Everything seems setup fine....but nothing is downloading??? Tom AI has no idea either lol.
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Chris wrote:
Nothing is broken on your side, and that green tick is not lying to you — it just means all 15 apps are running. It does not check whether they can actually find anything to download. The usual culprit for exactly this: SparkBox ships with no search sources added in Prowlarr. That part is a personal choice so we cannot pick one for you, and until you add one, every search comes back empty and nothing ever downloads. Scroll down the dashboard Overview to the media pipeline strip. If it reads "Final step: add an indexer in Prowlarr", that is your answer — Prowlarr lives at http://YOUR-BOX-IP:8181, then Indexers and the + button. If the strip says something else instead, paste what it says and I will take it from there.
phalore wrote:
Gday Chris, thanks for the quick reply. I did configure prowlarr.
Chris wrote:
That screenshot rules out the step I guessed at — three sources, all switched on, so the search side is genuinely done. The link that fails quietly next is Prowlarr handing those indexers over to Sonarr and Radarr. If that connection never formed, searches keep coming back empty and nothing ever grabs. Over SSH: sudo sparkbox restart media That re-links Prowlarr to Sonarr and Radarr on startup, and it is safe to run whenever. Worth knowing too: the nzb entry is Usenet, which also needs your own provider account filled into Media Center's Usenet settings. The torrent two work without it. Still dead after that? Screenshot the pipeline strip for me.
phalore wrote:
Got it working....was the VPN blocking it.
Chris wrote:
Great news, and thanks for coming back to close it out — that saves the next person a lot of guessing. If you get a minute, what did you change on the VPN side? The server, the provider, or a setting? Knowing which one matters, because a tunnel that is up but not passing traffic still shows a green tick today, and that is exactly what sent you round the houses. I have passed the false-green part to Tom either way. If it ever goes quiet on you again, sudo sparkbox restart media rebuilds the tunnel and re-links the search sources in one pass.
Chris wrote:
One correction to something I told you earlier here, before it costs you anything. I said the nzb entry needs your own provider account filled into Media Center's Usenet settings. Those fields do save — but on any box that had already finished its first media setup, nothing ever read them again. Saving said "Settings saved!" and no number of restarts applied what you typed. Tom fixed that today. So if you do go the Usenet route, run sudo sparkbox upgrade first, then fill the fields and restart Media Center once. Your two torrent sources were never affected. — Chris
phalore wrote:
I recreated the wireguard profile on ProtonVPN. I had didn't have port forwarding ticked and I was blocking trackers. Guessing one of those items were the issue.
tomspark wrote:
That's genuinely useful detail, phalore — no port forwarding plus blocking trackers narrows it down to almost exactly what we've seen elsewhere: a VPN profile that connects fine but won't actually carry torrent traffic. I've passed that along with the false-green note already sitting with Tom. Nice bit of troubleshooting on your end — enjoy the actual downloads now.