Notifications (Connect) and import lists

Connect#

Settings → Connect tells your media server about new files and sends you messages. Messages are sent in the background, in order, and retried when a service is down.

Add connection → pick a service → fill in its fields → Test → choose the events → Save.

Media servers#

Service	What it does
Plex Media Server	Scans the movie or series folder in the matching Plex library after an import or rename (host, port 32400, Plex token)
Jellyfin	Tells Jellyfin which folder changed (or runs a full library scan), so new files show up at once (URL, API key from Dashboard → API Keys)
Emby	Like Jellyfin, and can show grabs, imports and health issues to Emby admins
Kodi	Updates the Kodi library over JSON-RPC (Kodi: Settings → Services → Control → Allow remote control via HTTP), can clean the library and show notifications on screen

Media servers react to On Import, On Upgrade and On Rename (Emby and Kodi also to grabs and health events for their on-screen notifications).

Notifications#

Service	What it does
Discord	Posts a message with poster and details to a channel (a channel webhook URL)
Telegram	Sends a message from your own Telegram bot (bot token from @BotFather, chat id)
Pushover	Push notifications to your phones and desktops (application token, user key, priority, sound)
ntfy	Push notifications through ntfy.sh or your own ntfy server (topics, priority, tags)
Gotify	Push notifications through your own Gotify server
Email	An email through your mail server (SMTP)
Webhook	Every event as JSON to your own URL, in the layout of the Radarr and Sonarr webhooks; see Webhook payload
Apprise	Through an Apprise API server to any of its 100+ services

Events#

Event	When
On Grab	A release was sent to the downloader
On Import	A new file was imported into the library
On Upgrade	A better file replaced an existing one
On Rename	Files were renamed in the library
On Download Failure	A download failed (missing articles, repair or unpacking failed)
On Health Issue / On Health Restored	A warning or error appeared in, or went away from, the status window
On Request, Request Approved, Request Declined, Request Available	The request events (notification services only, off by default)

Passwords, tokens, webhook URLs and custom headers are stored encrypted and shown as ********. When you change a connection's address, type its secret again (StreamZH never sends a stored secret to a new address).

Import lists#

Settings → Import lists adds movies and series automatically from lists. Each list has its own root folder, quality profile and monitoring.

List	Adds
TMDB list, collection, person, company, keyword	A public TMDB list; every movie of a collection; the movies or shows of a person, a studio or a keyword
TMDB popular and top rated	Popular, top rated, upcoming or now playing, with filters for votes, rating, genre, language and years
Trakt	A user's watchlist or public list, or what is popular or trending on Trakt
Plex watchlist	Everything you add to your Plex watchlist (app, TV or plex.tv)
StreamZH	The movies or series of another StreamZH, e.g. to keep a second server in step
RSS list	Any feed whose items carry a TMDB, IMDb or TVDB id

Per list: what it adds (movies or series; add a list twice for both), Automatic add (off: open Preview and add by hand), Monitor, root folder, quality profile, minimum availability (movies), Search on add. Preview shows what the list would add (will be added, in library, excluded, not on TMDB); Sync now reads it at once.

Options: Clean library decides what happens to items a list added once they are on no enabled list any more: disabled (they stay), log only, keep and unmonitor, or remove (files stay on disk). Items you added yourself are never touched, and nothing happens while a list fails. List update interval (Advanced): every 24 hours by default, 6 to 720.
Exclusions: titles no list may add again (for example ones you removed).