Sonarr is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows and will interface with clients and indexers to grab, sort, and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available. You can find us on discord at https://discord.sonarr.tv/
Can someone explain why permissions for sonarr are so complicated?
I want to have a simple set up. No docker, no modifications to my root folder, no network devices, just automatically torrenting and sorting my shows when they air. I should be able to make a folder in my home directory and tell sonarr to put my show folders in there, and then tell it where my torrents go, and sonarr should handle the rest, but for some reason sonarr insists running as a separate user, forcing me to deal with obscure permissions management and for what? I feel like my setup is less niche than people who require containerization, so why is this the default?
If you think applications running as their own user and requiring that user to have permissions on the folder it needs to use is complicated or obscure I'm not sure why you're using Linux. It's good practice to do all this for any application that runs as a service.
Also, I definitely wouldn't advise doing this but if you really don't care or really don't want to deal with it, it's not exactly complicated to chmod the folders involved to 777 and be done with it.
If you want it dead simple, then run it on Windows 10 not as a service. I haven’t had a single permission issue since.
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Well it's not THAT complicated. You need to be able to read, and you need to understand what SETTINGS is for and to go through the options and check them all.
It's not as easy as Plex though - I find it annoying that, with Plex, I can have a folder /mnt/JamesTV and /mnt/TV - with Sonarr you need to manually specify folders each time you don't just want them to go to the root folder.
Under Settings>Media Management you can set permissions (it actually ASKS you to select to run chmod to run when files are imported or renamed... ) after which there's no problem. Set your root folder in your /home directory and it should be fine. Mine works with /mnt/T4/TV and also I have a separate root folder /mnt/T3/TV - separate shows get downloaded to their separate folders.
And for the other comments - there's NOTHING dead simple about running Windows10.
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