I and others have been trying to get Torrentocracy to work with the Knoppmyth distribution. It does not appear that there are any confirmed cases of it working with any of the recent Knoppmyth releases. From the lack of responses in this forum it seems that no one who has the skills or knowledge is interested in getting this to work (I wish I was able to).

Is there any other method of initiating torrent downloads through the MythTV front end? What are other poeple using to read RSS feeds and select the torrents they want interactively using just the remote and TV?

I looked to Torrentoracy in R5A16 and had it partially working but recall issues with adding RSS feeds. I soon upgraded to R5A26 etc and never tried it again.

I think you may want to research a lttle deeper to get it working with current the Knoppmyth version.

Some of my observations/suggestions

Contact the author or post on the Torrentoracy page WIKI.

http://torrentocracy.com

This older WIKI howto mentions having to upgrade from Myth .17 to CVS so torrentoracy will compile. Myth is currently version 0.18.1 is the InitCon funtion still present or do you have to compile MythTV from SVN ? (CVS no longer used)

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... cracyHowto

This is new howto on compiling MythTV from SVN

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... hTVFromSVN

I had gotten Azureus to work with R5A22 and R5A26 that supports RSS with a plugin, but haven't messed with controlling via Lirc .

Thanks for getting back to me. I have already contacted the original developer Gary Lerhaupt, and his reply:

"It hasn't been developed in quite some time. The myth guys didnt seem
too keen on having anything torrent associated with their software.

Gary"

I guess he wasn't getting any good vibes from the MythTV community and gave it up (it looks like he is really busy anyways).

I got Torrentocracy to compile and install and the menus come up with R5A26, but it sounds like I am having the same problem that you had with R5A16. I can navigate the feed menu (in the setup) but I can't actually select the feeds.

I have very little linux skills so your other tips don't mean much to me at this point. I'll check out those links and see if I can figure out what you mean by CVS and SVN (I know they are code/version/change control systems but I don't know what their differences are). And I have no clue what the InitCon function is or if it is present in 0.18.1. I have not had to compile MythTV at all since I am using the KnoppMyth distribution. Why would I need to compile MythTV? I did follow the directions on the How To and I have read the forum posts on the subject and I thought I was doing it right since I didn't get any error messages.

I did look at the CVS tree for Torrentocracy and it looks like the toggle function (for selecting feeds) makes a call to the database. It also looks like the only thing that gets put in the database is the selected feed information. Well I looked at my MySQL in mythconverge database (the only databse in there besides a test one and the mysql database) and I could not find any tables in it that seem to be related to Torrentocracy. It looks like Torrentocracy is unable to alter the database successfully.

I tried installing Azureus but it tells me that my Java isn't up to date and when it tries to update the Azureus core it can't complete the update. I just really liked the idea of being able to do everything with the remote (after initial setup of course). Thanks for the tips and encouragement. You can be sure that if I ever get it working I will share my results with the rest of the community and update the How To. Any other tips or information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks . .

Hey how do you integrate azureus with mythfrontend???

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My knoppmyth system:
P-III 850 MHz
256 Mb RAM
Hauppauge PVR-350 connected to tv via tv-out
Hauppauge PVR-150 in another PCI slot
using ivtv version 0.8.2 in Knoppmyth R5E50
PVR is both frontend and backend

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I too had problems with it trying to update so I turned off the automatic update pluging in Options (didn't feel like attempting to update java)

Also used Plugin>Installation Wizard to install RSS feed plugin.

OK, but what is the best way to config lircrc so that Imay navigate azureus with the remote? I already have it set up for my hauppauge silver remote.

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My knoppmyth system:
P-III 850 MHz
256 Mb RAM
Hauppauge PVR-350 connected to tv via tv-out
Hauppauge PVR-150 in another PCI slot
using ivtv version 0.8.2 in Knoppmyth R5E50
PVR is both frontend and backend

Ok, I have gotten an OK bittorrent solution worked out:

I uninstalled JRE 1.4
Installed JRE 1.5 (from an unofficial Debian package)
Installed Azureus 2.3 (from an unstable/testing Debian package)
run Azureus which succussfully installed the updater update (or something like that)
using Azureus plugin installastion wizard download and install the Swing Web interface (command found under the Plugins menu)

Now I can easily control and configure Azureus from a web interface remotely. Azureus 2.3 is much better than the stable package.

When I make a buttton to start Azureus from the Myth frontend as described in an above post I lose infrared remote control of MythTV until I exit Azureus.

I still wish torrentocracy worked as a TV interface with IR remote would be the ultimate solution. Hopefully I can figure out why it doesn't work it looks like it is not talking to the database correctly. Could anybody who has Torrentocracy running properly post what the torrentocracy database entries look like? I was hoping to try to enter the data in manually to see if any of torrentocracy works (since the setup doesn't).


Later. .

I use Vnc to contol it via my laptop.
I would guess, irxevent commands in lircrc file as that is the method I used for other X applications I call from MythTV menus. But Azureus really isn't keyboard only friendly it requires mouse as far as I can tell. At minimum I would work to create a lirc command that call the shortcut key combo that exits azures.

I wish I had more time to learn coding, I would like to be able to look into and understand the existing torrentaracy code to figure out what is wrong.

I have R5A30.1, fresh install, and trying to install Azureus. After I run apt-get update and then try and run apt-get install azurues it yells at me about some dependencies and suggests I run apt-get -f install so I do and then it breaks with an error

this is the same with anything I put with apt-get, things that used to work with R5A22. Remember I did a fresh install not an upgrade

I run Azureus 2.x in headless mode ( no GUI ) and access Azureus via WebUI plugin. Good if you run MythTV 24/7. You can get Azureus to automatically start on bootup in case of power failure using a startscript. Headless mode uses at least 50% less memory and CPU. WebUI has more functionality than Swing. Azureus can still be run in GUI mode via VNC to do configuration and updates.

To setup Azureus headless mode and startscript look here...

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/He ... ngUIAtBoot

WebUI plugin available here or use Azureus plugin installer...

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_d ... zhtmlwebui