Bittorrent: Anywhere to Your Home

Posted on 12.13.05. Tagged with bittorrent, trillian, howto, All

When I'm away from my home PC (like at work, or traveling) I come across torrent files I would like to download at home. Sometimes, I usually just bookmark them and wait until I get home. But no longer my friends. This is the wave of the future. Why not have them complete by the time you get home!

What You Get

The ability to IM your home screenname with password "http://blah.com/house.torrent" and start automatically downloading a torrent

What you need

Running Windows. (I haven't found a suitable plugin for Adium to allow similar functionality)
Trillian Pro (the Basic, free version, doesn't support plugins). If you are on Windows and don't use Trillian, you should go buy it anyway. It is the best chat client available for PC users.
Trillian Pro Plugin: Trigger (Installed)
A Bittorrent client. (I use the easy, simple and free BitTornado)

Setting It Up

Open Trillian Preferences, Click on Plugins, and Click "Change" on the Trigger Plugin (screenshot)
In the Trigger box, type in a password, select incoming_privateMessage and click Add. The password is what you will prefex all torrent commands with so not anyone can send you commands (makes it a bit more secure). (screenshot)
Go back to Main Trillian Preferences, and click Advanced Prefrences, then Automation (screenshot)
Click Add and fill in the box like the screenshot. Use the "Browse" button to navigate to your copy of Internet Explorer (or FF). Click "Set Event" and close all Trillian Preferences
You also must have your browser set to automatically open torrent files. Either just download a file and uncheck the 'always confirm box' or reverse this

Making It Work

Now just instant message your home screen name (from any other screenname) with: password "http://blah.com/house.torrent" and you will have that torrent downloaded by the time you get home. Note: If it is a member only site where you have to login, you'll need to be logged in through your web browser at home for the torrent file to work.

7 Comments

MrMunson
03:12 PM on 12.13.05

Have you tried TorrentFlux? Just recently discovered it on source forge.net (ref: http://www.torrentflux.com/ ). Solved my problems right away! ;)

Timen
03:39 PM on 12.13.05

Mac solutions?

Taylor
04:49 PM on 12.13.05
The Author

MrMunson: Cool! I recall seeing that and forgot about it. That does require setting your machine up as a server with mySQL and Apache. This is a slightly easier, though admittedly basic, way. I might look into setting up TorrentFlux on my extra machine though, so thx again.

Timen: Good question. I browsed through some adium plugins to look for similar functionality but couldn't find something that supported recieving commands from external screennames. I will keep my eyes open though.

crashbg
04:22 PM on 01.23.06

I have tried various methods and still the best for me is log in via ssh and start the download manually but i use only gnu/linux for all of my pc's :)

Nunswithguns
10:41 PM on 03.22.06

Hey, i saw you posted about an Indietorrents invite? If you could email me man, id really like to see what i can do to hook up and indietorrent invite. I have really obsucre musical tastes and its nearly impossible to find music to listen to for myself. Either way, email me. Peace

Nipmock
03:45 PM on 04.21.06

You wouldn't still have an IndieTorrent invite, would you? I'd LOVE to get my hands on one. If you could help me out I would be so so greatful

Nipmock
03:46 PM on 04.21.06

nipmock@yahoo.com if you're feeling super generous? :)

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