Transmission resumed

Ok a transmission revisit. Everything has been going along mostly ok with my previous transmission setup. It does however have the annoying habit of just no longer accepting request at random intervals, which franky is a pain especial since flexget has worked out so well. It's still running on OpenSolaris as I have not moved to Nexenta. So I rebuilt the packages and updated to version 2.10. I have put together some IPS packages for transmission 2.10 and libevent 1.4.13. If there is any interest I can open up my IPS server or drop them somewhere more accessible. They Should run on Open Indiana also.

Egg head

Ok I'm a total Python newbie. I need to install flexget to use with my new transmission setup, it's a python based app and comes as an .egg file. Seems the best way to install these is with something call easy_install.

pkg search -l easy_install

Shows easy_install is part of the python setup tools package. So just go ahead and install that.

pfexec pkg install pkg:/library/python-2/setuptools-26

Then use easy_install to install the flexget along with all it's dependencies.

pfexec easy_install http://download.flexget.com/unstable/FlexGet-1.0r1226-py2.6.egg

I'm going to be using the transmissionrpc module so I need to install that to.

pfexec easy_install transmissionrpc

Thats it done, flexget installed. Check out the flexget site to configure it for your needs.

Changing Torrent

I'm going to be offloading my torrents to my soon to be new headless file server so changes are needed. I've been using vuze since long before it was vuze, and have a nice comfortable setup. I guess my requirements have changed a little, I don't need fancy features now offered, I won't have the same luxurious memory setup as I currently have, I'm not found of it's remote interface and, as they say a change it as good as a holiday. Time to broaden my horizons . So what I need from a BT client

• runs on OpenSolaris
• operates headless
• able to read and process rss feeds
• and operate without constant fiddling

So I didn't look to hard, or broaden too much transmission is available for install as an IPS for OpenSolaris, I have also been able to compile a more recent version if required, it will operate headless, has what appears to be usable web interface if required. It does however weriously lacks and ability to read and parse rss feeds to bring the automation I need. Enter flexget, multipurpose automation tool, I'm not apposed to running to different pieces of software to do the job after all it was a plug in doing the work in vuze, and I am a unix guy.

So the plan, replace vuze with transmission and flexget.