The "Huntarrs" are a collection of scripts intended to be paired with Aars (Radarr, Sonarr, and later Lidarr and Readarr), to perform ongoing upgrades and maintenance of your monitored content. Our current design utilizes Puks-the-Pirate's "Scannar", a 2-year old fork of a 3+year-old project which basically triggers a search for unmonitored content every 2 hours.

With a mind to replacing Scannarr, we've started experimenting with the Huntarr stack, and have inserted it into your Aars, in "lying-in-wait mode" (i.e., it's there but not doing anything yet). The intention is to enable it by default after a period of testing, but users wanting to test it immediately can activate your huntarrs as follows:

Radarr

To enable Huntarr in Radarr/Radarr4K, you'll run something like the following in ElfTerm:

elfbot env radarr HUNT_MISSING_MOVIES=1
elfbot env radarr HUNT_UPGRADE_MOVIES=1
elfbot env radarr4k HUNT_MISSING_MOVIES=1
elfbot env radarr4k HUNT_UPGRADE_MOVIES=1

The environment variables and their functions are described here. You may also want to play with SLEEP_DURATION, which we set to 3600 (1 hour) by default, for example.

Huntarr-Radarr is CLI-only, which means you'll need to use Kubernetes Dashboard to see its logs. You'll find huntarr-radarr as one of the containers inside your Radarr / Radarr 4K pods, and you'll be able to see the logs like this:

Sonarr

Sonarr is a bit easier, since Huntarr-Sonarr already has a UI (it's likely coming for the other Huntarrs in future). From your ElfHosted dashboard, launch the respective Huntarr UI, and set the "Hunt Missing Shows" and "Hunt Upgrade Episodes" as you please:

If the Huntarrs scratch a particular itch for you, then feel free to chime in on this issue I've raised with the developer, asking for more donation options to support his "daughter's college fund"!

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