Thread: autodl-irssi and Waffles?

Hi,

I just got into waffles, but I am finding that by the time I get to downloading a torrent there are already a couple of people who beat me to it. I have autodl-irssi installed on my seedbox by the provider, but I have never used IRC and am pretty new with my seedbox too. I was looking through the options and tried adding it to the trackers menu using the instructions but no dice.

Has anyone gotten this set up before, and if so are there any tips that you could give me? I'm finding it all pretty confusing at the moment

Thanks.

a trick to build an excellent ratio in waffles is to upload new torrents or to wait for freelech.

Ya I'm getting around to the uploading part. I want to make sure I read how to do the rips so I can do it perfectly with no problems. But I am doing pretty good so far with grabbing the newest torrents and seeding them. I just want to be able to get there faster ;)

Waffles don't have announce channel so you can't use autodl. The best you can do is to use RSS and set the update interval at 1 minute.

The best advice was to upload new content or take full advantage of freeleech periods.

You can easily buffer hundreds of GB with a seedbox during freeleech. And you will always get at least one or two downloads of anything that you upload. It is trivial to build ratio in these two situations at waffles. But there isn't a lot of middle ground. This is a tracker that is moderately difficult to build ratio on by simply guessing which torrents will be popular. It would be easier with an announce channel, of course. But there have been three freeleeches, I think in the last three months.. so just be prepared when the next one rolls around.

Thanks Freeman_ and copper! I just missed the last freeleech, but I'll be on the lookout for the next one. I have a 2:1 ratio by just grabbing all the newest torrents that are < 500 MB and parking them on my seedbox. I am going to try and find some obscure CDs and upload them. Thanks again for the answers!

if you don't want to wait for freeleech then you can use RSS and set it for 1 -2 minutes, then you will get new torrent (when a new torrent uploaded) for upload and build a good ratio there

I was thinking of that, But I didn't want to get burned by grabbing some large file. In my rss, I can't see the size of the torrents. I don't know if that's normal or not.

Originally Posted by bogbog

if you don't want to wait for freeleech then you can use RSS and set it for 1 -2 minutes, then you will get new torrent (when a new torrent uploaded) for upload and build a good ratio there

In that case you can combine it with rtcontrol (you will need SSH access though) and you will have some pretty awesome results. Been there, done that ;)

You can set rtcontrol to stop all torrents bigger than X size so even if RSS starts downloading a huge torrent, rtcontrol will stop it. For example, you can add this line in crontab and run it every minute:

Code:

rtcontrol is_complete=no is_open=yes size=+500m --stop

In this example, your RSS will start downloading all new torrents but rtcontrol will run every minute and stop all those which are above 500 MB so that you don't screw your ratio with huge torrents :)

For more info, have a look here: RtControlExamples - pyroscope - Real-world use-cases for rtcontrol. - Python Torrent Tools - Google Project Hosting