Start torrent downloads remotely

Jan 03, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: romahony

I work where I can surf the web but not download stuff. I was going to set up TorrentFlux, which is an app to remotely control a machine to download torrents (my home machine), but it then dawned on me to use iChat and Azureus:

  1. Set up a new iChat account; this will be used on the home machine.
  2. Add this account as a buddy on your normal account at work.
  3. Install Chax on the home machine, which will be logged into the new iChat account.
  4. Set Chax to autoaccept downloading of files to a certain directory -- my_torrents or whatever.
  5. Now set up Azureus in Advanced mode to scan that directory every minute, and to start and download to a default directory.
Now when you are at work or elsewhere, when you iChat a file to the home iChat account, iChat will download it automatically, and less than a minute later, Azureus will start to download it. This is very handy.

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