Start and Stop torrents in transmission-gtk?

Support & Help Requests Raspberry Pi
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Hi, I use transmission-gtk on my pi2.

I wanted to be able to automatically stop and start all torrents between certain times. I have already enabled alternative speed limits in transmission but the torrents still connect to peers because they are live.

I thought I could just put commands in the crontab at the times I wanted but I can’t find any commands to do this with transmission-gtk. I saw commands for transmission-cli but I believe this is entirely separate from the gui, is that correct ?

So any ideas on how I could accomplish this ? Thanks

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As far as I am aware, you can stop transmission mid-torrent-download and when you open it again, it will start the torrent-dwonload again form where it left off. That being the case, instead of trying to start and stop torrents inside transmission, just start and stop transmission itself

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Hi, I need transmission to stay running so that I can add torrents to it remotely during the day. I add the torrents without starting them. Then at night, I want them to all start and then stop the next morning.

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I am guessing you want some CLI based torrent client that runs entirely on commands. To that end, I have just found this:

http://www.linuxtechi.com/rtorrent-command-line-bittorrent-client-ubuntu-linux/

I don;t know if it will help, but my gut instinct leads me to think this is the kind of thing you should be looking at.

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Transmission also offers a command line version however, I was looking for something that could work with the GUI based version. I’m not sure if transmission-cli can be used with transmission-gtx. It seems weird that the transmission GUI offers no way to start/stop torrents through the command line. I don’t want to give up the GUI.

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I run Deluge on my Pi. It has a scheduler plugin that might do what you want.

I never really got on with Transmission.