Tribler for OpenWrt (energy efficient hardware) in version 7.6?

hr4631 · August 11, 2020, 4:55pm

Here in the forum is been written, that there would be a cli version with remote gui in nov-2020 when tribler 7.6 is been released. New user, wondering about huge install size, CLI-only version
Could some developer also try out to run it on openwrt? If you dont have powerful non-x86 hardware, then running it on x86 with openwrt-x86 version would be still fine for development.
There are many great openwrt wifi devices with enough hardware power that are already running 24/7 at the home of some people. Would be great to be able to run tribler on those and then have tribler-cli official openwrt package here: https://openwrt.org/packages/start

ichorid · August 11, 2020, 5:22pm

One bright guy already created a Tribler build system for non-x86 hardware:

github.com/Tribler/tribler

Provide TriblerCore builds for ARM Linux

opened 02:15PM - 24 May 20 UTC

hbiyik

type: enhancement status: needs discussion

Hello Team **Problem 1:** A conveinent way for tribler headless (triblerd) sh…ould be provided to deploy the server without QT and UI stuff. Currently run_tribler.py can be run with some ENV variables (CORE_PROCESS etc..) and which is not very conveinent. Another approach is there run_tirbler.headless.py which is nice way but does not support versioned dirs. I should this part needs to be refactored. **Problem2:** How to build triblerd for arm variants of Linux. Good news. I already have compiled for ARM! yay, here is how it works: **ARM buildsys for tribler:** a debian(wheezy) based image, with arm 32bit soft floating point toolchain (armel triplet) is run under QEMU emulator. All the necessary compenents are built in the emulator (libtorrent, boost, openssl etc.). This environment gives us a very broad support with >**libc 2.13** and arm support over > armv5, practically **all 32bit arm** socs. (I remember 64bit arms to work with 32bit ISA as well but i need to check). The downside is, since we are running in an emulator, compilation speed is quite low, but thats ok, we compile once for the dependencies and freezing tribler is not everydays work. Another downside is, even though soft float arm abi, gives a broad support for SOCs, it runs slower in most of the devices where hard floating point is available (> armv6 basically). This will be fixed with another emulator container with armhf triplet but in first stage i want to work with armel to see the performance and application scope etc.. But to move forward I need a solution for the first problem and decide what to build and deliver.

hr4631 · August 11, 2020, 5:32pm

From my view as a user i kind of have the same question like you: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/5327#issuecomment-643600921

My question was to include the tribler-core version that would be in version 7.6 to OpenWrt. Then users can install it simply by using the normal package manager in openwrt. Kind of “opkg install tribler-core”

ichorid · August 11, 2020, 6:18pm

You can create an issue on GitHub then asking for this feature. We are planning to review our devops stuff for 7.6. That should make adding wrt support possible.

hr4631 · August 11, 2020, 9:38pm

I cant register on github. The “Verify your account” function seems to be broken. I get a green check-sign, but then the light-blue button “Create account” cant be pressed. That is is the reason i cant write at the moment anything on the linked github website. It would be sad to not have Tribler for OpenWrt this year just because of a broken github website.

ichorid · August 12, 2020, 12:33pm

like GitHub broken registration?

I will create a corresponding issue at GitHub then.

hr4631 · August 12, 2020, 12:53pm

Thank you for creating a corresponding issue at GitHub