Patch shipped: v1.6.629 — download quality profiles fixed for August installs, plus a new 1080p / 4K switch
Posted by tomspark
Two things in this one. First, a fix. If you set up the Media apps any time from about 7 August onward, Radarr and Sonarr were quietly left on the plain stock quality profile instead of the tuned one SparkBox is meant to apply — the upstream template format changed and our sync failed without telling anyone. After this update your box applies the tuned profiles on its next start and points Seerr at them. If you set up before that date you were never affected. Second, something a few of you asked for: Settings → Media → Video quality. Pick 4K / UHD and Radarr, Sonarr and Seerr all switch together in about a minute. It stays on 1080p unless you change it — 4K files are 3-8x bigger and only play smoothly on a 4K screen. Files you already have are never touched. Guide with the honest trade-offs: https://tomsparkbox.com/guides/media-4k-quality Also new: a plain-English walkthrough for the one media step SparkBox can't do for you — adding a search source in Prowlarr. The dashboard's "Show me how" button now opens it, and Tom AI can point you to it (and to the rest of the guides) instead of improvising: https://tomsparkbox.com/guides/add-a-search-source-prowlarr Update from the dashboard (Updates), or on the box: sudo sparkbox update