Scheduler

[mpatrick]

Hi,

I am a Newbie to Linux (windows poweruser for many many years)

Just started using Deluge for torrents, which is great, after being used to Utorrent in windows.

However one thing I would like to get working is a scheduler to automatically stop any downloads at 6pm and restart at 11pm (peak times for my ISP)
So I found the following link and followed that
http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/UserGuide/Scheduling

I followed the article to the letter using Gnome Schedule 2.1.0, ie

Disable all downloads
deluge -u console -a "config --set max_active_limit 0"
Enable again
deluge -u console -a "config --set max_active_limit 100"

However from testing this nothing happened, the downloads continued and never stopped or started no matter which times I tested (tried it a few times)
I even tried it with the suppress output as in the article and default behaviour, but still nothing worked.

So does anyone have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong, or maybe another way of doing this? Shame they do not offer a plugin in Deluge to do this.

So at the moment I am using Ktorrent, which has a scheduler plugin that works and does the job I want. However I do not like the look of Ktorrent compared to Deluge and does not seem to offer as many seeds as Deluge for same torrent. Also a lot of people comment that Ktorrent sometimes freezes there machines although I have not experienced that.

I wonder if it is anything to do with the latest version of Deluge I am using 1.1.9 as the article states for Deluge 1.1 only?

I am using Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10

Any help would be most appreciated

Regards

Michael

[loki]

If you would consider using the current 1.2 release it comes with a scheduler plugin that does this very thing. I assume it does work... I don't use scheduler myself though.

[ner0tic]

I use teh scheduler plugin for 1.2.x and it works like a charm.

[Kaanura]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the scheduler happening on my headless server but the deluge webgui isn't showing any scheduler options in the preferences window, and there are no plugins are showing up in the plugins section.

Running 1.2.0 rc5

Any thoughts?

[H3g3m0n]

I had a look at the 1.2rc5 scheduler plugin. Unfortunately its mostly useless. It doesn't give much control, its either green, red or yellow (throttled).

I'm in Australia which will be one of the main places its used. Theres no options for choosing if you want seeding or not (although maybe the yellow setting with -1 would work), many ISPs don't count uploads as bandwidth but some do. The scheduler is in blocks of 1 hour. My ISP has 3:30-8:30 as off peak for many of its better plans (mine is 4-9 but I will be changing at some point).

I have been using cron with some manual scripts. I had to modify them for 1.2. It's a bit of a shotgun system. The scripts will fire every 5 min. This ensure that if the daemon isn't running when the change over occurs it will get hit again by another script in 5 min.

crontab -e

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# m h  dom mon dow   command
*/5 04-09 * * * /home/hegemon/bin/start-torrents >/dev/null 2>&1
*/5 09-23,01-03 * * * /home/hegemon/bin/stop-torrents >/dev/null 2>&1

My scripts look something like this:
~/bin/start-torrents

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#!/bin/sh
killall -9 deluge-console
killall -9 deluge-console
killall -9 deluge-console
killall -9 deluge-console
killall -9 deluge-console
killall -9 deluge-console
deluge-console "config --set max_active_limit 2" &
/home/hegemon/bin/deseed-torrents &

The kill statements are because deluge-console seems to lockup sometimes and I was flooding the system with them. For stop-torrents change the 2 to a 0. You probably won't to drop the deseed-torrents line too. Remember to change username.

The following is the deseed-torrents script. I have some really dodge problems with my connection making seeding effectively kill my download speed (and sometimes the connection starts to drop out) so I don't seed while downloading. Normally I just reactivate them manually in the morning but it might be possible to write something to reseed based on whatever priority.

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#!/bin/zsh
SEEDING=`deluge-console "info" | grep "State:\ Seeding" -B 1 | grep "ID" | cut -f2 -d\ `
echo $SEEDING | while read ID; do
	echo "Pausing: $ID";
	deluge-console  "pause $ID"
done