Overview
Module: Module 2: ARR Media Automation
Activity type: Lesson (Orient → Recall → Learn → Explain → Reflect)
Learning objective: Given playback and storage constraints, the learner can write a plain-language quality policy, configure Custom Formats and cutoff/upgrade settings, and prove ranking on five controlled candidates.
Bloom level: Evaluate / Create
Mastery unlock for this topic: reading done + Feynman complete + quiz ≥80% (when scored) + lab gate + homework submitted
Learning objective
Given playback and storage constraints, the learner can write a plain-language quality policy, configure Custom Formats and cutoff/upgrade settings, and prove ranking on five controlled candidates.
Why this matters
Installing Sonarr or Radarr is easy. Designing what they should prefer, reject, upgrade, and stop upgrading is the difficult part. TRaSH Guides supplies maintained recommendations; your profile still represents a local policy constrained by display, audio system, storage, bandwidth, and tolerance for upgrades.
Prior-knowledge check
Answer briefly before reading Instruction. Wrong answers are useful: they show what to review.
- What is a quality profile for?
- Why might the ‘highest resolution’ release be wrong for your TV?
- What should you back up before editing profiles?
Learn
Complete the module reading first:
Then review the worked example inside that reading (I do).
Guided practice (We do)
We do: hints allowed. Check your reasoning against Instruction.
Score three sample release names together using a simple CF table (+/−). Explain the winner out loud.
Feynman teach-back: required
Required. Do not skip.
Explain
Describe quality profiles vs Custom Formats vs cutoff/upgrade-until scores in your own words. No copying the lesson verbatim.
Simplify
Explain the same idea to a 12-year-old. If you use a technical word, define it.
Example
Analogy: ordering pizza: ‘make it good’ vs ‘large pepperoni, thin crust, ready in 20 minutes.’
Weak spot
What part was hard to explain? That is where your understanding is thin.
Retry
Return to that part of Instruction, restudy it, then rewrite a clearer explanation below.
Mastery note: a completed Feynman teach-back is required before the next class unlocks: “I get it” without explanation does not count.
Answers save in this browser (localStorage). Completing all five fields is part of the mastery unlock.
Reflection
Which score almost violated your hardware constraints, and how did the five-candidate table catch it?
Also answer:
- What did I learn?
- What did I struggle with?
- How does this connect to earlier classes?
Spiral hook
Class 7 will automate these profiles. When automation drifts, you will re-test the same five-candidate table: the policy sentence remains the source of truth.