Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

[Evilpaul]

SABnzbd?

 

[elrasho]

Woke up and all torrents were 0kbps download. Had to unmount and remount the USB becasue for some reason it had become rad only!?

 

[Evilpaul]

If your USB storage is formatted as EXT2/3/4 then the default on file system errors is to remount the device as read-only to prevent further data corruption (can be changed in /etc/mounts). You'd need to check the system logs to find out exactly what happened.

 

[elrasho]

I see mt download speeds fluctuate a lot, at one point it went from 800kbps to 0kbps adn startd climbing up again slowly. Could it be my V5 1amp charger isn't giving enough juice to the Pi and 16MB Cruzer flash drive?

 

[C.R.A.Z.Y]

I see mt download speeds fluctuate a lot, at one point it went from 800kbps to 0kbps adn startd climbing up again slowly. Could it be my V5 1amp charger isn't giving enough juice to the Pi and 16MB Cruzer flash drive?

Very unlikely, if your PSU cannot supply enough current the 5V simply drops below spec and will cause the Pi/computer to crash.

 

[elrasho]

I'm gonna try Qbittorrent instead, it has the same features as Deluge

 

[chippy08]

I'm gonna try Qbittorrent instead, it has the same features as Deluge

Which guide did you follow to get the raspberry pi to be a torrent device ?

 

[elrasho]

Which guide did you follow to get the raspberry pi to be a torrent device ?

Started again and instead used this guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUgQEKxjNU

and this for VNC: http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-lesson-7-remote-control-with-vnc/installing-vnc

Works perfectly Just need a mains powered usb hub as the Pi doesn't have enough power to see my Freecom 500GB USB Hard drive

Instead of Deluge I'm using QBittorrent as a Headless server: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/Running-qBittorrent-without-X-server

This means I can browse to my rotuer's IP addres followed by the Port number for QTorrent and I get a web page where I can add my torrents

 

[elrasho]

QBittorrent is doing it again, torrents slowing down to a snails pace at 10kbits. What could be causing this?

 

[Evilpaul]

Your ISP?

 

[elrasho]

Virgin, I know they throttle torrent traffic but that's only at peak times. Also I use Utorrent on my main rig and manged to bypass Virgins throttling so I know it's not my ISP.

 

[uncle_rufus]

Still struggling with my Pi and raspbmc... Get some occasional pausing during playback (of regular SD/720p content) where the video freezes up; if I leave it a few seconds it sometimes will resume on it's own but quickly go super-speed for a second, and will then sometimes be out of sync with the audio... If I have the remote to hand and quickly hit the "rewind" button just after it freezes to go back 30 seconds and then hit the "forward" button to go back to where it was, (or if I stop the episode and resume it again from the same place) its usually fine...

My NAS/server has been experiencing the annoying Ubuntu bug with one of the "kworker" threads which is hogging its CPU (even when idle) so I'm hoping that perhaps it's not the Pi at all but the server struggling to serve the files under the load (could this be the case?)... Once I get my new microserver up and running to replace it I'll see if that stops it happening

However that doesn't explain the also occasional times when raspbmc boots up and just has no network interface... I might try and see if I can do a NFS install of raspbmc so that at least when the Pi screws up I don't have to restore a backup of the .xbmc folder to get things going again, but other than that I'm still unsure how to diagnose what the problem is. I can't SSH into the Pi when it loses its network interface (obviously) and if I plug in a keyboard and exit XBMC to get at the command line the incorrect overscan in the terminal on my TV means I can't see what I'm typing!!! Anybody got any ideas?

 

[elrasho]

I give up, the Pi is an overhyped PoS. Tried 3 different torrent clients all randomly stop downloading or download at slow speeds. My main rig is fine so it has to be the Pi.

 

[KIA]

Have you tried rTorrent headless? How fast is your connection?

 

[Evilpaul]

or Transmission. I use my RPi as a media player rather than a server, but my HP microserver (and the Qnap NAS before that) run Transmission without any issue.


edit: Also, are you limiting your upload speed? If your upload gets too high then your download speed will drop to practically nothing.

 

[uncle_rufus]

And one more thing, are you sure none of your other PCs or whatever aren't saturating your connection? I've had some weird download speeds when torrenting before only to find that one of my other machines has had it's Steam start downloading an update for a game and hogging all my bandwidth doing so...

 

[elrasho]

Only my Pi is running in the house, even at office hours it's really slow. Not tried rTorrent will give it a go, not keeping my hopes up.

My upload limited to 20kbits, I'm on a 20Meg Virgin connection. Downloading from news groups is very fast, just torrents on my Pi are slow.

 

[kalvindeane]

Possibly a hardware fault?

 

[Orford]

I setup a Raspberry Pi recently with openelec XBMC and apart from having to sort my NAS folders into a more XBMC friendly directory structure all went well.

I chose Openelec from this you tube video comparison. After reading up on both versions of XBMC Openelec performed tasks quicker leading me to believe the coding of Openelec was more efficient at controlling the Pi hardware and may lead to a smoother install, ongoing operation and add-on compatibility.

I'm impressed with the add ons like scrapers for Movies using IMDB info and the subtitles add on for films where I had no subs for foreign spoken dialogue.
My panasonic TV is CEC enabled so my TV remote works to control XBMC. When I turn on the Pi at the wall and my TV is in standby mode the TV comes on and switches to the correct HDMI channel for the Pi. Same when I select shut down on the XBMC menu it also turns off the TV. I aim to keep the Pi on all the time. Just impressed with the intergartion from the XBMC software to my TV.

It did crash once when I was asking it to populate the library from 4 sources at once. I leaned from that and did one at a time and sat the Pi on a bag of frozen peas (it is in a Pi case) with a T-towel over the peas to keep the Pi cooler while it was working hard downloading fan art and scanning the library. Now it is on the back of my TV with a Velcro sticky pad. The TV's USB ports don't have enough mA to power the Pi so I'm using a samsung 5v 1.0A phone charger.

I'm also on Virgin but torrent on my PC so I've no feedback on that.

So far for £35 including case and 8Gb SD card im really impressed.

 

[elrasho]

That's a great setup, if only the Pi had optical out for sound I'd use it for the same thing. I'm still struggling to get it as a torrent server