Rclone Plex Sonarr Radarr Read&Write

README.md

Rclone v1.40 for Plex/Sonarr/Radarr Read/Write

This small guide should help you get setup with rclone v1.40 to read/write directly to a cache mount and have Plex get notified of new tv/movies that get added to the mount by Radarr/Sonarr

Assumptions

1. You're using rclone v1.40
2. You're using Radarr & Sonarr
3. If you're using docker for plex/sonarr/radrr, you must ensure the volumes attached to the containers are all the same path, i.e.: /mnt/user/media:/media for all 3. If not, the auto-scan will likely not work properly.

Step 1 - Configure rclone systemd service (file: rclone.service)

1. Copy the file attached to this gist to /etc/systemd/system
2. If you're not using Docker, remove the After=docker.service and Requires=docker.service
3. Modify the file so that your rclone remote, mount point, cache-tmp-upload-path, cache-db-path are configured for your environment. NB: the rclone mount point is your rclone cache remote OR your rclone crypt remote if using Crypt (see Step 2)
4. Enable the systemd daemon: sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable rclone.service

Step 2 - Configure rclone cache (or cache->crypt) remote (file: rclone.conf)

NB: If you're using crypt, your remotes must be configured this way: remote->cache->crypt (do not do remote->crypt->cache!)

1. Configure a new rclone cache remote and ensure your settings match the ones in the file below. The cache remote points to a regular remote, i.e.: gd: for Google Drive (or whatever name you have for your GDrive remote)
2. Ignore the crypt remote gmedia: if you're not using crypt and just use the provided example remote gcache:

We set most of the settings during mount in the rclone.service file, so I'd set these to the same value when configuring them using rclone config to avoid confusion.

Step 3 - Configure Radarr / Sonarr Plex integration (no file)

In Radarr or Sonarr, configure the Plex Media Server integration (steps are the same in both Radarr/Sonarr):

1. Click on Settings
2. Click on the Connect tab
3. Click the + button to create a new connection
4. Choose Plex Media Server
5. Give it a name (anything you want)
6. Ensure the following are set to Yes: On Download, On Upgrade, On Rename
7. Set your Plex host (localhost or the name of your plex container should work here)
8. Leave port to 32400
9. Put your Plex.tv Username / Password
10. Ensure Update Library is set to Yes
11. Set SSL to No

Now when Sonarr/Radarr download, upgrade, or rename a file, it will fire an event to Plex to update that folder. Sonarr/Radarr will have direct read/write access to the mount. Any new file will get placed by rclone in the folder defined by --cache-tmp-upload-path and get uploaded during the next interval defined by --cache-wait-time.

Step 4

There is no Step 4, that should be sufficient to get you going!

rclone.conf

[gd]
type = drive
client_id = 
client_secret = 
token = 

[gcache]
type = cache
remote = gd:Media
plex_url = http://127.0.0.1:32400
plex_username = USERNAME
plex_password = PASSWORD
plex_token = TOKEN
chunk_total_size = 50G

[gmedia]
type = crypt
remote = gdcMedia:
filename_encryption = standard
directory_name_encryption = true
password = PASSWORD
password2 = PASSWORD

rclone.service

# /etc/systemd/system/rclone.service
# If you're not using Docker, remove
# the two docker.service lines below.

[Unit]
Description=rclone cache mount for google drive
AssertPathIsDirectory=/home/user/mnt/media
After=network-online.target
After=docker.service
Requires=docker.service

[Service]
Type=simple
User=stokkes
Group=stokkes
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount gmedia: /home/user/mnt/media \
   --allow-other \
   --allow-non-empty \
   --dir-cache-time=160h \
   --cache-chunk-size=10M \
   --cache-info-age=168h \
   --cache-workers=5 \
   --attr-timeout=1s \
   --syslog \
   --umask 002 \
   --rc \
   --cache-tmp-upload-path /home/user/.config/rclone/upload \
   --cache-tmp-wait-time 30m \
   --cache-db-path /home/jarsenea/.config/rclone \
   --log-level INFO
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /home/user/mnt/media
Restart=on-abort
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=60s
StartLimitBurst=3

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target