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.
Why would you want to move your content off Plex once the download completes? How would you watch that content then?
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.
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.
Not sure if I entirely understand what you’re asking but here’s my setup that sounds similar-ish that might help.
I’ve got essentially 3 machines
- Download machine - contains Sonarr/Radar/Nzbget, etc… This machine isn’t very powerful but it has A LOT of RAM.
- A Nas - this is where everything gets downloaded to. Primarily this machine just has a lot of HDD space.
- Jellyfin box – Decent RAM and a beefy CPU for transcoding.
The download machine has a network share to download directly to the NAS in a special /downloads/ folder. Once a download completes Sonarr, etc… move it to it’s correct media folder.
Finally the Jellyfin machine is monitoring the media folders for changes.
I assume you could set up something similar with Plex instead of jellyfin and then store the fully downloaded files on a separate machine with a network drive, so Plex can see it. Essentially the NAS for you would be two machines one (the seedbox) for the partial downloads and a local NAS for the fully downloaded files?
Anyway, not sure if that’s what you’re looking for.
This is basically my setup.
My NAS has individual folders for torrent files, downloads in progress, Seeding.
Radarr/Sonarr monitors the Seeding folder. Then copies the file to the appropriate folder for Plex.
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.
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
