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clinton-hall / nzbToMedia

Provides NZB and Torrent postprocessing To CouchPotatoServer, SickBeard/SickRage, HeadPhones, Mylar and Gamez
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Categories in transmission for TorrentToMedia script #189

Closed joshspry closed 10 years ago

joshspry commented 10 years ago

This isn't so much an 'issue' as a general request for advice. I acknowledge that its more a transmission issue than an issue with your script as well. Given the number of people that use it though, I'm sure I'm not alone (or that someone will have found a solution at least!)

I use the nzbtomedia script to postprocess all of my media - movies, tv shows, music, whether from nzb or from torrents (through transmission).

I have the nzbtomedia script running well for my nzbs and torrents. To have it work effectively for torrents though (and to pick up the categories), I have 3 separate instances of transmission running on my synology nas - 1 for music, 1 for tv, 1 for movies. Each of these has a category-based watch dir and a category-based downloading/seeding dir. While this works well enough, having 3 separate instances of transmission isn't exactly great when it comes to being efficient with resource demands etc, especially if they are all trying to download at once!

Has anyone had any luck feeding categories into transmission so that the TorrentToMedia script can work with just 1 instance of transmission running across all categories?

clinton-hall commented 10 years ago

TorrentToMedia certainly works with multiple categories. In the case if Transmission this comes from the download directory.

CouchPotato supports sending the download directory to Transmission, so be can at least separate the movies from the "default" blackhole directory.

the standard SickBeard only supports blackhole, but there are other branches if SickBeard that support torrents and may actually allow the setting of download directory. Not sure what HeadPhones does.

Also, there are some solutions to create blackhole subdirectories, or multiple watch folders that ran slate to multiple download directories. https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/4231

Try that link, and the associated requests linked from that page...

joshspry commented 10 years ago

Thanks Clinton - had seen the multiple watch folders fix on transmission a little while ago, but couldnt for the life of me work out how to incorporate it into the synology transmission build!

I'll have a go with the set download folders. Headphones and CP allow this, so will have CP and HP forcing download dirs and SB using blackhole.

Cheers