You need to edit Frontier::RPC2 and add the i8 data type like this :

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%scalars = (
    'base64' => 1,
    'boolean' => 1,
    'dateTime.iso8601' => 1,
    'double' => 1,
    'int' => 1,
    'i4' => 1,
    'string' => 1,
    'i8' => 1,
);

Stephane

Not being familiar with xmlrpc, conky, rtorrent and perl made this challenging for me to implement (I despise reading perl code – haha).

I ran into trouble with your script as it stands because my rtorrent runs on a different, 64 bit machine. As such, it has a more recent xmlrpc-c implementation that reports xml types of , which the ubuntu installed version of xmlrpc-c doesn’t have. I wrestled with compiling and installing a more recent version of xmlrpc-c for ubuntu but wasn’t having much success, but then found out I can just add to Frontier’s scalers in perl so this fixed that problem:
$Frontier::RPC2::scalars{‘i8′} = 1;

Additionally, I improved your script by removing the need for Data::Dump. You can just echo the value back to execbar. I also added a total up and down rate summary to the top of the bittorrent section and limited the retrieved list of torrents to those that are active. I also simplified/fixed the conversion of bytes to kB and removed some unnecessary creation of variables.

Here is my modified section of your perl script:
my $uprate = $server->call(‘get_up_rate’);
my $downrate = $server->call(‘get_down_rate’);

my $torrents = $server->call(‘d.multicall’, “active”,
“d.get_base_filename=”,
“d.get_bytes_done=”,
“d.get_size_bytes=”,
“d.get_down_rate=”);

my @res;
foreach my $d (@$torrents) {
my $dl_rate = $d->[3] / 1024;
my $percent_done = 100 * ($d->[1] / $d->[2]);
push @res,
sprintf(“%.44s \${alignr}%6.1f kB/s\$alignr\n” .
” ” x 5 . “%3.2f%%” . “\${goto 70}\${execbar echo %3.0f }”,
$d->[0], $dl_rate, $percent_done, $percent_done);
}

printf(“%6.1f kB/s up / %6.1f kB/s down\n”, $uprate / 1024, $downrate / 1024);
print join(“\n\n”, @res), “\n”;

So thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I think that I have a small problem where it doesn’t seem to pick up that a new torrent has been activated – not sure about that yet.