[Part 1] Download torrent & newsserver package

[titogarrido]

(5th Jan, 2013 12:40 PM)eth0 Wrote:  I'd just like to add I'm successfully running XBMC, Transmission, Sick Beard and Couch Potato all at the same time clocked @ 900Mhz. If I play a 1080p film whilst Transmission is downloading then it does indeed lag. I have hacked together (read: badly made, I'm new to Python!) a script that will pause all downloads once you start watching a film and then resume them again once its finished

default.py: http://pastebin.com/fer29Zgn (edit your details on line 21)
addon.xml: http://pastebin.com/mFSB6qvN

Pop both of these files in ~/.xbmc/addons/script.torrentpause and restart XBMC. You will need the python transmissionrpc package, you can install it with `easy_install transmissionrpc`. It's quite limited but it does what I need, feel free to expand on it and I hope its of use to someone

I also built Transmission from the latest nightly build (2.75+) and compiled with:

Code:

--enable-lightweight    optimize libtransmission for low-resource systems:
                          smaller cache size, prefer unencrypted peer
                          connections, etc.

and noticed a slight improvement from the one in the raspbian repo (2.5?)

Nice work eth0!

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(17th Jan, 2013 10:25 PM)SolGarlic Wrote:  

(17th Jan, 2013 10:01 PM)CurlyMo Wrote:  The point to Automatic and rTorrent is that they don't easily integrate a webgui. With rtorrent, it is possible but not without additional packages/settings. Our goals is to provide easy-to-use packages. rTorrent and Automatic are just not easy to use because of the lack of gui. That's why they will be removed from the options list.

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I understand, but Automatic seems to be the only functional torrent downloader:
I tried using SickBeard but it is limited to only a few RSS Torrent providers... I'm I doing something wrong with Sickbeard? Any other alternative?

BTW, when you removed Automatic from the list, my vote moved to Couchpotato, so count less one for Couchpotato

SolGarlic, since you use torrents like me, try to use mr-orange version https://github.com/mr-orange/Sick-Beard

I have been using it with piratebay and works perfectily