From 15c1bd2908172c98ee887cc8a3bec4c2d01a85a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zxvv Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 03:13:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] an attempt to clarify monitoring vs searching when adding a show. --- Setup-Guide.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/Setup-Guide.md b/Setup-Guide.md index 3c20552..ddf6531 100644 --- a/Setup-Guide.md +++ b/Setup-Guide.md @@ -89,6 +89,20 @@ You want to enable this and you *don't* want to use the Drone Factory option. Th * Folder renaming isn't working. _Planned to be supported_ * Subtitles and other files aren't moved with the movie. _Planned to be supported_ + +## Two kinds of search methods: historical vs monitoring + +Radar has two search methods: historical and monitoring. Monitoring identifies releases occurring after monitoring starts. Historical search finds previous releases. + +Monitoring is enabled by toggling a banner icon, where a solid banner indicates monitoring is enabled. +Historical search is invoked by clicking the magnifying glass icon. + +If you only enable monitoring, Radarr will only download releases that occur after monitoring is enabled. + +When the magnifying glass icon is clicked, a single historical search is stared; however, the historical search is filtered to include only monitored episodes. So, monitoring of the show, season or episodes must be enabled first, before historical search. + +In other words, after you add a show to Radarr, first toggle the banner to select either show, season or individual episodes, and then click the magnifying glass to start a historical search for those selections. + ## Misc * We use [The MovieDB](https://www.themoviedb.org) for gathering information. Sometimes a movie in IMDb is not TMDb, please help by contributing to TMDb and the movie will then show up in Radarr Movie Look up.