Web gui for ctorrent - YODCTCS

[mark_q4xprt]

is there a very easy step by step guide for this?

because its hard to follow the steps here since there is no step by step guide

[midix]

Thanks, dske, for reply. I'll leave -a on then. And I will try to not disturb the torrent while it preallocates files, should be more stable, I hope.

Anyway, I 'll try to find some script which monitors running processes and starts dctcs if it is not running, that could help.

@mark_q4xprt
Actually, I miss instructions, too, but it was surprisingly easy to install and configure. I'll try to remember what I did.

At first I assume you have working USB storage attached and working on your router.
I have 3 partitions on one USB HDD. 1st partition contains a root folder /opt.
It gets mounted as /tmp/mnt/disc0_1 and I modified the post-mount script to mount it also to the very root /opt:

mount -obind /tmp/mnt/disc0_1/opt /opt

The second partition is for swap so I do not mount it.
The third gets automounted to /tmp/mnt/disc0_3 and I have a folder /data on it so I mount it again in post-mount script:

mount -obind /tmp/mnt/disc0_3/data /mnt

After that I have installed lots of stuff (experimenting with various torrent clients to find the best for me) but I hope that did not affect the dctcs installation.
I did

ipkg update
ipkg install enhanced-ctorrent

then I went here and downloaded latest "Package for Oleg firmware". I put it in /data folder (I have samba running and can access the share with

\\192.168.1.1\disc0_1$\data

from my Windows PC).
Then I did

ipkg install /mnt/data/dctcs_0.7.0-1-oleg_mipsel.ipk

and everything went ok.

Then I opened \\192.168.1.1\disc0_1$\opt\etc\dctcs.conf (you can use a free program called Notepad ++, it can load and save Unix files on Windows PC and it has also syntax highlighter, really useful program).
I was a bit confused with the meaning of the settings, especially about what port is for webUI and what is for enhanced-ctorrent, but I sorted it out so I got the following (added some comments from me, maybe dske can correct me if I misunderstood something):

#change these according to your system
torrent-directory=/mnt/data/ect/torrent/
download-directory=/mnt/data/ect

#change user name and password
user=secret
password=secret

exit-hours=168
exit-ratio=5.6
cache-size=1

# midix: this means to start enhanced-ctorrent when dctcs starts, so 
# the "Running" torrents will really be running again.
restart-torrents=1

download-limit=0

# midix: ctorrent user manual suggests to set some Upload value which 
# corresponds your bandwidth. Then ctorrent can make some additional 
# adjustments to use your bandwidth more efficiently.
upload-limit=50
#check-interval=0

# midix: this is a port of web-gui, you have to open it with iptables in 
# your post-firewall if you want to access your torrents from the Internet
port=8008

#arbitrary arguments to ctorrent
ctorrent-args=-a

#write-stats=1

# midix: the path in my system is the following by default
ctorrent=/opt/bin/enhanced-ctorrent

# midix: address for dctcs communications with ctorrent
# it is used only internally, it has nothing to do with downloading nor 
# uploading
# client-host=localhost:15000 

# midix: hmm, I have a question for this - does this mean, I can make my 
# own webGUI for yoddctcs ?
#htmlroot-directory=/usr/share/dctcs/www/darkside.ctcs.gui/

# midix: I do not have wget (but I am thinking about having it ;) )
#wget=/usr/bin/wget
#arbitrary arguments to wget
#wget-args=-c

#url to prepend in the details box
#detail-url=ftp://192.168.1.1/mnt/disc0_1/

Then I also opened \\192.168.1.1\disc0_1$\opt\etc\init.d\S90dctcs and checked if it contains:

start() {
    /opt/bin/dctcs
}

and also checked if dctcs is really located in /opt/bin.

I have also \\192.168.1.1\disc0_1$\opt\etc\init.d\rc.unslung script that starts all the other scripts in \\192.168.1.1\disc0_1$\opt\etc\init.d directory (if the name of the script starts with S). BTW, if you have installed many stuff you can disable unneeded things form starting up just by prependidng _ before the Sxxxx file name.

Then you can just do

/opt/etc/init.d/S90dctcs start

and then in your browser:
http://192.168.1.1:8008

and you should get to the login page and the just add new torrents. But I suggest you do not disturb YODCTCS some 30 secs or so - it may just quit because ctorrent may get really busy when allocating space and preparing to download.
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The next thing I will try to access the YODCTCS from my work (we are behind a proxy there but I tried to access transmission WebGUI and it worked fine).

And also it would be great to have a WebGUI that is just a php app which I can put in my SSL enabled site on lighttpd (and modify because I am kinda a programmer too but I prefer something I do not need to compile ). But I guess it would require much work because of implementing communications between ctorrent and php script. I tried php GUI Torrential but it did not work well and it does not have individual file control for torrents.

Noticed also that YODCTCS forgot my per-file settings - I set to download only some files of the torrent but now I see that those files are completed and ctorrent is downloading ALL the other files - but I did not told him to do so...

P.S.English is not my native so excuse me for some weird things I have said here

[dske]

# midix: hmm, I have a question for this - does this mean, I can make my 
# own webGUI for yoddctcs ?
#htmlroot-directory=/usr/share/dctcs/www/darkside.ctcs.gui/

if you want you can but i did not documented the interface. You can always use the source of course.

The next thing I will try to access the YODCTCS from my work (we are behind a proxy there but I tried to access transmission WebGUI and it worked fine).

yodctcs uses non standard "html" requests so if the proxy only forwards standard requests it wont work.

Noticed also that YODCTCS forgot my per-file settings - I set to download only some files of the torrent but now I see that those files are completed and ctorrent is downloading ALL the other files - but I did not told him to do so...

if ctorrent and dctcs is stoped then the per-file settings is lost (these are not stored permanently)

[mark_q4xprt]

why does it always says it fails when i try to use the http link?


all it want is to save the .torrent to my desktop and upload it

but unfortunately i encounter this problem

Downloading 0% TRACKER FAILURE REASON: Please redownload the torrent. PID system is active and pid was not found in the torrent

what seems to be the problem here?

[dske]

why does it always says it fails when i try to use the http link?

Downloading 0% TRACKER FAILURE REASON: Please redownload the torrent. PID system is active and pid was not found in the torrent

what seems to be the problem here?

which http link do you want to use for what?

pid is personal ID in this context and the problem can be caused by many reasons eg wrong tracker/torrent/download, torrent from other site...
as far as i know it can not be a dctcs issue.

[mark_q4xprt]

i see,

do you happen to know i can set it up to dyndns?

i already input my account info in the router but when i tried to acces its link it loads my modems ip

my modem ip is

192.168.1.1

my asus
192.168.0.1

my pc
192.168.0.2

in the web config i chose to expose 192.168.0.1 so i can acces the dctcs outside

[mark_q4xprt]

i also tried to simulate just incase of power failure

it seems that its stuck on checking before it was on 50% and now its back to 0%

http://acer.gotdns.com:8008/
admin:admin

[dske]

i see,

do you happen to know i can set it up to dyndns?

i already input my account info in the router but when i tried to acces its link it loads my modems ip

my modem ip is

192.168.1.1

my asus
192.168.0.1

my pc
192.168.0.2

in the web config i chose to expose 192.168.0.1 so i can acces the dctcs outside

these ip addresses are for private networks you can not use them to access the device from "outside"

host acer.gotdns.com
acer.gotdns.com has address 192.168.1.2

this is wrong you need to figure out the "public ip address"
i dont use oleg fw, but ifconfig should work:
you will see something like:

root@OpenWrt:~# ifconfig
.....
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:FC:45:27:13  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:27819194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:25154007 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3716665059 (3.4 GiB)  TX bytes:3513070839 (3.2 GiB)
          Interrupt:4 
....

eth0.1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:22:9F:FB:CD  
          inet addr:89.135.XXX.XXX  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
....

you should find something like in the above example: inet addr:89.135.XXX.XXX
and set it up with dyndns anyway on the "add new hostname" page dyndns will auto detect the ip.

[sk22]

Thanks dske for this nice software.
I've just installed the 0.7.1-1, and find out that it's really cool.

Its download rate only at about 12kb/s which is so slow comparing with a BT software in windows at 110kb/s with the same torrent.
what's the problem? i read the previous post, you guys talking about the Ctorrent. Do i need that software to improve the download speed ?
or do i need to open some port in my post-firewall.conf ?

i am using WL500W running on oleg firmware.

thanks in advance.

[dske]

Its download rate only at about 12kb/s which is so slow comparing with a BT software in windows at 110kb/s with the same torrent.
what's the problem? i read the previous post, you guys talking about the Ctorrent. Do i need that software to improve the download speed ?
or do i need to open some port in my post-firewall.conf ?

i am using WL500W running on oleg firmware.

thanks in advance.

You need enhanced-ctorrent not to improve the download speed but to have download speed. dctcs uses ctorrent to download so if the download is slow it is ctorrent. You should open ports for ctorrent default 2706 -> 2106. ctorrent does not support encrypted connections.

[roque69]

Hi.

I'm trying to get yodctcs to work on my WL600g router but I'm having a problem. After I login to it, it gives a message "Error - getWgetDownloads" and logout!

What could be the problem? I'm using the ASUS firmware for this router with some changes I've made and I have ctorrent and wget compiled for it also. Note that wget is not the one from busybox.

Thanks,
Mike

[dske]

Did you compile dctcs to your firmware?
Please run it with -v -v -v and post the log files.

Regards