I got it working in the end,
I looked at the file /mnt/dietpi_userdata/sonarr/config.xml
<Config>
<LogLevel>info</LogLevel>
<UrlBase></UrlBase>
<UpdateMechanism>BuiltIn</UpdateMechanism>
<AuthenticationMethod>None</AuthenticationMethod>
<ApiKey>2329d0fc000741f48fc39cb7a6347593</ApiKey>
<Branch>master</Branch>
<BindAddress>*</BindAddress>
<Port>7878</Port>
<SslPort>9898</SslPort>
<EnableSsl>False</EnableSsl>
<LaunchBrowser>True</LaunchBrowser>
<SslCertPath></SslCertPath>
<SslCertPassword></SslCertPassword>
Changed the port to 8989
restarted sonarr, and all is good.
Again this was a fresh install, and I never touched this file.