When searching for a season that has some episodes but not all it returns "Show is already on plex"

[chris243]

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Plex Requests.Net Version:

1.9

Operating System:

Windows 10

Pretty much tittle.
Ex: Game of thrones season 01 has only episode 1 and 2 go to Request->Select Season->Season 01->
Request=Show is already on Plex

[tidusjar]

I just realised, this is not a bug. There is a option in the Plex settings to enable Episode searching.

What this option does is it scans your whole plex library and gets all of the TV Episodes and stores them into the DB every 12 hours.

If this option isn't enabled then we can only lookup on if you have the Season in Plex, in this case, you do have the season (But not all episodes).

Now the reason why this option is not enabled by default as it's a resource intensive task and while running the UI can slow down a lot (Depending on the size of your Plex Library it's hard to say how long it will run for).

If you do not want to enabled this, they still can request the episodes using the "Select Episodes..." option

[captainnapalm]

Where is this setting in Plex? I couldn't find it.

EDIT: Nevermind, it's a setting in PlexRequests: Settings -> Plex -> Enable Episode Searching

This solved my issue. I was able to request a season for a show that already existed in Plex.

[tidusjar]

From @chris243

just to sum it up again. For some reason instead of searching for whatever episodes are missing for a selected season( Request->Select Season-> Season X) it returns Show already on plex when you have some but not all episodes. If you do the same to a season that has none of the episodes already downloaded, It goes and tells sonarr to download them just like it should. Basically having any episodes at all for a certain season makes plexrequests think you have the whole season and doesn't let you request it. I enabled Episode Searching in the settings and after 24hours it still didnt fix it for me.

[tidusjar]

@chris243 Is this still an issue with the latest version?

[chris243]

I will test it in a bit. I'll let you know.

[tidusjar]

OK thanks!

[chris243]

Just tested with newest stable release. Now when I search for a season with only some episodes it gives me the green message saying it requested but looking at sonarr logs it doesn't do anything. I tried searching for a season that I do have all episodes already and got same thing. Searching for a season with no episodes at all works as intended and sonarr searches for all episodes in that season.

[tidusjar]

did you need to re-approve the request?

[tidusjar]

@chris243 you have episode searching enabled right?

[chris243]

Yes sir

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[Magikarplvl4]

fixed in the release of 1.9.5