[Part 2] Download torrent & newsserver package(s)

[wietze314]

Hello all,

Thanks all for the good pointers in this thread. So far I have configured my xbian with xbmc to download stuff with sickbeard and transmission.

The problems I ran in to were:
- bad performance with 2tb harddrive with NTFS filesystem.
Solved this by reformatting it with ext4 (via puppy linux cd)

- repeated post processing by sickbeard:
this was caused by the fact that I had sickbeard watch my download directory and also keep the original files. So the files would be post processed infinitly. It made my XBMC very slow.
Files need to stay in the directory for transmission to seed them for a while.

To solve this I made my own transmission postprocessing script that copies the finished download to another directory for sickbeard to postprocess. In which sickbeard is allowed to delete the files.

- RAR files did not get processed by sickbeard.
For this I installed unrar-nonfree (http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/3617/how-to-install-unrar-nonfree) and added a line to my transmission postprocessing script. The script is not very suffisticated but maybe someone finds it helpful:

Code:

cat /usr/local/etc/transmission/transmission-complete.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash

LOGFILE="/usr/local/etc/transmission/transmission-complete.log"

function edate
{
  echo "`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`    $1" >> "$LOGFILE"
}

edate "Directory is $TR_TORRENT_DIR"
edate "Torrent ID is $TR_TORRENT_ID"
edate "Torrent Hash is $TR_TORRENT_HASH"
edate "Working on the new download $TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME"


if [ -e "$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME" ]; then
cp -R "$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME" "/media/networkdrive/downloads/sickbeard-postprocessing" >> "$LOGFILE"
unrar x -y -p- -o+ "/media/networkdrive/downloads/sickbeard-postprocessing/$TR_TORRENT_NAME/*.rar" "/media/networkdrive/downloads/sickbeard-postprocessing/$TR_TORRENT_NAME/" >> "$LOGFILE"
fi

The thing I now want to do is have more influence on the sickbeard torrent searches. It seems to me that it does not really look at the torrent availability while searching. Since I dont have invites to those private trackers, I seem to be pulling in some torrents, that I manually won't choose.
Is there some easy way to influence the search behavior. For example:
- force it to take only torrents with more than x peers.
- prefer torrents with certain strings in the torrent name?

Thanks for the help!