What does this plugin do?
It manages Azureus upload and download speeds on a schedule. For instance, if your ISP caps download totals during working hours, like 8:00am to 5:00pm, you can use SpeedScheduler to make Azureus automatically pause all downloads between those hours. Of course, it can do more, like pause only seeding torrents, pause only incomplete torrents, and set speed limits all on a flexible schedule with a pretty graphical user interface wirtten in Java and SWT.
How do I thank you?
Post a comment below and tell the world you love Speed Scheduler. If you’ve got some money burning a hole in your pocket, you can PayPal me a donation. It’s always nice to see a little cash show up in my PayPal account.
Why won’t the plugin start?
If the plugin won’t startup, and you get a java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError or java.lang.NullPointerException, you can usually fix it by turning off logging under Tools, Options, Plugins, Speed Scheduler.
The full error message may look like this:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerThread.(SpeedSchedulerThread.java:83)
at speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerPlugin.initialize(SpeedSchedulerPlugin.java:110)
at org.gudy.azureus2.pluginsimpl.local.PluginInitializer.initialisePlugin(PluginInitializer.java:1234)
at org.gudy.azureus2.pluginsimpl.local.PluginInitializer.initialisePlugins(PluginInitializer.java:1104)
at com.aelitis.azureus.core.impl.AzureusCoreImpl.start(AzureusCoreImpl.java:532)
at com.aelitis.azureus.ui.swt.Initializer.run(Initializer.java:277)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.Initializer.run(Initializer.java:144)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread$2.runSupport(SWTThread.java:174)
at org.gudy.azureus2.core3.util.AERunnable.run(AERunnable.java:38)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at speedscheduler.Log.printLineHeader(Log.java:82)
at speedscheduler.Log.println(Log.java:69)
at speedscheduler.io.XmlScheduleIO.loadSchedules(XmlScheduleIO.java:209)
at speedscheduler.SchedulePersistencyManager.(SchedulePersistencyManager.java:53)
at speedscheduler.SchedulePersistencyManager.(SchedulePersistencyManager.java:21)
... 10 more
What’s with the 5K/s rule?
You may have noticed that if you limit your upload to 5KB/sec or less, than your download speed is limited to twice the upload speed. This is intentional. An Azureus developer asked me to add this feature to “prevent leechers”. Last I checked, the Azureus config does this too. If you set your uload speed to anything more than 5KB/sec (0 included), then there is no limit to the download speed you can set. Happy sharing!
Does SpeedScheduler run in console mode?
That depends. I’ve had reports that it does run with Azureus2307-B25.jar, but with previous versions it seems to have a problem on startup. The way it works is this: You launch the GUI version of Azureus to configure it and setup your schedules, and then you can run in console mode afterwards. The scheduler will automagically run in the background managing your up/down speeds.
SeedScheduler shows the wrong time, like it thinks it’s in the GMT timezone?
To fix this, set an environment variable called
tz to have a value of
GMT+10. Change
10 to the offset of your local time zone.
In Windows, you can add this environment variable by right-clicking on “My Computer”, “Properties”, then click the “Advanced” tab. Then click the “Environment Variables” button. Then click “New” and enter “tz” (lower case) for the name (no quotes), and “GMT+10″ as the value. You may be able to do this easier, by editing the time (right-click on the clock). Let me know if you find an easier way.
In Linux, just edit your .bash_profile or your /etc/profile and create a line like this:
export tz='GMT+10'
How do I setup a schedule that goes past midnight (12:00am)?
You can’t make a single schedule that goes past midnight, but you
can setup two schedules, one that goes until 11:59pm, and another that goes from midnight and forward. For example, if you want a schedule that goes from 10:00pm to 7:00am:
Schedule 1: 10:00pm - 11:59pm
Schedule 2: 12:00am - 7:00am
Can SpeedScheduler set different speeds for foreign IP addresses?
No. But such a plugin could be written. You might even consider using the SpeedScheduler source code as a starting point to accomplish this.
Can SpeedScheduler apply a speed limit based on torrent category?
No. But feel free to write it if you want it. It may help to know that SpeedScheduler will not pause torrents that have been “Force started”. Sometimes people ask if SpeedScheduler can also schedule speeds for individual torrents. It can’t do this either. I imagine the
GUI for such an endeavor would be monstrous, but email me if you have any ideas on how to do this right.
Can SpeedScheduler show 24-hour time instead of 12-hour time?
Yes, just go to the options page under Tools, Options, Plugins, Speed Scheduler and set it there.
Why are my “Force Start” torrents not paused by SpeedScheduler?
This is intentional. This way, you can override a schedule that pauses transfers for an important torrent.
Can I pause downloads but not seeds (or vice versa)?
Yes, as of SpeedScheduler version 1.1, you can pause only completed torrents, or pause only incomplete torrents.
Can SpeedScheduler control max simultaneous downloads or some other configuration item besides just speeds?
Sorry, no. All it can do now is control max upload/download speeds and pause transfers on a schedule. I don’t plan on adding any other feature like you describe, but it would be pretty cool to have a plugin that could schedule a complete Azureus config on a schedule. If you want to write it, let’s talk.
What is the difference between “Check schedules every N ms” and granularity?
The “Check schedules every N ms” is how often SpeedScheduler will wake up, check the time, and see if a schedule change is needed. The granularity is just how small of time increments to put in the drop-down boxes when you are configuring SpeedScheduler. So if you only want half-hour granularity when setting times, you can set it to 30. If you need more control, you can set it to 5 to be able to specify your schedules in 5 minute increments. So, to summarize, The “Check schedules every N ms” refers to how SpeedScheduler actually behaves, and the granularity is just for display. You shouldn’t have to change either item for SpeedScheduler to work just fine.
How did you create SpeedScheduler?
I use the Eclipse Java IDE to write, build, and package SpeedScheduler. It’s written in Java, and seems to run well on Windows, Linux, and Mac. It uses a SAX XML parser to read and store user schedules, and it stores other config (like user interface settings) directly in the Azureus configurationn manager.
I am using GCJ on Linux and SpeedScheduler will not load. What’s up?
I have had several reports of GCJ not working, presumably because it does not ship with a usable XML parser. So far, everyone who has reported a problem with GCJ has swiched to the Sun Java run-time to make SpeedScheduler start working. If you manage to get GCJ to work with SpeedScheduler, please let me know!
How does Speed Scheduler play with Auto Speed?
As of version 1.6, Speed Scheduler should play nicely with Auto Speed. Instead of setting the global upload/download speeds, it sets Auto Speed’s upload/download speeds. This works whether Auto Speed is installed as a plugin, or if you are using the core built-in Auto Speed capability.
What if my question is not in this FAQ?
Add a comment below, and I’ll respond and add your question to this FAQ. You must tell me what operating system you are using, and exactly what you did (step by step) to produce the problem. Please be very very specific (even more specific than you think is necessary) :)
May 7th, 2008 at 4:40 am
I am trying to use this to start and stop my downloads between midnight and midday but it won’t start or stop my downloads. How do I fix this problem?
May 7th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Sean, I’m assuming you’re using Windows. Did you install Speed Scheduler “for all users”, and do you have the right privileges (admin)?
May 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
1.4 on 3.0.5.2
Unable to load schedules from file.
unknown protocol: c
Went bact to 1.3 and had same issue.
This happened around the last update to az.
Any ideas?
May 7th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Mike, what version of Java are you using? When are you getting this error message?
May 7th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
latest 6.5
I get this error on SS plugin installation and on Az startup.
anytime I open the plugin control it throws:
error loading configured schedules : unknown protocol: c
if I try and save a schedule, I get an unhandled GUI error, NullPointerException
May 8th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Try uninstalling the plugin, and then reinstalling it for all users instead of “just for this user.” Then make sure your Windows user account has administrative access.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
It’s not showing up in my plug in menu. It installs fine, and shows up on my uninstall list, but I can’t find any way to access it. Please help!
May 11th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Justine,
Go enable logging under Tools -> Options -> Plugins -> Speed Scheduler. Give it a log file to write to, and then try.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:35 am
I am a newby and am using MacOSX Leopard, latest Azureus and downloaded the plugin successfully but can’t get it to work as in start stop a torrent let alone start one. I set it up to use the scheduler but when I go to the torrent window the torrent is merrily downloading. The times correspond on the clock – am totally confused and may need very basic step by step instructions please.
Thanks,
Mike
May 12th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Ahaaaaaaa,
this link helped me out…
http://blog.karthiksn.com/tag/bittorrent/
thanks and if you do have any guides please pass on,
Cheers,
Mike
May 14th, 2008 at 5:24 am
i installed the scheduler, however it wouldnt stop/start my files. i had to restart Az for it to work. seems to be fine now :)
May 14th, 2008 at 8:21 am
I installed Speed Scheduler 1.4, but if I ever close Azureus, my schedules do not reappear when it restarts? I’m not sure if I am activating them or if there is anything more to do than that. When the plugin window is open and my schedules are in, it doesn’t pause my downloads like I told it to either.
-Tony
May 14th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Tony B: Did you install it “for all users” or “only for the current user”? You should do the former, and not the latter, but your Windows user account needs to have write privileges for the directory where Azureus is installed.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:38 am
I am running Fedora 8 and azureus-3.0.3.4-7.fc8 and SpeedScheduler 1.3
Speedscheduler actually works and limits according to my old schedule (the xml file is still intact). The SpeedScheduler options->plugins item is visible but I can’t find the SpeedScheduler entry on the main plugins menu – so I can’t easily alter the settings (except by modifying the XML file directly). I’ve tried v1.4 of SS but no luck.
I used to have this working, perhaps it was the Fedora 8 upgrade. I can’t recall the timing. Anyway, I was running GCJ and switched to Sun’s Java (but no change occured – same fault). See my ps -ef entry
root 3564 3510 44 20:31 pts/8 00:00:15 /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05/bin/java -Dazureus.install.path=/root/.azureus/app -Dazureus.script.version=2 -Dazureus.script=/usr/bin/azureus org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main
Any ideas?
May 19th, 2008 at 6:25 am
I really hate the quick and dirty configuration method, especially because of midnight chop, but also because I can’t reorder the schedules so that it reads easier, after editing and adding new schedules. I’m grateful for the plugin and understand development of anything takes time and time is often scarce, hence the need for quick & dirty solutions during prototyping and proof of concept. However, I’d like to try my hand at making a graphical configuration similar to that of Shareaza, incorporating the configurable time granularity of course. I’d also like to merge the options on the “Plugins” menu item with the “Speed Scheduler” tab, maybe at least by including a button on the tab that lets you edit the same values presented under the Options->Plugins dialog. However, when I look in the JAR file, all I see are .class files, no .java files, so where can I get the sources, and what is the license? I’m hoping it’s GPL or similar so that I can tweak away.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Leif,
The sources are available from the Azureus plugin list, here:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=SpeedScheduler
Just click on the “S” box next to the 1.4 release. The license is GPL, so it’s all yours, so to speak. Please have at it!
–Dave
May 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Re: “What’s with the 5K/s rule?”
while I respect that rule it should not apply to a 256Kb/s (DL) / 64Kb/s (UL) or smaller capacity links (which is what I have). In this case I only achieve an effective download with 3Kb/s upload limit. I would be interested in knowing if your “Azureus developer” disagrees with this. I have experimented with tuning and not has any success.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Re: background color of window cause issue on remote connections
When running speed scheduler in a windows system (win 2K), with a 256 color display depth, the color of the window (see where time is displayed) is not from the available palette, so it is dithered and this makes reading text (mainly the time in your speed scheduler) difficult. Any chance you could use a compatible color? (why do I run 256 color depth – because terminal server connections open remote connections in this mode and I cannot force a 16bit color palette. It probably applies to VNC connections too. You could reproduce this by setting you display to 256 color mode or I can send pics). I am happy to test the modifications.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
re: time on WIN2K SP4 system not correct and TZ
I have a WIN2K SP4 system and loading speed scheduler plugin under terminal servers session. The time reported is in GMT-13 but my local time is GMT+8. I cannot set TZ on a system wide basis as this may screw up the times of other applications. All other applications work fine. Is it possible to have an override field setting in the plugin where I can set the offset for just your plugin as no other system components under this platform appear to be time confused :-)
May 20th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Thanks for you effort in writing this plugin – any chance of a graphical time grid like utorrent or others ?
May 21st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Hi Scott, thanks! Can’t believe I missed that. Somewhat buried in there. Wish Azureus team put the plugins (bin & src) on the http://downloads.sf.net/azureus page.
Another problem that’s bugged me, an interaction between Speed Scheduler and Auto Speed plugins. For the most part they work harmoniously. The problem occurs in this condition. Speed Scheduler drops the max upload speed (in my case, 13 to 8) for a schedule. This lowers the Options -> Transfer -> max upload speed as well as the Options -> Plugins -> Auto Speed -> Max Upload Speed. Great. If I then disable Speed Scheduler, O->T->MxUS is set back to 13 as expected. Great. But O->P->AS->MxUS remains at 8, and quickly sets the O->T->MxUS back to 8. Not so great.
On the positive side, when a schedule increases the MUS, the MUS is properly increased everywhere. It’s a minor annoyance, since it can only occur when manually disabling the Speed Scheduler plugin, but I must remember to go back and manually update the Auto Speed plugin MxUS setting. The Auto Speed max download speed setting is a function of the MUS. Regardless of setting, Auto Speed has a MnUS of 5.
Thanks again for the software!
May 21st, 2008 at 2:52 pm
* damn emoticon snarfled my text
(in my case, 13 to 8 )
May 21st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Although 13 to 8) is pretty cool.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:18 am
Mac OS 10.4.9. Is there a way to name the schedules? Maybe I am just missing it.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 am
Sorry, no way to name schedules, though it’d be pretty easy to add if you want to have a go at it.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Re: Leif Says:
May 21st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Hi Scott, thanks! Can’t believe I missed that.
Leif, Thanks for the additional info – I had come across that behavior as well (auto speed and speed scheduler interaction). “missed that” – u mean slow links and the 5K rule?
Leif after reading your other “bug” comments in that post you helped me understand something strange I was seeing. I’m sure others will get confused as well. I recently set my max upload speed (MUL) (Tools|options|transfers ) to 0 (unlimited). That seemed to override the speed scheduler when a change of speed was due. If I set to a fixed very big value in (see T|O|T) then the speed gets bumped up and down as required by speed scheduler. (Dave I think a FAQ entry on that might be worthwhile :-) )
Any keen java developers reading this I like the idea of “labels” in speed scheduler too. I would add a “policy” (policy=collection of schedules) so you could switch a group of schedules on or off). [Example heavy downloading weekend policy, and light weekend policy so when my office has people working on weekends can enable several schedules with one enable/disable option].
May 24th, 2008 at 9:46 am
It seems when using MacOS 10.4 and Vuse 3052. Java 1.5.0_06, the built in upload controls (lower right corner) trumps autospeed and speed scheduler. Is there a way to disable the built in controls? Or am I missing something?
May 24th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Rob,
That control will trump Speed Scheduler until Speed Scheduler wakes up again and checks the schedules and overwrites the setting you put in. By default, Speed Scheduler wakes up every minute, but you can change that in Tools -> Options -> Plugins -> Speed Scheduler
–Dave
May 24th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Hi There, I installed your plugin and it isn’t in the drop down plugin menu so it is inaccessible =(. I have tried making a log file for it as you commented ^^ but then on startup it makes the error in the FAQ show up, leading me in circles. I’m using vista home premium. Please help me out!
May 25th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
@Ben
Vista will not let ordinary processes write into the ProgramFiles and ProgramFiles(x86) directories and sub-directories. If you asked it to put the log file somewhere in there, you will get the error described above.
I found that out by moving my log file to somewhere that is writeable by an ordinary process, and that made Speed Scheduler show up in the plug-in list. (Up to that point it had not).
Now my trouble is that it wants to put all the schedules I create into a directory within the same tree, and of course the OS will not let it. So any schedules I create cannot be saved.
There appears to be no option to change the location for saved schedules in the plug-in options page. Does anyone know of a way of moving the saved schedule file?
May 25th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
By installing the plug-in for me only rather than all users, the saved schedule file is placed under Users/Me/AppData… rather than ProgramFiles(x86) and everything works fine.
I note that there are instructions *not* to install for one user alone. But it seems to me to be the only way for me to get it to work at all.
Can anyone say what the draw-backs will be? While Azureus is available for other users on this computer to use, they don’t actually use it (yet). Does this just mean if and when they do start using it, they will each have to install the plug-in and establish their own schedules? In which case it’s not really a big deal.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:22 am
I’m sure the plugin server is just temporarily busted. Try again later.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:04 am
i am not able to add any schedules.. Y????
June 7th, 2008 at 2:00 am
I’m a newbie to Bittorrent (Azureus) & am still felling my way. I’ve tried to download the plug-in Speed Scheduler using Plug-ns, Installation Wizard, then I go through the procedure of ticking the item. It appears to go through the installation procedure quickly & correctly, however even after waiting for it to update itself, I get nothing. I have installed & uninstalled this plugin a number of times, but am not getting anything in the way of ‘Speed Scheduler’ link when Azureus is open or when trying to open through Windows XP ‘Programs’ . When viewing plugins through Azureus Tools – Plugins, it indicates it is there.(Ticked & Green Lighted), but can’t be found anywhere else to open up. I am using Windows XP & Int Explorer Version 6. Any help would be appreciated. (P.S. Using Bittorrent (Azureus Vuze) Manually is no problem, especially as a newbie)
June 14th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Hello Dave, thanks for the plugin.
This is just for your information, the problem has been solved.
I was having trouble with the SpeedScheduler not using the correct time. Coincidently, I am in the GMT+10 timezone so your instructions were easy to carry out, but they didn’t affect SpeedScheduler at all. I’ve placed tz = GMT+10 into both user and system variables, rebooted, checked that the variables were still correct, but it didn’t correct the time.
The time wasn’t in GMT either, it was 14 1/2 hours slow for some reason….
Azureus: 3.0.5.2
SpeedScheduler: 1.4
XP Pro SP3
Java 1.6.0_06
Uninstallation and reinstallation of the plugin corrected the problem.
Thanks :)
June 15th, 2008 at 1:54 am
When I tried to install the file it gave me the following error -
C:\Users\Mihir\Desktop>java -jar SpeedScheduler_1.4.jar
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
SpeedScheduler_1.4.jar
I am running Win Vista
June 15th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Just found your plug-in and can’t get it to start. I’m running Mac Leopard and after I download it I get an error – something like ‘this is a .jar file and is not recognized’. Anything I can do?
Warning – I’m a newbie.
Thanks for your help
June 15th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Chad: Don’t mess with jar files. Just use the plugin installation wizard right in Azureus.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Unfortunately, every time I have downloaded it, it comes in as a jar file. I’m going through the wizard just like the instructions state. Any ideas?
June 16th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Chad: Are you telling me that you are clicking Plugins ->Installation wizard? If so, you should *never* see a .jar file. It should do all the work for you, and when you restart Azureus, Speed Scheduler ought to be installed and ready to go.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
an option to have it use the built-in auto-speed for scheduled times would be nice. there’s a good lot of time that i don’t have to worry about transfer limits, but i do need to be mindful of other people in the house.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:34 am
Hi i am running vista ultimate and azureus 3.0.5.2
I have installed speed scheduler and selected for all users when i installed it
I can schedule a schedule however it doesnt actually affect any of the torrents. WHen i close azureus and reopen it, speed scheduler doesnt start and any schedules i creasted have disappeared.
I have read above that my Windows user account needs to have write privileges for the directory where Azureus is installed. How dp i check this?
Thanks
June 17th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Those are the steps I’ve done – actually the download on Azureus shows it as a jar file – it lists as Speedscheduler_1.4.jar. and then I get nothing but the error I listed above.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:03 am
I just tried it again and it works this time. Still a .jar file but it’s on my interface and I can use it. Thanks for your quick replies.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Hi.
I’ve installed the plugin and it won’t start and either the error alerts you’ve warned appear.
How can I solve this? I’m a Mac user and I’ve dropped the plugin on the user/library/application support/azureus/plugins as said on the Azureus wiki.
Can you help me? Thanks.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:00 am
And to be totally original, all I want to say is “Thank you, thank you, thank you”! No problems, faultless install after RTFM/RTFFAQ.
SpeedScheduler installed correctly into Azureus via the install wizard (yep, I’m lazy), I made the schedule I need (all paused from 07:00 to 23:59 and 00:00 to 01:00) and it works like a charm.
Mate – you’ve done everyone who has split d/l limits (eg 30 Gb /month, 07:00 to 01:00, plus 20 Gb per month 01:00 to 07:00) an incredible service. I’m short on dosh right now, but I will make a donation as soon as I get paid.
Cheers!!
June 20th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Thanks Virg. If nothing else, you taught me a new word: “Dosh”. That’s fantastic!
June 25th, 2008 at 5:47 am
I am using Azureus 3.1..0.0 and have installed Speed Scheduler. Upon startup, I enabled the plugin through the “Tools” menu and created new schedules. The schedules are being recognised (ie by the green tick over the watch icon) but the download and upload rate are exceeding the boundaries I set. I set the environment variable “tz” to “GMT+10″ but to no avail. Any suggestions?
June 29th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Hi,
I had the same issue as John (above). Setting the schedules but the downloads are not affected. It might have something to do with vista’s protection of the program files folder?? I was hoping it would still be in effect for the current session depsite not being able to write in the XML file or whatever??
July 1st, 2008 at 8:25 am
Hey what does a speed scheduler actually do? coz im unable to start my downloads in the time interval
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I figured out the solution for vista users. Since the program files folder is protected, I copied the whole azureous folder to another location and ran the pluggin works perfect now.
July 5th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Fantastic tool! Many thanks for working on this. I’ve found one minor issue which you might like to know about.
I’m using Vista 64-Bit with UAC enabled and I’ve found that I can’t save changes to the settings made in Speed Scheduler unless I run Azureus in Admin mode.
Specifically I’m getting the following error displayed as a message box:
‘Could not save settings: C:\Program Files\(x86)\Azereus\plugins\Speed Scheduler\SavedSchedules.xml (Access is denied)’
This occurs because Vista blocks write access to the \Program Files folder (the one listed above is the 32-bit Program Files folder when running 64-Bit Vista).
In order to correct this bug, the SavedSchedules.xml should be written to the user account spaced allocated in Windows. In Vista this is C:\Users\\etc.
Just thought you’d like to know. Many thanks again. :)
July 8th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Hmmm, this problem still persists, it’s the fact that the default speeds over-write the speeds in the azureus config. Is there a way to stop the scheduler dictating the speeds when the schedule doesn’t apply?
I can set it in azureus/vuze with the taskbar icon, but once the scheduler refreshes, it pushes it’s limits back on.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Pyrii: Use the default speeds section of the speed scheduler page. That’s what it’s for. Once you install SS, stay out of the speed settings in the Azureus settings.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I have a need at time to log in to RDP and quickly tweak the settings, either because of high contention or I need some more juice, having to open up RDP, then Vuze, then find the SS settings every time strikes me as annoying.
And infact, Vuze has plugins for controlling upload speed based on latency, but they may never have a chance to work while running alongside this plugin. But I don’t have a choice as I can’t have downloads or uploads going during the day.
Other than this annoyance, the plug in nice and does EXACTLY what I need it to, which is stop downloads AND uploads during specific times
July 10th, 2008 at 12:44 am
dave your a legend ! speed Scheduler rocks !
July 11th, 2008 at 4:27 am
In your response to Q. ‘How do I setup a schedule that goes past midnight (12:00am)?’ You say to ‘setup two schedules, one that goes until 11:59pm, and another that goes from midnight and forward’
How do you enable two schedules? I can only seem to enable one at a time.
July 11th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Hi Dave – same comment as someone on the home page, but cannot see a response. I have Vuze, and there seems to be no where where I can activate Speed Scheduler. I have done all the installations, configured for all users, can see it on Options,but do you have an idiots guide on how to enable the program in Vuze?
July 11th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Hello
I love the Speed Scheduler, used in the past with great success!
I bought a new laptop with Vista operating system, installed the azureus and plugin, but I have the error equal to the FAQ, I went to options and turned off the log.
I don’t had any error messages at the start of azureus and i create a new shedule and it does not work, i restart the azureus and after that no longer exists the shedule that i creat.
Help please.
Thank you
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Great idea and I intend to use but one particular feature I am looking for is a cumulative total download limit or shut off point.
For example my download limit is say 20GB per month starting on the 18th of each month, then I want to go wild downloading but stop at say 15GB if its only the 10th of the month.
This way I don’t run down my quota completely and save some for emergency downloads.
So some type of extention to your scheduler that incorporates a “Reset” of quota date and what that quota is and perhaps even a “watermark” percentage level of quota at which to halt all downloads so as to avoid throttling back to dial up speeds !
Also my ISP gives me a split quota of peak time and off peak time so accomodating this in the mix would be good.
let me know what u think
thanks
July 24th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
HI,
I have been using your plug-in for some time now and its fantastic!!
I use Vuze on server 2003 in a Virtual Server hosted by Zen and it works a treat.
Lastnight we changed the network to include some Vlans and since then the Upload/Downloads speeds have been ignored. At the same tiem we also changed firewalls. I would have thought that neither events would have effected Vuze but apparently something has changed. Areyou able to point me in the right direction?
Thanks
July 24th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Howdy Dave,
Thanks for this great Plug-In! Now I can have vuze (aka Azureus) 3.1.1.0 running during the day and not have my dad gripping that I’m “slowing down” the network. Things were fine until his desktop went down and he went to use the laptop full time.
I just great reduce the upload speed during the day and now we are all happy. Thanks again.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Hi There,
First of all, excelent work (it was just what i needed, and it stoped the torrents perfectly) but i have a question,.. Why do I still have a “residual download” after the hour scheduled to stop, with all torrents stoped?…
I can only use Azureus V.2.3.0.1.4 (i’ve noticed that even the stoped torrents keep my internet conection (burning at 100Kb/s) any explanation (based on the plugin or not?)
July 30th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Hi Dave,
My peak download times are from 12.00 midday to 2 am and offpeak from 2 am to 12.00 midday. I tried entering 12.00 midday to 2 am to pause downloads during these times, but I get the message ‘start time is after end time’. Why wont it let me pause the downloads during these times so I can take advantage of the 2 am to 12.00 midday offpeak times ? Please help.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:48 am
how to install it?
i have put the file in
C:\Users\Addycool\AppData\Roaming\Azureus\plugins
but when i click on “Scan for Plugins” in vuze nothing happens.
please help.
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 am
You sir, are awesome!
August 7th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Running Speed Scheduler 1.4 on a Mac with Azureus 3.1.1.0 and there’s something strange going on. I want to schedule uploads at 5k and suspend all downloads. Speed Scheduler throttles the uploads OK but when I check ‘pause downloads’ the 5k upload speed limit is ignored and reverts to line capacity. My workaround is to limit downloads to 1k. It’s repeatable.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Re Vista access denied problems. I found that by installing “just for me” not “for all users” I overcame the problems
August 12th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Hi Dave,
Thanks for Speed Scheduler, I’ve been using it for a while on my old XP machine. I’ve recently moved to a new laptop that has Vista installed and I can’t get Speed Scheduler to work – it just ignored any schedule I created.
Do you support Speed Scheduler on Vista?
Thanks
Stephen
August 12th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Hi Dave
I’ve been using SS for a couple of weeks and all was going fine. In the last couple of days something has cocked up and now SS does not want to play. The short version of what is wrong is that it looks like it just not running \ or is stuck on the “Default Speeds” setting.
system is a Win2K3 Std SP2 running under a VMware Server.
512 MB RAM, 1 GB swap, 1 CPU (VMWare P3) and 1 NIC
I have just updated JAVA to 1.6.0_07, this is SUN BTW.
and amy ASzureus is 3.0.3.4.
Last but not least I’m running SS 1.5.2 installd (now) for all users.
I’ve got 3 schedules set (I can send you the file if needed)
00:00 -> 02:00 = Paused downloads
02:00 -> 12:00 = Go full speed
12:00 -> 23:59 = Paused downloads
and I have the app loging in debug mode at the moment. The only real info that I get back (and this is what I think may have bunged it up) is that when I clear on the “Enale SpeedSchedular” I get the following:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.gudy.azureus2.plugins.PluginConfig.setCoreIntParameter(Ljava/lang/String;I)V
at speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerPlugin.setAzureusGlobalDownloadSpeed(SpeedSchedulerPlugin.java:224)
at speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerPlugin.setEnabled(SpeedSchedulerPlugin.java:181)
at speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView$2.handleEvent(SpeedSchedulerView.java:206)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:938)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3682)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3293)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.(SWTThread.java:156)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.createInstance(SWTThread.java:68)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.Initializer.(Initializer.java:102)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main.(Main.java:80)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main.main(Main.java:203)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)
This is what has lead me to update my jave.
The info that I get from the log file looks like this
12-Aug-2008 23:02:36|main|SpeedSchedulerView.setAllWidgetsEnabled( true )
12-Aug-2008 23:02:36|main|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
12-Aug-2008 23:02:37|main|SpeedSchedulerView.delete()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|SpeedSchedulerView.initialize()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|SpeedSchedulerView.initView()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|ImageUtils.getImage( org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display@2d80ae, class speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView, clock.png )
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|ImageUtils.getImage( org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display@2d80ae, class speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView, schedule-small.gif )
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|ImageUtils.getImage( org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display@2d80ae, class speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView, schedule-small-disabled.gif )
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|ImageUtils.getImage( org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display@2d80ae, class speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView, schedule-small-active.gif )
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|IntegerInput.constructor()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|IntegerVerifyListener.verifyText()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Time:8916281
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| this.input:8533528
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Widget: Text {}
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Text: “5″
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Start:0
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| End:1
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Mask:0
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Character:
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Keycode:0
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|IntegerInput.constructor()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|IntegerVerifyListener.verifyText()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Time:8916281
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| this.input:11373036
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Widget: Text {}
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Text: “10″
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Start:0
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| End:1
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Mask:0
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Character:
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Keycode:0
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|SpeedSchedulerView fetched 3 from persistency manager.
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|SpeedSchedulerView.setAllWidgetsEnabled( true )
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|SpeedSchedulerView.refreshScheduleTable()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Drawing Schedule: Up: 50 kbytes/sec, Down: Downloads paused, Days: Everyday, Times: Midnight – 2:00 am, Enabled: true
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Setting image: watchImage.
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Drawing Schedule: Up: Unlimited, Down: Unlimited, Days: Everyday, Times: 2:00 am – 12:00 pm, Enabled: true
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Setting image: watchImage.
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Drawing Schedule: Up: 10 kbytes/sec, Down: Downloads paused, Days: Everyday, Times: 12:00 pm – 11:59 pm, Enabled: true
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main| Setting image: watchImage.
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:48|main|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:49|main|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:50|main|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:51|main|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
12-Aug-2008 23:03:52|main|SpeedSchedulerView.delete()
Any dirdirection on how to fix this \ make it work would be good.
August 12th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I have a problem with my Wifi provider, because my net-traffic is too high, specially upload on my Azureus. It’s true I use my computer 24/7… Any way, I would like stop with uploading the time, when I download, but I can’t find any solution-option. ( Speed Schedule?)
Please help!
Anchorage, Alaska
August 13th, 2008 at 12:31 am
For some reason Speedscheduler has stopped working since the last time it updated. :(
Ive restarted everything and redone the schedule but it just doesnt pause anything during the day when I want it to. Nothing is force started.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:11 am
hi there,
I’ve been using SS for some time now and I love it but for a few days I had an issue with plugin doing automatic start/pause
It seems it doesn’t work for both torrents being downloaded and for seeds being uploaded.
Does anyone has a similar problem? It was working before….
All help much appreciated, thanks
August 13th, 2008 at 4:48 am
I’m sorry people. Someone did a 1.5.2 release without my knowledge (and it wasn’t my code). I’m working on undoing what they did. No need for alarm. I’ll just do a 1.6 release that backs out their (obviously broken) changes.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:04 am
ok, so when can we expect the 1.6?
or should we rollback to the earlier version?
btw: thanks for a quick response. great job!
August 13th, 2008 at 5:09 am
It will be a few days (busy with a couple other jobs). I’d roll back to 1.4 if I were you.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Im using Ubuntu and since the last update this plug in dose not work at all. Were can I get the last version? If it aint broke don’t try and fix it!
August 14th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Take it easy Jim! I didn’t do the “fix”. Someone else did. I’ll fix the “fix” next week.
–Dave
August 14th, 2008 at 5:32 am
I’ve had some luck at getting it going (1.5.2 that is) with Vzue 3.1.1.0
August 15th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Sorry to sound harsh there dave had my grumpy head on in the morning.
August 17th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Just wondering how to roll back to 1.4. I just installed the plugin last night so I don’t have a copy of 1.4.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Is it possible that for the max upload setting when there is no active schedule, that you can allow the “Auto” setting to be enabled that Vuze provides in it’s upload setting?
September 8th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Simply wont start ?
xp windoze pro 2.4ghz 1gig ram.
vuze runs fine, plugin installs ok is Ver 1.52 (tried all 3 ver ), Vuze 3.1.1.0
gets green tick. but time simply expires and no start, write enabled plugins as suggested. log is off, wont run with it on
September 8th, 2008 at 6:32 am
I installed on Vista with SS 1.5.2 and Vuze 3.1.1.0 and with time zone correct and a schedule created it wouldn’t work.
The problem was solved by uninstalling and reinstalling with SINGLE user only.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hi Dave,
Is it safe to update to latest version? I followed your advice and downgraded to 1.4 to solve the issue with the “fix” that was released. Cheers
September 8th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Nope. Not yet.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Here is my situation. Forgive me if you disagree, but here it is: I only want to seed torrents in a certain category. This is simply done by creating a schedule which turns off seeding and applies Everyday, all day (midnight to 11:59PM), and applies to torrents not in said category.
My problem comes in that I would ALSO like to schedule upload speeds for some parts of the day, for the torrents in that category. What happens when I have overlapping schedules is that SS uses the faster of the two speeds. This creates a problem when I set a default speed of say 40KB/s under the all-day everyday schedule, and then say 30KB/s for something like 6PM-11PM. Further any schedule that I would make that is slower than 40KB/s will be ignored.
Is there some possibility of setting priorities for schedules. Thus I could have an all-day everyday schedule which applies to one category but gets overridden by another more specific schedule??
September 9th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Simply wont start ?
xp windoze pro 2.4ghz 1gig ram.
vuze runs fine, plugin installs ok is Ver 1.52 (tried all 3 ver ), Vuze 3.1.1.0
gets green tick. but time simply expires and no start, write enabled plugins as suggested.
– - SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
Sep 9, 2008 5:09:12 PM|Main Thread|Loading scheduled from ‘C:\Documents and Settings\ABC\Application Data\Azureus\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml’
– - – SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
Sep 9, 2008 8:43:54 PM|Main Thread|Loading scheduled from ‘C:\Documents and Settings\ABC\Application Data\Azureus\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml’
– - – SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
9, 2008 9:23:17 PM|ResourceDownloaderTimeout|Loading scheduled from ‘C:\Documents and Settings\ABC\Application Data\Azureus\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml’
OK so why does it not start ??????
September 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I used Speed Scheduler some months ago and was happy with it.
Then I realised that even flat-out at 40 kB/s upload, I would not exceed my ISP regime of 50 GB/month peak time, unlimited 24:00-08:00, so abandoned it.
Now I have “down-sized” to 1 GB. per month – credit crunch, etc. :-(
Just re-installed and _did_ make the mistake of d/ling jar, instead of using Azureus/Vuse wizard. Maybe more obvious instructions required?
All appears now well – waiting for the boost at midnight.
Thanks.
Where did I put my PayPal password? :-)
September 9th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Dave, I am running Fedora 9 x86_64 with Azureus 3.0.4.2-14.fc9 x86_64 (from the repository), java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment 1.6.0 build 1.6.0-b09, SpeedScheduler 1.4. This version of Azureus does not show a plugins menu at the top level or under the Tools menu. I am able to load SS in its own subdirectory in the /home/bobk/.azureus/plugins/speedscheduler subdirectory. The Options / plugins list does show SpeedScheduler enabled. I also see an entry for Options / Speed Scheduler with a form for check schedules, etc. I copied my SavedSchedules.xml file from the Windows version into the speedscheduler subdirectory. I just don’t see how to find the SS form that allows me to enable SS or create and edit schedules as is found in the Windows version.
I tried Masuta’s suggestions as I understood them. I opened a Terminal window. (Set my default to the speedscheduler subdirectory (necessary?)). At the command prompt:
set Plugin.SpeedScheduler.speedscheduler.enabled 1 int
azureus
This is the output in speedscheduler.log:
– - – SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
Sep 9, 2008 10:14:01 PM|Main Thread|Loading scheduled from ‘/home/bobk/.azureus/plugins/speedscheduler/SavedSchedules.xml’
Core: 101ms for Initializing Plugin: Speed Scheduler
Core: 50ms for Initializing Plugin: Tracker Static Pages
Azureus runs normally without heeding the schedule constraints.
Is there any other information that you need?
If there is a way to run SS in Fedora 9 / Azureus 3, please give a step-by-step description that we can follow. Thanks, Bob.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Well I guess due to the lack of support I will have to some other scheduler.
maybe write my own
September 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Please do write your own! In fact, I know of a great starting point: the Speed Scheduler source code!
September 20th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I’ve finished work on Speed Scheduler version 1.6.0 that adds support for the built in Auto Speed feature of Azureus and also brings back support for Azureus version 2.5. It’s in beta now, so if you’d like to test it, that would be appreciated. Download it here.
Thanks!
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:40 am
The 1.6.0 version is now available for CVS users automatically from the Azureus web site. You can download it here.
September 24th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Hey im really shit at this but I just wana know why that my torrents won’t start up when I schedule them… I have them all stopped and was just wondering how to make them start up when I schedule them… Do I need to change time formats? I live in sydney australia and I have a mac computer.
Regards,
Dane.
September 24th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Dane, if you stop your torrents manually, Speed Scheduler won’t re-start them for you. It will only re-start torrents that it stopped itself. So turn them back on, setup your schedules, and let Speed Scheduler work its magic.
September 24th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Hi there,
Having some issues with the 1.6.0 version and Vuze 3.1.1.0.
The plugin installs fine, and my set schedules are remembered when I restart Vuze, but the do not activate on start up, the defualt speed values option has the green tick. If I untick then retick the Enable SpeedScheduler box, the correct schedule then becomes active, but Vuze still ignores the 25kb/sec upload limit I have set. Instead the upload limit seems to be controlled by Auto-Speed.
It also seems to ignore the 50kb/sec download limit also. But just for a second 50k does flash on the download speed area, then disappears. The upload speed varies and has the * next to it.
Time of day is correct in SpeedScheduler by the way.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Hey Dave,
It seems I jumped the gun a bit!
The scheduler plugin works fine if I use Auto-Speed in classic mode, but falls over using Beta. Bit of a shame as the Beta mode seems to adjust really well to my fluctuating upload speeds. But I can live with using classic if it means I can get SpeedScheduler working as that wull ensure I am not getting throttled by my ISP for uploading too much :)
Thanks!
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 am
For those that are watching this article, I just released version 1.6.0 of Speed Scheduler which should patch things up for most of you.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:23 am
I have 1.6 installed, but I still see it setting the upload speed to the “Maximum upload speed” specified when Auto Speed is enabled in Vuze. Do I need to set “Maximum upload speed” to 0 to get it to set the Auto Speed value?
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:29 am
Hi Steve -
I worked on the new auto-speed support in Speed Scheduler. Can you tell me, in Vuze, are you using “Auto-Speed (classic)” or “Auto-Speed (beta)”? I use Azureus 2.5, which has no “beta” mode, so this is not supported by Speed Scheduler.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I’m using Vuze 3.1.1.0, using classic mode. I had the Speed Scheduler rule’s “Maximum upload speed” set to 10 before. After setting it to 0, it seemed like auto speed was being applied. Hard to tell though, given how it fluctuates.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:34 am
I have tried many times to install speed sched but I keep geting access denide although I installed it for all useers and I have looked at your message boad
I am useing windows Vista can you help
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 am
Have you tried installing it “just for the current user”?
October 4th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I’m trying to get this scheduler to work but it’s not doing anything. I have all of the times set, the download limits are set, and the upload limits are set, but nothing is happening. The files just run at max speed.
October 4th, 2008 at 8:39 am
What will happen if I turn off Auto speed?
Because I have turned it off and speed scheduler seems to be working now.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Thanks for such an awesome bit of software.
A quick note that here in Australia, we went into daylight saving and even though pc time updated automatically, speedscheduler did not- even restarting azureus did not fix this.
I’m sure a reboot will do the trick though!
Cheers,
rob
October 5th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hi,
Im in Australia and i have noticed the same problem. Speed Scheduler shows a different time to the system clock. Tried to restart Azureus and the problem is still there.
Anyone got this to work with daylight saving in Aus?
Cheers
Sanjay
October 5th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Update- rebooting doesnt seem to help either.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Hi, this is an absolutely brilliant add on. My broadband is limited to 30GB/month on week days between 8am and 10pm. This add on really makes it easy for me to not go over my limit.
Thanks Dave for all your hard work.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:08 am
I’m having the exact same problem as Nathan’s.. any solution yet? Thanks :)
October 7th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
thanks dave the idea with moving az out of program files worked
October 8th, 2008 at 4:43 am
I get the following error after after I installed speed scheduler and I run a speed test in Vuze : requesting test…
Test failed: Test aborted: Scheduling of the test failed: No challenge returned from speed test scheduling service, NetworkAdminSpeedTestScheduledTestImpl::schedule::343,NetworkAdminSpeedTestScheduledTestImpl::start::161,SpeedTestPanel::runTest::371,SpeedTestPanel$3::runSupport::321,AEThread::run::71
I unintsalled and reinstalled and still get a maximum of 1Kb/s download.
PLease, please please help me!
October 9th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Dont worry, I fixed the problem.
If I try to make a new schedule it gave me a error that I do not have permissions to copy to that folder. I’m running Vista which I’m guessing is causing the problem. I reinstalled speed scheduler but only for me and not for all users and the error disappeared and my speeds went back to normal. Speed test works as well.
Thanks
October 10th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Hi There.
Being in Australia I have had the same issue with Speed Scheduler and the change to DST time. I tried the DST update and this made no effect. At all times the clock displayh in the Speed Scheduler window was 1 hour behind the system clock.
I have just updated to Java 6 Version 7. And now the clock display in Speed Scheduler is now correct. Will not know until tomorrow if Speed Scheduler is actually working to this.
From some reading of the Java forums, it appears that the Java Core has it’s own list of DST settings for countries, and does not rely on Operating System Knowledge. There are bug issues with Sun relating to DST in previous years, so I don’t find it surprising that the update to the Java Core may resolve the issue.
Regards
Gavin
October 10th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I was wondering if it was a Java bug. Thanks Gavin for figuring that out! So that’s the solution to all those who have been asking: Upgrade to Java 6 version 7 and restart Azureus.
Thanks again Gavin!
–Dave
October 12th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I also am in Australia, I already had the latest version of Java Runtime Environment installed, and it has not made any difference – Speed Scheduler is still running an hour off kilter. Rebooting my PC does nothing useful.
Something is awry.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
It’s amazing how many time-related problems Speed Scheduler has had in Australia. I’ve never had a time-related complaint from users in any other country. Something weird must be going on, because there’s no code in Speed Scheduler that looks like: if(country == Australia)… Weird?
October 13th, 2008 at 2:01 am
I’ve been using speed scheduler 1.6 windows for a while now with no probs. Recently, not sure why, when set not to download when the time expires to start downloading they don’t start. They just show as queued. The have good seed etc and only start if i manually restart Vuze. Not sure if this problem is vuze or speed scheduler. Although i have disabled it and still everything just goes to queued and not downloading. If i restart then downloads start okay. Any ideas and help would be appreciated.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Sean: Could it be that AutoSpeed is playing tricks on you?
October 14th, 2008 at 12:33 am
I have checked auto speed in the settings of vuze. Its set for classic and isn’t enabled for either? . Once again i have spped set to start at 2am to 12 pm dowloading. When i check in the morning i have like 10 kbs. I restart vuze and then everything fires back up to what im expecting around 60-80 kbs. Any ideas
October 15th, 2008 at 5:53 am
It could be that there are just lots of speed scheduler users in australia:)
Most internet plans here have on peak and off peak bandwidth caps.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I have a vague memory the same problem happened to me last DST change, and it corrected itself after the US changed. Is my Java providing my time based on US timezones, and just adding 15 hours, instead of from my local settings?
October 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Probably: Never put it past Sun to screw that up.
October 18th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I have used Azureus for some time but am new to Speed Schduler. I have just downloaded it, but cant get it to actually start or stop one of my downloads. As far as I can tell I have got the times set up correctly, and the green tick comes on, it just doesnt effect the downloads that I have currently going. Please help.
October 18th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Corey: Respectfully, that’s like saying, “My car won’t start. Can someone help?” We’d love to help, but we’ll need more info.
October 18th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Ok, I have installed the speed scheduler plug in and i know that the time settings on it work, because i have tested these and the schedule starts and stops ok. But it doesnt start or stop any of the downloads that i am currently doing. i have labelled these correctly. I have noticed previous posts stating a similar problem and you have suggested that it wont start or stop downloads that you have stopped yourself. I have since started downloading something and tried to make it stop using the scheduler, however this did not work. Thoughts ?
October 18th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Have you turned on logging (under Options -> Plugins -> Speed Scheduler)? Perhaps the logger will tell you why it’s not working.
October 18th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Log level is set as ‘nothing’ should i change it to ‘information’ ?
October 18th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I’m not sure what level of detail will reveal the problem so play with it until you get something informative in the log file.
October 18th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
where is the log file located ?
October 18th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
just to clarify, if i set up the speed scheduler for a specific time and have a download already going, will it stop at the time that i have asked it to stop ?
October 18th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
The log file is located wherever you tell it to be in that same options screen.
And yes, Speed Scheduler should pause downloads that you leave running, when your schedule arrives, provided you check the box “Pause downloads”. :)
October 18th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
So dave, if i went to bed at midnight and wanted the dowloads to start at 4 and stop at 8, how would i do that ? Cheers
October 18th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
You would have 3 schedules:
From Midnight to 4:00AM: Downloads paused
From 4:00AM to 8:00AM: Downloads not paused, and set some max speed (or 0 for unlimited)
From 8:00AM to 11:59PM: Downloads paused
Make sure you pick the days of the week also.
October 18th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Thanks, you have answered my question. I was completely confused thinking that if i set 1 schedule from 4 to 8am that it would start and stop it. THanks for your help. CHAMPION !
October 18th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Happy to help. Free tech support on Saturday nights happens to be my specialty. Cheers! :)
October 18th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
dave, can you not start the initial pause from 11.30pm the night before to 4am ?
October 18th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
For schedules that go past midnight, have to break them into two schedules (see FAQ above), like this (just an example):
From 11:30pm to 11:59pm: Do something
From Midnight to 4:00am: Do the same thing
October 18th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Thanks again Dave. How about the default speeds, do these work for all downloads for all times that there is no schedule running ?
October 18th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Read the text under the default speeds section: Those speeds are used when no other schedule applies.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:59 am
Speed Scheduler worked flawlessly until I installed Vuze 4.0.0 it’s as if the time isn’t correct (ie, it doesn’t realise when it should be engaged – though sometimes it does). Then there are times when it shows as active but it is not governing the speed. Since 4.0.0, I’ve changed to the new view (not the classic My Torrents view). Would love to see SS back up and functioning.
October 24th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I have attempted to download the version 1.6.0 Speed Scheduler via the download icon
When the plugin downloads to my computer the file download window that usually has three buttons: open save cancel does not have the open button. It shows : find save cancel. If I save to my desktop when I try to open the file it then looks for a compatable program to do so. I remember that the extension just loads into the old Azureus program automatically. At the moment I have a file saved to my desktop. The file hasnt loaded into the Vuze program. Can you plese help
October 24th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Do you plan on making this fully compatible with vista?
uTorrent’s inbuilt download timer doesn’t have this kind of issue.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Chris,
Care to share what kind of computer you have? Windows, Mac, Linux?
Also, what color is it?
–Dave
October 24th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
technix: Playing the competition card, are we?
October 26th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Hi,
Thanks for the fine product! I’ve just changed computers, and attempted to install speed scheduler (Mac OS X). I’m running into problems pausing and re-starting torrents. Pausing works fine, but re-started never occurs. I think the problem might be in the pause phase. Logging produces about a dozen repeated messages similar to this:
26-Oct-2008 22:40:29|SpeedScheduler|addPausedDownload( org.gudy.azureus2.pluginsimpl.local.download.DownloadImpl@f939d2 )
26-Oct-2008 22:40:29|SpeedScheduler|weAlreadyPauseDownload( org.gudy.azureus2.pluginsimpl.local.download.DownloadImpl@f939d2 )
26-Oct-2008 22:40:29|SpeedScheduler|wePausedDownload( org.gudy.azureus2.pluginsimpl.local.download.DownloadImpl@f939d2 )
26-Oct-2008 22:40:29|SpeedScheduler|getPausedDownloadsFile( )
26-Oct-2008 22:40:29|SpeedScheduler|Error: Paused torrents file not found, returning false.
I’m not sure if it’s a permission error, but where are the files it is referring to?
Cheers!
October 26th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hi,
I have a small problem with Speed Scheduler. When I enable it – it works fine, but when I disable it – it goes off, but the transfers are still at the restricted level. In order to get them to the limit again I have to go to Tools/Options/Transfer and put 0s in Download and Upload speed manually.
Is there any way to fix this?
Thanks
Regards
c0nfu33io
October 26th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
For the record, the (old) date for DST in the US just passed, and my hour-off Speed Scheduler is now on the right time again.
Because they’re not here, I blame Java.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hi,
There are multiple users on the home PC we have, and since we have a cap, it means we all have to share. Unfortunately, some of the others seem to just download a whole bunch of files with Azureus and we are constantly reaching the cap limit before the end of the month.
If I install Speed Scheduler, will I be able to configure it and set it all up then hide it in the background completely invisible, and let it run when I’m not using the PC, without anyone else knowing? Normally I set up a download/upload limit before I leave the PC but as soon as anyone else gets on it to use Azureus they just turn them all to unlimited and chew through the limit quickly.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Great stuff been searching for one of these plugins for a while. I love how downloads automatically restart 1 minute after the schedule finishes and stop automatically works very well with new Vuze / Azureus. The other ones I found just limited the speed to 1kb/s which slowed the whole torrent down.
Macbook Pro OSX10.5.5, 2.2 GHz 2GB/667Mhz DDR2 SDRAM
Vuze 4.0.0.2
November 1st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
BTW: The time issue mentioned before seems to be resolved in Australia – maybe it’s a new version of Speed Scheduler maybe it’s the new Vuze client but works like a dream.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Hi! I’ve got a normal windows XP dell laptop. The speedscheduler has the right time and everything but it doesn’t obey the midnight -12pm rule though i’ve enabled it. Could it be because I chose a wrong setting on installation and have to reinstall it? If so, could you please show me how? Thanks!
November 7th, 2008 at 4:02 am
and what about to have an option to “resume all torrents” or “force start all torrents”? im in school hostel and we have 700MB/day upload limit and the counter is refreshed every 10 minutes (starts from 0 at midnight). so at 23:50 we can start to upload with no limit and this setting would be really useful :)
November 10th, 2008 at 3:49 am
I am trying to stop my downloads during the day but keep my uploads going (uploads dont effect my monthly limit), however it is stopping both. This occurs with auto speed both on or off.
I am using v1.6.0
November 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
It has corrected itself, apparently when first put in plce it will not upload until you have gone through the schedule once.
November 12th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
while attempting to run for the first time i.e. have just downloaded the speed scheduler I am getting the error “Failed to load Main-class manifest attribute form C\temp\speedscheduler_1.6.0.jar”
Totally new to Vuze so please pardon me if I am missing something obvious.
Windows XP
Thanks
November 12th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
The previous comment has a typo “form” should be “from”.
November 12th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
SS 1.6, Vuze 4.0.0.2, OS X 10.4.11. Just updated to Vuze 4 from Vuze 3 and SS no longer works. I have a simple schedule to limit upload speed to 10 kBs during the day (7am to 9pm every day) but the upload speed remains set at the default in the Vuze Prefs.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Thanks for a great product. Have been using it for a while.
Using vuze 3.1.x/WinXp Sp3 and it all works as it should do. Love it, since my ISP gets very upset if I use bittorrent on evenings.
Not sure if this new option to apply rules by category actually works. I have tried using two rules, 1 for 20k up for one specific category and 1 for 10k up for all categories. Uncategorised torrents are still uploading at 20k. Never mind, it’s still the best plugin ever and my main reason to stay with Azureus/Vuze.
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:21 am
hi dave, just wanted to say thanks for the great plugin, you’ve saved my connection. :o)
I have a suggesiton for you though which ould really help me and hopefully other users of the plugin.
my upload bandwidth is very limited and seeding chokes my downloads so I have been using speed scheduler to pause seeding while I’m downloading stuff and then manually forcing seeding once all leeching is completed.
this woul be very easy (I think) to fix if there was a “pause seeds whilst leeching” option in the scheduler. would this be possible to add to the next version of speed scheduler? that way I could make the most of my seeding capabilities. it’s a pain when I find out that I’ve forgotten all about Az all day and not force started my completed torrents and have wasted time that I could have been seeding.
thanks again for the great plugin.
November 24th, 2008 at 3:49 am
@ vibe666: seeding should choke your download speeds if you limit it. I can’t remember where I read it, but if you limit your upload speeds to something like 80-90% of your line maximum, it will not interrupt downloads, and also maximise overall upload speeds. Try googling for more specific information.
November 24th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
hi,
i am using a mac and i have tested the plugin and it does not seem to be pausing my downloads during the times i want it to… please help
thanks :)
November 26th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Hi Dave,
I have a problem with limiting max download and max upload using your program. It seems it doesn’t work with Vuze 4.0. I set dl and ul speed to 10 kbps, but in fact i still have the max for dl and ul speed are unlimited. and vuze seems disobey speed scheduler. what should I do?
thx
pras
December 10th, 2008 at 4:11 am
for this getting a access is deny, error for schedule.xml (could have the extension wrong and not stuffing mine up again to check lol.
google how to take ownership of a folder, once your user has ownership its doesn;t complain one bit.
thankfully i had registry key that allows me to take ownership in 2 clicks (right click, take ownership)
and another registry key to remove that option when not needed.
December 10th, 2008 at 11:16 am
@ dave: sorry, but i’ve tried pretty much every combination of up/down limits and it’s always been a problem and adding this feature to ASS (ooh, bad acronym :o) would seem like a simple and worthwhile way to fix it.
December 14th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Java 1.5.0_16
Apple Computer, Inc.
SWT v3436, carbon
Mac OS X v10.4.11, i386
V4.0.0.4 1 az3
Great plugin , many thanks…
I am new to Vuse and to Speed Scheduler , i have installed SS for all users.
I have set the schedules up to pause downloads at Midday to 11:59PM , Midnight till 2AM.
This works fine but the downloads will not restart ! Can you advise me on what to do to get the downloads to restart ?
December 14th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
okayjustalittle: Your question has been answered here a few times. Look through the other comments, and you may just stumble across an answer.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Hi Dave,
Let me join the chorus and say thank you for a fantastic plugin!
I’ve run into a snag though. Azureus 4.0.0.4 and plugin 1.6 on Vista (installed for all users, running as admin on latest JRE). Current setting is all day/every day schedule, 150k limit up, stop seeds, no auto-speed active.
Every time a download finishes, it lists as “stopping” in the seed area but never gets to “stopped” status. Furthermore, the other downloads go down to zero download speed (and some very very slight upload). There appears to be no limits imposed by the plugin or Azureus, they just dwindle and die. Once I disable the plugin, everything reverts to normal, no restart required.
Any idea what this might be? (I hadn’t activated logging, but I have now, so I’ll see if I can find anything there). The error appears to be consistent, i.e. happens every time a download is complete.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
olesk:
That is odd indeed. I have never personally witnessed that behavior. I’m hoping your log file will contain some clues.
By the way, thank you for including so many clear and well-written details about your problem.
–Dave
December 16th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Hi Dave,
Thank for coming back so quickly. I had to leave my machine off for a while and am just about to start testing it now. It does however appear that from last night I have a long string of identical errors. I don’t know if they happened at the time I had these “lockups”, but it might be related so I figured I would include a sample. I’ll let you know once I have one that I can confirm happens at the time I observe the problem (I tried a tiny torrent (a plugin), but didn’t get the problem, so I will let some of my larger normal downloads run their course).
Dec 16, 2008 1:01:25 AM|SpeedScheduler|org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Device is disposed
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3777)
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3695)
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3666)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.error(Display.java:1180)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.asyncExec(Display.java:648)
at speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView.scheduleSelectionChanged(SpeedSchedulerView.java:856)
at speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerThread.notifyScheduleSelectionListeners(SpeedSchedulerThread.java:807)
at speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerThread.run(SpeedSchedulerThread.java:133)
FYI: I download to a normal HD, and completed torrents are moved to a different directory on the same HD.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Hi again Dave,
I just experienced the problem again this morning. The error listed above did not show up in the log files this time though. The first large download completed and are listed as “Stopping”, but has remained so for an hour. The other downloads are at zero download speed, running at full upload speed. Once I disable plugin, they all revert back to full download speeds and the finished download goes to “Stopped” status. I had my logging at “Error” level. Have set it to “Debug” now and will try to catch it again.
December 27th, 2008 at 10:00 am
I have had the same problem with seeds getting stuck in stopping status. I have the same setup and config as olesk. The one thing I noticed when I have the speed scheduler installed but no schedule applied, is f I manually try stopping a seed while it is in checking+seeding status it will go into the stuck “stopping” state. From playing around with it a bit, I think it may be some kind of race condition where speed scheduler is stopping the seed before it has been fully checked.
The other thing I have noticed is that when the transfers go to near zero and one or more seeds are stuck in stopping, I have to kill the processes, simply exiting vuze does not stop the main process.
I noticed this problem started shortly after vuze auto updated
I have had to uninstall speed scheduler for now because of this problem
Java 1.6.0_11
Sun Microsystems Inc.
SWT v3448, win32
Windows Vista v6.0, x86
V4.0.0.4 1 az2
January 1st, 2009 at 12:46 am
I have used Azureus for a while, but have never been a “sophisticated” user. I’ve updated to Vuze 4.0.0.4, Java 1.6.0_01, with Vista 6.0.
I’ve not come across SS before now, but cannot get it to work on Vuze 4 and therefore have not had it working in my earlier versions of Azureus. Each time I open Vuze I get an error message “Error loading configured schedules: Access is denied”, and the 2 schedules I’ve created (for a total 14 hour pause between midday and 2am) are gone. If I recreate the schedules and don’t restart (so they are still in place) and then start a download, both uploading and downloading commence. I’ve tried creating just before midday, to let the start time of the schedule pass – but that doesn’t work either. I’ve noticed all the time commencts about Australia (another Aussie here) but the time in the SS page is correct.
I’ve done everything I can think of, I’ve read endless FAQ pages, searched any sites that might offer help, untinstalled, re-installed etc etc – but to no avail. Any ideas?
January 1st, 2009 at 9:20 am
BJ: Have you read the comments above about installing the plugin “for all users” vs. “for the current user only”? That may solve your problem.
January 1st, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Dave – did read that in the FAQ and made sure I did that when I reinstalled….
January 1st, 2009 at 1:06 pm
BJ: Can you put the plugin in debug mode and post a log file for us to look at? You can find instructions above.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:39 pm
OK – here is the log file, which I created after applying debug mode and restarting Vuze – hope this is what you are after …..
– - – SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:35 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:36 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:36 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:37 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:37 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:38 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:38 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:39 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:39 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:40 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:40 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:41 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:41 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:42 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:42 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:43 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:43 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:44 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:45 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:46 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:47 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:48 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:49 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:50 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:51 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:52 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:53 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:54 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:55 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:56 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:57 AM|SpeedScheduler|SpeedSchedulerThread looping (we are enabled)…
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:57 AM|SpeedScheduler|SpeedSchedulerThread looping…
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:57 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:58 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:58 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:59 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:35:59 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:00 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:00 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:01 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:01 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:02 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refresh()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:03 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.delete()
– - – SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:43 AM|2nd PluginInitializer Thread|SpeedSchedulerThread.construct()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:43 AM|2nd PluginInitializer Thread|SchedulePersistencyManager.construct()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:43 AM|2nd PluginInitializer Thread|Loading scheduled from ‘C:\Program Files\Azureus\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml’
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:43 AM|2nd PluginInitializer Thread|Unable to load schedules from file: Access is denied
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:43 AM|2nd PluginInitializer Thread|SchedulePersistencyManager.getInstance()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:43 AM|2nd PluginInitializer Thread|SchedulePersistencyManager.addScheduleChangeListener()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:43 AM|SpeedScheduler|SpeedSchedulerThread looping…
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:44 AM|SpeedScheduler|SpeedSchedulerThread looping (we are enabled)…
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:44 AM|SpeedScheduler|SpeedSchedulerThread looping…
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|SchedulePersistencyManager.getInstance()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.initialize()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.initView()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|ImageUtils.getImage( org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display@65394b, class speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView, clock.png )
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|ImageUtils.getImage( org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display@65394b, class speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView, schedule-small.gif )
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|ImageUtils.getImage( org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display@65394b, class speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView, schedule-small-disabled.gif )
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|ImageUtils.getImage( org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display@65394b, class speedscheduler.SpeedSchedulerView, schedule-small-active.gif )
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|IntegerInput.constructor()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|IntegerVerifyListener.verifyText()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Time:38981873
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| this.input:13482579
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Widget: Text {}
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Text: “0″
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Start:0
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| End:1
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Mask:0
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Character:
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Keycode:0
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|IntegerInput.constructor()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|IntegerVerifyListener.verifyText()
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Time:38981873
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| this.input:23885293
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Widget: Text {}
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Text: “0″
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Start:0
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| End:1
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Mask:0
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Character:
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner| Keycode:0
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|Loading scheduled from ‘C:\Program Files\Azureus\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml’
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|Error loading configured schedules: Access is denied
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.setAllWidgetsEnabled( true )
Jan 2, 2009 10:36:46 AM|MainRunner|SpeedSchedulerView.refreshScheduleTable()
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
how do i change the granularity of speed scheduler? i am using windows vista. also i had a problem in which an error would be displayed that schedule cannot be loaded access is denied. the error was eliminated when i turned off user access control is there any other way ?
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
ameya:
About granularity: Go into Tools -> Options -> Plugins -> Speed Scheduler and their is a granularity setting there.
About user access controls: Vista is a big, smelly, pile of steaming turd. I’m truly sorry that it’s so hard to use.
–Dave
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Hi… it looks like you ‘ve done a great job, but in my Ubuntu Linux amd64 when I set a New Schedule it isn’t showing up in the list, so I actually cannot set any schedule. I ‘ve installed the pluging for “all users” using the root account.
Running it from the shell I don’t get any error code during the clicks in the Scheduler. However, before running the plugin I got:
ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/usr/$LIB/libartsdsp.so.0′ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/usr/$LIB/libartsdsp.so.0′ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Are these related? how could I use speed scheduler?
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Ameya – I’m sorry to ask a stupid question, but where will I turn off user access control, as this sounds like the exact problem I’m having with schedules not being loaded…. Currently my Vuze is set at “beginner” – or is this setting somewhere in Vista? thanks
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Constantine: You installed it as root, but are you also *running* Azureus as root? Or some other user?
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
BJ: It’s in Vista, and here is a method for disabling it:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-uac-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista/
They claim that disabling User Access Control will make your computer less secure, but in my opinion, that’s not true, since everyone clicks “Allow” every time those popups show up anyway, even if they don’t know what they mean (and most people don’t, since the messages are less than useful).
January 4th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Dave,
Sorry I didn’t manage to get back to you earlier with my test of the “torrents-get-stuck-in-”stopping mode”-when-using-Speed-Scheduler (x-mas intervened). Actually, after a lost of testing I managed to reproduce the error *without* Speed Scheduler installed, so I think that pretty much clears your plugin of any wrongdoing. What appears to be a problem though, which is not related to the plugin, is if you choose to, for example, download your data to the C: drive and then use completion moving to a different disk, say D:. If the files are very large (in the 4-12GB range) Azureus appears to croak when moving/checking/seeding. Small files work well (like plugins), but huge files seems to sink Azureus. Downloading and moving within the same disk seems to work. Vista and large files suck butt I’m afraid (and don’t get me started to the SMB implementation on large files – ARRRGGGHHH!): Sorry, had to get that out of my system ;)
Anyways, in conclusion: I believe it’s a Azureus/Vista/large files issue…
January 15th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Speed scheduler worked a treat! At first it didn’t and i was tearing my hair out. I looked a bit closer at my schedule and I had 7pm instead of 7am!
Silly bastard I am.
Great plugin – thank you.
CB
January 29th, 2009 at 12:34 am
The Jar file “speedscheduler_1-6.0.jat” couldn’t be launched. Help anyone? Please.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:01 am
thanks for the great plugin- my question is- how do I make Speed Scheduler start WHEN I START VUZE? I currently have to start SS, then click ‘plugins’ from the toolbar, then select Speed Scheduler, and- then it’s up-and-running. any way to have it start every time?
OS: Win XP Pro
(I only have one login, and yes, it’s an admin account.)
thanks, Dave!
~R.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Is it possible to make your awesome plugin *pause* the downloads 24/7 except for certain times where it’ll unpause them?
I want to pause all my transfers (rather than cap the upload 1K) as that’ll save my router from being overloaded.
February 10th, 2009 at 2:09 am
I’m running a PC with vista, and when I try to set a schedule (awesome idea btw) I get an arror message in vuze saying
‘error saving schedule: C:\program files\vuze\plugins\Speed Scheduler\savedschedules.xml (Access is denied)
not only does it not limit the up/downloads when I set a schedule, it also doesn’t save the schedule if I close and reopen azureus….
February 19th, 2009 at 12:09 am
I am having the same problem as Amanda, I have checked that i downloaded it for al users and that i have administrative access to windows but still it says Error saving new schedule C;\Program Files\Azurus\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml (Access is denied)
February 26th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
i am getting an error before installing the plugin. I am using windows vista and trying to install speedschedular_1.6.0.jar well the error says “failed to load main-class manifest attribute from” and then nothing happens i dont know what to do.. please help me..
March 8th, 2009 at 5:58 am
In order to get around the problem of writing to the Program Files folder in Vista, I took ownership of the Vuze\Plugins folder using this handy shell add-in:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/
March 10th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I am also having the same problem as Amanda. We have just got a new computer and are running Windows Vista. I have installed Speed Scheduler 1.6.0 and am running Vuse 4.1.0.4 – Is there a problem with Speed Scheduler and Vista?
Is Mike’s Solution the answer?
March 15th, 2009 at 12:27 am
I have the same problem as Mihir & Ankit. On XP SP2 and Vuze 4 when I try to run the SS installation, I get an error msg “Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from SpeedScheduler_1.4.jar”
Why is this happening? I also see that Dave has not answered the question yet!
March 17th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Jawahar: Don’t use “Get Plugins” to install. Use Installation Wizard. I know it’s not obvious from either Vuze or the SpeedScheduler instructions, but should circumvent the error you’re seeing.
March 17th, 2009 at 6:57 am
I’m trying to use the environment variable to get SS to run properly. I’ve tried setting tz to GMT+10, GMT+11, GMT+12 without making any difference.
I have everyday schedules set up for 12pm-11.59pm and Midnight-2am. SS never seems to find the Midnight-2am slot. It’s like it thinks the first slot is longer than 12 hours.
I’ve tried setting the environment variable as a User Variable and as a System Variable, but it makes no difference. Yes I do restart Vuze before testing.
——
I also notice that SS doesn’t tick the schedule it is using when you load Vuze. I have to disable SS then re-enable it before it works properly.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
It seems that while setting the tz variable doesn’t help SS, it does confuse Last.fm which now tells me it can’t figure out my timezone and so won’t allow me to scrobble.
March 22nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
To – Mike March 8th, 2009 at 5:58 am :
dude you rock !! thanks for that link to take ownership of files and folders in Windows Fista…. Finally the scheduler seems to be working ! ! ! and now my partner won’t kill me for sucking the heck out of our d/l limits coz I can finally set it to offpeak only (2am-midday :S weird)
Thanks a million ! !
March 29th, 2009 at 3:15 am
Hi guys, I seem to have a prob with SS. I use Vuze 4.1.0.4 and have been looking for some sort of scheduler for some time as iinet has its offpeak downloads from 0200 to 1200 hrs so this is when I would like Vuze to download. I installed SS 1.6 and sceduled it to download 2 am to 12 pm everday at unlimited speed. The enable speed scheduler is ticked. I only have 1 download atm on Vuze but it hasnt stopped and is still downloading at 1800 hrs. The only difference is the uploading is unlimited whereas it is normally set to 30 b/s in Vuze so something has changed. It all installed okay, all users, and no problem on using the scheduler. Ive stopped and started Vuze several times to see if the SS would go.
Anyone got any ideas or comments (Keep them simple pl)
Cheers John
April 13th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Hi, Got a schedule set up for downloads to occur from midnight to 6am on Speed Scheduler but it doesn’t seem to do anything. Torrents will start to download as soon as I open them. Please help as I have download limits between 8am and midnight. Running Mac OS X 10.5.6
April 14th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Same issue as some those above – scheduled to download from 1am – 7am but the download starts straight away. Isn’t there a step-by-step guide on how to use this specific speed scheduler ? The SS dowloaded and installed OK, I’m up-to-date with all my software and ticked all the boxes mentioned by Dave e.g. “all users” etc.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:32 am
i hope i`t will work again, it`s a very good thing
April 15th, 2009 at 11:34 am
thank you
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I have just installed SS via Vuze installation wizard. I have a pc using Windows XP. I have no idea how to set up a schedule and cannot find a step by step instruction to do so. I want to set Vuze to start downloading at 0100 hrs and to stop at 0700 hrs. I would appreciate an explanation of the process of setting a schedule.
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:04 am
Hey Dave, cheers for the plugin, but ….
Yep, I have same problem as Adam above, i set the schedules properly, and activate them, but they don’t kick in, even after restarting vuse. I’ve tried a total pause, or limiting the download speed, neither work
Mac OSX 10.5.4
Vuse 4.2.0.2
Please Help
Jason
May 4th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I have installed speed scheduler with vuze on windows xp. i have set up three schedules. to run with my isp limits on downloads. basically 4am to 9am no limit downloading, but paused uploads. then from 9:01am to 12:00pm no downloads, but no limit uploads, and then the same for 12:01am to 3:59am no downloads but no limit uploads. the scheduler doesnt change from on setting to the next, it gets stuck at the 4am one, and my downloads speed turns orange. speed scheduler has worked before on my computer but since a reload of os and others it hasnt worked.
This is my rules as per your schedules.xml file.
This is the log from last night, where it hasnt worked properly. it start the schedule. then has turned the download speed to orange and i get 0kb’s downloaded.
– - – SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
– - – SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
May 4, 2009 3:47:39 PM|Main Thread|Loading scheduled from ‘E:\Program Files\Vuze\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml’
– - – SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
May 5, 2009 12:04:35 AM|2nd PluginInitializer Thread|Loading scheduled from ‘E:\Program Files\Vuze\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml’
– - – SpeedScheduler Logger initialized. – - –
May 5, 2009 9:25:12 AM|Main Thread|Loading scheduled from ‘E:\Program Files\Vuze\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml’
May 5th, 2009 at 1:08 am
He everybody, btw Dave, great plugin
I am having a bit of problems. I have installed the plugin and set my schedules;
i want to download between 3am and 10am and so i have made the right schedules. But i am testing it now, so i just downloaded a torrent, and the plugin is suppose to pause it right? But it keeps on downloading. any suggestions/help please?!!!
May 7th, 2009 at 3:20 am
I am having trouble installing Speed Scheduler.
I am running Mac OS X 10.5.6.
The following message comes up in the plugin installer:
Downloading: [http://torrents.aelitis.com:88/torrents/SpeedScheduler_1.6.0.jar.torrent: torrent,http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugins/SpeedScheduler_1.6.0.jar]
Downloading: SpeedScheduler_1.6.0.jar
Torrent download complete
Installing plugin ‘SpeedScheduler/Speed Scheduler’, version 1.6.0
Data verification stage complete
Version 1.6.0 of plugin ‘SpeedScheduler/Speed Scheduler’ failed to install – /Volumes/Vuze/Vuze.app/Contents/plugins/SpeedScheduler/SpeedScheduler_1.6.0.jar (No such file or directory)
What am i doing wrong?
May 10th, 2009 at 6:37 am
I am using Windows Vista , and I set the torrents to pause during peak time, but they continue to download
May 12th, 2009 at 3:57 am
I think Dave’s gone to ground – no reply to any queries since the beginning of Jan. My posting is above (April 14th) and Jason (May 3rd) is having the same issues – any solutions from anyone?
May 12th, 2009 at 5:48 am
I am using Vista, and i’ve just downloaded speed scheduler and set the schedule, however error message always appear:
“unable to load schedules from file: access is denied”
the download wont be paused automatically for this reason
what am i suppose to do??
i have used vuze for mac, and the speed scheduler works perfectly fine there…
thanks..
May 12th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I also have the problem where Speed Scheduler will start downloads instantly, and at full speed, UNLESS I tell it to ‘pause all downloads’ – in which case there’s always a pretty good chance that the downloads won’t start at the scheduled time.
Using XP…Any ideas?
May 12th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I have not been as responsive as I should. For that I apologize. But hey, what do you expect, it’s free software supported by one dude in his spare time.
For all you people who are having a problem getting Speed Scheduler to start/stop your torrents when you want, I need more info from you (am I starting to sound like a broken record). Just saying “Speed Scheduler doesn’t start or stop my torrents” does not give enough information to help. Telling me your OS (Vista, XP, Mac, Linux) does help, but it’s still not enough. Please read the info on this page about enabling debug logging. That should give you a clue of where to start looking.
Also, it is highly likely that another plugin or Azureus itself is overwriting Speed Scheduler’s requests to change the upload/download speeds. Please look into that. Enable as much logging in Azureus as you can and try to find something that correlates with the problem you are seeing.
All right, folks, signing off. Have fun!
May 12th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Oh and one more thing. For those of you who have already solved your Speed Scheduler problems, why not speak up and help those who have not yet figured out their solutions?
May 14th, 2009 at 5:11 am
hi everyone i need some help im new to this…how do i pause downloads between midday to midnight.. when i try this it says u cant have that time?
thanks
May 14th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Danny,
Setup a schedule to pause from noon to 11:59pm, and setup another schedule to not pause from midnight to noon.
You have to get the “from” and “to” times in order. Technically, midnight is *before* noon, so you can’t go from noon to midnight. You have to go from noon to 11:59pm.
May 18th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Okay folks I have got this working on my Mac OSX 10.5.7
Install: downloaded (SpeedScheduler_1.6.0.jar) to Desktop. Used Installation Wizard to install (Menu: Tools/Plugins/Installtion Wizard), use the wizard to navigate to the (SpeedScheduler_1.6.0.jar or what ever version there is now) on Desktop. Select it and it installed fine. checked it was selected (it auto selects but I still had to check) tick next to it. Do that either by Menu bar:Vuze/prefferense/ plugins/ then check the program ‘speedscheduler’ near bottom on mine. Or just check out the Menu bar: Tools/plugins/ you should see Speed scheduler in the list above the line.
Ready to use:
The most important par to grasp for me was the time setting in Speed Schedule are the times that you DO NOT want the downloads to start.
I set mine to 5:00 am – 11:59 pm. As ISP free download times.. :))
I then chose the torrents I wanted and downloaded the link. The Torrent starts, don’t panic, Speed Schedule will intercept the downloads and stop them all.
When the stop time is over (11:59 pm for me) all torrents that Speed Schedule has stopped will start up and continue till stop time (5:00 am for me)
Category used:
Some things like uploads are unlimited for me. So I selected a torrent in Vuze with my right mouse click over the torrent. navigated down to Assign Category: Add Category: Chose for me ‘midnight’ as my Category.
Then in Speed Scheduler Set up or Edit if you have one already set up. At the bottom: ‘Category Apply this schedule by category selected’. then set it:
‘Only apply this schedule to torrents ‘IN’ this category ‘Midnight’ or your chosen named category.
The select OK and check that ‘SpeedSheduler’ enable button has check box ticket, top left.
Go to all torrents in Vuze and right click them and Assign Category: choose the name you have chosen mine was [Midnight]. All torrents with that category Speed Scheduler will stop during the set times. Those out side that category will continue to do what you have set. i.e. Seed :P
If all is well, you should see your schedule in the speed scheduler window, its like the face of a wrist watch with a green tick on it. If there is not tick and you have set it up as above, I found to un-tick the ‘Enable SpeedScheduler’ button and the re-tick it sorted that out for me.
thats about it. Works a dream. Hope this help those like me who need things spelt out.
Kev.
May 18th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Error!
‘I set mine to 5:00 am – 11:59 pm. As ISP free download times.. :))’
Meant to read
‘I set mine to 5:00 am – 11:59 pm. As ISP free download times are from Midnight onwards.. :))
May 23rd, 2009 at 2:43 am
Hi,
I am running Windows 7 and having trouble getting speed scheduler working. I am getting “ERROR: unable to load schedules from file: access is denied” & “ERROR: error loading configured schedules : access is denied”
Any help is much appreciated :)
May 24th, 2009 at 5:45 am
It occurred to me to run Vuze as the admin – seems to be working fine now :) Thanks ;)
May 31st, 2009 at 12:19 pm
hello,
my Vuze is displaying an error in the right lower corner of the screen : UPnP : mapping Incoming Peer Data Port (UDP/28440) failed…what shall I do?
And besides that, the speed scheduler isn’t starting or stopping my download automatically!!! I have Windows Vista Home Premium, and Vuze is installed in the Program Files and not Program Files 64…and it is installed for all users (basically i am the only user)
Can anyone help please???
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:29 am
Hi I have setup speed sceduler to stop downloads between a certain time but its not stopping downloads.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 am
Kit,
I’d love to help you, but you haven’t given enough information. Read over the other comments on this page, and see if you can’t get started.
–Dave
June 4th, 2009 at 6:55 am
i have tried all suggestions. I am in Australia too. I can get it to work if I put in a shedule download amount but if I choose PAUSE downloads and uiploads it doesnt work..
June 4th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Using Vuze (latest version as of this posting), OS X 10.5.7, Java 1.5.
Doesn’t work with the “Neural (Gudy Alpha)” algorithm. Wouldn’t matter if that didn’t appear (based on a sample size of 1) to be the best autospeed algorithm.
Reproduce as follows:
* set up autospeed to use the Neural algorithm.
* set up Speed Scheduler to limit speed.
* Note DL limit in lower right corer (ie “V [300K] 285.5 kB/s”) briefly change (perhaps to “V [75K] 264.2 kB/s”) before resetting itself to the original limit (in this example, 300K.)
Again, this is on a Mac, latest Vuse, latest OS X, latest plugin version.
-Colin
June 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
hi all
great plugin Dave
i too had dramas with access denied errors!! I found a fix, was easy really all you need to do is set full control permissions at the main directory level where vuze is installed (for me it is c:\program files\vuze)
works a treat
thanks again Dave
:)
June 26th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
hi everyone, im experiencing the same problems as many, ive installed the plug-in and it appears and im stoked, but im half way through downloading a torrent that i have stopped and when i start it up again it doesn’t adhere to the parameters i set via the speed scheduler…
i have set all the times and days i want it to download i just cant seem to get them to work…
June 26th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Hi Dave
got scheduler running without error messages on Vista, by adding full folder permissions on the schedule folder itself. Slight problem though: I open Vuze in the evening (in the middle of a schedule that stops downloads) and it correctly does not try to download anything. I go to bed and Vista no doubt locks me out (probably wrong terminology – you know when you go back to the pc it makes you enter your password again) well before 2am when Scheduler should be restarting downloads. However, it doesn’t seem to restart them. I go back to the pc in the morning, enter my password to get back in and then the downloads which say “downloading” but clearly have done nothing all night suddenly start connecting and downloading. Does this make sense? Any ideas to get round this? cheers!!!
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 am
I can’t get any Vuze plugins on install on Windows 7 RC. Any suggestions?
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:37 am
Just noticed Megan’s solution above. How do you run Vuze as the admin?
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:40 am
David, you want to tell us your error message? What is Vuze telling you?
July 5th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Hi, just install the plugin, I have funy problem i would like to pause the download from 7AM today until 1AM tomorrow, it means i want to simply download from 1AM to 7AM, but it saying “start time is after end time”
July 5th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Ali,
Try creating two schedules:
1. From 7AM – 11:59PM
2. From Midnight to 1:00AM
That should do it.
–Dave
July 8th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
got lot of stuffs but it helps me a lot with this one…thank you to the developer and looking forward to another application in which you could share to us…
July 9th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
OK i have a schedule between 2:30 AM to 10:00 AM and it wont start the downloads that i paused what am i doing wrong??? i get no errors and everything i have speed scheduler enabled all the obvious stuff. Please help!
It even shows the check next to the clock thing but doesnt start them.
Thanks,
James
July 10th, 2009 at 9:08 am
James,
Speed Scheduler will not un-pause a Torrent that you paused manually. That’s on purpose. If you pause it, Speed Scheduler assumes you want it to stay paused. You have to let Speed Scheduler pause it if you want it to also un-pause it.
–Dave
July 30th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Hi
I’m new and would really appreciate some help. I have set up schedules for speed scheduler but I keep getting ërror access is denied”"I’m using Vista.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:33 am
ABS: Look above. Others have solved the same problem by installing the plugin “just for me” instead of “for all users” or by using an admin account to run Vuze/Azureus.
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Windows XP SP2
Azureus 4.2.0.4
Just installed Speed Scheduler. When it is enabled & there is no schedule running (I’ve only set up one at the moment), the default up/down speeds at the bottom of the setup screen don’t kick in. Instead 0 is applied – which is unlimited. I have to disable the schedule I have set up and then these default up/down speeds are applied.
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Rigsby: Can you post your debug log?
August 4th, 2009 at 4:45 am
Dave, I closed and re-started Azureus before I read your post and it’s behaving itself now. Have Speed Sched. enabled and it’s set the up/down speed to what I’ve set it to. If it happens again, I’ll ‘debug’ and post another comment. Thanks for your prompt response.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Hi Dave, thankyou for the product.
I have read so many comments and blogs, but just can’t seem to get it operating. It’s all installed fine I think I might just be putting in dodgey figures.
I was wondering if you could e-mail me please and I can send you a couple of screen dumps to show you my settings.
I’m running plain old Windows ’98.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Jason: Windows 98? Seriously. That’s probably the problem right there. I don’t think tha OS is supported anymore.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I posted a problem earlier (which seemed to sort itself) but I don’t believe it’s working as it should or else I’m missing something. Please bear with me while I’ll try to explain with a simple example.
I’ve set up one schedule in which downloads are paused and only seeding is allowed everyday between 7am and 11am – for torrents in a specific category.
That schedule is currently active/running. Now although there are no torrents in that category, the down/up speeds applied universally (i.e. to everything else), are those defined in the ‘Edit Schedule’ screen for that schedule – which means you have to edit the schedule, untick the boxes, set the speeds, re-tick the boxes and then those speeds are the ones applied to the other torrents (as per the bottom of main screen display).
The down/up speeds used when NO schedule is running are correctly set to those defined at the bottom of the main Speed Scheduler screen, but are not used when a schedule is active. From what I can see it looks like there should ALWAYS be a schedule running (call it ‘default’ if you like) to catch the remaining torrents that you’re not worried about limiting speeds against.
Just one other puzzling thing you say : in answer to “Can SpeedScheduler apply a speed limit based on torrent category?” – you say ‘No’. But surely it’s ‘Yes’ – ‘cos there’s the Category selection at the bottom of the screen !!
Could you throw some light on my confusion. Sorry for being so dumb.
August 8th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Yes, Rigsby, you are right about the category issue. That feature was added after the FAQ was written, and I must have forgotten to update the FAQ. I will get to that some time. :)
August 12th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Hi, trying to download speed scheduler for Mac but the download won’t work.
It says there is a data error.
Help please : )))
August 12th, 2009 at 4:08 am
Hi,
When I try to run the install, i receive the following error:
“Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from …\SpeedScheduler_1.6.0″
I’m running Windows 7, downloading SpeedScheduler 1.6.0
Help!
Damien
August 12th, 2009 at 11:37 am
I am using Vuze 4.2.04 on Windows Vista Home Premium. I am tryin to download and install Speed Scheduler 1.6.0. When I open the file afetr download I am getting a Java Error ‘Failed to load main class…..’. Please help me with this. I would really like to schedule my downloads.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Prasanna: Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing the plugin? Something might have gone wrong during the installation.
Also, make sure you have admin privileges if you are installing the plugin “for all users” instead of “just for me”
August 14th, 2009 at 8:09 am
i am useing windows vista i have installed speed schedular and when i restart or load vuse up it says “was unable to laod the properties for plugin speed schedular a file may be missing” i have tryed installing it over and over again and the same thing happens again i have to reinstall the plugin can you please let me know how to fix this problem thank you
August 17th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
i am using mac 10.5.7 and i installed speed scheduler to all users through azereus plugins and tested it with a torrent. made a schedule, had it categorized. checked the date and time, and it would not start downloading. what am i doing wrong?
August 17th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Jay: Did you manually stop the torrent? Speed Scheduler won’t re-start torrents that you manually stopped. It will only re-start the ones that it stopped itself.
August 17th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
yes i did. so how can i test whether it works?
August 17th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Just re-start the torrent manually, and let speed scheduler stop it for you.
August 17th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
I downloaded another torrent and i have it scheduled for 1 am – 6 am, but it started automatically downloading
August 17th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Jay, can you be more specific about what you mean by “have it scheduled for 1 am – 6 am”?
August 17th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
i have my torrents scheduled to download everyday between 1 am- 6 am with Speed Scheduler. whenever i download a torrent, azureus start loading the file automatically. The scheduler does not stop it or queue the file.
August 17th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I see. Do you have a schedule setup during the off hours (midnight – 1 am and also 6 am to 11:59pm) to stop the torrents?
–Dave
August 17th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
no i dont. ill try that
August 18th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Is anyone able to provide some help with my above comment?
August 22nd, 2009 at 2:26 am
This plugin doesn’t do anything and completely ignores the set times I’ve explicitly disallowed any bittorrent transfers! I have Midnight to 3am and 6pm to 12am disabled for downloads and uploads, yet Azureus simply ignores them all and continues downloading!
What a worthless plugin!
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
baddrudge: We can help you get it to work if you’d like to share your debug log with us. Otherwise we don’t have enough info to make any recommendations.
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Sorry to say I have the same problem, I have it installed, have two schedules set up 0800-2359 and midnight – 0300, zero dowloads or seeds during these times but the downloads just continue regardless. Am using Vista and am running in adminstrator mode.
September 7th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Same problem for me – I have set up two schedules to STOP downloads between 12 noon and 2am (one for noon to 11:59pm and one for midnight to 2am), but downloads continue throughout this period. I am also using VISTA.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:53 am
I am also the same with Brian, also have 2 schedules with the same times. My understanding was I thought that when I added my torrents outside of those times (12pm – 11.59pm and midnight – 2am) then it will pause and will start at 2am and stop at 12pm. Am I’m right or have confused myself.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Hey,
Thought it would be a great plugin..but it simply doesn’t work.. i hv free downlds form 2 am to 8 am..show my schedules were like this:
8:am to 11:59 pm pause all
12:am to 2:00 am pause all
This did not start them automatically after 2 am.
I even tried this:
8:am to 11:59 pm pause all
12:am to 2:00 am pause all
2:am to 8 am unlimited
September 8th, 2009 at 9:01 am
galla,
Remember that when you stop a Torrent yourself, Speed Scheduler will not re-start it. It only starts Torrents that it stopped.
Does that help?
–Dave
September 9th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Good plugin, does EXACTLY what I need it to do. Would just REALLY REALLY like an ‘illiterate mode’.
Basically, my internet connection is shared amongst four systems! During the daytime, the other systems are used off and on, not continuously. What would be fantastic would be a ‘Start’ and ‘Stop’ Speed Scheduler option in the right click menu for the system tray icon, instead of just Pause and Resume that Azureus (or Vuze, whatever) provides. The reason being that the other people can just right click and put it on a lower speed by starting your plugin, and back on full speed by stopping it!
I know there is a speed selector right there, which is why I said ‘illiterate mode’. I cannot teach these people to go and change the speeds each time, but I can certainly tell them to click on the Start option and then the Stop option. That way they never need to understand exactly what the hell the blue frog does (hmm, noticed its actually white in the tray!), just that Start means they can use the internet and Stop is when they are done using the internet!
Would be soooooooo much easier if the Vuze (Azureus, WHATEVER!) developers themselves integrated a ‘Share Bandwidth’ option in the tray, one click means to allow regular browsing by enforcing speed limits, but based on a few posts I read on their forums, I just got the feeling that they were not going to be too receptive to the idea! Speed Scheduler does pretty much exactly what Im talking about here, so if you could somehow add a couple more places to start and stop it from, that would be immensely helpful!
In anycase, great plugin! Thanks!
September 10th, 2009 at 7:49 am
I was having the same issue where Vuse would not save my schedule. The schedule was in fine but just would not stop the torrents from DLing until I changed my UAC settings on Win 7 and then everything started working again like I was used to. Hope this helps!
Swen
September 10th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Thanks for a great program. I’m having a problem which is not listed here or I have not come accross it.
When a torrent finishes downloading and transfers to completed it stops others from working. I stop seeding during peak hours and the competed torrent stays on stopping mode and at the same time stops all others downloading as well. if I go th SS and untick it and turn it back on everything starts to work agian.
Using Windows XPS3. Thanks
September 14th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Hi Dave,
First I have to compliment you on your addon and more importantly for your taking the time to answer the questions posted here, while some people seem to “demand” help for already answered questions, I respect that at the end of the day you do this for free and still politely answer the same questions that you have before.
To my issue though, I have basically the same question as Rigsby’s, time stamped August 7th, 2009 at 9:41 pm and while you addressed the FAQ concern, you did not address the concern about categorized speed schedular.
It seems that it does not apply the speed limits to categories, but always to the global speeds.
Here is my set up, I have two categories:
1. Seed
2. Uncategorized
I want “Uncategorized” torrents to always upload no more than 50kb/s with no download limit.
I want “Seed” categorized torrents to go to 1kb/s upload and 1kb/s download between 18:00 and midnight and otherwise have unlimited upload with 10kb/s download for the rest of the time.
So, I make the following rules:
1.
Max Up: 1k
Max Down: 1k
Days: Everyday
Start: 18:00
Stop 23:59
Category: In Seed
2.
Max Up: Unlimited
Max Down: 10kb/s
Days: Everyday
Start: 00:00
Stop 18:00
Category: In Seed
3.
Max Up: 50kb/s
Max Down: Unlimited
Days: Everyday
Start: 18:00
Stop 23:59
Category: In Uncategorized
The problem is, that it does not actually seem to apply this to the categories at all, the speed rules still apply themselves to the global speed.
So, what I see is that at 1am for example, my global download speed is limited to 10kb/s, when it should be unlimited with only the download speed for the “Seed” category being limited to 10kb/s.
So, I tried making an extra rule:
4.
Max Up: Unlimited
Max Down: Unlimited
Days: Everyday
Start: 00:00
Stop 18:00
Category: In Uncategorized
This last rule seems to just get ignored, even though it’s 1am, it isn’t bold, has no green tick and I can see my global download speed is still capped at 10kb/s, so I changed it:
4.
Max Up: Unlimited
Max Down: 10000kb/s
Days: Everyday
Start: 00:00
Stop 18:00
Category: In Uncategorized
Now the rule is Bold with a green tick and my global download speed is at 10000kb/s. However, despite having all my torrents in the “Seed” category, I am getting 100+ kb/s download speed.
So, to test further, I untick “Enable Speedschedular” to disable the speed shedular, set my global download speed to unlimited, set the speed for “Seed” category to 10kb/s and then see the download speed drop to about that speed, as I expected.
So, unless I am missing something, it would seem that speed schedular is not setting the speed by category, even when asked, it just does it globally, always.
My Vuze version: 4.2.0.8
Speed Schedular version: 1.6
I hope I haven’t missed anything obvious here and if you need more info, be sure to let me know.
Thanks for any comments you make,
Jonathan
September 15th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Hi Dave,
Ive been using the SS for some time now on my mac…it used to work perfectly fine until this one day.
ive installed the snow leopard and it used to work perfectly fine with that also…but since yesterday im facing the time zone problem. the time in the SS is back by some 5 hours 35min.
Could you please suggest as i cannot function without the SS as i have free download form 2am to 8am.
Thanks
Kunal
September 18th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Hi Dave,
I used this plugin for a number of years, but after a major system crash I reinstalled Vista with version 4.2.0.8, installed the plugin for all users and it won’t save any schedules and it won’t pause the downloads during the times I have selected. (error saving schedule….Access is denied). When I restart vuze the shcedules have also disappeared.
I apologise if you have already answered this problem, but the only solution I saw was to uninstall/reinstall and make sure I clicked all users. I have done this with no sucess.
Thanks in advance
September 18th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Darbs,
On Vista you either have to run as an administrative user, or you have to modify the permissions on the Azureus/Vuze install folder (and sub-folders) to be writable by all users.
September 19th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Azureus 2.5.0.0 / Windows XP SP3
For every day, the schedule is as follows:
00:00 – 08:00 = Unlimited DL and UL
08:00 – 10:00 = Unlimited DL and 47k/s UL
10:00 – 15:00 = No DL and 47k/s UL
15:00 – 20:00 = No DL and UL
20:00 – 21:00 = No DL and 47k/s UL
21:00 – 23:59 = Unlimited DL and UL
Azureus has a feature in which it changes the UL limit depending upon whether there is a DL going on or not. During the first and last periods, I want the standard UL to be 47k/s and the alternate UL (when it is only seeding) to be unlimited. However, what happens is that SS overrides the standard UL to that set in the schedule, that is, unlimited UL.
Initially, it would seem obvious that I would just need to change the UL limits for those two periods to 47k/s, while the alternate upload rate would, at least in theory, still work, since it doesn’t seem to be changed by SS. I haven’t tested this myself, since it’s still downloading at the moment, but that should be fine. I’ll be checking it again in a few hours to see what happens! ^^
This though, causes another problem. The second scheduled period (08:00 – 10:00) would be exactly the same as the first and last periods, meaning that if there were no DLs during that period, it would UL at an unlimited rate. However, I want it to have a hard limit of 47k/s, regardless of whether there are any DL’s or not.
The solution to this, it seems to me, is to add true support for the alternate upload rate when only seeding option into SS. By that, I mean when you set the scheduling periods, you should be able to set a Max UL and an alternate Max UL for when only seeding.
Oh, and I have to agree with whoever it was who commented on the gui for SS. Allowing proper sorting for the rows/columns would be great, i.e. being able to sort by the “Hours of Day” column, so that it displays the periods in chronological order, would eliminate the need for being able to drag/drop each period to get them in your preferred order =D?
Thanks for reading all of this. Any comments (especially if you have a workaround for my problem) would be immensely appreciated!
September 20th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Hi,
I’m new to Vuze and SS. I was looking for a torrent client which would do the following:
Start a torrent only at 2 am automatically and stop it at 8 am. This is because I have unlimited download from 2am to 8 pm.
I am not finding any way to do this.
I have tried the following.
1. Opened a torrent file
2. Created a new schedule to start at 2 and end at 8.
3. Applied this to category which i created for the torrent file.
4. And queued the torrent.
expected:
Torrent should remain in queued or paused state
Start automatically at 2 am
What is happening now :
When i queue the torrent it starts downloading at times which does not fall within the specified state.
Can you please help me out with this
September 30th, 2009 at 7:43 am
hi dave, a simple problem, similar to the above question, i’m spending too much time on..
my torrents stay on stopped. they don’t pause/ queue. i’m aware the speed scheduler won’t work if they’re on stopped. i’ve read everything, and checked everything inside the vuze preferences and FAQ i can get my hands on. please any help appreciated. too many late nights waiting up until 2am..
thanks!
September 30th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
all ok. all the hours paid off at last. many, many thanks dave. something that really does add to the quality of my life :)
October 10th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Hey Dave, thanks for doing this man I’m sick of going through my peak downloads… I need your help!! Everything else works fine with Vuze but the speed scheduler.. When I start vuze this is the msg i recieve:
error loading configured scheduler: access is denied..
I was thinking maybe it had to do with the firewall but it would just be an un-educated guess because i’m not really a computer genius….
Any suggestions??
October 10th, 2009 at 7:48 am
S1M3ON: If you read the comments above, they should tell you what to do. I think you just need to make your Vuze program install directory have more open permissions.
October 11th, 2009 at 9:11 am
5k/s rule
Can I suggest that when this rule is enforced, you include an explanation to the user? Even a “5k/s rule enforced” statement would have given me something to google.
I probably wasted about 20mins looking through all the options to see if there was something else causing this. I’m sure I’m not the only one who was confused.
October 11th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I’ve been thinking about removing the 5K/s rule for a while. Years ago, one of the Azureus developers asked me to put the rule in place, but I don’t think Vuze actually enforces it anymore.
What does everyone think?
October 15th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I agree with Kunal — but I think it’s a general Azureus/Vuze bug. Both advanced statistics and speed scheduler are both exactly 1h55m fast. I’ve simply edited my eschedules to compensate, but it’s been a pain.
For a workaround, a stupid “clock tweak” field could be added into which we could type “-115″ to subtract 115 minutes..
October 15th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Reid: It might be a Java issue. Have you tried upgrading Java or changed to a different provider (IBM vs. Sun for example)?
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:26 am
i find the scheduler handy since it means i can have azureus/vuze running continuously;- using multiple schedules to cover different situations just means dipping into the scheduler and picking the one i want, a nice feature would be to be able to edit the schedule name for easier identification though. any ideas on that one?.thanks for a brilliant addon.;-)
November 4th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Hello, I’m trying to install this in OneSwarm under vista 64. It just doesn’t do anything. I’m assuming that it just doesn’t work on anything besides Azureus/Vuze. Is this correct or am I just doing something wrong?
November 5th, 2009 at 7:01 am
hi my details r
Java 1.6.0_02
Sun Microsystems Inc.
SWT v3550, win32
Windows Vista v6.0, x86
V4.2.0.8 az3
Vuze 4.2.0.8
Speed Scheduler 1.6
i installed for all users and have permissiond set to all
i have 3 schedules
first is set from 12.00am till 11.59pm to pause all seeds
second is set from 12.00am till 2.00am to pause all downloads
third is set from 12.00pm till 11.59pm to pause all downloads
problem is it wont start the downloads after 2.00am
thanks
November 5th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Colby, remember that Speed Scheduler won’t start torrents that you yourself manually stopped. It only restarts torrents that it itself stopped. Does that help?
–Dave
November 6th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Sorry ive found the problem i thought it worked off the computers clock but it dosn’t and speed scheduler is an hour behind how do i fix that
thanks
November 7th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
I’m using windows XP pro and Vuze 4.2.08 (Java 1.6.0_11/ Sun Microsystems Inc./SWT v3550, win32/Windows XP v5.1, x86/V4.2.0.8 az3) Speed Scheduler 1.6
I can set the Scheduler rules and the big green tick appears when the rule is active – but the rules do not activate automatically – only the rule relevant to the time when Vuse is started (hope that makes sense) will work and continues to work until vuze is stopped. The torrents is not forced download and I have set the tz variable as suggested – any ideas – if it will work (or if I can get it to work) it is just what I am looking for – thankyou.
November 7th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Ooops – I just noticed something – the time on Speed Scheduler is out by one hour – Yet I have changed the tz variable and it matches the windows TZ – daylight saving is switched off (we don’t have it) – hmmmm
November 7th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Solved my own problem – there is something wrong with the time setting – everything is out by one hour – so I will just reset the schedule times accordingly – thanks – sorry for taking up so much space :)
November 18th, 2009 at 5:35 am
I can only download files from 2 am to 7am EST. I assume I set an unlimited download from that time and put a scheduler from Midnight to 2 am and another one from 7 am to 11:59.
However, the scheduler is giving me errors.
1) Error loading configured schedules: Access is denied
2) Unable to load schedules from file: Access is denied
I installed for all users and I have admin privileges. I am confused.
November 24th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I had this installed just for me on Windows Vista, but after my schedule would not start my downloads at the stated time. I read this and one of your comments that said you should install for all users. So I uninstalled, restarted Vuze, installed it for all users, restarted Vuze, then a message on startup saying “unable to load schedules from file: access is denied”. Then another message once I created a schedule: Error saving schedule. Access is denied. Please help :)
November 30th, 2009 at 5:36 am
I had the issue of file access denied after ‘upgrading’ to win 7 even in admin… All you have to do is change permissions on the plugin folder… Use win help and right click the pugin folder on the azureus (oops I mean vuze) install path… Piece of CAKE, TOOK 2 MINS
December 8th, 2009 at 1:30 am
I think I’ve found a bit of a bug.
I have my torrents set up to be moved to a network drive on completion (which obviously takes a little time to complete) and if it’s a time when speed scheduler is set to stop seeds whilst the moving process is ongoing, the torrent gets stuck on ‘stopping’ and for some reason all my other downloading torrents pause downloading completely and only upload until I restart Az.
Another side effect is that to fix this I have to close and re-open Azureus, but as the app won’t close whilst a torrent is still ‘stopping’ I have to kill the process with task manager and then restart it.
It took me while to realise that it was speed scheduler causing this until I actually saw it happen, but although I’ve found a workaround (a freeware scheduled file mover) it would be nice if it was fixed, possibly with the ‘pause seeds’ option having a delay of a couple of minutes, or able to check if files are beng moved before pausing?
it’s a great plugin anyway, couldn’t live without it,, i just wanted to let you knw of this potential bug.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:53 am
vie666: Good idea. What are you using to automagically move the torrent files on completion?
–Dave
December 11th, 2009 at 2:33 am
well, i’ve been using a little app called filemove lite, but it only moves files added into a folder and doesn’t move subfolders, so it’s okay for a single avi file, but not for torrents with (for example) multiple rar files inside a folder as it will ignore those.
still looking for a good alternative. :o(
December 12th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Hi,
I am trying to run this plugin, but it tells me…. error saving new program (file location.xml) access denied.
Have you seen this before?
December 13th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Alex,
Yeah, just read the comments above. In short, if you install “for all users” you have to use an administrator account. Otherwise, you have to install “just for the current user.”
December 20th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Hi,
I installed Vuze on windows 7, but when vuze is running it pops a message saying saying check the port. I ran NAT\Firewall test and this was the result
“Testing port 40000 …
Unable to test: Invalid port given, or test service failed.
Another application may already be using this port..
(Error: Network is unreachable: connect).”
even i went to Tools –> Plugins–>Network status and Clicked START to check the status it was showing error
“Running ping tests
No active pings found!
Running trace route tests
No active routes found!
0 NAT devices found
No SOCKS proxy found
No HTTP proxy found
No explicit bind address set
Testing HTTP outbound
Test successful
Testing TCP outbound
Test successful
Testing UDP outbound
Test failed: Outbound test failed
Testing TCP port 40000 inbound
Test failed: NAT test failed: Error: Network is unreachable: connect
Check your port forwarding for TCP 40000
Testing UDP port 40000 inbound
Sending outbound packet and waiting for reply probe (timeout=5000)
Sending outbound packet and waiting for reply probe (timeout=10000)
Sending outbound packet and waiting for reply probe (timeout=15000)
Sending completion event
Test failed: Inbound test failed
Check your port forwarding for UDP 40000 ”
i think its a NAT problem or i need to do port forwardind. please help me in solving this problem…
December 21st, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Hi
i have the sped scheduler set to download between 1-7am but for some reason it does not download anymore when it did a week ago. the rest of the time is set to pause. i have a mac
December 24th, 2009 at 4:01 am
Hi
I have windows xp, have installed the speed schedule between 1:15am to 12:30pm to maximise on the off peak time quota provided by my ISP. Everytime I’ve tried to queue my download , but for strange reason it starts downloding inspite of putting it under queue, how do I get around this problem, appreciate your advise
Thanks
Colin
December 27th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Bit thick this this end (too much Christmas cheer) – in Edit Speed Schedule dialog box/speed – the checkbox ‘Pause seeds (completed downloads)’ what does that actually do? I understand the max speed settings.
Thanks for this plugin and have a great 2010 everyone.
December 27th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Tarak: If you check that box, then during the schedule, Speed Scheduler will auto-pause any torrents that are finished downloading (i.e., that are only seeding). Does that help clear it up?
–Dave
December 30th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Hi, I have a new laptop with Windows Vista running. I was using speed scheduler on my old laptop with no problem.
On this laptop, with Vista I have installed SS but I get two error when i load Vuze. The first says Unable to load schedules from file: Access is denied. The second error says Error loading configured schedules: Access is denied.
Can you please tell me what i need to do to fix this up? Hope this is enough info for you. This is a great plugin THANKS!
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Hi, Have been using SS with Vuze for quite some time, however I had to do a major cleanup of my pc. and reinstalled everything. After reinstalling Vuze SS wouldn’t work, So I uninstalled both the plugin and Vuze, but this did not fix it. Is there something else I may have deleted that it needs to work? I do not get any error messages, just that the scheduler wont pause the torrents. Running Windows XP.
Thanks,
Dan
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:03 am
I have a problem I am using Win 7 with admin rights, however I have encountering following problem: after trying to modify schedule I receiving error – “Could not save settings: c:\program files\vuze\plugins\Speed scheduler\savedschedulers.xml (Access is denied)” Of course Scheduler is not working…Please share any insight how to solve this, Thanks.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 am
“Name” (if that is your name, heh):
Check the permissions on the folder, c:\Program Files\Vuze\Plugins\Speed Scheduler\ and make sure your user account has full write access to it.
–Dave
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Thanks Dave, for the tip. Yes i had all rights initially, however I reinstalled plugin, but only this time for my account only rather then to all users. And it worked. Thanks again.
THE Name ;)
January 6th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Hi Dave
Great plug, worked fine on my imac running Tiger, upgraded to Snow Loepard and can’t install, what am I doing wrong?
this is the message from “concole” I get after I try to install…
6/01/10 7:54:39 PM [0x0-0xa00a0].com.apple.JarLauncher[980] Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
6/01/10 7:54:39 PM [0x0-0xa00a0].com.apple.JarLauncher[980] /Users/iansimpson/Desktop/SpeedScheduler_1.6.0.jar
January 11th, 2010 at 7:49 am
Can this plugin start a download?
January 13th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Hi Dave.
Have been successfully using Vuze 4.3.0.6, Java 1.6.0, SS 1.6 and Win7 RC 1 for some time.
I have been able to manage my downloads as desired, implementing a restricted download speed between 7AM and 11:59PM, unlimited downloads between 12AM and 7AM. I have uploads at unlimited in both schedules.
My default speeds are both set to unlimited.
I have problems however when I try to target a specific collection in my downloads. The collection is called Priority, which I’ve tried allowing an unlimited download speed between 7AM and 11:59PM. Anything not in the category Priority I wanted to remain at a restricted speed – 1K.
I’ve attempted the following schedule configurations:
1. Created a single schedule setting download limit to unlimited and applying it to torrents just in the category ‘Priority’, and setting the default download limit to 1K failed.
2. Created two schedules, the first matching that explained in #1, the second setting the download speed to 1K and applied to torrents just in the category ‘unlimited’, and set the default download speed to unlimited failed.
3. Created a single schedule setting the download to 1K and applying to all torrents not in the ‘Priority’ category failed.
4. Repeated #3 but set downloads to unlimited and applied to torrents all not in the category ‘unlimited’ failed.
After each attempt I turned SS off and back on again.
I’ve tried identifying anything in the logs for azureus, I couldn’t find any entries related to SS. I also looked under Tools – Options – Plugins – SS and there was no option to set logging at a plugin level.
Can you please assist me in getting targeted download limits to work on specified categories please? Many thanks.
January 13th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
An oversight – I observe when having such rules in place a single global speed of 1K overides all rules/desired download speeds for all categories.
February 1st, 2010 at 11:00 am
Thanks Dave, after falling for the Vista UAC problem (that I figured out for myself as soon as I saw it, since it affects so many other programs too) I have implemented SS successfully to make Vuze behave nicely and dodge Virgin Media’s bandwidth throttling regime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_media) which breaks everything, starting with DNS lookups!
I like to be a good seeder and keep old torrents going, so I also have the mlDHT plugin installed for maximum coverage. I am now able to keep seeding old torrents even when the tracker is down and Vuze and Mainline DHTs are the only ways for leechers to find me (and they do :) ). Throttling back to avoid Virgin’s bullet means I don’t end up losing these peer connections and tracker status (which is what happens when my connection gets throttled)…then business as usual resumes at 9pm!
However, this ‘nice’ behaviour does backfire on me since the 5k/s rule kicks in. It would be nicer if it were removed but it’s a minor inconvenience, since I can simply download at any other time.
My recommendation for Vuze is to activate Transport Encryption (under Connection options) so your ISP cannot use traffic profiling or data analysis tools (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection) and to use SS to throttle back your seeding activity at peak times, not stop it completely.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:45 am
I am a newby new at using the speed scheduler. I’m using windows 7 and the most recent version of vuze and the speed scheduler. I set my schedule but when i went back to my downloads i saw that my things were still downloading although the time shown on the scheduler is correct. it would be great if u could give me some really easy instructions as i’m not the greatest person who knows how to use this stuff.
Thanks,
Jane
February 7th, 2010 at 4:07 am
Hi,
Same problem as Jane. I’m using Windows 7, and speed scheduler does not seem to be able to load the schedules. So when I create them they have no effect, and when I close Vuze and reopen it, they have disappeared.
Any hints, greatly appreciated.
Bill
February 7th, 2010 at 9:33 am
On Windows 7 try changing the permissions on the Vuze or Azureus program files folder so they are readable and writable by all users.
February 9th, 2010 at 6:11 am
Reposting my solution from March last year re permissions:
In order to get around the problem of writing to the Program Files folder in Vista [or Windows 7], I took ownership of the Vuze\Plugins folder using this handy shell add-in:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/
February 15th, 2010 at 7:36 am
Feature request: “Snooze”. Speed Scheduler works great…. Thanks for making it! One new feature that would be very helpful is a temporary override… a sort of “snooze” feature, so for example I could set a manual low speed if I had to work on the computer for a while, and then 15 or 30 minutes later (configurable), Speed Scheduler would resume and put the speed back to whatever schedule was on at that point. This would be much better than manually disabling Speed Scheduler, setting the speed manually, and then (hopefully!) remembering to re-enable Speed Scheduler later. Thanks!!!
February 25th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Thanks Dave – easy solution! That’s weird how Windows 7 requires programs to have permissions that they never ask you for.
March 5th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
First, I would like to thank you for writing this plugin. I can now seed at maximum speed at night and automatically throttle in the morning so that others can use the Internet without latency problems. I would also like to thank you for continuing to support old versions of Azureus.
I believe I’ve found a (minor) bug in 1.6.0, that causes the Default Speeds to not be updated.
Azureus 3.0.5.2
Windows XP
To produce the problem, Speed Scheduler should be enabled, and the lists you have shouldn’t matter. The default settings for Default Speed should be 0 up and 0 down. Set up to 40 and down to 150 (these are arbitrary values, it shouldn’t matter what you use), and close the tab.
Reopen the tab. Up is now 40, but Down has reset to its previous value of 0. Try to set it to 150 again (or any value you please), and close/open the tab. It will reset to 0 every time.
Well, that’s a problem, but at least Up worked, right? Not quite. Change Up back to 0, and close the tab. Reopen the tab. It’s back at 40 again, right?
As it turns out, the only way I can get the Default Speeds to save is to change them to the value I want, uncheck the “Enable Speed Scheduler” box, close the tab, reopen the tab, and check the “Enable Speed Scheduler” box. Every time I want to change the Default Speeds, this process of disabling and enabling the plugin must be used to make the values stick.
Whether you can find a fix for this or not, I’d also like to make a small suggestion that might be worthwhile for 1.6.1. Next to “Default Speeds”, I would suggest a checkbox for “Do Nothing”; i.e., when no schedule is in effect, Speed Scheduler should not attempt to overwrite the selected speed limits (until one of the schedules comes into effect). Having only a “Default Speed” option means that the plugin must be disabled whenever you want to manually adjust the speed, so it would be nice to have an alternative behaviour mode for when no schedule is in use.
At any rate, thanks for reading.
March 5th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Aleron: Have you got other speed-related plugins installed that might be competing with Speed Scheduler for control over the speed limits?
March 6th, 2010 at 4:17 am
I do not. I have 3DView, Mainline DHT, Peer Injector, and SpeedScheduler. I doubt that there would be any conflicts between them… I take it by your question that the problem does not happen for you? I suppose it could be unique to Azureus 3.0.5.2, since you’re probably not using that version.
Oh, one thing I didn’t mention before that would probably be fairly easy to add, is simple up/down arrow buttons on the side that would allow you to change the position of the selected schedule in the list, so that you can easily organize your schedules without having to add them in the order you want (since adding another schedule currently means that you would potentially have to re-do the entire list to keep it organized, since the order cannot be changed).
March 7th, 2010 at 4:35 am
Hi,
I have downloaded this plugin, howeveer i am getting the following error message when trying to instal this.
Failed to load Main – Class manifest attribute from C:/….SpeedScheduler_1.6.0
Any suggestions please?
Thanks
Justin
March 7th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Justin, we’re going to need more info. What Windows version? How did you install it (what did you click etc)?
March 15th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Thanx Dave! This plug-in is super. I’m a total nuby, but this thing is so easy even I managed to install it and set up a schedule!
March 16th, 2010 at 5:20 am
sorry to be a noob but how would i set this up so I can have downloads from midnight till midday, SYD AUSTRALIA time? and pause all other times each day?
March 16th, 2010 at 5:21 am
Hi Dave. I have problem with the speed scheduler as well , I have set the time but it wont restart the downloads automatically, although when i checked the schedulerr there’s a tick beside the schedule i made.
March 18th, 2010 at 8:19 am
i am using windows xp, vuze 4.3.0.6, i have installed speed scheduler.
the problems lies with the pop up window ‘new schedule’.
my laptop has a small 8.9inch screen. the pop up screen to create a new schedule will only show up to
‘category’
only apply this schedule to torrentz ……. this category …….
i can not move this pop up window up anymore nor can i make the viewing smaller so that i can press the OK button to actually set the speeds or times. the only button i can press that is close and so i cannot set my speeds.
i hope this makes sense and if u can help would be good.
March 26th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Hi Dave
I have installed the plug in fine, and set the times i want it to download ( 12.15 am – 6.45 am). i then selected a file and hit download and it started immediately to download. i must be doing something wrong but cant quite work out what. Can you or someone help me please. thanks Leone
March 26th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Leone,
I don’t quite follow. What did you expect to happen?
–Dave
March 27th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
well i thought if i set up the time i wanted things to download it would do it at that time. So i select the file i wish to download the speed scheduler says ok i will download this file at the time i have been told to download it at. Otherwise i have to get up at midnight to start downloading it myself. Have it got this wrong – does this plug in do something else? I thought it allowed you to schedule a download for a specific time. Leone
March 27th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Leone,
No, unfortunately, that’s not what Speed Scheduler does. What it *does* do, however, is allow you to control the maximum upload and download speeds for *all* your torrents on a scheduler you choose. In addition to setting a max upload and download speed, you can also turn off transfers altogether. I think what you want to do is setup two schedules:
Schedule 1: From 6am to 11:59pm — uploads and downloads paused
Schedule 2: From midnight to 6am — unlimited speed
I’m assuming 6am is when you want to turn off downloading each morning. You can change it to whatever you need.
After you have setup these two schedules, start all your torrents. Speed Scheduler will stop them within a minute or so (assuming the current time is outside the midnight to 6am window). And then, at midnight, it will start them downloading.
Does that help?
March 29th, 2010 at 4:40 am
How do I schedule my downloads between the hours of 2 am and 7 am during my off-peak time?
thanks
Neil
March 31st, 2010 at 4:01 am
Hi, I have recently started using Vuze and installed the Speed Scheduler, which I need in order to be able to download during my OP time. I’m using Vista.
At first, Speed Scheduler seemed to do nothing, but when I ran Vuze as Admin, it seemed to work (dunno why because I’m pretty sure I used the “all users” option). Unfortunately not quite!
I can get torrents to stop by using the scheduler, but if I set max down speed to (say) 30, it seems to have no effect at all – either in a schedule or using the default speeds. I’ve tried various things – multiple schedules, one schedule, no schedules (with default set), disabled schedules – every permutation I can think of but max speed is always ignored.
April 1st, 2010 at 5:17 am
fixed problem by disabling autospeed.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:04 am
Dub, I wondered about that. Good work!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Thanks Dave – that should do it. cheers Leone
April 2nd, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Hi
I’ve used speed scheduler with my previous mac and had no problems what so ever, I recently upgraded to mac os 10.6.2 and downloaded vuse and speed scheduler again and the scheduler pauses my downloads for the right time but upon hitting 2am when the schedule is disabled it doesn’t start my downloads again I have to manually start them and then it continues to allow the download until 8am when the scheduler kicks in and pauses them all??
Any idea why its not automatically starting the downloads again??
April 2nd, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Tara,
It might be that Speed Scheduler can’t write its paused schedules file, which it uses to know which torrents it paused (and only un-pause the torrents that it paused).
Check out the log for errors (the log file location can be setup in the Vuze options page — look for the Speed Scheduler settings under plugins).
–Dave
April 5th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Hi Dave,
Great plugin! I didn’t even know it existed until I researched it a bit. This is a feature I really like about UTorrent and now I am happy with Azureus/Vuze again thanks to you!
In case anyone else runs into this problem, I will tell you how I solved it, simply by reading above. But if you just scrolled to the bottom to get the newest replies, here is mine..
Problem:
Vuze would popup an error stating “Unable to load schedules from file: Access is denied”
Solution (Windows 7):
Thanks to Megan –
1. Right-click the shortcut to Azureus/Vuze.
2. Select Properties
3. You should be on the “Shortcut” tab, at the bottom click “Advanced…”
4. Place a checkmark in the box next to “Run as administrator” – select OK
5. Select “Apply” and then “OK”.
Now, when you restart Azureus/Vuze from your shortcut, you should no longer receive this error.
Please, please, PLEASE everyone take it easy on Dave. I have read some pretty rude comments towards him, as he is the developer of this plugin, however, I believe that most of those comments are from people who do not realize that Dave is just doing this in his spare time in order to benefit us all. He should be a hero to us all for the time he has spent on this plugin and we should not be sending rude comments based on the fact that he can’t take all his time out of his own life to tend to our petty needs. Please support Dave, and do not send these unnecessary comments… Thanks!
April 6th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I am trying to install the speed scheduler plugin. AT the time of installation I am getting a Java Virtual MAchine error.
April 7th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
I tried the Timezone change fix, but it had no effect on speed scheduler… it’s still out by 5 hours. Tried it using Environment variables, and also changing the computer clock, still no effect. All my schedules are out by 5 hours. Any ideas?
April 16th, 2010 at 6:08 am
Hi there hows it going i recently installed this program v 4.4 done everything right with the speed schedular put in correct times and days but when i look at downloads with it enabled and downloads paused it is still downloading somthing is a miss any help would be appreciated
April 20th, 2010 at 6:25 am
Hi, i keep getting a load error. Unable to load schedules. Access is denied.
April 20th, 2010 at 6:26 am
Scratch that… My mistake… D’OH
April 22nd, 2010 at 6:37 am
hi i installed in on my mac and it’s all fine but i can’t see it working when i download a new file it starts straight away even though i got a schedule programed
April 24th, 2010 at 2:20 am
Hi. I have some large downloads that I run at offpeak times. I’ve categorised them as BIG, and set them to run at 10/5 during peak, and 0/0 during offpeak.
However, it seems that although the schedule specifies BIG, it affects all downloads during peak times. I would expect the default speeds 0/0 to apply.
April 25th, 2010 at 9:19 am
DAVE!!!i installed the scheduler in vuze by the correct method,,i installed for all users…i right clicked on my start button to check if i am restricted by admin..its popping up open to all users,,yet the scheduler is not starting !!!i added new schedules everything!!but its not starting! pls help me…i use windows xp.
April 25th, 2010 at 9:41 am
To all who are having problems, you’ll need to show us your log. See the instructions above for putting Speed Scheduler into debug mode and getting a log file.
April 25th, 2010 at 9:52 am
DAve pls tell how to correct it..pls help me bro!!!
April 28th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Hi there,
I am using Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. I installed Speed Scheduler 1.6.0 plugin. I then set a schedule for my torrents to start downloading at 1am and stop dowloading at 9am. However, the torrents are still downloading outside of the scheduled time. They won’t stop unless I ‘right-click’ and stop them manually.
I am new to this and I can’t seem to get it to work. I would appreciate any help!!! Thanks
April 28th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Hi there,
I am using Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. I installed Speed Scheduler 1.6.0 plugin. I then set a schedule for my torrents to start downloading at 1am and stop dowloading at 9am. However, the torrents are still downloading outside of the scheduled time. They won’t stop unless I ‘right-click’ and stop them manually.
I am new to this and I can’t seem to get it to work. I would appreciate any help!!! Thanks
May 4th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
5k limitation has been removed from Vuze so could you remove 5k rule from the plugin?
May 4th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Error message:
Error saving new schedule: C:\programFiles(x86)\Vuze\Plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml(Access is denied)
OS: Win 7 64bit
May 11th, 2010 at 6:20 am
ive installed the plug in and set times to download at, but it seems it wont stop downloading at the times i have set,its like it has no controll over the downloads at all , ive tryed everything that has been suggested and still no luck,im runing vista not shure if that has anything to do with it……..
May 13th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Great program man…
I had to disable Autospeed to get the speed limit set in the plugin to work. Before that it was ignoring Speed Scheduler and uploading at the max speed set in autospeed.
May 17th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Thanks to Travis that I no longer have the: “Unable to load schedules from file: Access is denied” problem.
However even though I am now running as administrator, Vuse is recognising that I have schedules, and, I have set it to pause between, 7:45 – 23:59, and 00:00 – 2:15… Vuse is not pausing them.
My assumption was that if I have stopped files, and started them again, since I am not in the restricted time period, they should automatically pause themselves; this is not happening. They just start downloading.
Any clues to what I’m doing wrong?
May 27th, 2010 at 6:48 am
Thanks Dave for your awesome plug in. A worked example (including stepped out screen shots) would be good after installation instructions. It took me ages to realise I couldn’t just set up a schedule for when SS should download my torrents. I also needed to set one up to pause them as well. (sad but true).
While this would take some time to do, I’m pretty sure it will reduce the number of newbies asking the same questions over and over
Then perhaps, the top 4 things to do if Vuze doesn’t follow your schedule
1. Check that you installed it for all users
2. On Windows, run Vuze as administrator by right clicking the Vuze shortcut and selecting that option
3. On Windows Vista, if that doesn’t work, download then install the Take Ownership zip file as per Mike’s post. Select Take Ownership of Program Files.Vuze/plug ins folder.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/
Just a thought?
May 28th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Ive set the speed schedular to run between 2am and 8am but it doesnt seem to work, can you help?
May 31st, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Hi, I have been using Speed Scheduler which seems to be great. I have one question though – does Vuze and Speed Scheduler work even when I have exited Vuze and it is not turned on? I ask this because when I check my download limits it appears that it has been downloading in the background. Can you please advise? Thanks.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Deanna,
Vuze can keep running in the background. There should be a little icon in your system tray (lower-right-hand corner) showing that it’s still running. To really stop Vuze, you have to right-click on that icon and tell it to quit.
Good luck!
–Dave
June 1st, 2010 at 7:25 am
Hey, Loving the program!
Just need to check if it will automatically startup vuze (mac) and begin my download if I close the lid on my laptop. I have looked fairly thoroughly and cannot find the answer to this but I might have missed it. So yea, basically, will my downloads resume even if my laptop is asleep?
Cheers
June 1st, 2010 at 7:31 am
Hi there. Just wondering if anyone can help me with an odd issue. Will Vuze keep starting and stopping my torrents if I throw my laptop into a river? Thanks in advance!
Hehe. Just kidding of course.
No, Tom, Vuze will not keep running if your laptop is asleep. You can configure your laptop to not go to sleep when you close the lid, but if the laptop goes to sleep for any reason (closed lid or otherwise), your torrents will not run wile it’s asleep.
June 1st, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Hahahah, Oh Gee thanks! hahaha
Just real quick, I set the speed scheduler to download during off-peak times and it has not done this overnight. I am sure I have everything set right but maybe not. Oh wait, nevermind. I think it’s cause my laptop may have gone to sleep overnight hahah. Oh well, guess I’ll just have to finish the download at school, you know, suck down the schools downloads heheheh.
Cheers
June 3rd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
HI, The problem i have is that it stops the downloads as i have asked it to but it doesnt start them again when asked to……….eg. the schweduler is set to stop all downloads from Midnight to 2:00 am after that it is suppose to start downloading but it remains stopped………..how do i ensure it starts also according to the scheduler??
June 4th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Hi, I have what I think qualifies as an interesting problem. Speed scheduler will only turn certain of my torrents on. It happily turns all of them off when it is supposed to if I manually turn them on but then fails to turn some of them back on. I have made sure that none of them have been manually stopped. It is always the same torrents that this effects, i.e. its the same ones that refuse to start each time.
Is this likely to be a bug you need debug info for or am I just being a complete moron and missing something?
June 9th, 2010 at 1:58 am
Hi,
My schedule won’t work and keeps coming up with access denied, I installed the plugin for all users and my account is the administrator, there are no other accounts on my computer. I don’t know how to give it access??
Any help would be awesome…
Cheers
June 13th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Hi,
I have the same issue as Jac
“My schedule won’t work and keeps coming up with access denied, I installed the plugin for all users and my account is the administrator, there are no other accounts on my computer. I don’t know how to give it access??”
Any help would be awesome…
June 14th, 2010 at 12:35 am
I think I figured out our problem Giuseppi, to make my schedule work I went into the start menu and right clicked on the vuze icon and clicked “Run as Administrator”, it lets you make your schedule and they load and work after you do this but each time you want to make a new schedule you have to do follow these steps again, as long as you’re not constantly changing your schedules’ you should be fine!
June 15th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Dave – vuze is great but without the speed scheduler its just another torrent. I have installed the latest speed scheduler via the source forge. Version 1.6. Twice!. I have a schedule set for pause all transfers mon-sun between 8am and 2 am, so that my torrents only download between 2am and 8 am when I’m at off peak.
I have searched and sourced the torrent I wanted and opened that torrent with vuze expecting it to wait until 2am to start but it automatically starts downloading straight away. So I then stop the torrent maunally and waited to see if overnight it started and then stopped – no dice.
I suspect I am commiting a stupid human trick and haven’t set something up right but would apprictae some advice,
cheers.
June 16th, 2010 at 6:08 am
I keep getting an error message when Install speed scheduler:
“unable to read schedules from file access denied”
Any help???
June 16th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Dave – all good, I won’t leave for posterity what my stupid human trick was but siffice to say it was pretty dumb. SS works as promised, woke up this morning to find half a torrent nicely downloading.
June 21st, 2010 at 10:05 am
I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 and the Speed Scheduler does not start. It seemed to have installed correctly. The interface works fime and I can schedule. However, it does not activate. No errors are showing.
It was working fine on XP.
Am I missing something?
Thanks for your help.
July 1st, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I’m using Windows 7, I am administrator, i selected all users when i installed the speed scheduler plugin, i have two schedules to pause between 8am and 11.59 and 12am and 2am and i have the scheduler enabled, yet it doesn’t pause the downloads
July 4th, 2010 at 3:53 am
Hi guys,
How do I categorise my torrents? I know how to use SpeedScheduler for ‘speed’ purposes for all active torrents. But I don’t know how to create categories so that some will download at certain hours at certain speeds, whilst other download constantly (due to lack of leechers).
I am using Vuze on a mac Os X. Speed Scheduler has an option to select a category (currently undefined). But how do I create one?
July 6th, 2010 at 3:01 am
Hi,
I am running Vuze on Windows 7.
For some reason Speed Scheduler will stop my downloads, but once the time has expired, won’t start them up again?
Any idea why this would be happening? I have full permissions.
July 7th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
i want to download only between 2AM to 8AM. but it seems it download all 24hrs. how to set this?
July 9th, 2010 at 2:15 am
Error saving schedule: C:\Program Files\Vuze\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml (Access is denied) i keep getting this mesage and i have it set for all users. it will let me organise a schedule but not activate it. cheers.
July 16th, 2010 at 12:51 am
hey dave i am also haveing the same problem as the dave before me but recently i also had another problem where everytime i would shut down vuze and reopen it speed schedular would be uninstalled for some reson it fixed itself but the problem i have now is it Error saving schedule: C:\Program Files\Vuze\plugins\SpeedScheduler\SavedSchedules.xml (Access is denied) i am using windows vista home premium can you help me dave or anyone else
July 17th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
try uninstalling then reinstall ‘just for me’ i had the same problem but works perfectly now.
July 18th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
thanks nash it works perfect now ur a ledgend
July 19th, 2010 at 5:09 am
Why do the schedules dissapear when returning to the scheduler. it appears blank even though i confirmed that they were there before leving the screen.
July 19th, 2010 at 6:25 am
im using speed schedular to make my downloads in off peak time (1am) and i made it pause all other times other than 1am-10am but when 1am rolls over my downloads dont start whats wrong
July 19th, 2010 at 6:26 am
im using speed schedular to make my downloads in off peak time (1am) and i made it pause all other times other than 1am-10am but when 1am rolls over my downloads dont start whats wrong
July 19th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
I am using windows 7 home edition. after setting up the schedules I can view them. If I exit Vuze and then restart it, the schedules have dissappeared. I now get a message that the scheduler could not be downloaded – access denied. I am the administrator.
July 28th, 2010 at 5:20 am
Hi, I have the same question as Vijay but also another one: I was already downloading something and then installed the scheduler plugin and set the schedule. According to the schedule downloads should be paused now, but the existing file I am downloading seems to be continuing to download (if that makes sense). Is it possible that the scheduler will only work if you set the schedule first and then try to download something? Thanks.
July 29th, 2010 at 3:27 am
dave,
i have download the speed scheduler but everytime i try and install it through options, plug-in wizard my computer freezes. i am running windows 7 netbook. any ideas?
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:58 am
i want to limit/stop download/upload from 10am to 2am to avoid using all my ‘peak time’ allowance so i set start time at 10am and end time at 2am, but the scheduler says ‘ start time is after end time’ when i set these hours. i.e.- i only want downloads to operate between 2am and 10am or at least operate at lowest speed outside these hours… but i can’t seem to do this. is there another way?
August 10th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Hi Dave
do you really respond to every post here???? That’s pretty top notch.
August 11th, 2010 at 6:43 am
UnCo: No I do not. ;)
August 11th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Hey Dave,
Speed scheduler does not seem to work with magnet links. Works fine with regular torrent files. However whenever I use a magnet link speed scheduler doesn’t seem to be able to start the torrents. It can stop them fine after I manually queue them up but never starts them.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Hi Dave,
I am running windows 7 and I have administrative rights over the user I am using. So I installed speed schedular for all users. whenever i try to make a schedule, i get an error that access is denied. the schedule appears in the list of schedule but when i restart vuze, everytihng is gone. it seems i have the same problem as Vijay.
thanx in advance for your help
August 25th, 2010 at 1:10 am
Hi dave
I would like to start my downloads at 2:00am and finish at 8:00am so do I need to set up two Schedules or the times you put in are the start and the stop time?
because when i use to run it in the old azures you had to make two schedules can you clarify this for me..
August 25th, 2010 at 1:28 am
Hi Dave
Ive just tried setting up a schedule and vuze comes up with an error message
Error saving new schedule: C:\Program Files\Vuze\plugins\SpeedSchedule\SavedShedules.xml(Access is denied)
Any Idea…?
August 28th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Hi Dave,
Thx for the program, just what I was looking for. Looks to be working fine.
Cheers Nigel
@Martin, it says on this page (in the FAQ) that u need 2 schedules to go past the midnight barrier.
@Max Installed fine here, didn’t notice option for “install for all users”.
September 2nd, 2010 at 5:05 am
G’day Dave,
I’m fairly new to all this, but testimony to how good a job you’ve done is the fact that a non computer person like me was able to get it all installed and working – mostly. So congrats for that.
I’m sure it’s real obvious, but I don’t seem to be able work out how to “Force start”.
If I click the torrent I want to d/l, and then click start, the terrent d/ls for about 20 seconds then stops again. The only way I can do it is by turning off the speed scheduler, and starting the torrent that way.
My computer is a mac, and I have the latest 1.6 Scheduler.
Thanks for any help you can offer, and btw, real impressed that someone can just take the initative and invent something like this. Blows my mind. Coolio.
Cheers
Gerry
September 2nd, 2010 at 7:05 am
Gerry,
If you right-click on the torrent, there should be an option to “Force Start”. If you click that, the torrent should start and Speed Scheduler should leave it alone.
–Dave