How to use a Seedbox with Sonarr Radarr and your Media Server

This video shows how to integrate a torrent seedbox with your media server. It shows how to setup the seed box then use it with a combination of sonarr, radarr and syncthing.
In this video setup is on an Unraid server but this can be done on any system using the 3 above applications.

Links to Seedbox providers
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Top tier provider - Rapid Seedbox
Use code RAPID50SBX for 50% discount on first month
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Cheaper but still reliable - Ultra Seedbox
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Text used in the tutorial
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Rutorrent unpack both labels series and movies
/(series|movies)/i

Synthing ignore patterns for rarfiles
/series/**.r*
/movies/**.r*
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Music credits

[GavinGWhiz]

Would love a re-make of this video from the far-off future of 2023 where Syncthing has picked up a habit of sending files so they end up encrypted into a dozen little folder if one sets it up like this video demonstrates. That, and now Syncthing on unRAID has a different setup process when initially setting up the paths.

[safaros]

I miss when tutorials where this good and straightforward.

[KNIGHTER]

You have no idea how many tutorials i was watching to find out what the remote path to get from the downloaded into sonarr, lidarr, radarr was now to test it!

[robertheidt]

I've been using this exact method for a few years now. The tricky part was getting all of the host addresses correct. A video like this would have been really nice when I was flailing around trying to figure this out for myself.

[corey]

i think I've watched about a dozen of your tutorials for my first build. Thank you!

[Mark-zgky]

AMAZING.... was pulling my hair out with feral hosting, couldn't get syncthing to work – following your tutorial exactly made it easy to set it all up. Thank you so much!

[shootinputin]

Ed, one thing that has always bothered me with this tutorial is the lack of explaining what to do about the sync situation. You sync the files from the remote to your local docker, and one of the Starr apps naturally moves and imports the file, leading syncthing to resync that file until you remove the file from your remote. Syncthing is incapable of one-time syncing. Any ideas?

[csarbishop]

THANK YOU! I couldn't figure out remote mapping to save my life

[nostradau]

Talk about an information-packed video. Thanks

[daantimmer]

Thank you for the great content ! With the help of your videos my home media setup was a breeze to configure ! I signed up for ultraseedbox using your link !

[Polopollo]

How does it work with Prowlarr? at 19:05 you add a remote path mapping. Should it be done in prowlarr or sonarr? Should I just not use prowlarr for now?

[dang]

Love your videos man. Always giving me ideas!

[ArkaneShrimp]

Some info, Remote Path Mapping must be updated. Sonarr/Radarr does not know rtorrent is moving the files, therefore Sonarr/Radarr are unable to find the files.
Change:

Sonarr:
Remote Path > /home5/spaceinvader/files
Local Path > /data/torrents_seedbox/series

Radarr:
Remote Path > /home5/spaceinvader/files
Local Path > /data/torrents_seedbox/movies

[shumsen]

what do i neet the "i" at the end of the syntax /(series|movies)/i for at time stamp 9:40 ? Is it not working without it -> /(series|movies)/ ?

[demonte]

Thanks for the great explanation. Just a quick question. When all is completed, you end up with 3 copies of the file. 1 on the Seedbox, 1 in your syncthing Folder on your unraid machine, and 1 in your "plex" folder after Radarr have moved the file. Is there a way to delete the file automatically from the syncthing folder locally, to avoid having 2 copies of the same file on your machine? Also If I delete the file... syncthing will probably try to re-sync again and re-send the file?

[KoncadeGaming]

thanks so much for this video, although i didn't use it for what you proposed it for it did introduce me to ultraseedbox as a service which so far seems excellent.

[MrZomhad]

14:30 I could only get the notification on my Unraid server after port forwarding port 22000 in my pfSense. Is this totally normal or should I be concerned? I'm a bit unsure as you didn't seem to have to port forward anything... Except that everything worked perfectly, thank you so much!

[blindside]

Great video! I never considered something like this, but it seems like a great solution.

[stetay]

Been using a similar setup for a while. Have you had any issues with season packs from sonarr and syncthing? As syncthing pulls the files in, sonarr will latch to the first file it finds, rename, and move it. But any files that come in after the first won't get handled

[KevinPawsey]

Excellent video, very clear... was very useful for me!

I have a question... how do you deal with the extracted files on the seedbox...is there a way of deleting these to trim space? Ok... I have two questions... how do you deal with aging out torrents as well... is there an option in ruTorrent for removing torrents when you start running out of space?