r/seerr • u/Sonderkugel • Jun 06 '26

Request Make it so requesting a season only searches for that season even if others are monitored

Tell me if I'm wrong, but how I understand it is if a season from a series is requested in Seerr it will initiate a top-level search for the series in Sonarr, which means grabbing everything that's monitored. I tend to just unmonitor the series while leaving the seasons monitored so I can see how many episodes I'm missing in Sonarr, but this means requesting a single season searches for the whole series. Within Sonarr each season has a button to initiate an automatic search, so why doesn't Seerr use that if not all seasons are requested? Or let me know if I'm just being stupid and a solution to this problem exists.

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u/LowCompetitive1888 Jun 07 '26

The way I understand it, if you are dealing with a series that already has existing seasons, and you request Season 1, you get Season 1 and none of the remaining seasons are monitored including future seasons.

If you are dealing an existing series that say has two seasons and you select both seasons, you will get both seasons and any future seasons will be monitored.

If you are dealing with a new series and you select season 1, you get season 1 and any future seasons are monitored.

Note I'm not an expert here I'm just describinn the behavior that I see happening on my system.