rTorrent

[thelaughingman]

I love that there is a build of rTorrent that ships with Boxee and that I can view transfer status in the GUI. It's a great client and this will get it more users. However, I already run my own build of rTorrent running, and if I try to reattach to my screen session after Boxee opens I have to specify my session because Boxee opens a new one for it's rTorrent. Could you possibly change it so that Boxee optionally opens an rTorrent screen, or possibly check to see if there is a pid for an existing rTorrent process and if so, do not open a new screen and Boxee rTorrent?

I already have my rTorrent setup with XMLRPC, so it is picked up fine by the Boxee GUI.

Thanks.

[tsella]

i've added a request to allow disabling rTorrent in boxee.

for now you can kill the boxee rTorrent, or map it to a different port.

[vulkan]

actually you can try the following (should work but untested):

edit the file : "~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/guisettings.xml"
look for the line which says: <runrtorrent>true</runrtorrent>
and change "true" to "false".

we'll of course expose this settings in ui in comming versions.

let me know if it works.
-vulkan.

[thelaughingman]

actually you can try the following (should work but untested):

edit the file : "~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/guisettings.xml"
look for the line which says: <runrtorrent>true</runrtorrent>
and change "true" to "false".

we'll of course expose this settings in ui in comming versions.

let me know if it works.
-vulkan.

That does work vulkan, thanks for the tip.

[HazyBlueDot]

I am currious about getting my existing rtorrent session to display in the boxee GUI. I just recompiled rtorrent with ./configure --with-xmprpc-c and started it up again in a screen session but Boxee reports "error connecting to download server" when I go to "Downloads"

Ideas?

[vulkan]

you need to have it listen on port 5000 (bad port... may change in future versions) for xml-rpc commands.

rtorrent.rc should have something like:
scgi_port = localhost:5000


-vulkan