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:
- Set up a new iChat account; this will be used on the home machine.
- Add this account as a buddy on your normal account at work.
- Install Chax on the home machine, which will be logged into the new iChat account.
- Set Chax to autoaccept downloading of files to a certain directory -- my_torrents or whatever.
- 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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