Transmission Supervisor

transmission-supervisor is a helper daemon for transmission-damon, a bittorent client. transmission-supervisor adds functionality for management of transmission-daemons bittorent transfers. At the moment following tasks can be performed by transmission-supervisor.

Remove a bittorent transfer when a user specified seeding ration has been reached. This also moves the transfered files to a user specified directory.
Add torrents from tvrss.net based on television series name.

More tasks can be added through a extension API.

Install

NOTE: transmission-supervisor is still under development and has some rough edges.

Meet the requirements.

A POSIX operating system, tested on Ubuntu 8.04 and FreeBSD 7.0
transmission-daemon 1.3+
Python 2.5+
Following Python modules
- transmission 0.1+
- SQLAlchemy 0.4.8+ (If TVRSSExtension is used)

Clone the repository.

1	$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/blueluna/transmission_supervisor/

Install using Python setuptools, you may have to run setup.py as super user.

1 2	$ cd transmission_supervisor $ python setup.py install

Now transmission-supervisor should be installed.

1 2	$ transmission-supervisor ...

Configure

The default path for the configuration file is /.config/transmission-supervisor/supervisor.conf. The configuration file is formatted using json and should look something like.

{
  "transmission": {
    "port": 9091,
    "download-dir": "~/downloads/torrents",
    "manage-process": true
  },
  "extensions": {
    "extensions": {
      "MoveExtension": {
        "seed-ratio": 1.0,
        "finished-dir": "~/downloads"
      },
      "LogExtension": {
        "log-level": 10
      },
      "TVRSSExtension": {
        "rss-interval": 3600.0,
        "rss-url": "http://tvrss.net/feed/unique/",
        "database": "~/.config/transmission-supervisor/tvrss.db"
      }
    },
    "dir": "~/.config/transmission-supervisor/extensions"
  },
  "supervisor": {
    "log-dir": "/tmp",
    "log-level": "warning",
    "poll-interval": 10.0
  }
}

Installing an expansion

TODO

This revision is from 2008-10-27 22:39

blueluna / transmission_supervisor

Transmission Supervisor

Install

Configure

Installing an expansion