Sonarr: Synology Download Station support

Created on 22 Apr 2014 · 36Comments · Source: Sonarr/Sonarr

Since we now (almost) have a public synology package, I would like like to suggest the option of supporting DS Download (Download Station), the nzb and torrent downloader built in to every synology NAS. I believe it would be a snap to support for both NZB and with the upcoming torrent features of nzbdrone. The API of DS Download is documented here http://ukdl.synology.com/ftp/other/Synology_Download_Station_Official_API_V3.pdf.

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hsousa on 8 Jun 2016

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Comment from anthonylucent on Trello:

After further reading, it seems that the synology downloader (download station) is actually based on the nzbget code on the back end. So this might turn out to be easier to support than anyone guessed.

SonarrBot on 24 Apr 2014

Comment from anthonylucent on Trello:

http://ukdl.synology.com/download/Document/DeveloperGuide/Synology_Download_Station_Web_API.pdf New link..

SonarrBot on 11 Dec 2014

Comment from freeksmulders on Trello:

Synology Download Station support would be awesome. It's all that's keeping me using Sickbeard at the moment.

SonarrBot on 6 Jan 2015

Comment from greg948 on Trello:

The ability to specify the download directory is the key reason for having support for Download Station over using the blackhole method. For me, it is a deal breaker because I can't sort my downloads properly if I use Sonarr.

SonarrBot on 2 Mar 2015

Comment from kkuhle on Trello:

Agreed! Download Station does everything I need it to. Having to try to get deluge installed right now because utorrent doesn't support auto-extracting downloads. Would be nice if I could simply have it use the built in one.

SonarrBot on 3 Mar 2015

Hi!

I'm considering switching from SickRage to Sonarr and currently support for Download Station is my deal breaker (blackhole implies that I have to use/monitor the DS default downloads folder, and that's a recipe for disaster, no?)

I know this is marked as low priority, but anyone got any rough ETA?

hsousa on 3 Sep 2015

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@hsousa I can tell you its not something that we're actively working on or something that we've slated to pick up.

Watching the default DS folder would be a bit of a mess (even though Sonarr will only process what it can parse), since Blackhole moves files (instead of copying or hardlinking) its use is limited to begin with. If DS supports subfolder watching (which applies a specific label) as well as scripts that can run for a specific label only (or a way for the script to know which label was applied), you could symlink the completed files to a separate folder and have Sonarr watch that folder.

markus101 on 3 Sep 2015

could do what we did in sb, which was just add it as a 'notifier' so it tells x app when to update. the only issue is then when something gets renamed/removed.. it wont know.. so youd have to fire off updates at that time too...

thezoggy on 4 Sep 2015

In the meantime, what's the best alternative ? Is there a tutorial somewhere ?

gnutix on 30 Dec 2015

Up ! We clearly need Synology Download Station in available downloaders, it's clearly a dealbreaker instead of Sickbeard. Please take attention of it ! Thanks !

ghost on 29 Jan 2016

Are there Synology disk stations that can run mono/sonarr but can't run
nzbget/transmission? I'd have thought anything that could run mono would be
powerful enough to run a separate downloaded. Download Station, while being
built by Synology isn't actually a great piece of software, you'd be better
off with one of the other options available on SynoCommunity
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 at 10:29 CorB3n [email protected] wrote:

Up ! We clearly need Synology Download Station in available downloaders,
it's clearly a dealbreaker instead of Sickbeard. Please take attention of
it ! Thanks !

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/issues/347#issuecomment-176683748.

baz1860 on 29 Jan 2016

That's not the point if Transmission or another downloader is better than DS; DS is built in downloader witrh great phone app for monitoring, user friendly & doesn't need another app for downloading. Sickrage/Sickbeard integrate it very nicelly, don't think it's so hard to include. I'm so impatient for this, clearly Sonarr is much more better than SB but for me, DS is really needed. That's why we use Synology :+1:

ghost on 30 Jan 2016

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I am ready to pay for this . This is a must for Sinology users . please

armdan on 3 Feb 2016

No support for Download Station is my deal breaker. I would pay for it. Built-in apps is why we use Synology.

sipaan on 18 Feb 2016

"Built-in apps"? Like Sonarr... :/

baz1860 on 24 Feb 2016

No, Download Station as a built-in app :)

sipaan on 24 Feb 2016

My point was, and remains that you're making a point about using "built-in apps" while the app you want to work with Download Station is not a "built-in app". Logically, if a better, non-built-in solution is available (transmission/nzbget/sabnzbd/deluge/rutorrent), I'm not sure why you're holding out. Especially when markus has said they're not working on it anytime soon.

baz1860 on 24 Feb 2016

any update on this? Can't use it without download station.

achandab on 9 Mar 2016

You CAN use it , it's just not optimal. Use Blackhole

Starbix on 9 Mar 2016

Updated link to api docs: https://global.download.synology.com/download/Document/DeveloperGuide/Synology_Download_Station_Web_API.pdf
The "SYNO.DownloadStation.Task" section is the interesting bit (starts page 21)

daurnimator on 29 Mar 2016

Any news on this yet?

LarsStegman on 2 May 2016

Still waiting too.

ghost on 2 May 2016

+1 The lack of Download Station support is really rough. I would love to see it added.

lhymes on 16 May 2016

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Any update on this? :(

HugoGresse on 23 May 2016

Was in the process of moving from SickRage to Sonarr when this missing item came to light. Postponing for now. :(

fdbgbgsf on 31 May 2016

Quick tip: you can use the Torrent Blackhole, setup DS Downloader to watch a specific folder and that's all,

HugoGresse on 31 May 2016

Unfortunately this doesn't display the progress in Sonarr, like it does with Transmission. It's a good tip to get things working, though.

LarsStegman on 31 May 2016

How much would it cost to sponsor the development of this feature?

jimaek on 8 Jun 2016

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hsousa on 8 Jun 2016

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@hsousa OMG! I know this guy! :p

kayone on 9 Jun 2016

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I'm using an indexer that supports magnet urls. Download station also supports this. But without the proper connection to downloadstation some torrent downloads will keep getting an error in Sonarr. The connection is possible as seen in Couchpotato. Can you not use some of the code from their project to get this started. I would beta test this for you if necessary, just not the coding type myself.
If you have a work around for this I would also be happy to use that. Thanks!

ghost on 6 Jul 2016

@thezoggy
That's understandable. What would you advise to do with indexers like Rarbg? Avoiding an indexer like such would be a shame.

ghost on 6 Jul 2016

@reiniervanrutten magnet's are supported....
https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/blob/develop/src/MonoTorrent/MagnetLink.cs

thezoggy on 6 Jul 2016

@thezoggy perfect that it's supported by Sonarr. But the problem is that my downloader (Download station) doesn't get the magnet properly presented. The main issue here is the implementation of DS support in Sonarr to get this fixed. For now it's only possible to use the black hole. But when an indexer hands back the magnet url I'm basically screwed.
Error: (Magnet not supported by download client. (Blackhole does not support magnet links.))

Using the out of the box rarbg indexer in Sonarr by the way.

ghost on 6 Jul 2016

this would be very helpful as Kat is down and manget link are not working with DS Download, which is what RARBG indexer use

HugoGresse on 9 Aug 2016

I set up my NAS with SABnzbd but it takes too much ressources... THat would really be awesome if Download Station was supported...