Hello Ted Developers. I was just reading this thread:
https://ted.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=748
Asking for a web interface to ted, and it's something I've always wanted as well. While it's not the easiest thing to set up, I think it might be feasible.

Have you guys considered this at all? I was thinking that there wouldn't be much point, unless ted also had the ability to download the actual files, otherwise you still need some kind of VNC to control Azureus or whatever client you use.

But if you did want to do it, I was thinking something like:
- have ted listening on a local port, and able to accept requests (maybe in XML format or something)
- create a server version of ted that runs on something like tomcat, this version would talk to the running instance of ted to get it's information, as well as update information
- provide the server version as an optional download.

Then if a user is running the server version, they can browse to the other machine and control it via a web interface. If they wanted to do it external to their network it would get harder (they'd have to know their IP address somehow).

But like I said, unless Ted can somehow control the actual downloads of the files, I don't see the point.

By The Way: Ted 0.9 is better than ever, nice work guys!

Rusty

Nope It would take too much time at the moment.


We're also not making a built in torrent client. Again too much work, but the client would never be as good as uTorrent or Azureus.


You're welcome

I've been thinking, and I agree with you guys. Do one thing and do it well. There's no point in trying to do much, and ruining the product.

I set up Ted to find the TV shows that I'm interested, and then just launch it twice a week and download those shows through Azureus. It works great for me, and saves me a lot of hassle.

Rusty

Actually having web access would be great for certain situations.

I have a windows home server where I store all my tv shows (basically a media server) and have managed to get uTorrent running on it as a service. Now not only is my server feeding my X360 and AppleTV with these shows but it's also downloading them too.

What makes this even easier is that you can set uTorrent to automatically download a show as its torrent file is placed within a particular directory. This has made my job a lot easier. My main PC is a Mac so I simply look for the latest tv show, download the torrent, place it into a shared network folder and - voila - my server picks it up and automatically starts downloading it.

Obviously, the pain here is having to remember a show and then go hunting for it. That's where TED comes it. It's a great package and I've managed to not only get it running on my WHS but also as a service so now I don't even have to remember to go hunting for the torrent files.

The icing on the cake, would be to able to remotely add shows to TED without having to remotely connect to my server. It's not something that I'd do that often but still...

Oh, awesome app, by the way.

JJ.

See https://ted.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2003