Tl;dr: I understand docker is supposed to help get things running on different systems easily, can someone give me a copy of their working Arr stack?

Frustrated venting I’m past being new to this server thing having run mine for over a year so I guess I can officially say I’m just bad at it. I’ve been working on getting Sonarr, Radarr, and, lidarr running since 4 in the afternoon, discounting dinner that’s 6 hours of constantly failing to get these to work. This is my 5th time trying since I learned about it in April.

I’ve given up on the automatic downloads, I’ve given up on the request system, I’m even done with the torrenting, I’ll just do that on my phone. All I want is something that format my 5TB of media to Title (date) instead of MOVIE_TITLE_ALL_UNDERSCORE, or TB_1000, or movie.videoformat.year.special.deluxe.username.host.visit.my.site.please. I was sold on this idea that self hosting was a relatively easy thing that anyone can get into and while I have a good understanding of how a config.yml is supposed to look and work, and I’ve got a decent understanding of ssh and sftp between two computers, but trying to grt any one of these things to run is soul crushing. I literally work in the foster system and my worst cases do not give me the stress this does. I just want to get it fixed so I can watch Pokemon with my family and offer it to people who will never bother to log on.

Edit: OMFG I moved them back into individual folders and they work now. 6 hours of videos and tutorials and not a single thing saying they absolutely have to be in their own folders or it won’t work. edit unclear, brain stuck in toaster

Edit 2: turns out, Radarr can’t find movies at /movies/movie.mkv and needs /movies/folder/movie.mkv. Now Radarr can import movies but all other problems persist.

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    I actually do get all of this, I guess my issue here is not know the venacular to explain it?

    I have the docker set up almost identical to that. I have an environment section with my user and group in it. My volumes are /home/user/docker/arr/radarr/config: /config /mnt/media1/1)unsorted: /downloads /mnt/media1/2)sorted: /movies. Inside radarr, add directory, /downloads shows the ~800 mkv files. When I go to import the movies in /download, it tells me there are no movies to import.

    I fixed this by looping mkdir to put every file in /mnt/media1/1)unsorted into its own folder. Now Radarr sees all of them and imports them.

    This hasn’t fixed literally every other facet of using them, I haven’t even set up sonarr yet. I’m still haven’t figured out gluten at all. Planning to run the yams thing someone else posted so I’ll see if that gets me anywhere.