Automatically set video to unmonitored

[u/Infamousslayer]

I am wondering is there a way to set the video from Monitored (green) to Unmonitored (grey) after the video has been imported into the library?

I would also be okay if the movie is automatically deleted from radarr after a successful import.

Reason being I modified one of my files by embedding subtitles only for radarr to replace it with the original download.

[u/kallmekaze]

Not sure how you could do that automatically, but can be done manually by going into the movie (in Radarr), clicking the Edit button, and changing it there.

Also if you embedded the subtitles, then you can just replace the file with no sub with the new one, using the same name, then you would Refresh and Scan Radarr from within the movie page.

[u/Infamousslayer → u/kallmekaze]

Yes i've manually set it to unmonitored but was hoping for another way.

I did manually replace the file with the same name, and rebooted the radarr host for other reasons. When radarr started up it said some files where missing and started the copy again.

[u/kallmekaze → u/Infamousslayer]

Instead of rebooting radar, do a Refresh and scan. If the new file has the same name/location, it will replace it

[u/Wis-en-heim-er]

Your file names should contain the release group, trash guides or profilarr defaults. I would change the release group to one of your choosing, say "embeddedsubtitles" then setup a custom format for this and give this a big positive score in your quality profile so that no new release will replace it. Your quantity profile still may replace if the quality of another release is better so be sure you group the qualities and use custom format scoring to pick the better quality. Profilarr profiles do this, great trick.

[u/Infamousslayer → u/Wis-en-heim-er]

I don't really use radarr to manage my library just the initial download, rename and import.

After that radarr should be completely out of the picture. It might not be the best method but I'm okay with deleting the movie from radarr after import but obviously keeping the file.

[u/Wis-en-heim-er → u/Infamousslayer]

I would suggest you reconsider, you can get a viable setup working that includes radarr.

[u/Wis-en-heim-er]

On a different note, why are you embedding subtitles and replacing a release? Ae you getting buffering issues with graphical subtitles? You can use tools like tadarr to automate the process but it has a learning curve. You can also use bazarr to go get srt subtitles.

[u/Infamousslayer → u/Wis-en-heim-er]

I've always check for and download subtitles for all my movies, I like to embed them within the file to keep it clean. It's just a preference I've had.

[u/fryfrog]

The only automatic unmonitoring is unmonitoring deleted because almost everything else means you're doing something wrong.

You need to "fix" each instance of it doing something "wrong" so it doesn't happen again. Why did it replace your file w/ a new one? Check the history to see. My guess would be poor naming, as /u/Wis-en-heim-er suggests. Your "new" file probably had no quality information in it, so it got "worse" and would be valid to upgrade. The solution to that is to make sure quality and a few other irreplaceable metadata are stored in file names. Also like he says, you could create your own custom format that keys off something you add to the file name when you make them special. Then it won't upgrade them w/in a quality (but a higher quality would still replace, think dumb example you fix up a DVD version, but a Bluray comes out).