Remote Torrenting
I've been playing around with my myth box (built over reading week, yays!) and I have it set up to be mythtv, with ssh running in the background so I can use nx to bring up a graphical interface on any computer in the house (on my lan). I haven't set up port forwarding to allow it from outside the house yet, but that is my intention.
The last task I really have at hand is torrenting. I essentially want the server to run all the torrents for my house. It also has to be simple, to ensure my housemates will actually use it.
I've tried fluxtorrent (as per a tutorial I found online), with no luck. I was told, and have read since, that Azureus has web plugins, but I can't find any tutorials for it. Just references that they exist.
Anyone know how to do it? Or link me to a (helpful) tutorial?
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ktorrent
fluxtorrent would be my first sujestion as i have seen it work well for others.
what i use is ktorrent with a plugin to auto start torrent files put into a directory that is shared via samba. I also have it move the finished torrents to a new directory, this way one can start a torrent, see it is running (files in the scratch directory) and tell when it is done. ktorrent also has a web control plugin, but i have heard that it is a pain to get working.
why do you want to set this up? is it for power savings or QoS?
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Matt Englert
SOCIS System Admin
I do pretty much the same as
I do pretty much the same as Matt, just with Azureus.
From a pure console standpoint, something like btlaunchmanycurses works just fine, even if it isn't as featureful as fluxtorrent or azureus.
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Tony Thompson
Reasons
When playing games, it's common for my housemates (self-centered as they are) to eat all the bandwidth with their torrents. I get kicked a lot due to it. This way, one machine torrents for the household.
Furthermore, as my new rig has small hard drives in it (Raptors are expensive), I decided to use the old computer as the storage place for all my media, as (high def) video eats gigabytes for breakfast.
Further furthermore, I often have inspirations during class as to new projects I'd like to start, or new movies/tv shows I'd like to watch, but often forget by the time I get home. This way, I could start the torrent at moment of inspiration over the interwebs, and by the time I'm home, I could immediately watch it (hopefully).
Lastly, it's a fun project, and I just want to learn more about remote whatsitmabobbers.
Randall Roberts
SOCIS President
I use Azureus with AzSMRC.
I use Azureus with AzSMRC. It's pretty good. The remote client works perfectly on Windows, takes a little bit of tweaking on Linux, and doesn't work on OS X. I also have a watch folder and torrent moving set up ('incoming', 'torrenting', 'seeding') so I can easily go to a folder to see what's complete so I can watch something while seeding.
NX also supports disconnecting a session like VNC so you could run it that way as well. What version of NX did you use to set it up?
I've used torrentflux in the past, and I forget why, but there was some reason why I abandonned it. It might have been the plugins available for Azureus, and it's features (DHT, magnet links, peer guardian, and good ram caching).
Right now, my box is actually running azureus in a screen session with a text console. It's not too bad to use, and works well in my current case where the box doesn't have X set up. http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/ConsoleUI
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Andrew