Homebrew uTorrent DS?

[m-p{3}]

Another train of thought is to use a DS web browser in conjunction with uTorrent's WebUI function. This allows you to manage uTorrent from a different computer. eg, I use it on my netbook to remotely start large downloads on my desktop.

The WebUI requires the use of AJAX, which the DS Browser doesn't support.

I'd say start your own command-line linux server at home, install rtorrent and SSH, and connect to it through DSLinux. You'll be able to control rtorrent that way.

 

[Sarvesh50]

beta= not stable

Uh, thanks for sharing your great intellect?

No problem i love to share my intellect

 

[ShadowEO]

Another train of thought is to use a DS web browser in conjunction with uTorrent's WebUI function. This allows you to manage uTorrent from a different computer. eg, I use it on my netbook to remotely start large downloads on my desktop.

The WebUI requires the use of AJAX, which the DS Browser doesn't support.

I'd say start your own command-line linux server at home, install rtorrent and SSH, and connect to it through DSLinux. You'll be able to control rtorrent that way.

The WebUI doesn't exactly require the use of AJAX, well, the API doesn't. The UI itself as it comes installed does but you can make a plaintext WebUI that doesn't use AJAX.
The program I had been talking about before (uRemote) doesn't even use the UI, it goes straight to the API and makes calls like that I believe, but either way you could make
a HTML page using Query Strings that gives you information about a torrent and using PALib have it parse that information into a table. It is possible to create a remote uTorrent Client on the DS.
It just requires time and effort. Also there are already WebUIs that do not rely on JS/AJAX such as the discontinued "uTorrent Mobile WebUI". Studying that code could make an efficient DS torrent monitor.


Just a quick edit: The uTorrent Mobile WebUI is not the J2ME version that is currently dated on their forums as 2008-04-17, it's called utorrentmui but is now not managed.
Someone could easily template that into a DS-usable webpage that can control torrents. Or study it to make a native uTorrent remote.

 

[IchigoNoTenshi]

Well, either way, I see no purpose in downloading anything from BitTorrent directly to your DS, because BT is mainly used for games, movies, music and the like. Now, just think. No one posts NDS homebrew on BT, downloading music would take too long (like previously mentioned, DS WiFi is very unpredictable), and if you downloaded a movie, you would end up converting it on your computer anyway. Unless DPGTools works with that thing. I'm sort of a noob with this thing. But the torrent remote thing sounds good.

 

[LxTrix]

utorrent for the ds isn't going to happen. The ability to control utorrent from your ds on your desktop maybe....

 

[mad maniak]

I would absolutely love a torrent remote, but would it be possible cue a new torrent with that?

 

[TheDarkSeed]

Hmm, What about the gba slot? How much more RAM can be provided there?

 

[mad maniak]

Hmm, What about the gba slot? How much more RAM can be provided there?

If I understand correctly, it isn't as much of a problem of RAM but more one of internet speed.

 

[Exbaddude]

I don't think so. Download them at home.

 

[anandjones]

Note: Look at DSLinux and it's speeds.

 

[EEragon]

So we have a conclusion:

µtorrent on the NDS is possible but useless as water in powder form:
-unstable internet-conection
-download speed is max 6 Kb/s
-a mp3-file will be downloaded in about 20 min
-...

btw, tha nds is not made to download torrents, but to play games on it!

 

[ganons]

i have a torrent client on my phone that works well called symtorrent

 

[Deleted User]

The ultimate solution: buy an eeePC.

Point made.

 

[ShadowEO]

I don't think so. Download them at home.
It is possible, and A remote can be very useful.

QUOTE(EEragon @ May 21 2009, 04:10 PM) So we have a conclusion:

µtorrent on the NDS is possible but useless as water in powder form:
-unstable internet-conection
-download speed is max 6 Kb/s
-a mp3-file will be downloaded in about 20 min
-...

btw, tha nds is not made to download torrents, but to play games on it!

btw, tha nds can be used very nicely for a remote, it doesn't matter if it was made to play games. some people don't use their flashcart for ROMs

 

[kennypu]

it's quite possible, but the downloads will take forever due to DS's wifi limits

 

[ShadowEO]

The point was not to be an actual bitTorrent client, but a remote that controls a bittorrent client being run on a computer, actually read the whole thread if your gonna engage in conversation. We already established that the dswifi libraries and hardware are too slow for any practical torrent downloading, therefore we are looking at alternatives such as maybe a Homebrew uTorrent Remote that hooks into the Web API and looks I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, LOOKS!!! like uTorrent, but is NOT uTorrent, just a program interacting with the uTorrent on your COMPUTER!!! Now that we're all caught up.... Any suggestions on how one should go about this. I've already figured out the HTTP request that would be required of libNDS's getHttp function. (Yes I am going to attempt, but no promises... I'm a very lazy person when I'm not in the mood to code.)

 

[Jimbob7]

surprised this made 3 pages

 

[omgmog]

The point was not to be an actual bitTorrent client, but a remote that controls a bittorrent client being run on a computer, actually read the whole thread if your gonna engage in conversation. We already established that the dswifi libraries and hardware are too slow for any practical torrent downloading, therefore we are looking at alternatives such as maybe a Homebrew uTorrent Remote that hooks into the Web API and looks I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, LOOKS!!! like uTorrent, but is NOT uTorrent, just a program interacting with the uTorrent on your COMPUTER!!! Now that we're all caught up.... Any suggestions on how one should go about this. I've already figured out the HTTP request that would be required of libNDS's getHttp function. (Yes I am going to attempt, but no promises... I'm a very lazy person when I'm not in the mood to code.)

well in that case, there is already a webui for utorrent, which in theory you could use from the nintendo browser, and I'm pretty sure there are already vnc clients/desktop viewer apps for the ds.

 

[Jimbob7]

yeah that's a good idea omgmog

However, gaurav patel. "gauravity" could code such a feature if you asked him nicely.

 

[m-p{3}]

The point was not to be an actual bitTorrent client, but a remote that controls a bittorrent client being run on a computer, actually read the whole thread if your gonna engage in conversation. We already established that the dswifi libraries and hardware are too slow for any practical torrent downloading, therefore we are looking at alternatives such as maybe a Homebrew uTorrent Remote that hooks into the Web API and looks I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, LOOKS!!! like uTorrent, but is NOT uTorrent, just a program interacting with the uTorrent on your COMPUTER!!! Now that we're all caught up.... Any suggestions on how one should go about this. I've already figured out the HTTP request that would be required of libNDS's getHttp function. (Yes I am going to attempt, but no promises... I'm a very lazy person when I'm not in the mood to code.)

well in that case, there is already a webui for utorrent, which in theory you could use from the nintendo browser, and I'm pretty sure there are already vnc clients/desktop viewer apps for the ds.

Actually uTorrent use AJAX programming, and the Nintendo DS Browser cannot interpret it. Soory, but it's not possible to control uTorrent over the DS. rtorrent over SSH is however a possibility.