Raspberry Pi as SSH/VPN server and torrent box.

syklops wrote: »

The Pi consumes 5watts

azzeretti wrote: »

I am using my Pi in a similar manner. I have Raspbian installed and I run SSH and openvpn on it. I use a small script to NotifyMyAndroid of it's public IP address daily so I can connect (I do have a DynDNS account too but rarely use it). I use it to socks-proxy when I am away on business and don't fancy the open wireless networks. I also tunnel to other devices on my home network (satellite reciever, TV etc) without any problems.

I also have a small, Perl based, web app running on it too to manage my multimedia files.

Overall, tunnelling is fine and basic downloading should be fine. However, if you try and do too much it will grind to a halt. That is, compressing/decompressing files will load it.

If you can swing it financially I would recommend the U3 (http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php) over the Pi, it destroys it in almost every aspect.

osotogari wrote: »

Any chance of sharing that script that you use with NotifyMyAndroid ?

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Easy script to use NotifyMyAndroid to push a device's public IP address
# Azzeretti 2014
# Use, modify and ridicule however you wish!
#

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use XML::Simple;

################ Change API key and retry interval as required ###############

my $apikey = 'YOUR_NMA_API_KEY_GOES_HERE';
my $retry_interval = 30;

##############################################################################
my $url    = 'https://www.notifymyandroid.com/publicapi/notify?apikey=';
my $res;
$url .= $apikey;
my $app    = '&application=My_IP';
my $event  = '&event=IP_Address';
my $desc   = '&description=';
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("NotifyMyAndroidIP/1.0");
my $ip = `wget -O - -q http://ipecho.net/plain`;
$desc .= $ip;
my $send = $url . $app . $event . $desc;

SENDURL:
$res = $ua->get($send);

if ($res->{_rc} == 200 ){
    my $xml = XMLin($res->{_content});
        if($xml->{error}->{code} ) {
        print "Send failed with reason: " . $xml->{error}->{content} . "\n";
        }
        elsif ( $xml->{success}->{code} == 200 ) {
                print "Success! $xml->{success}->{remaining} alerts left\n"
            }
        
}

else {print "Failed to connect to NMA site. Assuming network down. Will try again in $retry_interval seconds\n";
      sleep $retry_interval;
      goto SENDURL}

azzeretti wrote: »

Sure. Here you go. You will need to register a free NMA account from and get your API key. Then, just change the APIKEY in the script to your own. I have a roppy ISP connection so I run the script on a cron in the morning but if it fails to get to the NWA site to push the IP (it will also have failed to IP lookup too) it will retry every X seconds until it gets you the alert. The retry value can be set at the top of the script.

From the Pi you need to run:
sudo apt-get install libwww-perl libxml-simple-perl

Then just run the script.

NMA site: http://www.notifymyandroid.com/index.jsp

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Easy script to use NotifyMyAndroid to push a device's public IP address
# Azzeretti 2014
# Use, modify and ridicule however you wish!
#

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use XML::Simple;

################ Change API key and retry interval as required ###############

my $apikey = 'YOUR_NMA_API_KEY_GOES_HERE';
my $retry_interval = 30;

##############################################################################
my $url    = 'https://www.notifymyandroid.com/publicapi/notify?apikey=';
my $res;
$url .= $apikey;
my $app    = '&application=My_IP';
my $event  = '&event=IP_Address';
my $desc   = '&description=';
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("NotifyMyAndroidIP/1.0");
my $ip = `wget -O - -q http://ipecho.net/plain`;
$desc .= $ip;
my $send = $url . $app . $event . $desc;

SENDURL:
$res = $ua->get($send);

if ($res->{_rc} == 200 ){
    my $xml = XMLin($res->{_content});
        if($xml->{error}->{code} ) {
        print "Send failed with reason: " . $xml->{error}->{content} . "\n";
        }
        elsif ( $xml->{success}->{code} == 200 ) {
                print "Success! $xml->{success}->{remaining} alerts left\n"
            }
        
}

else {print "Failed to connect to NMA site. Assuming network down. Will try again in $retry_interval seconds\n";
      sleep $retry_interval;
      goto SENDURL}

White Heart Loon wrote: »

Just torrents, pffft, check out Usenet, it has Sabnzbd, Couchpotato, Sickbeard, NzbDrone, and Headphones software that completely automates downloading everything. It finds and lines up content, downloads, extracts, renames, moves, adds artwork and metadata and sends you notifications when it's done. All are python based multiplatform software, run on any OS. You should easily be able to run them on a pi alongside Deluge.

syklops wrote: »

Post up your cron config and we will have a look for you.