Initial Setup and Configuration

In this guide, we'll be setting up Radarr. This guide assumes that that this is your first time installing Radarr and you'll be storing your media locally, saving it to ~/media. We'll be doing the following:

1. Enabling Automatic Organization
2. Adding indexers
3. Connecting your download clients
4. Adding your first movie

For clients who have existing libraries or will be using a mount, there will be sections in this guide for Radarr to guide you accordingly.

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Initial Setup

Enabling Automatic Organization

• Access and login to your Radarr instance using the credentials you set during installation
• Go to Settings

• Make sure that advanced settings is set to Shown

• In Media Management settings, toggle Rename movies to Yes.
  • You can leave the rest of the options as-is. The defaults work well with Plex's naming scheme.

• Make sure that Use hardlinks instead of copy is set to yes.
  • Hardlinks effectively creates a file that points directly to your source file. You can do anything to this file without affecting your source filt and vice versa. This is useful when you're seeding from torrents.
    • This is to prevent to have 2 copies of the same movie without affecting your files.
  • If your root folder is located on a mount (eg rclone mount), you should set this to No.
    • Hardlinks does not work on mounts. Sonarr will resort to copying, which is prone to errors.
    • For this, consider using Rclone VFS and MergerFS Setup

• After changing, save it by clicking Save.

Adding Indexers

• Here, we will add our first indexer
• Go to Indexers

• click the Plus button

• Then select the indexers you want to add for your Radarr instance and input what is asked on each indexer you wish.
  • Depending on the indexer, it'll ask for your account credentials or a passkey. Refer to your indexer/tracker for more information on what to put.

• Once that’s done, click Save.

Adding Download Clients

• Now, click the Download client tab.

• To add your preferred client, click the big + button then select your preferred client.

For connection details on each client, you may refer to this guide: Download Client Connection Details

Adding Your First Movie

• Now we'll be adding your first movie. Click add movies.

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• Then type any movie you want to download.
• Once you've found the movie you want, we will set some options. First, click the dropdown box on the path and click add a different path

• File browser popup will appear. Click the blue folder button

• Then select homexx folder where homexx contains the node where your seedbox is in.
  • In the screenshot, the seedbox is on home1
  • It may vary but always select the homexx folder

• Once opened, select your seedbox (indicated by your seedbox username)

• Then select the media folder and select
  • This folder is generated upon receiving your seedbox. This is where you'll be saving your media.

 

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Settings Overview

Media Management

• This is where you can customize Radarr's media organization settings. 

Profiles

• Here, you can edit profiles for different resolutions.
• Each profile you can set which resolution you'd like to grab, the cutoff to which you'll set Radarr to stop grabbing releases of that episode and any custom formats you've wished to grab.
• You can also set Delay profiles
  • Delay profiles allow you to reduce the number of releases that will be downloaded for an episode, by adding a delay while Radarr will continue to watch for releases that better match your preferences.
  • Delay profiles are also helpful if you want to emphasize one protocol (Usenet or Torrent) over the other.

Quality

• Here, this is where you'll control the size limits of each resolution. Anything that's not within the set limits will be rejected from releases.

Custom Formats

• Custom formats are a way to further filter down the releases from your indexers. 

Indexers

Download Client

Lists

Connect

Metadata

General

UI