Torrent

Software
#1

In this thread @Baggypants tells how he has created a torrent file for the Zynthian image. Yay and kudos. It got me thinking… what if the Zynthian itself were able to act as a torrent client when idle? Several of us have Zynthians left permanently powered. We could install a command line client, e.g. transmission-cli, seeded with the image which could be disabled whenever the Zynthian is being used and enabled after a period of inactivity. I know there may be some who would have concerns so it may be best as an opt-in option. The seed file could be updated via Zynthian update method when a new stable version becomes available.

The large, slow and historically unstable download of the full image had been an issue for a while. This may help with that.

I would also like to see a smaller image available with ability to grab extra bonus goodies via update so that we can get a basic Zynthian running more quickly but appreciate that has not been considered viable in the past.

[Edit] Actually, transmission-daemon may be a better option. It could be started and stopped by Zynthian software based on rules like I suggest above.

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#2

It seems OK to me. It would be a nice add-on for zynthian,

I’m working on an automated torrent generator that would generate torrent files for green builds. These torrents would be fed to a permanent node so we always have at least, 1 seed.

Regards,

#3

Didn’t quite tqke the 45 days initially estimated estimated@4kb/s to download :> I will keep it up.on my permanently on desktop. Might be good to include a bit more description of which version is being torrented in the torrent file in order to be able to identify which build it corresponds to on the wiki/github.

#4

It’s being hosted on my home connection currently. I’m sure more seeds will improve it. I’ve set going another leecher on a cloud instance I have access to.

#5

Hi @Baggypants!

I’m using mktorrent for generating torrent files but the torrents don’t seems to work:

https://os.zynthian.org/torrent/2020-09-05-zynthianos-buster-lite-armhf-1.0.0-RC3.zip.torrent

The command used for generating the torrent file is:

mktorrent -a udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce -a udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce -a udp://tracker.uw0.xyz:6969/announce -a udp://tracker.kamigami.org:2710/announce -a http://tracker.gbitt.info:80/announce -a https://tracker.nanoha.org:443/announce -a udp://valakas.rollo.dnsabr.com:2710/announce $1

where $1 is the zip SD image file.

The command generates a valid torrent that i’ve loaded without problem on 2 clients:

  • rtorrent, with a full copy of the zip file, that runs on a cloud VM
  • transmission, for downloading, that runs on my desktop

It’s been running from yesterday, about 22 hours, but still no peers have been found and 0 bytes have been downloaded. The torrent seems dead.

Could you help me with this? I’m quite new to “torrent creation” … :wink:

Thanks!

#6

I used the transmission gui to create the torrent with the announce server udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337

I’ve loaded your torrent and it’s showing 3 peers.

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#7

It’s downloading?

#8

Um, No.

#9

And now? :wink:

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#10

Hi, I’ll try to download.

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#11

Slurped down the whole thing and seeding.

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#12

Should we add torrent details to the download page / wiki? I have tried to download the full image today and it has failed a few times. I am not using torrent which is downloading from three peers. Of course torrent is only available whilst there are peers but if a peer can run permanently on the main Zynthian server that would be good.

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#13

Zynthian servers are running a torrent node all the time, so you always should have one peer at less.

I will add the torrent download option to the web and wiki :wink:

Thanks!

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#14

I have a peer running still too.

#15

Yep! There were 4 peers running including mine but that is on a netbook which is now stopped. Ironically I used torrent because my direct download failed several times. The direct download then completed before the torrent and I then found I already had a copy downloaded :blush:.