technophil98 / plex-transmission-throttler

A Rust service handling Tautulli Webhooks to enable alt speed on Transmission torrent client.

plex-transmission-throttler

A Rust service handling Tautulli Webhooks to enable alt speed on Transmission torrent client.

Configure it

Required env variables

plex-transmission-throttler requires the following env variables:

TRANSMISSION_URL=<TRANSMISSION_HOST>/transmission/rpc
TRANSMISSION_USERNAME=transmission
TRANSMISSION_PASSWORD=<TRANSMISSION_PASSWORD>

You can create a .env file with the previous content or export them in your current shell.

Tautulli Webhook Configuration

1. Setup a new Webhook notification agent
2. Enter the url to your running instance of plex-transmission-throttler with a trailing /. Ex: http://localhost:8000/
3. Set Webhook Method to POST
4. In Triggers, enable :
   • Playback Start
   • Playback Stop
   • Playback Pause
   • Playback Resume
   • Buffer Warning
5. In Data, set JSON Data for each of the previous triggers to:

   {
       "action": "play",
       "stream_location": "{stream_location}"
   }

   The action field should be set as follows:

   Trigger	action
   Playback Start	play
   Playback Stop	stop
   Playback Pause	pause
   Playback Resume	resume
   Buffer Warning	play

6. Save trigger

Run it

Docker

docker run -p 8000:8000 --env-file .env ghcr.io/technophil98/plex-transmission-throttler:latest

Locally

# Export variables in .env to current shell
set -o allexport; source .env; set +o allexport
# Run it! Will be accessible at 'localhost:8000'
cargo run