Template:Settings Profiles Delay Profiles
Template for Delay Profiles
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARRNAME | ARRNAME | ARR Name
| String | required |
| MEDIA | MEDIA | List of possible MEDIA variables
| String | required |
| QUALITY1 | QUALITY1 | List of possible qualities that should be used for this template ({{{QUALITY1}}} and above are allowed {{{QUALITY2}}} is the quality cutoff * {{{QUALITY3}}} is the highest ranked quality)
| String | required |
| QUALITY2 | QUALITY2 | List of possible qualities that should be used for this template ({{{QUALITY1}}} and above are allowed {{{QUALITY2}}} is the quality cutoff * {{{QUALITY3}}} is the highest ranked quality)
| String | required |
| QUALITY3 | QUALITY3 | List of possible qualities that should be used for this template ({{{QUALITY1}}} and above are allowed {{{QUALITY2}}} is the quality cutoff * {{{QUALITY3}}} is the highest ranked quality)
| String | required |
- Delay profiles allow you to reduce the number of releases that will be downloaded for an {{{MEDIA}}}, by adding a delay while {{{ARRNAME}}} will continue to watch for releases that better match your preferences.
- Protocol - This will either be Usenet or Torrent depending on which download protocol you're using
- Usenet Delay - Set by the number of minutes you'll want to wait before the download to start
- Torrent Delay - Set by the number of minutes you'll want to wait before the download to start
- Bypass if Highest Quality - Bypass the delay profile if the highest quality for that {{{MEDIA}}} is found and grab once the first instance of the highest ranked quality is found. Otherwise wait for the best quality release until the end of the delay period.
- Tags - This is where you'll select any relevant tags that you'll be using for this scheme
- Wrench icon - This will allow you to edit the delay profile
- Plus icon - Create a new profile
Example: Some media will receive half a dozen different releases of varying quality in the hours after a release, and without delay profiles {{{ARRNAME}}} might try to download all of them. With delay profiles, {{{ARRNAME}}} can be configured to ignore the first few hours of releases.
Delay profiles are also helpful if you want to emphasize one protocol (Usenet or BitTorrent) over the other. (See Example 3)
How Delay Profiles Work
The timer begins as soon as {{{ARRNAME}}} detects an {{{MEDIA}}} has a release available. This release will show up in your Queue with a clock icon to indicate that it is under a delay. Please note that the clock starts from the releases uploaded time and not from the time {{{ARRNAME}}} sees it.
During the delay period, any new releases that become available will be noted by {{{ARRNAME}}}. When the delay timer expires, {{{ARRNAME}}} will download the single release which best matches your quality preferences.
The timer period can be different for Usenet and Torrents. Each profile can be associated with one or more tags to allow you to customize which shows have which profiles. A delay profile with no tag is considered the default and applies to all shows that do not have a specific tag.
NOTE: Delay profiles start from the timestamp that the indexer reports the release was uploaded. This means that any content older than the number of minutes you have set are not impacted in any way by your delay profile, and will be downloaded immediately. In addition, any manual searches for content (non-RSS feed searches) will ignore delay profile settings.
Examples
For each example, assume the user has the follow quality profile active: {{{QUALITY1}}} and above are allowed {{{QUALITY2}}} is the quality cutoff * {{{QUALITY3}}} is the highest ranked quality
Example 1:
In this simple example, the profile is set with a 120 minute (two hour) delay for both Usenet and Torrent.
At 11:00pm the first release for an {{{MEDIA}}} is detected by {{{ARRNAME}}} and it was uploaded at 10:50pm and the 120 minute clock begins. At 12:50am, {{{ARRNAME}}} will evaluate any releases it has found in the past two hours, and download the best one, which is {{{QUALITY2}}}.
At 3:00am another release is found, which is {{{QUALITY2}}} that was added to your indexer at 2:46am. Another 120 minute clock begins. At 4:46am the best-available release is downloaded. Since the quality cutoff is now reached, the {{{MEDIA}}} no longer is upgradable and {{{ARRNAME}}} will stop looking for new releases.
At any point, if a {{{QUALITY3}}} release is found, it will be downloaded immediately because it is the highest-ranking quality. If there is a delay timer currently active it will be cancelled.
Example 2:
This example has different timers for Usenet and Torrents. Assume a 120 minute timer for Usenet and a 180 minute timer for BitTorrent.
At 11:00pm the first release for an {{{MEDIA}}} is detected by {{{ARRNAME}}} and both timers begin. The release was added to the indexer at 10:15pm At 12:15am, {{{ARRNAME}}} will evaluate any releases, and if there are any acceptable Usenet releases, the best one will be downloaded and both timers will end. If not, {{{ARRNAME}}} will wait until 12:15am and download the best release, regardless of which source it came from.
Example 3:
A common use for delay profiles is to emphasize one protocol over another. For example, you might only want to download a BitTorrent release if nothing has been uploaded to Usenet after a certain amount of time.
You could set a 60 minute timer for BitTorrent, and a 0 minute timer for Usenet.
If the first release that is detected is from Usenet, {{{ARRNAME}}} will download it immediately.
If the first release is from BitTorrent, {{{ARRNAME}}} will set a 60 minute timer. If any qualifying Usenet release is detected during that timer, the BitTorrent release will be ignored and the Usenet release will be grabbed.
