Best guide for sab/radarr/sonarr

[Dazzer12]

Hi could anyone point me to the best guides for installing these and configuring, managed to install them all after watching a YouTube video all containers ran but getting them to see sabs download folder was difficult, radarr said sab downloads to such and such a folder but it does not seem to exist even sab said it could not create the folder even after it successfully downloaded a file to that folder. Radarr could not see it though to import and again even sab said it did not exist.

 

[Telos]

On DSM7 without Docker... there's a lot of brokenness at this time. Many packages are not DSM7 ready.

With DSM6. you have SynoCommunity packages to help with this. For example...

SynoCommunity

Community Packages for Synology NAS

synocommunity.com

 

[Akira]

trash-guides.info

IMHO without a doubt the best guide to getting the *arr universe up and running.
TRaSH amongst others (in fact pretty much anyone in there) on the *arr discord channels has been of immense help, in fact triggered at least 1 complete rebuild of my *arr environment to improve efficiency and reliability so would also recommend going there.. BUT not until after you've done the reading and had a go yourself.

 

[Dazzer12]

Guys thanks should of mentioned I am on dsm 7 got everything installed even managed to get indexers and such sorted just this ruddy folder lol. Out of interest am I best specifying ports or just leave ports set to auto ?

 

[one-eyed-king]

Out of interest am I best specifying ports or just leave ports set to auto ?

Always assign your own ports, otherwise the port will be random. The auto settings makes sense if you don't care which host is used to publish a container port.

 

[Dazzer12]

found this guide very good Synology – Dr_Frankenstein's Tech Stuff the only thing i did different is specify ports as opposed to leaving values set at auto. now i wonder is it possible to set up luna sea to work with this for remote access or will i have to sign in to nas remotely each time i wish to make adjustments to sonarr or radarr.

 

[Rusty]

found this guide very good Synology – Dr_Frankenstein's Tech Stuff the only thing i did different is specify ports as opposed to leaving values set at auto. now i wonder is it possible to set up luna sea to work with this for remote access or will i have to sign in to nas remotely each time i wish to make adjustments to sonarr or radarr.

Luna is just a client it has nothing to do with your container configurations. Those changes will have to be made outside luna and afterwards you will have to make the adjustments in luna if your apps are configured on new/different ports.

 

[Dazzer12]

Luna is just a client it has nothing to do with your container configurations. Those changes will have to be made outside luna and afterwards you will have to make the adjustments in luna if your apps are configured on new/different ports.

Yes realise luna is a client but thought it maybe possible to point it towards my containers in their current configuration.?

 

[Dazzer12]

Another question having set up these containers/apps to run on nas is it no longer possible for the nas to go in to standby when not downloading anything or do these app/containers keep the hard drives spun at all times?

 

[one-eyed-king]

If you have a spare slot, throw an ssd inside and make it it's own volume. Then reinstall the docker package on that volume. Docker will always produce logs and will require your volume to be awake at all time...

 

[Dazzer12]

If you have a spare slot, throw an ssd inside and make it it's own volume. Then reinstall the docker package on that volume. Docker will always produce logs and will require your volume to be awake at all time...

Darn no spare slot, would usb work ?

 

[one-eyed-king]

I have no idea. I don't do usb. From my experience with ESXi with usb-stick as bootdrive I can say: they die faster then you think

Though, if you have a spare ssd drive with usb interface: give it a try. It is nothing I personaly would do, but if there is no other solution, then using this approach is probably better than living with the noise you don't want to hear

 

[Dazzer12]

Noise not so much a problem I was just thinking power and life of drives.

I have no idea. I don't do usb. From my experience with ESXi with usb-stick as bootdrive I can say: they die faster then you think

Though, if you have a spare ssd drive with usb interface: give it a try. It is nothing I personaly would do, but if there is no other solution, then using this approach is probably better than living with the noise you don't want to hear

Noise not so much a problem I was just thinking power and life of drives.

 

[one-eyed-king]

Ah okay. I prefer my wd red's to not spin down if not necessary. Frequent spin ups aren't helping the life of the drives either

 

[Rusty]

Darn no spare slot, would usb work ?

Not in the case, @one-eyed-king suggested. Volumes cant be configured on the external USB device.

Yes realise luna is a client but thought it maybe possible to point it towards my containers in their current configuration.?

Ofc you can, that's what I said. You can point them to a configured setup you just cant change the container parameters (configuration) using Luna. You will need to use a docker setup for that and then after you have made changes that you wanted, you will then reconfigure your Luna client to reflect on those changes (like a new port or IP address for example).

 

[Dazzer12]

Not in the case, @one-eyed-king suggested. Volumes cant be configured on the external USB device.


Ofc you can, that's what I said. You can point them to a configured setup you just cant change the container parameters (configuration) using Luna. You will need to use a docker setup for that and then after you have made changes that you wanted, you will then reconfigure your Luna client to reflect on those changes (like a new port or IP address for example).

OK so no volumes on external, not wanting drives powered all the time is there a an easy way maybe of configuring wol to power on and off remotely so I can manage when away from home.?

Regards luna now my set up is configured for sonarr, radarr and sab in docker how would I point luna to those again for control remotely.

 

[Rusty]

how would I point luna to those again for control remotely

Meaning what exactly? If those work with luna now, they work. Now, are you talking about accessing those services via luna when you are away from your lan?

If so, then you can configure those services to use public domain names (via reverse proxy), configure authentification on them, and then reconfigure luna to use their public names instead of their lan ip/port values that you have configured now.

Another way, configure an incoming VPN server to your lan, and once you on a remote location, activate the VPN to connect to your lan and simply use luna as it is configured atm, with local values. This is how I use this exact setup.

 

[Dazzer12]

Meaning what exactly? If those work with luna now, they work. Now, are you talking about accessing those services via luna when you are away from your lan?

If so, then you can configure those services to use public domain names (via reverse proxy), configure authentification on them, and then reconfigure luna to use their public names instead of their lan ip/port values that you have configured now.

Another way, configure an incoming VPN server to your lan, and once you on a remote location, activate the VPN to connect to your lan and simply use luna as it is configured atm, with local values. This is how I use this exact setup.

Yes I meant connecting remotely with luna, I have never used a vpn, is this difficult to do ? would open vpn be ok

 

[Rusty]

Yes I meant connecting remotely with luna, I have never used a vpn, is this difficult to do ? would open vpn be ok

OpenVPN would be more than enough.

Check out the process a bit here - VPN, or how to access your data securely, the right way under the "NAS as a VPN server" section.

It is not that difficult to sort it out, and once you get it going, it's literally a switch of a button on your phone and you are back in your LAN.

 

[Dazzer12]

Meaning what exactly? If those work with luna now, they work. Now, are you talking about accessing those services via luna when you are away from your lan?

If so, then you can configure those services to use public domain names (via reverse proxy), configure authentification on them, and then reconfigure luna to use their public names instead of their lan ip/port values that you have configured now.

Another way, configure an incoming VPN server to your lan, and once you on a remote location, activate the VPN to connect to your lan and simply use luna as it is configured atm, with local values. This is how I use this exact setup.

OpenVPN would be more than enough.

Check out the process a bit here - VPN, or how to access your data securely, the right way under the "NAS as a VPN server" section.

It is not that difficult to sort it out, and once you get it going, it's literally a switch of a button on your phone and you are back in your LAN.

thanks for the info surprisingly i managed to get open vpn set up as i am not familiar with these things i used this youtube video guide for step by step instructions as i really need them

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i struggled t first as i thought i could use my quick connect id with open vpn to connect which i apparently could not so after watching the video set up ddns. now regards my standby issue and the docker containers keeping my drives spun up all of the time i am looking for a more elegant solution to be able to shut down docker and run it in at will so that when sonarr and such are not needed i can shut docker down and allow nas to hibernate.

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hey again is organizr a good idea for managing docker arr containers i have installed organizr container on nas but on organizr web set up page verify i get api error when i click finish to try and finish installation any ideas on what could be causing this ?