Is there a way to do this? I'm on a flaky connection that drops the connection and reconnects a minute later; obviously the torrents stall out and I have to do a manual announce or if I'm not around, wait for the countdown on the tracker update to reach zero, when I guess it announces again. So I would like to change how often it announces from the arbitrary number of every fifteen minutes or whatever it is to a much lower number. Surely there is a config file or something I can edit to change this, right? I already checked ktorrentrc and didn't see anything like that.

This isn't configurable, the tracker determines the interval.

George wrote:This isn't configurable, the tracker determines the interval.

Hello!

I really need to override the announe interval; is there any way to do it from ktorrent api? can I write a script or something? how hard would it be to modify from source code?

sorry for bad english, thanks, Paul

Well, thank you kde community for helping me so kindly, even tough I resuccitated a so old topic;

I found a solution by myself, and I share it with other lonesome noob dudes like me:
You must know the scripting plugin; enable it, create a folder named "update" or whatever in /usr/share/kde4/apps/ktorrent/scripts/ , and create a update.py script file there and put this code in it:

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#!/usr/bin/env kross
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import KTorrent
import KTScriptingPlugin
import Kross
#from PyQt4 import QtCore

t = Kross.module("kdetranslation")

class updatetracker:
   def __init__(self):
      self.timer = KTScriptingPlugin.createTimer(True)
      self.timer.connect('timeout()',self.start)


   def start (self):
      tors = KTorrent.torrents()
      for t in tors:
         tor = KTorrent.torrent(t)
         tor.restoreDefaultTrackers()
         self.timer.start(300000)
   
       
s = updatetracker()
s.start()

Take care, indentation matters; you can change the interval here: self.timer.start(300000) , time is in miliseconds; the tor.restoreDefaultTrackers() part does update tracker; also, you can expand the script if you care, put configuration gui, triggers and what you python experirnce let you; also I put a file named "update.desktop" in that "update" folder with this content:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Update Tracker
Type=KTorrentScript
X-KTorrent-Script-File=update.py

I do'nt know if this is mandatory, but all other scripts have oane of this; after this restart ktorrent and you will find an "Update Tracker" entry in scripts list; check it and it will work ok;

This greatly improves my download and even more the upload speed on a private tracker, from wich I add torrents automatically immediatley whed they appear with syndication plugin, having a real 100Mb/s optical fiber internet connection.

Sorry for my bad english, poor expression and explanation skills, and for not bothering even to use google translate; I know the code is far from being professional, beautyfull and ellegant but I am no programmer, and if it works i do'nt care any further.

I hope this will be usefull. Have a good day, Paul.