Sonarr set up torrent download client

Usenet is not free but far superior to Torrents. Adding providers is as easy as using the Newznab presets for Usenet, or choosing Custom if the provider is not on the list. The same is true for Torrents but they are not recommended. If you decide that you would like to go ahead and use Torrents anyway, you will need to install another program called Jackett which you can read about here.

Download Client is where the settings are input for the program s used to download the shows. Setting up a Usenet client and a Torrent client are the same. SABnzbd is a really great, and simple to use program for grabbing newsbins.

Turn on all of the options under Complete Download Handling as well as Failed Download handling so that Sonarr will delete the downloads from the history once done. Optionally you can setup set the category under the client settings so that when Sabnzbd is done downloading the file it will be organized into the appropriate folder. If you choose to do this, you have to set the category within Sabnzbd as well as manually make the folder because Sabnzbd will not create it automatically.

Now that Sonarr is setup, you can begin adding shows by clicking the Series button at the top and then the green Add Series button. Put in a show name that you would like to add to your collection. As I previously mentioned, we do not care about television very much and we do not have a lot of storage so we went with the SD profile with the cutoff being DVD quality.

Next you will need to choose the path where the TV show folders will be created. Sonarr will begin to search all of the seasons using the indexers that you setup and send them to your download client using the API key. Once Sonarr is told that the files are done downloading, it will rename them according to your preferences and then place them in your TV Show folder.

For the above example Sonarr would move all of the episodes to:. Thank you so much for this tutorial Dustin! Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Home About Blog Gallery Contact. Installing a RV Shower. Building a Pallet Wall.

Calibre-Web Configuration. Really great tutorials! Add a torrent client. DownloadStation can do both, but you picked the usenet one. Thank you, thank you, thank you. One last question please. Wheras Sonarr on my Synology would send multiple episodes to Download Station for simultaneous download. Thanks again. Sonarr grabbed a season pack and sent it to your download station. Single torrent containing multiple files, so only one entry in DS. Sonarr will track all individual episodes that are downloading in its queue, regardless of wether they belong to a season pack or individual episode download.

I now have a working solution with Sonarr running on my PC, using Download Station on the Synology, and saving the complete files back to a drive on the PC. This will do.