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.

    •  GeorgeZip   ( @GeorgeZip@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) OPEnglish
      1•2 years 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   ( @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ) English
        1•2 years 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.

  •  yoichi   ( @yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
    2•2 years ago

    I believe what you’re looking for is Remote Path Mapping, read this guide and see if it fits your situation - https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/Radarr-remote-path-mapping/

    Sonarr should be the same setup process. Essentially, you want your arr’s to be able to see and access the files on your seedbox. Best way that I’ve found to do this is sshfs or rclone’s sftp. Mount your seedbox’s download folder on your Plex server with sshfs/sftp

    Since you’re also moving the files from your seedbox to your Plex server with synching, I imagine a setup involving mergerfs will work too. Basically, you mount your seedbox download folder to your Plex server, use mergerfs to merge it with your local Plex server’s location that Sonarr/Radarr imports it to - point Sonarr, Radarr and the Plex to the merged location. When the files are being moved by Syncthing, all your services will still think they’re in the same location so it doesn’t get confused.

    If you want to go that route, you can use the Google Drive guide - https://web.archive.org/web/20220508210909/https://wikiold.servarr.com/Cloud_Setup and change it a bit so it works for your configuration. Ignore the parts about encrypting and the nightly move script, Syncthing does that for you. And instead of mounting a Google drive remote, you will be mounting your seedbox through sshfs/sftp

  •  Appoxo   ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
    1•2 years ago

    I have a similar setup as you so maybe I can help. BUT I don’t get your question.

    Anyway, my setup:

    • Use NZB360/Web-UI to manually search or *arr for monitored stuff
    • *arr pushes download to rutorrent/rtorrent via XML-RPC
    • seedbox downloads and makes a hardlink to a folder (/seedbox/files/resilio/). Since I tag my torrents, rtorrent also creates a subfolder in resilio called sonarr, radarr or lidarr.
    • resilio notices that and syncs with my home node.
    • Remote path mapping in the *arrs take care of the automatic import (there will be a few errors in the log until it’s fully synced)
    • (For me it’s an issue, maybe I set it up wrong) *arrs will import it by copying the file from /data/seedbox/<*arr> to the respective media library like movie, tv, anime, music, etc.
    • Seedbox continues to do it’s thing.

    Once in a while I have to manually clean the sync folder since I have a semi-broken setup.

  •  zebus   ( @zebus@lemmy.zip ) English
    1•2 years ago

    You can specify your Seedbox credentials on the download client and it will work.

    And set up a remote path to link your torrent download directory to whatever directory you store in locally.

    Haven’t tried it but i believe it should work something like that.