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Looking for the perfect torrent tool

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Hey there

 

I am looking for a suitable torrent tool for my unRAID.

 

First I gave Transmission once again a shot. But as I remembered it is not really a sophisticated tool for handling torrents especially if you are on multiple private trackers and you want to maintain your torrents for a longer time period. Or do you guys use Flexget to accomplish this? E.g. implementing watch directories and specifying download destination in Flexget for Transmission? Is this possible?

 

Yesterday I fixed the existing utserver plugin and started using it: https://github.com/luksak/utserver But quite soon I realized that it did not provide me with the options I needed (mainly RSS feeds and watched folders option to specify a download destination for each of them). Does anyone disagree with me? Did I miss features utorrent provides?

 

I just stumbled across Deluge but I don't know it yet. Is this what I am looking for?

 

So I came to the conclusion that rtorrent might be better suited for me and I would like to build a plugin for it. Since this would be my first unRAID plugin I would like to get some guidance. Can someone point out what is needed to accomplish this? Maybe some more specific questions:

 

Do I just download the source of libtorrent and rtorrent?

How do I find out what dependencies these packages have?

How do I host rtorrent?

Where do I store what (packages, settings, application data, downloaded data)?

Does there need to be a interface integrated in the webUI?

 

Please help me on this. I think there are quite a few other people looking for a decent torrent tool and would appreciate a nicer solution.

I agree rtorrent is awesome. I do not know how to develop a plugin however. I plan on just using a VM to host rtorrent in Unraid 6.

Transmission is actually really full featured. The problem is their web GUI sucks. If you're using a desktop OS to remotely interface with the client it's great though. Check out Transmission Remote GUI. There are versions for OS X, Linux and Windows. It basically gives you a full featured torrent client.

 

https://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/

utorrent does offer RSS feeds and you can configure where each of them is downloaded to (there is a "save in:" field) - you can also specify a Label for each RSS Feed download.

 

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By now I tend to start using Deluge. It seams to be a very powerful torrent client with a nice webUI. There seems to be progress on getting it running here:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=24886.0

 

utorrent does offer RSS feeds and you can configure where each of them is downloaded to (there is a "save in:" field) - you can also specify a Label for each RSS Feed download.

 

The most important feature for me is this: RSS feeds and watched folders option to specify a download destination for each feed and each watched folder. This is supported neither by transmission nor by utorrent neiter in the webUI nor in the desktop application of both clients. Or am I getting something wrong? If so, please point out how to do it.

 

Transmission is actually really full featured. The problem is their web GUI sucks. If you're using a desktop OS to remotely interface with the client it's great though. Check out Transmission Remote GUI. There are versions for OS X, Linux and Windows. It basically gives you a full featured torrent client.

 

https://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/

 

Well, I don't think that Transmission on its own deserves this... It doesn't even support RSS feeds.

utorrent does offer RSS feeds and you can configure where each of them is downloaded to (there is a "save in:" field) - you can also specify a Label for each RSS Feed download.

 

The most important feature for me is this: RSS feeds and watched folders option to specify a download destination for each feed and each watched folder. This is supported neither by transmission nor by utorrent neiter in the webUI nor in the desktop application of both clients. Or am I getting something wrong? If so, please point out how to do it.

Why do you say it doesn't support RSS and destination folder - IT does - see attached screenshot.

 

uTorrent2.jpg.3ec055b2a570e743ce11a7cd0ca49384.jpg

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utorrent does offer RSS feeds and you can configure where each of them is downloaded to (there is a "save in:" field) - you can also specify a Label for each RSS Feed download.

 

The most important feature for me is this: RSS feeds and watched folders option to specify a download destination for each feed and each watched folder. This is supported neither by transmission nor by utorrent neiter in the webUI nor in the desktop application of both clients. Or am I getting something wrong? If so, please point out how to do it.

Why do you say it doesn't support RSS and destination folder - IT does - see attached screenshot.

 

 

 

utorrent really doesn't support multiple watched folders with a different destination folder for each one of them. Right?

 

You are using a different version than I am. I am using the utserver plugin I recently fixed with the latest utorrent version: https://github.com/luksak/utserver This doesn't support RSS feed destinations.

Does the linux uT server suffer from any crap and spam.? Obviously it cant have bundled malware (yes uT for windows now ships with malware that hijacks browser settings and installer software to try and stop you changing them)... full on hijack malware

 

My worry is that the closed source Linux binary is from the same people who think malware and partnering with yahoo is a good idea

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No idea. How would you find out that this is the case? Does anyone know more about this?

 

Anyhow. As utorrent doesn't meet my needs (as far I know) it is not a possible candidate.

No idea. How would you find out that this is the case? Does anyone know more about this?

 

Anyhow. As utorrent doesn't meet my needs (as far I know) it is not a possible candidate.

 

google hasn't revealed anything. However it seems that they hevaily moderated discussion of it on their forum and then changed forum software so all google links are dead and expired the cache.

 

I am sure it is fine its just uT people being uT people... they have a long track record of saying one thing and doing/meaning another right from day 1

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So, back to the actual topic... Does anyone disagree that Deluge is the best suited torrent client for me? If not can someone point out exactly how to achieve these two requirements:

 

- RSS feeds with download destination directories for each

- watched directories with download destination directories for each

 

If one can provide me with instructions on how to achieve this, I would be very grateful.

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Kryspy: Ok, but does any of the two meet my requirements in combination with flexget? I assume you are using Transmission with Flexget? Could you tell me how I can get Transmission behave the way I described?

 

Yes, this is where I am seeking support to get Deluge up and running on my unRAID.

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Please help me out here... I would be very thankful for advice on getting this running.

After much hassle and a lot of trial and error, I have managed to get the deluge daemon running on unRAID 5.0.5.

 

I have not yet proven whether it can do anything useful!

 

First, I will try to retrace my steps in order to determine the essential procedures.

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