Setting up Sonarr, Radarr, etc. on my Raspberry Pi

I am not going the packaged way (as in use the Debian/ Ubuntu package) so I will set things up manually.

Note: These steps are not to encourage or promote illegal downloading of movies or TV shows. I was curious and wanted to try these software and the steps below are only meant as a reference for anyone else similarly curious. Please watch your favourite movies or TV shows via Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO, etc.

Download

Install Mono. Official steps are here. I am going to go with the official steps for Debian as I am running the 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS and I think that track Debian. One needs mono-complete as the more basic mono-runtime isn’t enough.

sudo apt install apt-transport-https dirmngr gnupg ca-certificates

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF

echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian stable-buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install mono-complete

sudo apt install apt-transport-https dirmngr gnupg ca-certificates

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF

echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian stable-buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install mono-complete

Install MediaInfo (official steps here).

wget https://mediaarea.net/repo/deb/repo-mediaarea_1.0-13_all.deb -O /tmp/repo-mediaarea_1.0-13_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i /tmp/repo-mediaarea_1.0-13_all.deb

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install mediainfo

wget https://mediaarea.net/repo/deb/repo-mediaarea_1.0-13_all.deb -O /tmp/repo-mediaarea_1.0-13_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i /tmp/repo-mediaarea_1.0-13_all.deb

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install mediainfo

Create a user under whom all these will run. I’ll refer to it as $DLDUSER henceforth. Its home directory will be /opt/downloaders which is where I’ll later extract Sonarr, Radarr, etc. to.

sudo adduser --system $DLDUSER --group --home /opt/downloaders

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sudo adduser --system $DLDUSER --group --home /opt/downloaders

Download Sonarr and extract it:

# Download the file
curl -sL "https://services.sonarr.tv/v1/download/phantom-develop/latest?version=3&os=linux" -o /tmp/Sonarr.tgz

# Extract it to /opt/pi3dld (this will create a folder called Sonarr)
sudo tar xvzf /tmp/Sonarr.tgz -C /opt/downloaders

# Change the case (I like it that way)
sudo mv /opt/downloaders/Sonarr /opt/downloaders/sonarr

# Fix permissions
sudo chown -R ${DLDUSER}:${DLDUSER}/opt/downloaders/sonarr

# Download the file

curl -sL "https://services.sonarr.tv/v1/download/phantom-develop/latest?version=3&os=linux" -o /tmp/Sonarr.tgz

# Extract it to /opt/pi3dld (this will create a folder called Sonarr)

sudo tar xvzf /tmp/Sonarr.tgz -C /opt/downloaders

# Change the case (I like it that way)

sudo mv /opt/downloaders/Sonarr /opt/downloaders/sonarr

# Fix permissions

sudo chown -R ${DLDUSER}:${DLDUSER}/opt/downloaders/sonarr

Download Radarr and extract it (I am going with the arm64 version below; select your poison from the official downloads page):

curl -sL "https://radarr.servarr.com/v1/update/nightly/updatefile?os=linux&runtime=netcore&arch=arm64" -o /tmp/Radarr.tgz

sudo tar xvzf /tmp/Radarr.tgz -C /opt/downloaders/

sudo mv /opt/downloaders/Radarr /opt/downloaders/radarr

sudo chown -R ${DLDUSER}:${DLDUSER} /opt/downloaders/radarr

curl -sL "https://radarr.servarr.com/v1/update/nightly/updatefile?os=linux&runtime=netcore&arch=arm64" -o /tmp/Radarr.tgz

sudo tar xvzf /tmp/Radarr.tgz -C /opt/downloaders/

sudo mv /opt/downloaders/Radarr /opt/downloaders/radarr

sudo chown -R ${DLDUSER}:${DLDUSER} /opt/downloaders/radarr

Ditto for Jackett (if you want to do torrents too)(replace ARM64 with ARM32 in the URL below if you are not on the 64-bit OS).

curl -sL "https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases/latest/download/Jackett.Binaries.LinuxARM64.tar.gz" -o /tmp/Jackett.tgz

sudo tar xvzf /tmp/Jackett.tgz /opt/downloaders

sudo mv /opt/downloaders/Jackett /opt/downloaders/jackett

sudo chown -R ${DLDUSER}:${DLDUSER} /opt/downloaders/Jackett

curl -sL "https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases/latest/download/Jackett.Binaries.LinuxARM64.tar.gz" -o /tmp/Jackett.tgz

sudo tar xvzf /tmp/Jackett.tgz /opt/downloaders

sudo mv /opt/downloaders/Jackett /opt/downloaders/jackett

sudo chown -R ${DLDUSER}:${DLDUSER} /opt/downloaders/Jackett

Install transmission (my choice for torrents; feel free to skip if you don’t want torrents).

sudo apt install transmission-daemon

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sudo apt install transmission-daemon

Install NZBGet (a newsgroup download client).

wget -q https://nzbget.net/download/nzbget-latest-bin-linux.run -O /tmp/nzbget-latest-bin-linux.run

# you can skip --arch aarch64 to auto-detect the architecture
sudo sh /tmp/nzbget-latest-bin-linux.run --destdir /opt/${DLDUSER}/NZBGet --arch aarch64

sudo chown -R ${DLDUSER}:${DLDUSER} /opt/${DLDUSER}/NZBGet

wget -q https://nzbget.net/download/nzbget-latest-bin-linux.run -O /tmp/nzbget-latest-bin-linux.run

# you can skip --arch aarch64 to auto-detect the architecture

sudo sh /tmp/nzbget-latest-bin-linux.run --destdir /opt/${DLDUSER}/NZBGet --arch aarch64

sudo chown -R ${DLDUSER}:${DLDUSER} /opt/${DLDUSER}/NZBGet

Create Services

At this point I’ve downloaded everything. I’d like to make some services so all these launch automatically. I also have a disk where I’d like to download stuff to – I want that too to be mounted via systemd and all other services depend upon it so they don’t start if this disk is not mounted.

Disk

Make a file called /etc/systemd/system/mnt-disk.mount with the following:

[Unit]
Description=External Disk

[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2f2353e2-6e17-4fa3-a152-05b87b2f14f1
Where=/mnt/disk
Type=ext4
Options=defaults,users

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
RequiredBy=nzbget.service

[Unit]

Description=External Disk

[Mount]

What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2f2353e2-6e17-4fa3-a152-05b87b2f14f1

Where=/mnt/disk

Type=ext4

Options=defaults,users

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

RequiredBy=nzbget.service

I found the UUID by browsing to /dev/disk/by-uuid and identifying my disk. Since I want to mount this to /mnt/disk the file must be mnt-disk.mount. Rename your file and path if needed.

Enable it: sudo systemctl enable mnt-disk.mount

NZBGet

Make a file /etc/systemd/system/nzbget.service with the following (note that the service name matches the dependency in the mnt-disk.mountfile above):

[Unit]
Description=NZBGet Daemon
After=syslog.target network.target
Requires=mnt-disk.mount
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
# Change the user and group variables here.
User=$DLDUSER
Group=$DLDUSER

Type=forking

# Pass any command line arguments etc.
ExecStart=/opt/downloaders/nzbget/nzbget -D -c /opt/downloaders.conf/nzbget/nzbget.conf
ExecStop=/opt/downloaders/nzbget/nzbget -Q -c /opt/downloaders.conf/nzbget/nzbget.conf
ExecReload=/opt/downloaders/nzbget/nzbget -O -c /opt/downloaders.conf/nzbget/nzbget.conf
TimeoutStopSec=20
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

# Sandboxing ... (see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html for more info)
ReadWritePaths=/opt/downloaders/nzbget /opt/downloaders.conf/nzbget /mnt/disk
ProtectSystem=strict
PrivateDevices=true
ProtectHome=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=nzbget.service
RequiredBy=sonarr.service radarr.service

[Unit]

Description=NZBGet Daemon

After=syslog.target network.target

Requires=mnt-disk.mount

StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]

# Change the user and group variables here.

User=$DLDUSER

Group=$DLDUSER

Type=forking

# Pass any command line arguments etc.

ExecStart=/opt/downloaders/nzbget/nzbget -D -c /opt/downloaders.conf/nzbget/nzbget.conf

ExecStop=/opt/downloaders/nzbget/nzbget -Q -c /opt/downloaders.conf/nzbget/nzbget.conf

ExecReload=/opt/downloaders/nzbget/nzbget -O -c /opt/downloaders.conf/nzbget/nzbget.conf

TimeoutStopSec=20

KillMode=process

Restart=on-failure

RestartSec=5

# Sandboxing ... (see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html for more info)

ReadWritePaths=/opt/downloaders/nzbget /opt/downloaders.conf/nzbget /mnt/disk

ProtectSystem=strict

PrivateDevices=true

ProtectHome=true

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Alias=nzbget.service

RequiredBy=sonarr.service radarr.service

Couple of things to note here:

Replace $DLDUSER with the username you are using
Replace /opt/downloaders/nzbget /opt/downloaders.conf/nzbget /mnt/disk with whatever paths you want NZBGet to have write access to. I am limiting it to its program folder, config folder, and the disk where it will download stuff to.
Notice I am specifying a separate folder for the config. This is my way of separating the config from the actual program. Keep it easy to move things around later.

Enable it: sudo systemctl enable nzbget.service

Transmission

Transmission in Debian installs a service but I don’t want to use that. So disable it: sudo systemctl disable transmission-daemon.service

Then make /etc/systemd/system/transmission.service:

[Unit]
Description=Transmission Daemon
After=network.target
Requires=mnt-disk.mount

[Service]
User=$DLDUSER
Group=$DLDUSER

Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error -g /opt/downloaders.conf/transmission
ExecStop=/bin/kill -s STOP $MAINPID
ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=transmission.service
RequiredBy=jackett.service

[Unit]

Description=Transmission Daemon

After=network.target

Requires=mnt-disk.mount

[Service]

User=$DLDUSER

Group=$DLDUSER

Type=notify

ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error -g /opt/downloaders.conf/transmission

ExecStop=/bin/kill -s STOP $MAINPID

ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Alias=transmission.service

RequiredBy=jackett.service

It is pretty similar to the default one with very minor changes.

Enable it: sudo systemctl enable transmission.service

Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett

Create /etc/systemd/system/sonarr.service:

[Unit]
Description=Sonarr Daemon
After=syslog.target network.target
Requires=nzbget.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
User=$DLDUSER
Group=$DLDUSER

Type=simple

ExecStart=/usr/bin/mono --debug /opt/downloaders/sonarr/Sonarr.exe -nobrowser -data=/opt/downloaders.conf/sonarr
TimeoutStopSec=20
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=sonarr.service

[Unit]

Description=Sonarr Daemon

After=syslog.target network.target

Requires=nzbget.service

StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]

User=$DLDUSER

Group=$DLDUSER

Type=simple

ExecStart=/usr/bin/mono --debug /opt/downloaders/sonarr/Sonarr.exe -nobrowser -data=/opt/downloaders.conf/sonarr

TimeoutStopSec=20

KillMode=process

Restart=on-failure

RestartSec=5

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Alias=sonarr.service

Create /etc/systemd/system/radarr.service:

[Unit]
Description=Radarr Daemon
After=syslog.target network.target
Requires=nzbget.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
User=$DLDUSER
Group=$DLDUSER

Type=simple

ExecStart=/opt/downloaders/radarr/Radarr -nobrowser -data=/opt/downloaders.conf/radarr
TimeoutStopSec=20
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=radarr.service

[Unit]

Description=Radarr Daemon

After=syslog.target network.target

Requires=nzbget.service

StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]

User=$DLDUSER

Group=$DLDUSER

Type=simple

ExecStart=/opt/downloaders/radarr/Radarr -nobrowser -data=/opt/downloaders.conf/radarr

TimeoutStopSec=20

KillMode=process

Restart=on-failure

RestartSec=5

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Alias=radarr.service

Create /etc/systemd/system/jackett.service:

[Unit]
Description=Jackett Daemon
After=syslog.target network.target
Requires=transmission.service
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
User=$DLDUSER
Group=$DLDUSER

Type=simple
SyslogIdentifier=jackett
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
WorkingDirectory=/opt/downloaders/jackett
ExecStart=/bin/sh /opt/downloaders/jackett/jackett_launcher.sh
TimeoutStopSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=jackett.service

[Unit]

Description=Jackett Daemon

After=syslog.target network.target

Requires=transmission.service

StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]

User=$DLDUSER

Group=$DLDUSER

Type=simple

SyslogIdentifier=jackett

Restart=on-failure

RestartSec=5

WorkingDirectory=/opt/downloaders/jackett

ExecStart=/bin/sh /opt/downloaders/jackett/jackett_launcher.sh

TimeoutStopSec=30

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Alias=jackett.service