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tgrossner
October 22nd, 2008, 10:33 PM
It just says "Error! connecting to download server". As near as i can tell rTorrent is not on my system, so that sort of makes sense. The question is: how best to get it working?

Tim
dudebrah
October 22nd, 2008, 10:39 PM
I second this error (though on AppleTV)
Lennert
October 23rd, 2008, 06:50 AM
I third this (Mac Mini + latest boxee version)

Also adding torrent feeds from TVRSS.net does not work through My RSS.

Thanks for all the great work!
timwoolsey
October 23rd, 2008, 11:10 AM
I third this (Mac Mini + latest boxee version)

Also adding torrent feeds from TVRSS.net does not work through My RSS.

Thanks for all the great work!
take the tvrss feed and shorten it with tinyurl. then it will work. see here: http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=906
Lennert
October 23rd, 2008, 04:35 PM
OK, thanks.

Still have the same rtorrent problem as mentioned in FP.
Lennert
October 23rd, 2008, 04:41 PM
By the way is there anyway to give a name to RSS feeds other than what the feed itself specifies?
Aashay
October 23rd, 2008, 10:48 PM
Bump to confirm that I too am having this issue with RTorrent. Just installed Boxee on an uberfresh Ubuntu install (Hardy Heron).
dudebrah
November 8th, 2008, 03:32 PM
bump. rtorrent still not working!
agentlame
November 8th, 2008, 03:57 PM
bump. rtorrent still not working!

there has not been any new releases after this post was made.
cuidado
November 11th, 2008, 03:50 PM
there has not been any new releases after this post was made.

I get the same error, when i first install it (clean settings) it works, but after some reboots, usage etc it doesnt any longer.

I then again remove settings and it works for a little while, then i get the error.

Latest version of Boxee and Leopard on a MacBook Pro.
simon
November 15th, 2008, 05:43 AM
I thought I had the same problem, but it turns out I was just to eager to look at the Downloads in boxee..

First:
Check that you have enabled Rtorrent to start on Boxee-launch.
Settings -> System -> Boxee -> Run RTorrent client when boxee starts

Second:
Reboot / Restart Boxee
I prefer rebooting since there is the boxee-launcher process running.

Third:
Start boxee.
Open a Terminal (or ssh from another machine) and type: screen -ls
If the rtorrentclient is running sucr

You should see the following:



There is a screen on:
145.rtorrentboxee (Detached)
1 Socket in /tmp/uscreens/S-simon.


Add a torrent to the watch-folder (/Users/simon/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/Torrents) and wait for a while, it takes some time for RTorrent to allocate the discspace and start downloading, but once it's done that, you can watch the download progress from within Boxee.

I hope that you all understand that my username is "simon", and that you should replace "simon" with your username =)

I was too eager to watch the progress of RTorrent, befor it have had time to allocate discspace and so on, which made Boxee Hang on the Downloads-page, the only way to get out of Boxee was to kill the Boxee-process.