Catch and Transmission QNAP

[crashtestoz]

Not that maglinks are working with Catch, can anyone suggest to to configure catch to work with Transmission running on QNAP?

Currently with maglinks enabled, Catch will just save a webloc file in the Watch folder and nothing happens.

[mipstian]

If Catch supported transmission-rpc, would that solve you problem? I personally use a small app I've written to bounce magnet links over to the machine where transmission-daemon is running. It communicates over transmission-rpc and it seems to work well. I was thinking of bringing that code into Catch directly, maybe starting as a "secret" (i.e. command line enabled) setting.

[balthisar]

If Catch supported transmission-rpc, would that solve you problem?

Yeah, it would solve the problem for me. The karmorra mirror isn't working properly right now, so I've ended up with a bunch of webloc files, too. I can manually C&P the magnets into Transmission's web interface, but that's not really fun.

I'll look at writing a script myself in the mean time, but having this be part of Catch would be awesome.

[Pazu]

@mipstian, did transmission-rpc support happen to make it into your alpha 2 back in December?

[mipstian]

@Pazu nope, I haven’t started yet.

[RoarSlot]

@mipstian
Any approximate timeline for this?

[mipstian]

See #163

[mipstian]

Catch 2.0 has an option to download feed contents using a script instead of the default torrent client. Not a perfect solution, but it definitely enables this use case. If someone writes a script that routes downloads to transmission-rpc, maybe share it here!