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How to schedule torrents on a Web only transmission?

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:15 am
by aussiebuddha
Hi all.
I have transmission installed on my DNS-323 Nas device which i can only access thru telnet or clutch web interface.
How can I configure transmission so it can put on hold my downloads until i'm on off peak time?

thanks

Re: How to schedule torrents on a Web only transmission?

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:17 pm
by rb07
Do you have cron installed?

If you do, then its as easy as adding a couple of cron entries... I use these to limit network traffic during the day and open things up at night:

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30 22 * * 1-5   transmission-remote -n adm-usr:adm-password --downlimit 250 --uplimit 25 >/dev/null
30 07 * * 1-5   transmission-remote -n adm-usr:adm-password --downlimit 50  --uplimit 10 >/dev/null
I have different entries for the weekend but you get the idea, the 1-5 means Monday through Friday.

Also the
-n user:pass
parameter is only needed if you enabled authentication, otherwise just delete it.

Re: How to schedule torrents on a Web only transmission?

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:10 pm
by aussiebuddha
that's a nice workaround. thanks for that.
Are there any plans to include this feature in clutch eventually?

Re: How to schedule torrents on a Web only transmission?

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:29 pm
by Jordan
The eventual goal would be to reach complete feature parity between the web Ui and the other clients.

Development on the web ui is going slowly right now because its developer is currently awol... :(

Re: How to schedule torrents on a Web only transmission?

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:31 am
by aussiebuddha
Thanks, I wish i could help, but no idea how that's done.

How about entering settings manually in the settings.json? would this work?
I tried it myself and it didn't work, so i was wondering whether it was a type or just not possible at all.

Re: How to schedule torrents on a Web only transmission?

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:49 am
by monkeylove
Thanks. I will try to figure out how cron works.

Re: How to schedule torrents on a Web only transmission?

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:00 pm
by rb07
monkeylove:
You're looking at a very old thread, Transmission has now an optional schedule to change speeds.

In the Web interface (a.k.a. Web client) open the Preferences (the little wrench icon), go to Speed tab, and set the alternative speeds, then enable the schedule, etc.

Re: How to schedule torrents on a Web only transmission?

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:12 pm
by monkeylove
I didn't notice that. Thanks!