I was hoping to have downloads start and stop on a schedule.

Junior Member Mikee286

Bearing in mind that on the P2P network you are downloading from other PC users like yourself, and those PC users can switch their compters off and on when they like, how can you schedule downloads?


UK Bob

This should be acheivable. I'm new to Limewire as a coder, but as Limewire can detect identical files, the fields that make the file identifiable and unique could be re-searched at a later time, and Limewire could kick off the download as soon as a candidate was found. This would be a little along the lines of queueing and "More Sources needed".

I would be interested in incorporating (coding) this into LimeWire, only has someone already done it?

hmmm ... so what is this forum about, the heading of it looked pretty good, anyhoo I'll join the LimeWire forum - I can't see anything about a scheduling feature being discussed - thanks hobo (?)

Nigel

You are obviously a programmer while I am not but I do have a nagging feeling that "scheduling" is not going to be as easy as you indicate, note that I am not questioning the coding aspects but the practicalities of it.

As I said in my first post: Your reply sounds OK This, I think, will mean that I must keep my PC on 24 hours a day in order to catch those elusive downloads I am after, which is great but I still don't see how "scheduling" here would work.

Also, how is “scheduling” practically different from the current situation now, i.e. on starting up LW the incomplete files automatically start searching for hosts to download from?

To conclude, coding “scheduling” into LW is probably easy, and I will not argue about that, but at this point I cannot see a practical application for it.

However, if your coding was incorporated into the way incomplete files looked for hosts (to download from) then we would have more hits and less of those "Need more sources" or "Awaiting Hosts" errors.



UK Bob

Yes UK Bob, thats the answer I was looking for. So a workaround for scheduling is available... Say I want my downloads to commence at 1am (in "freetime") I just set up all the downloads then shut down LimeWire and have Windows Scheduler or Linux fire up LimeWire at 1am and the downloads should restart after finding "More Sources".

No coding required. I'll try this out!

And yes hobo(?) I believe it could be done and as you say there would be problems with the occasional rare file, but that problem can happen "online" if the plug is pulled. Anyway I'll just do it the Unix way by putting two available apps together (Scheduler and Limewire) rather than the Windows way of building every function into every function. (Soapbox vacated)

G'day, can download scheduling be put on enhancements for future release. I would like to schedule downloads to occur for my off peak and allow my peak and off peak downloads be balanced. The account throttles to 64k when peak limit reached. Thanks thought it would be a useful enhancement for users.

You can probably rig up something with AutoIt to keep polling to see when one download is finished, and then start the next, or start the download and pause it, and have your AutoIt thing unpause it.

Maybe if LimeWire could load plugins then you could do all this fancy stuff, and that would take care of alot of these requests.

I also thought it would be nice have one download start only when another one is complete, instead of leaving them to download all at once.

Thanks Rush for the AutoIt tip.

It would be a good option to load 3rd party plug ins and have Limewire with a preference to search for sources between nominated times to suit any users off peak times.

I think scheduling downloads would be effective especially with international timezones which would work really well for peak and off peak downloads.

This would not be a real hard enhancement to put in scheduling.

All I know is, with my current connection, if I want a file fast I want it to dl by itself. And it would be nice if the next one could start after it's finished. So I put it on my todo list to mess with autoit to do that.

But schedueling a search.. I never thought of that. I'm sure you would still have to go through the results yourself when you got home, and then dl it when it will become available again.