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Radarr

Radarr is an independent fork of Sonarr reworked for automatically downloading movies via Usenet and BitTorrent.

Initial Setup

First you must connect to your slot via ssh. If you need help connecting to the server, please read the help article here.

Installing Radarr is easy. Simply issue the following command:

box install radarr

This command will configure radarr for your user.

How to Access

On initial launch it is critical that you use the same login credentials AND set authentication to "Forms based" logins when asked to setup credentials!

After Radarr has been installed, it will be available for access at https://<hostname.io>/radarr.

Service Management

Like all box configured applications, you can manage Radarr via SSH with box with start, stop, restart, enable and disable commands.

box start radarr

Configuration

Out of the box, Radarr comes with very little configuration. Following are some basic tasks to help get your client up and running:

Add a new show (and your first root directory)

  1. At the top, click series.
  2. Click the button + Add Movie
  3. Type the name of the show you want to add
  4. Under Path, choose Add a new path. Enter the path for the folder you wish to add your Sonarr shows to and click the green checkmark to add the directory.
  • e.g. /home/<username>/media/Movies
  1. Change the other settings to your own needs
  2. Click the green + to add the show.

Connect download clients

To add a download client, go to Settings > Download Client. Make sure Advanced Settings are shown and click Add Client.

Name: rTorrent
rTorrent host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 443
URL Path: /rutorrent/plugins/httprpc/action.php
Use SSL: ON
Username: <your username>
Password: <your password>
Add label to torrent: TV (or anything else you desire)
Optional - Downloaded files location: <custom directory>
NOTE: If you have errors adding rTorrent to Sonarr, please try going to Settings > General and disable certificate validation for localhost addresses

Add an indexer with Jackett

Radarr only supports a few trackers out of the box, but the indexers can be expanded by using the application Jackett. To add an indexer with Jackett, use the following steps.

note

By default, when receivng the torznab feed from Jackett, it will need to be modified to be connected with the application. The default link looks like:

https://app02.hostingby.design/jackett/api/v2.0/indexers/yourtracker/results/torznab/

We need to edit this link to remove https and add the port number. Thus, if your port number was 12345, your editted URL would look like this:

http://app02.hostingby.design:12345/jackett/api/v2.0/indexers/yourtracker/results/torznab/
  1. Go to Settings > Indexers and click + to add a new indexer.
  2. Under Torrent choose Torznab
  3. Use the settings:
Name: <tracker name>
URL: <click copy torznab feed in jackett and modify as per above>
API: <copy and paste from jackett UI>
  1. Click Test. If all is good, click Save.

Radarr not working after update

In some cases when Radarr is updated through the WebUI, you may encounter an issue where Radarr is not starting correctly. Thankfully there is an easy fix:

  1. Make sure you have a red dot next to Radarr in the Swizzin WebUI.
  2. Login via SSH and navigate cd ~/.config/Radarr/ and copy the radarr.db with cp radarr.db ~/
  3. Go back into your home dir with cd ~/ and then run box remove radarr and then box install radarr
  4. After Radarr is installed, go into the Swizzin WebUI and turn off Radarr with the Enabled switch, wait around 10-20 seconds for the Radarr instance to be completely turned off, noted by the Red Dot next to Radarr.
  5. Go back into the Radarr config folder with cd ~/.config/Radarr and remove the radarr.db, radarr.db-shm, radarr.db-wal and radarr.pid files with rm radarr.db, radarr.db-shm, radarr.db-wal and radarr.pid. Now navigate back to your home dir with cd ~/ and copy over the backup of your .db file with cp radarr.db ~/.config/Radarr/
  6. Now you are free to turn on Radarr back from the switch in the Swizzin Panel.

Other tasks

You may wish to further alter your setup by setting quality profiles or setting up post-processing so that media is automatically transferred to your Radarr library when your torrents are completed. If you need further help, you can refer to the Radarr Wiki.