Your services

Sonarr, Radarr & Lidarr

These three fill most of Managerr. This page covers what each one drives, where its API key lives, how to write its address, and what changes on your server when you act from the app.

What they drive

Connect one of the three and most of the app comes to life.

• Library holds series, films, artists and albums together.
• Calendar puts episode air dates, film releases and album release dates in one view.
• Activity combines the download queue and the history of every server you have connected.
• A media detail page carries the overview, the files on disk, the releases your indexers offer and recent history.

From a detail page you can also change what the service holds — the quality profile, the root folder, whether the item is monitored — and act on it. Automatic hands the search to the server. Manual lists the releases with each rejection reason, so you can read why one was refused and grab it anyway. Manual import matches files already sitting on your server, Rename files previews your server’s naming format before anything moves, and Remove from library asks before it acts.

Finding the API key

Each service holds its own key, and Managerr never asks for a login.

1. Open that service’s own web interface.
2. Go to Settings → General → Security.
3. Copy the API key whole, and paste it into the API key field in Managerr.

Managerr trims whitespace at the ends of the key. Check that the pasted key is complete and belongs to the selected service. Test Service is what enables Save, so a key that does not work cannot be saved by accident. Add a service walks the editor field by field.

The address and URL base

Stock ports, if you have not changed them: Sonarr 8989, Radarr 7878, Lidarr 8686. The address field’s placeholder already shows the right one for the service you picked.

Sonarr and Radarr answer on api/v3, and Lidarr answers on api/v1. Managerr picks the right one from the service you chose, so you only ever enter the base address — without the API endpoint. Include any configured base path.

If the service is served under a URL base, include it: http://192.168.1.10:8989/sonarr. If it is not, do not add one. A base path the server is not expecting fails exactly the way a wrong port does, and the test cannot tell you which it was. Reaching your servers covers addresses, HTTPS and VPNs.

More than one of each

Run as many of each as you like. A second Radarr for 4K films is an ordinary setup, and nothing in the app assumes one of anything.

Every remote identity carries the server it belongs to. Two films with the same title on two Radarr servers stay two separate entries, and an action always names the server it is going to.

When the combined view is more than you want, the service filter in the top bar narrows any screen to one server, and All Services puts it back. To take a server out of every view without losing its address and key, turn it off in Settings → Services.

What Managerr writes back

An edit from the app reads the resource your service already holds, changes the fields you changed, and writes it back. Managerr preserves the fields it does not understand, so editing a series or a film from your phone does not quietly strip settings you made in the service’s own web interface.

Searches, refreshes, rescans, renames and imports are not work Managerr does. They are commands your server runs in the background: the app reports them as accepted and then follows them in Activity, which is where you find out whether one worked. Searches, releases & imports goes through what each one does and how to check the result.

For installation and server configuration, see Sonarr documentation, Radarr documentation, Lidarr documentation.