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Initial Setup and Configuation

In this guide, we’ll be setting up Bazarr for the first time. This guide assumes the following:

  • You’ll be setting up your library for the first time and your library is saved locally under ~/media
  • You have both Radarr and Sonarr installed and configured

We’ll be doing the following steps:

  1. Setting up subtitle providers
  2. Connecting Sonarr and Radarr
  3. Setting up username and password

Initial Setup

Setting Up Subtitle Providers

  • Upon successful installation, wait for up to 5 minutes for Bazarr to initialize.
  • After clicking Connect on the UCP, you’ll be shown with Bazarr’s first-time setup guide.
  • You may leave the first page as-is. Click Next to save and move on to the next step
  • Here, we will set up subtitle providers.
  • On subtitles options section, leave both options as-is
    • Plex requires that subtitle files should be at the same location as your movie file for it to be detected

  • Then enable the subtitle providers that you wish to use
    • Some providers require you to add your credentials. Be sure to enter it accordingly
    • There are also some providers that needed an anti-captcha API key.
      • You may add the API key after the setup has finished under Settings -> Subtitles -> Anti-Captcha Options

  • Under Subtitle languages, click the drop-down box on enabled languages and select your preferred languages for Bazarr to search

  • Once that’s done, click Next

Connecting Sonarr and Radarr to Bazarr

  • Login to your Sonarr instance and go to Settings -> General

  • Then under Security, copy the API key provided

  • Go back to Bazarr. Under Sonarr, enable Use Sonarr and input the following
Hostname or IP address: username.lwxxx.usbx.me
Listening port: 443
Base URL: /sonarr
SSL enabled: On
API Key: >paste Sonarr API key here<
Download Only Monitored: Enabled (Recommended)
  • Once that’s done, Click the Test button to validate the settings.
  • If it shows a green text indicating that Bazarr is successfully connected to Sonarr, click Next to move to Radarr

  • Repeat the same steps on Radarr, using the following information:
Hostname or IP address: username.lwxxx.usbx.me
Listening port: 443
Base URL: /radarr
SSL enabled: On
API Key: >paste Radarr API key here<
Download Only Monitored: Enabled (Recommended)
  • To get Radarr's API key, select Settings -> General and copy the API key Under Security Settings

  • Click Save to save your changes once testing is passed

  • Then click Restart on the red banner to restart the instance to properly apply the changes

Setting Up Username and Password

  • Click Settings

  • Then on General settings, under Security settings Click on the Authentication dropbox and select either Basic (browser popup) or Forms (Login Page).
    • We recommend selecting Forms (Login page) since it is non-intrusive and works on password managers

  • Then input the credentials that you want

  • Once that’s done, click Save and restart the instance when prompted

  • Wait for a few minutes. It’ll redirect directly to your login page. Login using your set credentials to proceed.

Downloading Subtitles

  • At initial setup, Bazarr will add your existing entries on your Sonarr/Radarr instances search for existing subtitles from their root folders. Both series/movie entries are found in Series and Movies respectively.

  • If there are no entries on either of the two, you can force to refresh by going to System -> Tasks (Red Box) and click the Refresh icon on the following tasks in order.
    • Update Series list from Sonarr
    • Update Movie list from Radarr
    • Update all Episode Subtitles from disk
    • Update all Movie Subtitles from disk
  • Depending on the size of your library, this could take a while.

  • If everything is set, you can now download subtitles. You can opt to do the following
    • Let Bazarr download the subtitles by itself. There's an automated task that downloads wanted subtitles daily.
    • Force Bazarr to download wanted subtitles by either
      • Going to Wanted and click Download Wanted Subtitles on Series and/or Movies

  • Go to System -> Tasks and click the following
    • Update all Episode Subtitles from disk
    • Update all Movie Subtitles from disk

  • Depending on your library, this will take a while to search and download your subtitles.
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