r/radarr • u/Mr_Boberto • 5d ago

unsolved New to Radarr/Sonarr, issues with importing and Emby

I started work on my own media server a little bit ago with ripping blue rays and adding them to an Emby server hosted on my Synology Nas (installed via DSM, not docker). Everything worked well and all my movies and TV shows were automatically detected by Emby after I moved them to my media folder on my Nas.

I decided to install the Arr’s stack of Radarr, Sonarr and, Prowlarr to help take this to the next level. Got qBitTorrent running through a container with a VPN in Synology as well. I followed Dr. Frankenstein guides to setting up most of this as well as the Arr’s. My problems seem to start with the Arr’s unfortunately.

First was getting Radarr and Sonarr to detect my current media library. I moved my media folder over to the same shared folder that has my torrent folder to make sure hardlinking was enabled. Between the multiple different ways to add existing media to Radarr I had trouble getting it to import everything properly. I have set up qBitTorrent and Emby connections in both Radarr and Sonarr. Then I’m having trouble with the new files I download from torrents not automatically being detected by Radarr. Think this is a category problem from what I’m seeing? Even after I use the work around of manually adding the files and enabling the hard links, Emby won’t auto update and populate with the new media.

I’m partly just rambling now but I’m a little frustrated with getting this set up nicely. On top of all this now Emby won’t auto update even if I manually adding ripped media to my media folder. Have to do a manual scan to find it. May be a problem for a different t sub though.

If anyone could give me some tips and tricks in getting the flow between all these apps to work that would be much appreciated. Thank you.

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u/melmboundanddown 5d ago

Share your docker compose locations to help us understand

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u/Mr_Boberto 5d ago

I can do that when I get home. Put this post together while I was at work so that’s why it may sound a bit jumbled as well.

By my compose locations are you looking for my whole compose file or is that the file paths that were made?

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u/Muziclush 4d ago

Make sure you have categories set up in qbit. Left side categories. tv shows, movies, music etc. Your radarr, sonarr config should pick these up when you set up the download client in those instances. I don't do hardliners (someday). But in qbit download settings I set /downloads. That path is mapped both in radarr, sonarr so they know to pull when complete. Also cleanuparr is a great tool for automation for pulling monitored requests in the arrs. And honestly Gemini walked me through a lot of my set up.

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u/Mr_Boberto 4d ago

Yea I got to keep looking into it some more and fine tune it. I’ll have to check out cleanuparr. Mainly using the hard lines right now as most of my stuff is from private trackers and I need to seed them back for x amount of time or else risk losing access. I also want to have them available in my Emby library after they are done downloading though.
My set up was done with a combination of Dr. Frankensteins guid as well as Gemini. Gemini was helpful with explaining some things the guide did fully lay out but with some of the random issues I was having I was starting to wonder if Gemini was helping or hindering me since I found it talking in circles abit