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synchronizing multiple sab clients to share one download source

Posted: June 11th, 2008, 10:43 am
by koryakm
I am seriously considering writing a small controller client to sync my home and work computer. This client will:
- allow you to register N sabnzbd clients which share one usenet acct
- the client will only allow one client at a time to download from usenet, while pausing all other clients
- provide a fair scheduler

i plan to implement this by means of a token ring using java to control each client though the web api.

does something like this exist? Is there any interest in building this?
I cannot write this in python, because i dont know it.

Re: synchronizing multiple sab clients to share one download source

Posted: June 11th, 2008, 1:36 pm
by neilt0
Great idea. I use up to 4 machines to download, so this would be very useful.

Re: synchronizing multiple sab clients to share one download source

Posted: December 30th, 2010, 8:42 pm
by pmow
How would you control which is active? 
Have you considered moving to a client setup which moves control upstream? 

I'm guessing the idea is that you want to save money, so getting a colo-type server is probably out of the question.  For a single user setup, this makes sense as long as you don't mind putting certain clients on hold.  As long as all clients are accessible via their APIs, writing a script to prioritize/pause/unpause on a timer would be fairly straightforward.

Re: synchronizing multiple sab clients to share one download source

Posted: April 1st, 2011, 8:41 am
by forkless
Would love such functionality.

Re: synchronizing multiple sab clients to share one download source

Posted: April 28th, 2011, 9:36 pm
by sumofatguy
forkless wrote: Would love such functionality.
me as well.  It's exactly what I came to post about!