Pairing Elementum with an external torrent client

[rdscorreia74]

Greetings,
Sometimes I have trouble watching older TV shows because those torrents are not very popular and don't have that many seeders.
What I thought was, what if I could somehow search for those TV shows in Elementum, find providers using it's Elementum-burst and then send that torrent file (or magnet) to an external box.
I wouldn't be able to watch that show that night, but hopefully the external box would be able to download the show over the course of the next 24h and that would allow me to watch the show the following night.

The key here is having the same torrent on the Elementum box and on the external box, using the external box as a seed-booster that receives the torrents from the actual Elementum box.

I know, I know, this is the hard way. There is a much easier way of downloading the show on the external box and use Plex/Jellyfin to serve it to the Kodi box. But my external box is a very old raspberry that already serves as a torrent box. It doesn't have enough memory/cpu to take on the duties of a Plex server (or Jelly).

Is this doable in any way shape or form? The decision-making has to start in the Kodi-Elementum box.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers

[antonsoroko]

@rdscorreia74

What I thought was, what if I could somehow search for those TV shows in Elementum, find providers using it's Elementum-burst and then send that torrent file (or magnet) to an external box.

i guess only if you do this manually:
1 search in burst , start in elementum, copy torrent file from the folder you configured in elementum's settings

plugin.video.elementum/resources/settings.xml

Line 50 in 678e378

<setting id="torrents_path" type="folder" label="30451" default="special://temp/elementum_torrents/" source="auto" option="writeable" />

and add it to external box
2 or manually find again that torrent in web and add it to external box

alternatively - run elementum daemon (the thing that actually download torrents and speaks to trakt/tmdb) on external box (via docker or as linux systemd or as windows service), and only elementum UI (the thing we call plugin.video.elementum) on kodi box.

see
https://github.com/ElementumOrg/elementum-docker
#2 (comment)
#1117

[elgatito]

In the way Elementum is implemented - it won't be able to control external download service.

[rdscorreia74]

In the way Elementum is implemented - it won't be able to control external download service.

I see that, @elgatito . I'm not looking for a feature in elementum that does that. I'm looking for a quick and dirty hack.
For instance, @antonsoroko mentioned the possibility to check the special://temp/elementum_torrents/ folder for changes because it holds the .torrent files. Right?
Maybe I could hack it to send those .torrent files to a remote location, which that would be my old seedbox.
What do you think?
I'll definitely look into that. Maybe a python script.

[rdscorreia74]

alternatively - run elementum daemon (the thing that actually download torrents and speaks to trakt/tmdb) on external box (via docker or as linux systemd or as windows service), and only elementum UI (the thing we call plugin.video.elementum) on kodi box.

Actually, running elementum daemon seems like the perfect solution but I don't have enough RAM/CPU on that low power pi3. Actually, I'm not even sure it's a pi3. It could be a Pi2. Would have to check it.
But anyways, thanks for the tips mate.