Automation

Just a quick post to say how much I love my download PC.

It sits on a table in my living room by a chair & doesn’t bother me at all. Every now & then I remote on (it has no monitor) and see how it’s doing. Today I found links to downloads of The Mighty Boosh Series 2, thought I’d better add them cos they’re no longer on BBC3’s website :o( only to find that not only had it found them already (gotta love RSS), but they’d finished downloading too!! \o/

Now what I really need to do is:

1) Get one of those media player things for the TV, the ones that connect to the PC via WiFi and stream whatever’s on there.

2) Sort out an RSS Feed of everything that ends up in the ‘Seeding’ directory. Will be useful to have so I can keep a check on all the stuff it’s doing. It currently e-mails me when it’s finished a download. I could probably get that e-mailing BackPackit or similar and keep a page open for that. Needs more thinking :oD

*Once again the disclaimer: Yes. I know downloading this stuff is illegal, but I only download TV Shows that aren’t available to buy, so I really can’t see the issue. It’s just like my parents recording a program to their DVD Recorder and passing it to me if I’d missed a show.