If you chose to add movies from your IMDb or TMDb watch lists, they will begin to populate the Movies section of Radarr. Now that Radarr is setup, you can begin adding movies by clicking the Add Movies button at the top. If you choose to do this, you have to set the category within Sabnzbd as well as manually make the folder because Sabnzbd will not create it automatically. Optionally you can setup set the category under the client settings so that when Sabnzbd is done downloading the file it will be organized into the appropriate folder. Use the API key that your client provides. Turn on all of the options under Complete Download Handling as well as Failed Download handling so that Radarr will delete the downloads from the history once done. You can read about SAB and how to obtain the API key here. SABnzbd is a really great, and simple to use program for grabbing newsbins. Click the box with the + in it and select your client and then input the port number and API key from the client chosen. Setting up a Usenet client and a Torrent client are the same. Use your own from the website you choose.ĭownload Client is where the settings are input for the program(s) used to download the movies. If you decide that you would like to go ahead and use Torrents anyway, you will need to install another program called Jackett which you can read about here. The same is true for Torrents but they are not recommended. Torrent providers are turned off.Īdding providers is as easy as using the Newznab presets for Usenet, or choosing Custom if the provider is not on the list. Torrents are pretty straight forward and the most popular one is ummmm, ARRRRRR… you know… Example of some providers. Usenet is not free but far superior to Torrents.

Radarr can search both Usenet and Torrent indexers. Indexers are sites that allow the searching of specific “posts” that the download client can use to automatically download the movies.

Since we are only using just one profile setup in the previous step, we only had to adjust the settings for Bluray-720p. The Quality tab is next, and is used to adjust the sizes of the movies that Radarr grabs. Here you can decide whether you would like Radarr to prefer Usenet, or Torrents. Under Profiles there is another section called Delay Profiles. This decision also helped us save a ton of hard drive space since 1080p movies are 10GB+ each. We own Blurays which are 1080p, but since we will be watching our movies on a smaller television we used the 720p profile. Profile types include Bluray, DVD, HDTV, and SDTV, etc. Profiles is where Radarr looks to determine what type of media to look for. Other than the Episode Naming section, no other settings within Media Management needs to be changed. Switch Movie Renaming to “Yes” and pick the naming convention you would like to use. The good thing about Kodi is that it accepts several different naming conventions and it’s likely the one that you like will work just fine. It is important to note that some media front ends such as Kodi need to have movies named in a specific way so that it can “find” them within your media directory. Radarr has the ability to take the files it downloads and rename them according to your preferences. The first tab within Settings is Media Management. Once Radarr is running it will stay open in the background and can be opened using your favorite internet browser and navigating to Open the Settings menu and turn on the yellow Advanced Settings tab on the right. We use the Docker version on our Linux server and you can read about how to install that here. First download the copy that you would like to use and install it as you would any normal program.

Automatic failed download handling to blacklist failed releases until another one is found that works.Automatic searching to find releases you want and send it right to your download client.A calendar to see upcoming movies in theaters.It’s nice to be able to have all of our movies in digital form so that we do not have to rummage through our giant stack of Blurays. Radarr is a program available for OSX, Windows, and Linux that is used to automatically search movies, which are then sent to a torrent or newsbin client.

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