Torrents

Cad_sl said:

Why are you guys storing already watched TV episodes? Delete that shit. Download again if you ever need to. Hint: you won't.

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My wife does and I also share all of my media with six people via Plex.

Kodi has an add on in the official repository that will detect file changes and automatically refresh the library when it does.

What are you trying to do and I can probably help. Detail all of it from what you have to download with and what you are watching it on.

I have solved every issue I have come across other than seedbox syncing but only because I have no need for that yet. My system is 100% automated in every way with the ability to watch anywhere from Plex and also remotely add shows with a calendar I can see.

Deathwing_sl said:

Just giving sonarr a try and can't find wtf my BTN api key is. I understand the concept of it, just can't find where the hell it is on my BTN user page(assuming that's where it is).

I swear BTN used to have a tutorial for setting up RSS feeds in utorrent, I'm betting it's there, but I can't find that either now.



Weeeee, nevermind...edit profile makes total intuitive sense!

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With BTN you don't need the RSS when you do Sonarr because of the API key you just found!

Tell me if you have other problems.

Ooh daily episodes?

You added existing series from disk already?

There are pretty much no settings for BTN but where you put your API key.

Just do ip:8080

Deathwing_sl said:

Yeah, my Shield isn't on all the time, so that's not going to be that useful of a feature anyway.

Is there a program that will do file renaming and meta data scraping for movies like sonarr does for tv shows?

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For movies? Yeah it is Couchpotato and works almost identically to Sonarr.

Vvoid_sl said:

I just saw this, and obviously haven't even tried to set anything up yet, but I'll quickly run through it and you can tell me if it is viable.

I use the BTN RSS feed with Flexget on my Whatbox to put torrent files into a particular directory in Dropbox (on the seedbox). The reason I put it in a Dropbox directory is because that is the "watched" directory for rTorrent, and thus when I want to manually add a torrent, all I have to do at home or work is save it to that same directory.

After it downloads, it copies the show or movie or porno or whatever to another directory in Dropbox. I copy it because it allows me to keep the original untouched and seeding no matter what I do with the copy. And I have the 1.35TB seedbox, so space isn't an issue if I clean it every month or two.

So the end result is that I now have the file in my Dropbox at home. Currently, I manually move it to either a Movies or Television directory, and use tinyMediaManager to scrape and rename it. Then Watchdog is supposed to update Kodi automatically, but after updating either Kodi or Windows 10 it seems to have stopped doing that so I have to manually tell it to rescan. Or start Kodi fresh, since I don't leave it running.

Honestly all I really need is for it to take that file in Dropbox and automatically place it, but I'm open to letting it do more as well. For example, the last few weeks they've been uploading the (relatively) shitty FLEET versions of a lot of shows, which are then immediately trumped by almost anything else per their rules, so I end up with two copies of the same episode. Of course, you never know if the FLEET version will be the only version, but I'd love for it to know to replace it if it gets another one. I don't know that I necessarily need it to go find a 1080p version or a bluray version, as I end up deleting 99% of the shows eventually.

Like I said, I haven't even downloaded Sonarr or Couchpotato yet, so I don't know how easy or hard any of this is. Maybe it is trivially easy if I just follow the instructions, but I figured I'd put it down here and go from there.

Thanks, you've always been a great help with things like this.

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I don't think Sonarr/CP will have any issues with your current setup but let me detail how the two programs work.

They are essentially identical except for where they search from to create episodes/movies so unless I detail something specific it's the same process for each.

First thing you will do is install it, fairly simple overall. You will most likely have a 'watch' folder and a 'complete' folder for each program. You could also use a torrent client that automatically works with their API also. You will have a site that it is going to go and search for media from. I have Sonarr using BTN and my CP uses IPT, you can add more but those are the only two torrent sites I maintain. So with Sonarr the site needs to support search in its API or RSS, if it has RSS only then I assume you need to add shows to your RSS feed for it to grab them, BTN supports search which is absolutely amazing and I love it. I have not messed with RSS as of yet. CP does searching but differently from the way Sonarr works, it just creates a search string using curl, this can go wrong especially with episodic stuff. I don't get many errors though so it's fine.

Now you go into the program and point it to where your media is stored and how you want everything named. You can import stuff you already have and it will also rename that stuff. This is how I have my Sonarr set up: {Series Title} - {season}x{episode:00} - {Episode Title} and it will result in something like this Series Title (2010) - 1x01 - Episode Title. You can have it hardlink instead of copy but it will default to copying the file over leaving the original to be seeded. You can also have it download "propers". This is what you are sort of talking about with the FLEET episodes. Some sites will allow shitty uploads that are given a proper release later. I know BTN nukes any FLEET episodes immediately but some sites just want quantity and also you might just want it faster. If you have it set to get propers when it does its next search if it sees a proper it will download that, delete the old file, and put the new one in its place. It's so seamless that the only way I know that it's happening is that I have two torrents being seeded when I check the next day. I don't think that CP does propers. They both will generate metadata for the show or movie however and allow you to set which data you want it to generate and what client you want it to be compatible for.



This is what I have mine generate. In each of those season folders there is the episode and an episode.nfo also that XBMC will pull the synopsis from. I don't have CP do any metadata, for that it is just Movie Title (2015) and then the file inside that folder is Movie Title (2015).mkv with no other files. I don't know why I do it for TV shows but not for movies just an odd quirk. This metadata might help your Kodi get its scans done quicker though. Kodi has an addon in the official repository I am pretty sure that will do a quick scan on detection of file changes in it's folders you have mapped. That usually only helps with additions and changes and not deletions from what I remember, for that you need a full scan not just quick.

Here is what my calendar looks like for this week.



Notice the color coding schema at the bottom. It shows that I am downloading two episodes right now. Up at the top it shows that also in the activity button, that is because I am using transmission along with the Sonarr API so they do handoffs to each other making it insanely easy. If I was doing some blackhole type method then it wouldn't show up in activity. It would show up in the calendar as purple though meaning it found a .torrent and sent it somewhere and until told otherwise by seeing a downloaded file then it assumes you have it taken care of. Notice that Da Vinci's Demons is already downloaded for this upcoming Friday. This is because the entire season came out for download and when it did a search for episodes it was smart enough to see other episodes and grabbed them all.

For you Dropbox is essentially just folders except it replicates to the cloud as well so I assume it will work just fine for all of that. I don't know the programs do with deletions and searching for new episodes etc. I am sure that is something you can easily look into though. I have 165 shows with a total of 9815 episodes stored on my server because I have 4 people shared on my Plex and some of the shows are ones my wife likes on shuffle/repeat.