Recyclarr – Trash Guide Automation (Microguide)

This is part of my Microguides section, these are not as in depth as my core guides and meant to be a bit of a helping hand for getting these particular containers up. They assume you have followed the basics of other guides on the site.

Recyclarr – it automates updates from the Custom Formats on Trash-guides and pushes them into your Radarr and Sonarr setups.

Please note this will also change your Quality Definitions in line with Trash-guides, see all the various other config options on the wiki.

https://recyclarr.dev/wiki

Let’s Begin

Create the following folders

/docker/recyclarr
/docker/projects/recyclarr-compose

Now grab my premade config file and save it into the first folder from above. Note I prioritise quality and HDR and HDR10+ for my Samsung TV and de-prioritise low quality releases.

Next edit the following lines within the configuration file for your Radarr and Sonarr IP and API Key settings (IPs are good if you are using the synobridge)

    base_url: http://172.20.0.1:8989
    api_key: YOURAPIKEY

I sync the custom formats to my two main Quality Profiles, you need to edit these in line with the names of the Quality Profiles you have in Sonarr and Radarr as mine were renamed from the originals

Next edit the assign_scores_to: Profiles you wish to sync the Trash scores to from your Radarr and Sonarr setups. (See my screenshot change these to what yours are called)

        assign_scores_to:
          - name: 4k - 1080p
          - name: 720p1080p Max
          - name: HD-720p

You can now save and close the file..

Container setup

Using the same method as my other guides set the following up as a Project saving into the second folder we created above when asked.

Edit the following lines with your own settings

services
  recyclarr:
    image: recyclarr/recyclarr:latest
    container_name: recyclarr
    user: 1234:65432
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/recyclarr:/config
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - RECYCLARR_CREATE_CONFIG=true
    network_mode: synobridge
    restart: unless-stopped

You can now Save and Build the container.

By default, the sync will take place at midnight daily. Kick off the initial sync by opening up the Container in Container Manager go into its Terminal under Action > Open Terminal and create a Terminal session then type recyclarr sync

Your profiles should now have the custom scores and searches will reflect these as well.