#Is there a way to request a show/movie that already has an entry in sonarr/radarr?

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storm dove
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Hey there guys,

I'm just wondering if there's a way to like...overwrite an already requested show/movie if it already has a respective sonarr/radarr entry.

My "problem" is that I add a lot of stuff to the *arrs and then if somebody later would like to request one of those shows/movies they can't, because overseerr says "Yeah dude, it's already requested" if you know what I mean.

Is there a way to either request an already requested show/movie anew or is there some option to tell Overseerr not to have all Radarr/Sonarr entries marked as "requested" in Overseerr?

Sorry if this sounds more confusing than anything else 😅 I hope I got my point across.

Have a great day y'all! ❤️

queen whale
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I understand your question but I want to know something

Why would anyone request something which is already there?
If it shows "requested' , then it means it's already requested ..

storm dove
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Because I have quite a large server and tenthousands of items in my sonarr and radarr database/SAB queue. If they can't request it due to it already being in sonarr/radarr, I can't tell what they would like to request 🙈 Aka I wouldn't know which items to prioritize

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Which makes them need to manually tell me in another way you know? That's my issue basically

naive rune
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But wouldn’t it already be available to them, so why would they need to request it again?

storm dove
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Not if it's still in my download queue and not downloaded yet

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And that's exactly my issue. If media has an *arr entry and is still not downloaded yet (I have a few thousand items in my SAB queue) it becomes unrequestable

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But maybe that's just exactly where it comes down to a "me"-issue 😅

naive rune
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Ahhh gotcha... I suppose only workaround would be to set up a notification so that if someone requests something... everyone gets a notification that it's been approved? (I don't even use notifications so no idea if that's actually achievable or not...)

I've also just seen this in the overseerr documentation... does is make a difference if that is inabled for you? It's within the settings for radarr/sonarr... I believe it's NOT enabled by default

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storm dove
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Ohhhhh WOW! Hell yes! That's exactly what I was trying to achieve!!!!! I knew there had to be a way, but wasn't even smart enough to check the docs and general settings! 😄 My bad, I think that's exactly what I need! I'll try it right away, thanks so much! ❤️

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Hmmm, how would I get Overseerr to update all items with this though?

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Or is this not possible after all items were scanned if the setting was enabled already?

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I disabled the option in both Radarr and Sonarr, but the items are still not requestable :c

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Even triggered all tasks to make sure, but no cigar so far 😅

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Do I need to remove/re-add Radarr and Sonarr to the Services?

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Damn. Deleted both Servers, but sadly didn't help

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Okay I even backed up my previous Overseerr and started from scratch, it somehow doesn't seem to work how I'd think it would, as it's still not requestable, or at least I'm not seeing how to

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It works, as long as no full Plex library scan is happening. As soon as that ran, the items become "Available" on OS again, preventing request possibility

storm dove
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Seems like this setting doesn't make any difference 😢

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I can manually delete the data of a specific show, then it becomes requestable again. But as soon as the Plex library scan hits it becomes available and non-requestable 😦

naive rune
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Ahhhh sorry man. If they're going to request it, but it's already been requested, do they at least get download status of it?

storm dove
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You know, there's not an option to request an already requested item for me

naive rune
storm dove
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Only workaround would then be to entirely disable the Plex sync, I guess? 🤔

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Indeed. This works. If I disable my libraries in the Plex settings on Overseerr and disable scan in Radarr/Sonarr, it - of course - becomes requestable again. But then I don't have no syncing at all, which is sub-optimal as well 😅

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But I guess being able to request anything is better in my case than to see what's available. Do you have anything else coming to your mind? 😕

naive rune
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Can I just check that I've got a handle on this...

You want people to be able to request something, even if it's been requested before, and is yet to download, or is already available in Plex?

storm dove
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This defeats the purpose of Overseerr and its automation though quite a lot

storm dove
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At least in my case 😅

naive rune
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Okay, so if I'm understanding you want other users to be able to request an already approved item, so that you know it's more popular and can therefore prioritise getting it downloaded?

storm dove
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You can check it for yourself if I'm being to cryptic or unprecise (Sorry). Request something in OS (or add a download of a movie to Radarr), throw it in the SAB/Nzbget/whatever queue and then try to request that same movie in OS (Which is not possible)

storm dove
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Just exactly this, yep

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Something to like "overwrite" a request. Or let's break it down to the capability to request the same exact media item multiple times, regardless of its status

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But how you summarized it is basically what I'd like to achieve, yes

naive rune
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With you 100% now. I don't think this will be achievable within Overseerr, sorry.

storm dove
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Oh daaamn haha

naive rune
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To flip the problem on it's head, if storage space/library size is a driver here, you could use Maintainerr (https://maintainerr.info), which links to Overseerr, Plex, Sonarr and Radarr APIs to basically delete and/or unmonitor media based on customisable rules.

For example, if someone requested a Movie, it downloaded and is available in plex... you could easily write a rule that would do the following:

  • If date added in plex is 30 days ago (or any number of days), and Movie is unwatched then...
  • delete the file
  • unmonitor in Radarr
  • Force reset Overseerr record

This would keep the library clean of stale/unwatched stuff, but also allow them to be requested again

Maintainerr

The Perfect Media Janitor. Maintainerr aims to help you free up space on your media server.

storm dove
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That is a good approach. However, I wouldn't want the movie files to be deleted in order for them to become requestable again. That somehow fails what I'd need to achieve, but I appreciate your help a lot man! Really, highly appreciated! ❤️

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I don't wanna be the "eh eh but they can..."-guy, but do you coincidentally know if I could achieve this with Ombi or even petio?

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Probably not huh?