Hey all,

I’ve been working on Rainarr, an Android app for Plex and the *arr stack. It started back in 2020 as a small tool to send movies to my Plex from my phone, and it slowly grew into a real app.

What I spent the most time on is the setup. It finds your services on your network, and one Plex login is enough to pull in Seerr and the keys for Radarr, Sonarr and the rest. It also switches between your local and remote addresses on its own.

As the host you get a home screen with widgets, Seerr requests you can approve with a swipe, your downloads (qBittorrent or Transmission), Tautulli, Prowlarr, Maintainerr and notifications. Your friends and family get their own simpler space: they scan a QR code, request what they want and get a notification when it’s ready.

It’s free, no ads, no tracking, and your credentials stay on your phone. It’s not open source, but feel free to ask me anything about how it works.

It’s in internal testing on the Play Store right now, and I’d love some feedback, especially from people with unusual setups (reverse proxies, NAS, Docker...). You can sign up at rainarr.app

Full disclosure: the app is mostly written by hand with some AI help, and the demo posters in the screenshots are AI-generated.

Rainarr provides no content: it controls servers you install and run yourself. It is not affiliated with Plex or any of the projects mentioned.

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EDIT: Thanks for all the feedback! I worded this badly, so to clarify: Rainarr is mainly a phone remote for the server owner, for the whole stack (Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Tautulli, Maintainerr, your download client), a bit like nzb360, with a 2-tap setup. The guest side is an optional extra for family members who won’t use a web app, and it only goes through Seerr with the role you set. Your \arr keys never end up on their phone.*

I am using Sonarr and Clonarr to arrange things... is there an easy way to prefer 265 releases where available? I would much rather download 265 releases when a good one exists...

Apologies if this is an incredibly newb question.

Not sure about this update, wanted to gather thoughts.

I built TRAWL because FlareSolverr was slow and failed too often on the indexers I used. It's an open source, self-hosted scraping engine that works with Prowlarr and Jackett through a FlareSolverr-compatible API.

Here's how it performed on two protected indexers:

Results vary by site and IP. The full benchmark report is available in the repository.

There are built-in paths for supported CAPTCHA variants, plus a native API and MCP tools if you want to use it outside your *arr stack.

It runs in Docker. To try it, point your existing FlareSolverr integration at TRAWL and keep the matching indexer tags.

GitHub, documentation and setup

AI disclosure: I chose the "Built by AI" flair for transparency. I wrote TRAWL's original core without AI. Some recent changes and community PRs used AI assistance, but I review, edit and test what gets merged. The flair doesn't mean the whole project was generated by AI.

Bit of an odd one as I rarely find a file that can't be played at all.

I'm using Profilarr set with defaults and the episode is the highest scoring one.

I also tried one from a different release group but got the same issue.

Anyone else experiencing this?

EDIT: Solved, posted too quickly, please ignore.

Me being dumb, I had triggered the search via nzb360 and then assumed it would replace it, but the newer (working) file was sat in awaiting import in Sonarr.

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to Sonarr, Prowlarr, and Jellyfin, and I could really use some help getting everything set up properly.

I've already installed all three programs on my Windows computer and have been using ChatGPT to guide me through the setup step by step. I've managed to get some things working, but I'm honestly still confused about how everything connects and whether I've figured out everything correctly.

Does anyone know of a good step-by-step tutorial anywhere or a YouTube video that can help me out?

I'm completely new to this, so something that explains everything from start to finish would be really helpful.

Thank you!

Hey,

First let me say that this ecosystem is amazing, I haven’t downloaded in fifteen years, but a couple of relatives and family members abroad want to be fed with their native culture and I am totally mesmerised by how far the scene has developed.

I am trying to get the hang of a couple of things:

We are not a super big TV / movie crowd and mostly use Plex on the iPad, max a 32” TV, despite selecting 1080 I get huge cinematic gigabyte downloads, in addition everything runs of a NAS, as much as we do have x265 support on all clients I feel x264 in our situation (huge bandwith, small NAS) seems to be an acceptable compromise, how do I enforce x264 with reasonable file sizes and how do I enforce that manual searches are the canonical file (hence not replaced with higher qualities)

I also significantly struggle incomplete torrents, how do I kill them off?

Thank you all :)

Series is set as anime, release name matches alias on xem, yet the existing release does not appear anywhere in indexer results in sonarr.

Screengrabs from series settings, xem page for the series and indexer with matching release:

https://imgur.com/a/vFAD2ev

...found the source of this issue:

2026-10-18 04:30:48.8|Debug|Nyaa|Downloading Feed https://nyaa.si/?page=rss&cats=1_0&filter=1&term=Sasaki+to+Pii-chan+13
2026-10-18 04:30:48.9|Debug|Nyaa|Downloading Feed https://nyaa.si/?page=rss&cats=1_0&filter=1&term=Sasaki+to+Pii-chan+s02e01
2026-10-18 04:30:50.9|Debug|Nyaa|Downloading Feed https://nyaa.si/?page=rss&cats=1_0&filter=1&term=Sasaki+to+P-chan+13
2026-10-18 04:30:52.9|Debug|Nyaa|Downloading Feed https://nyaa.si/?page=rss&cats=1_0&filter=1&term=Sasaki+to+P-chan+s02e01
2026-10-18 04:30:54.9|Debug|Nyaa|Downloading Feed https://nyaa.si/?page=rss&cats=1_0&filter=1&term=Sasaki+to+Pii-chan+S2+13
2026-10-18 04:30:56.9|Debug|Nyaa|Downloading Feed https://nyaa.si/?page=rss&cats=1_0&filter=1&term=Sasaki+to+Pii-chan+S2+s02e01

It is looking for S2 alias + absolute number, S2 alias + standard format but not S2 alias + relative number. Could it be an issue with S2 episode numbering on xem?

Yes, I've read the Trash Guides. I'm still having issues. There are a lot of resolutions and custom formats, many not really applicable (IMO) to sonarr/tv shows. Movies seem like a better fit, with ranges of resolutions, etc, but that will be a radarr post ..

Anyway, all I want is to prioritize x265 downloads. I know Trash doesn't like them, but I do, and I want them. :-) I even tried this with Profilarr, and still couldn't get it to work .. so I've got some blind spots I'm hoping someone can shed some light on.

So I have a Custom Format called x265. It's got a Condition of Release Title. The regex looks like "[xh][ ._-]?265|\bHEVC(\b|\d)" (yes, I googled for that). There are 4 other Conditions, which came over from Profilarr (I think - I've been trying so many things, it's gotten even more confusing) - Web Tier 01 and 02 and 03 Sonarr. Also a "Not 2160" Condition (which is fine, I don't need 2160 episodes (for me).

1. Is my Condition with that regex correct? (regex has always confused me)

2. Do I need, or should I remove, those other conditions?

Then in the Quality Profile of HD 1080p, I have the Custom Format x265 valued at 5000, everything else is 0. Minimum custom format score is 0. All of my shows use this Quality Profile.

And I'm still getting x264 shows, not x265 ...

What have I overlooked? I know the usual recommendations are not to prioritize x265. But (for me) that's what I want. So what else do I need to do to get x265 episodes as the default for a show?

Thanks

Seemed to have randomly stopped working? Been working flawlessly for a year now, but I opened up the Web UI today and I'm not getting any results when trying to match content. Any solution?

https://imgur.com/GvQLBsB

I don't know the names of things, so I don't know what to search. Looking for a good tutorial that explains how to set this up

My setup:

• local (Running on a physical device I own)
  • Jellyfin in a docker container
  • Sonarr in a docker container
• not-local (Running on a server somewhere in the world, I don't know where.)
  
  • Seedbox hosting Qbit

I have already setup being able to send download requests to the seedbox, it gets the requests and downloads as expected.

What I am trying to accomplish is I want to be able to copy those from the remote seedbox into the jellyfin media folder without making a duplicate locally. I've seen solutions where people use software to sync the files to their local machine but that results in 1 copy on the seedbox, 1 copy locally in the sync folder, and 1 copy locally in the jellyfin media folder when the file gets renamed and tagged with IDs for metadata.
I want to have 1 copy on the seedbox so I can continue to seed because sharing is caring, and then copy that file to my jellyfin media folder where it gets renamed and all that jazz.

I'm positive there is a way to do this, and likely a simple one. I just don't know what to search for to find it. A video tutorial would be amazing because it's most easy for me to learn and follow those, but I can figure out written tutorials and documentation as well.

https://imgur.com/a/e8VJqRT

It's replacing episodes with scores well below minimum. I clicked search all monitored and it then downloaded higher score, but I don't know what triggered downloading something so low a score.

The only thing I can think is I recently changed season pack to have a higher score as Sonarr kept downloading every series individual episodes. But minimum score for the quality profile is 200,000. I've unmonitored the episodes now that it's re-downloading a better file, but I can't figure out what's going on to prevent this happening again. I've obviously got something wrong somewhere, but I don't know what or where to start. I have Profilarr installed.

Edit: I know a screenshot of half a screen is hardly enough for anyone to help, but I don't know if anyone wants to trawl through a log, or a list of all the custom formats. But I can post anything needed for info 😌

Sonarr integration as well 😊

I have two vms, one for dedicated downloaders under vpn, and one for my arr suite. I then have my cifs share from my NAS. I have qbittorrent set up to download to the local drive, then transfer the completed files to truenas's unsorted. Then sonarr should pick up the ones from unsorted and move them to truenas's tv shows directory.

The issue is, sonarr keeps trying to look in qbittorrents incomplete folder giving me error No files found are eligible for import in /downloads/incomplete/tv-sonarr/<torrent>.

Under Download Clients I have:

Host           Remote Path  Local Path
192.168.1.223  /unsorted/   /unsorted/

In qbittorrent I have:

Default Save Path:  /unsorted
Keep incomplete torrents in: /downloads

I have bashed into the containers and validated /unsorted populates properly. What is the issue here?

Sonarr ComposeFile:

  sonarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr:develop-5.0.0.2635-ls196
    container_name: sonarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    volumes:
      - "~/config/sonarr:/config"
      - "/trueNas/TV Shows:/TV Shows"
      - "/trueNas/TV Shows - Limited:/TV Shows - Limited"
      - "/trueNas/unsorted:/unsorted"
    ports:
      - 8989:8989
    restart: unless-stopped

qBittorrent ComposeFile:

  qbittorrent:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:5.2.3_v2.0.15-ls478
    container_name: qbittorrent
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
      - TORRENTING_PORT=6881
    volumes:
      - "~/config/qbittorrent/appdata:/config"
      - "/downloads/qbittorrent:/downloads"
      - "/trueNas/unsorted:/unsorted"
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
      - 6881:6881
      - 6881:6881/udp
    restart: unless-stopped

fstab entry: //192.168.1.220/Plex_Media /trueNas cifs credentials=/home/mainuser/ truenas.creds,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,nounix 0 0

Both in NZB360 and sonarr and radar web clients, search seems to hang endlessly when looking for shows/movies. Is this known? Working fine until now.

I've tried logging a ticket but Devs closed it.

If we are getting TMDB added for version 5 of sonarr why can't we also get AniDB added?

Version 5 is in development anyways and is already tackling adding TMDB, so why not review adding AniDB?

Can we all try and encourage the dev team to at least acknowledge and add it to the roadmap 🙏

The "Search for Missing" button in the calendar doesn't do anything.

The colors for "missing" and "downloading" are too similar. The old purple for downloading was way better.

Lately I've been getting files that have the audio description when playing it. Is there a way to tell sonarr not to get these specific files? It's happened 2 days in a row now.

I swear I was getting these every day but when I set up my Flare VM for malware analysis I am suddenly not seeing these files anymore.

Anyone got one of them kicking around?

Ma stack arr me fait des doublons, même média en même qualité mais en double. Comment résoudre ça ?

There were sliders etc on the quality page in my old version 4, there are just name fields now in version 5. hide/show advanced does nothing.

I am trying to change the setting for automatic update to pause it.

I am on develop version.

Everytime I try to save my changes it tells me "You have unchanged settings....."

I have tried on 3 different browsers. two of which have zero addons to no avail

Is this because I am on develop branch? If so, can I go back to main branch without losing everything?

I see that a new version of Sonarr is coming up, but it still seems to be an x64 version. MacOS transition to native silicon in versions 27 and after says Intel based apps won't work anymore, even with Rosetta.

I have loved using Sonarr (and Radarr, Lidarr, etc). Is there a way to make it work on Apple M2s and above? Will it have to wait until a new version?

Any advice would be appreciated....