Intergration of Filebot with Sonarr
Posted: 18 Jul 2019, 03:33
Loving Filebot and have my set up nicely integrated with Sonarr and Radarr using the AMC script to do all the renaming and sym-linking. I've got a bit of a silly problem and I'm sure there is an easy solution that I haven't thought of (or someone could say it's not really an issue at all...):
1. I have recently had to rebuild my server using a backup. No biggie. Have imported my Movies back into Radarr (although I guess not strictly needed as I'm happy with the current quality) and TV Shows back into Sonarr (so Sonarr can continue monitoring new TV shows for new eps).
2. I set my Movies and TV Shows to Media/Movies and Media/TV Shows. So, for example, the entry for 24 points to Media/TV Shows/24 in Sonarr. So far so good.
3. The small wrinkle is that, say, if there is a new episode out for 24, then Sonarr will pick it up and download it to Media/TV Shows/24. Filebot then picks up the download episode, renames and symlinks it into exactly the same sub-directory.
4. Filebot is not doing anything wrong, it's doing exactly what it's meant to be doing. But the result is that now I have two 'copies' of the same episode in Media/TV Shows/24. The one that deluge downloaded and the one that Filebot rename processed and plopped back into the same sub-directory. It's not a huge problem as it's sym-linked and doesn't really waste disk space but it's you know...messy... and I'm picky like that.
5. I can't set the path for 24 to a download directory (e.g. deluge/downloads) in Sonarr as doing so will mean that Sonarr doesn't pick up the backed up episodes that I previously restored under point 1. If I did that, Sonarr will search for s01e01 of 24 in deluge/downloads, see that it's missing (as it is sitting in Media/TV Shows/24) and then proceed to download that episode.
Hopefully the above is slightly clearer than mud. I guess one solution is to: (i) set the path to deluge/downloads in Sonarr; and (ii) manually unmonitor episodes that I restored from the backup which should solve the problem but wondering if anyone had any other bright ideas?
Thanks!
1. I have recently had to rebuild my server using a backup. No biggie. Have imported my Movies back into Radarr (although I guess not strictly needed as I'm happy with the current quality) and TV Shows back into Sonarr (so Sonarr can continue monitoring new TV shows for new eps).
2. I set my Movies and TV Shows to Media/Movies and Media/TV Shows. So, for example, the entry for 24 points to Media/TV Shows/24 in Sonarr. So far so good.
3. The small wrinkle is that, say, if there is a new episode out for 24, then Sonarr will pick it up and download it to Media/TV Shows/24. Filebot then picks up the download episode, renames and symlinks it into exactly the same sub-directory.
4. Filebot is not doing anything wrong, it's doing exactly what it's meant to be doing. But the result is that now I have two 'copies' of the same episode in Media/TV Shows/24. The one that deluge downloaded and the one that Filebot rename processed and plopped back into the same sub-directory. It's not a huge problem as it's sym-linked and doesn't really waste disk space but it's you know...messy... and I'm picky like that.
5. I can't set the path for 24 to a download directory (e.g. deluge/downloads) in Sonarr as doing so will mean that Sonarr doesn't pick up the backed up episodes that I previously restored under point 1. If I did that, Sonarr will search for s01e01 of 24 in deluge/downloads, see that it's missing (as it is sitting in Media/TV Shows/24) and then proceed to download that episode.
Hopefully the above is slightly clearer than mud. I guess one solution is to: (i) set the path to deluge/downloads in Sonarr; and (ii) manually unmonitor episodes that I restored from the backup which should solve the problem but wondering if anyone had any other bright ideas?
Thanks!