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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 anti-captcha API key. You can 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

    • Then you can set the defaults for both Series and Movies
      • Here, you can set the default parameters and languages that you wish to search and download.
      • You can leave them as default and set them later or do it now, as shown in the following screenshot

    • Once that’s done, click Next

    Connecting Sonarr and Radarr to Bazarr

    • Here, you’ll be connecting your Sonarr instance to Bazarr
    • Login to your Sonarr instance and go to Settings -> General

    • Then under Security, copy the API key provided

    • InGo 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 green text, click next to move on to the next step

    • Repeat the same steps on Radarr, using the following informationinformation:
    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

    • After 1 minute or so, access your bazarr via https://username.lwxxx.usbx.me/bazarr

    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.

    • Then ifIf 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 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

    General

    • Here you set Bazarr’s general settings. Here you can find the following relevant settings:
      • Security settings to set your credentials
      • Your Bazarr API Key
      • Sonarr and Radarr Integration switches
      • Path Mappings for both Movies and TV Shows
        • This is used when your Radarr/Sonarr Instance is on another machine
      • Setting up post-processing commands
      • Analytics for the Developers

    Sonarr and Radarr

    • In these pages,Here, you can enter your Sonarr and Radarr credentials
    • Here youYou may opt to enter if you want Bazarr to download only monitored releases
    • You 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 subtitles. subtitles
    • You can set on the minimum rating for subtitles, where Bazarr saves your subtitles, and other options for subtitles
    • Each 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

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