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Sonarr Configuration

Configure your Sonarr instances to manage TV show downloads and monitoring.

Sonarr Instance Configuration

Instance Settings​

Connection Settings​

Name (required)

  • Instance display name for identification
  • Must be unique across all instances

Base URL (required)

  • Sonarr server URL without trailing slash
  • Example: http://localhost:8989 or https://sonarr.yourdomain.com

API Key (required)

  • Sonarr API key from Settings > General > Security

Content Management​

Quality Profile (required)

  • Select default quality profile for new content
  • Choose from available profiles in your Sonarr instance

Root Folder (required)

  • Select default root folder for new series
  • Choose from available folders in your Sonarr instance

Tags

  • Select tags to apply to new content
  • Choose from existing tags in your Sonarr instance
  • Includes utility to create new tags for convenience

Monitoring Settings​

Season Monitoring

  • All Seasons (default)
  • Future Seasons
  • Missing Episodes
  • Existing Episodes
  • First Season
  • Last Season
  • Latest Season
  • Pilot Only
  • Pilot Rolling (Auto-expand, requires session monitoring)
  • First Season Rolling (Auto-expand, requires session monitoring)
  • Recent Episodes
  • Monitor Specials
  • Unmonitor Specials
  • None
  • Skip

Monitor New Items

  • Monitor all new items (default)
  • Don't monitor new items

Series Settings​

Series Type

  • Standard series (default)
  • Anime series
  • Daily shows (talk shows, news)

Create Season Folders

  • Enable to create season folders
  • Disable to store episodes directly in series folder (default)

Search Settings​

Search on Add

  • Enable to automatically search when content is added (default)
  • Disable to skip automatic searching

Instance Management​

Bypass Ignored

  • Enable to bypass ignored items in Sonarr
  • Disable to respect Sonarr's ignored items (default)

Is Default

  • Enable to use as default instance when no routing rules match
  • Disable for regular instance (default)

Synced Instances

  • Select other instances to synchronize with
  • Used for multi-instance content distribution

Rolling Monitoring​

Rolling monitoring options (Pilot Rolling, First Season Rolling) require:

  • Session monitoring to be enabled
  • Rolling monitoring configuration in Utilities

These options automatically expand monitoring based on viewing activity and provide utility to auto-cleanup when nobody is watching, reverting to their original states.