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:
- Setting up subtitle providers
- Connecting Sonarr and Radarr
- 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
firstfirst-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,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.
Settings Overview
General
Here you set Bazarr’s general settings. Here you can find the following relevant settings:Security settings to set your credentialsYour Bazarr API KeySonarr and Radarr Integration switchesPath Mappings for both Movies and TV ShowsThis is used when your Radarr/Sonarr Instance is on another machine
Setting up post-processing commandsAnalytics for the Developers
Sonarr and Radarr
Here, you can enter your Sonarr and Radarr credentialsYou may opt to enter if you want Bazarr to download only monitored releasesYou can also set here the automated task on when you want each to download wanted subtitles
Subtitles
Here, you can set which providers Bazarr looks for subtitlesYou can set on the minimum rating for subtitles, where Bazarr saves your subtitles, and other options for subtitlesEach subtitle provider requires either your token, your API key or your credentials. Some providers needed an anti-captcha key which you can also put in here.
Notifications
Here, you can set notifications if Bazarr grabbed has grabbed any subtitles