[Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

Hi Guys,

My N900 died recently and I am really missing QTRapids. I now have an N9 and the only thing it is really missing is a decent torrent app. I have downloaded Meetor for the N9, but it doesn't connect to most trackers.

I am offering a $1000 bounty to anyone that can port QTrapids or Transmission from Meamo 5 to the N9. Anyone else who feels they want to contribute, please feel free to do so. I am really hoping that someone will take this up. Thanks.

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

Woah! $1000!! That's awesome! So QTrapids is made with Qt right?? So in theory, it could be ported easily to N9?

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Hopefully.. yes!

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I will donate an extra $100 as well. Even transmission on the N900 did the job.

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

This is cool but it's not really a one man job, and I think we should set some rules about what qualifies.
I suggest it should be open source and have a user interface that is at least somewhat customized for an n9 meaning not requiring a keyboard or stylus.

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I don't think porting QtRapids should be too much of a problem, I spent the past couple of hours fiddling around and have it running with the standard QT interface on an N9:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...3_05-41-56.png

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-R...2/12080002.jpg

The next step would of course be to make the UI touch friendly. I've noticed that there is a QML implementation in the source tree, I haven't looked in to how complete this is yet though.

However considering how much of the work is already done by QtRapids and libtorrent, it wouldn't really seem reasonable to accept such a large bounty for it unless it was split up so that the original author of QtRapids and perhaps the libtorrent project got a share.

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Just had a play around with the QML implementation and that seems very basic and unfinished at the moment, so I'm not sure whether it'd be best to finish that or modify the QT widgets interface to use MTF instead, I'll have a play around with both approaches and see where it gets me.

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I think that is a good idea. I guess the idea of the large bounty was to gather interest in the project. I am more than happy to split the bounty in whatever way the person who can provide a working .deb file feels is appropriate. I think if it is QTRapids that is ported, then some money to should to the orginal author.

In terms of what qualifies, the original QTRapids on the N900 didn't need a keyboard to use, and could connect and download torrents from most torrent site trackers with no issue. I'm assuming that if it is ported to the n9, then this would remain the case. The N900 had issues if saving the torrent files or downloaded file to the internal memory, but worked fine if it were saved to the MicroSD card, obviously the N9 version would need to be able to save to the internal memory (with ability to configure what directory to save the files to) without crashing the phone.

Looking at your screenshot above, it looks like you are most of the way there already!

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Since we are talking libtorrent: To be honest the best and only sound option here would be to port rtorrent to harmattan. The project is very well documented and the whole source is available. That's pretty much the most decent client out there (and it can be extremely efficient) which is surprisingly easy to handle from command line and very scripting/plugin friendly.

There's really no use to develop or rewrite a 'native' torrent client from meamo. No private tracker will white list it anyway. And transmission? Transmission tend to be inefficient and too often in the past its version caused problems.

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

rtorrent + web ui = win
I'm sure it's like 1/10 the work of making a UI from scratch, anyways.

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

tastes differ, there are few Qt clients/daemon that are opensource.

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whoever will make it please put a time scheduler in it

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

*Bump*.. Any progress?

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anyone test bittornado from shared repo ?

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I've installed it, but have no idea how to use it.. I'm assuming its command line only?. I can't see a GUI.

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

I'm using aria2c (download here). Yeah, it's terminal only app but is very simple to use and works with all the trackers i know. Besides, it supports partial torrent download (only selected files).

Man, faq and everything else can be found here: http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ .

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

Transmission,
Lightweight, GTK, BitTorrent client.
http://my-maemo.com/software/applica...uto=998&faq=37
comment 2012 :
This would be 100% except that in 2012 Pirate Bay and other sites are eliminating .torrent files for magnet links, there are also updates in peer exchange and encryption that get around ISB blocks. Brilliant execution just needs an update to the latest version to be useful. [...]

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

Bittornado-gui needs python-wxgtk2.6. Where can I find it?

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

The OP clearly stated in his first post he wants for the n9 not the n900...

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

I double checked bitornado is working on harmattan, check log :

I will try to update more stuff at :

http://rzr.online.fr/q/download

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Transmission can run as daemon only (than client is needed) and it's well has Qt GUI =)
Btw GTK can run N9 as well =)

so all we need to port it

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

www.qbittorrent.org/
It's very nice and it runs quite easy, but need the UI.. :(

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

Wait, the bounty is for Transmission on the N9. Or will a daemon with access via the browser work?

Because I use uTorrent just fine, and I suspect transmission-daemon with the browser for dropping magnet links would work just fine.

Please clarify.

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

bounty is for a working torrent client for N9, with all basic functionality and touch-friendly GUI.

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

Let the OP answer.

Will a interfacing with the server via browser be acceptable? If so, rTorrent or Transmission-daemon would suffice. I'm sure, I, or somebody else, can have that up and running fairly quickly. Bounty or not.

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I have also included myself to help pay the bounty. I was happy with transmission on my old N900. Getting that to work on the N9or the other suggestion of Qtrapids would suffice. Hope this helps

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I've managed to implement enough of the QML UI for QtRapids to make the most basic functionality usable:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F...8_05-27-32.png

Still a fair amount to do before it's really complete though.

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Looks great... is there a beta available to try?

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Not yet, I have one last issue with getting the server component to shut down along with the GUI that I want to fix before I put anything out for others to play with, otherwise it could be downloading/uploading stuff in the background without them realising.

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Yeah the n900 version had that issue too.. I used to work around it by telling the server to stop from the options menu and then closing the app.

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

I've just published a first version of my app for the Coding Contest, feedback is welcome. Transmission Remote Control (with a local transmission-daemon for the n9).

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1255042

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

Run rtorrent on home/remote server. Use rtGui web interface in MicroB. Works perfect :)

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I'm very interested, if OP and second person latter (who offered additional 100$) fulfilled promise, and donated money for winner...

It seems that Elleo did exactly, what was requested.

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

ive just been using transmission via easy debian, works like a charm but to start a torrent you do need to click on the little lever picture and select move to pull the page up, but only takes a second

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It seems that both remote transmission and Qt rapids are still in testing? I can't find a link to try Qt rapids, and remote transmission can be tested although the dev said that upstream is still in need of tweaking. Any one of the two devs involved want to give me something more complete to try out? If both are successful I will make sure both are compensated and pay out a little more.. Thanks to anyone who is putting in the effort :)

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Just wondering if there had been any update?

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Sorry, I've been a little busy with other projects; I'll fix the last main bug in QtRapids soon (currently there are issues updating display information for multiple torrents at the same time) and upload something for people to play with.

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Thanks Man, really appriciate your work!.

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So does munozferna (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1255042) or Elleo get bounty or it was only talk?

Re: [Bounty] Decent Torrent App for Harmattan
 

Please test the new version of Transmission Remote!

The transmission-daemon is included and I also include the webui, which can be easily started/stopped from the Transmission Remote menu.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1255042

Feedback is welcome!