Siriproxy execute a command before sending the request to Apple server

[deepesh-agarwal]

I studied all the example plugins and many more available on the internet but could not find a way to make Siriproxy execute a command before sending the request to Apple server. I am using Siriproxy on my Rpi which acts as an 24/7 download server and I need to pause any downloads before sending/receiving data from Apple server as otherwise they fail to execute because of low available bandwidth. I would like to tap into the core Siriproxy functionality where it intercepts the connection and issue command which pauses the download before proceeding further.

[elvisimprsntr]

You will need to clone and modify siriproxy code to add this functionality yourself, since it is something not really appropriate for inclusion into the master repo.

[deepesh-agarwal]

I figured that out but not where, can you pls. point me which file to look which invokes the function when data is intercepted.

[elvisimprsntr]

I wonder if changing the priority of ruby/siriproxy over your other processes would alleviate the problem. Seems like it would be more robust and installation independent.

http://ruby.11.x6.nabble.com/Fwd-Re-How-to-speed-up-ruby-and-make-it-as-fast-as-possible-td3047995.html

[elvisimprsntr]

Seems like if you run siriproxy as a daemon, you can specify the process priority.

http://man.he.net/man8/start-stop-daemon

And/Or lower the priority of your high utilization process.

[deepesh-agarwal]

You are misunderstanding this for my another thread, this one asks about where to look for the siriproxy code which sends speech packets to Apple server so I can disable other network hogging downloads for proper connection with Apple text-recognition server.

[elvisimprsntr]

No I wasn't. I'm suggesting you alter the priory of the ruby and your download process and let Linux allocate the resources appropriately.

[elvisimprsntr]

try prefixing your manual siriproxy command with nice, e.g. nice -n -20 siriproxy server

[deepesh-agarwal]

nice only works for CPU not network, see this - http://www.slashroot.in/nice-and-renice-command-usage-examples-process-priority-linux

[elvisimprsntr]

good to know. the only other suggestion I can offer to try increasing the log level to determine where in the code to do what every it is you want need to, e.g. siriproxy server -l 5

[deepesh-agarwal]

While researching this I found linux tc (http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-traffic-shaping-using-tc-to-control-http-traffic/) command which does equivalent to nice for traffic shaping. It's damn hard with very limited help available, I will still give it a try. Can you pls. tell what port and protocol (http/udp/https) SiriProxy uses to communicate with Apple servers ?

[elvisimprsntr]

Https port 443

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On Jul 21, 2013, at 2:05, deepesh-agarwal notifications@github.com wrote:

While researching this I found linux tc (http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-traffic-shaping-using-tc-to-control-http-traffic/) command which does equivalent to nice for traffic shaping. It's damn hard with very limited help available, I will still give it a try. Can you pls. tell what port and protocol (http/udp/https) SiriProxy uses to communicate with Apple servers ?

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