for wireguard. Just manually add routes to your local network so then for example instead of the requesting ip 192.168.1.15 going through the vpn tunnel tun0 your vm hosting your sonarr will go and find it through the manual route you made as it already knows where to find the network in your route table. The default gateway is for when your device doesn’t has the requesting ip or network in it’s routing table

Hope this helps and makes sense

Example add route command

ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0

NordVPN should not be used and is not good for torrenting either as it does not support port forwarding

NordVPN also pushed a build several weeks ago that destroys all local networking. This is likely your issue.

I couldn't get on with Nord so I cancelled an dwent with Mullvad(?) It seems better supported but yeah, still a few issues.

One big thing was that it disables hostnames locally so all my mapped drives stopped working 🙄

Turn logging up to trace, trigger the problem and then pastebin the results, include a big chunk from before and after so we have context and tell us what you searched for and from where (there are 6+ different searches I'd guess)

It may be linked to external ID's or the Official Website link. I'm not sure.

If the Network isn't in this list you have to request that it be added.

Can you give me an example of a show that you want to edit?

They're definitely doing an amazing job. Easily one of the best open source projects that I've worked with.

Since I'm commenting anyway: small reminder that the devs do accept donations to help recover some of the costs they make. If you or anyone else reading this feel like it's worth it and if you have the means, please consider donating.

It's require Sonarr for series and Radarr for movies, then as funnylobsters said, sync to Trakt.tv, I personally haven't set this up but there are people who get it to sync a wanted list from Trakt.tv to auto-add/download specific series etc.

There is no official trakt.tv app, and there are at least a dozen unoffical ones. I get an email from trakt every day with my schedule of shows. But an app might be a good alternative for OP.

I figured it out.

You have to add the Network to the episodes.

I went to Season 1 - Episode 1 on theTVdb and added the Network and a link to the official episode. Now MasterClass shows as the Network for the series.

I haven't seen anything like this but did a bit of research and here's what I found.

A developer could use libvideo to download the videos easily but would need to connect to the youtube api with a key to find new videos (stackoverflow). Probably not too hard really! Would just need the user to get their own API key (and also host on a windows server because .NET).

Hello,

Got exactly the same problem since few days with same configuration (haproxy, prowlarr, radarr...)

Every package on my debian are up to date.

It is possible it's related to this: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/ ?

Did you fixed your problem? I temporary disabled the Certificate Validation as well.

And also bakerboy please tell me , in the indexers which i have selected anime category should search actively for anime , right. That means only animetosho and nyaasi should do it why 9 indexers are working lol

So setting it up in an Unraid docker and when I try adding Nyaa.si with the below settings I get a "Unable to connect to indexer, check log for more details"

App Profile - Standard

Filter - Trusted

Category - English-Translated

Sort Requested from site - created

Order Requested - desc

When I look into the logs (with debug enabled) I see this:

2021-06-24 22:11:44.8|Warn|Cardigann|Unable to connect to indexer
[v0.1.0.447] NzbDrone.Common.Http.TooManyRequestsException: HTTP request failed: [429:TooManyRequests] [GET] at [https://nyaa.si/?q=&f=2&c=1_2&s=id&o=desc]
at NzbDrone.Core.Indexers.HttpIndexerBase\1.FetchIndexerResponse(IndexerRequest request) in D:\a\1\s\src\NzbDrone.Core\Indexers\HttpIndexerBase.cs:line 451 at NzbDrone.Core.Indexers.HttpIndexerBase`1.FetchPage(IndexerRequest request, IParseIndexerResponse parser) in D:\a\1\s\src\NzbDrone.Core\Indexers\HttpIndexerBase.cs:line 370 at NzbDrone.Core.Indexers.HttpIndexerBase`1.TestConnection() in D:\a\1\s\src\NzbDrone.Core\Indexers\HttpIndexerBase.cs:line 558 <html> <head><title>429 Too Many Requests</title></head> <body bgcolor="white"> <center><h1>429 Too Many Requests</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx</center> </body> </html>`

Yes it shows up on both on Nyaa.si and through Jackett's Nyaa indexer search but just not in Sonarr.

21-4-4 20:39:00.0|Info|NzbSearchService|Searching 3 indexers for [Times : S01]
21-4-4 20:39:00.1|Info|DownloadDecisionMaker|No results found

21-4-4 20:44:44.7|Info|NzbSearchService|Searching 3 indexers for [Times : S01]
21-4-4 20:44:44.8|Debug|NzbSearchService|Total of 0 reports were found for [Times : S01] from 3 indexers
21-4-4 20:44:44.8|Debug|NzbSearchService|Setting last search time to: 4/4/2021 12:44:44 pm
21-4-4 20:44:44.8|Info|DownloadDecisionMaker|No results found

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I just wish the logs were more helpful.

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Hello, I think I did everything right when I added nyaa to my indexers but sonarr doesn’t find anything when I search the first season of fire force. I checked on nyaa.si and I can find the torrents, thats really weird.

https://imgur.com/esrF3zP

My setup with docker on a : Sonarr, Bazarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Jellyfin, qBittorrent, Flood, NordVPN and a couple other things.

Everything but Jellyfin is run with their network modes set through NordVPN. I don’t know anything about FastestVPN but you could use gluetun. I replaced Jackett with Prowlarr but I had no issues with Jackett this way as well.

Without docker you’d probbally have to setup routes yourself for “split tunneling”.

If you're torrenting, you should always be using a VPN, It should be the number one thing you should have, not just because of privacy from your ISP, but in your case you can have a completely new IP nearly every time you connect, I recommend Private Internet Access as a VPN. But still, please use a VPN for your own safety.

It’s most likely the 1:1 ratio, I didn’t realize that was a rule and set seeding to zero because it would stall due to low upload speed. I guess I could also raise the minimum seeder count (1000+?) to combat those media corpo bots. I’m also using NordVPN on the P2P servers and the connection drops frequently for no reason so it could be nord’s fault too.