Welcome to Turtlematic help
Welcome to Turtlematic help
Step 1
Give Turtlematic a coloured label in the Finder. This becomes your turtle tag, so you should pick a colour you don't use for anything else. To give Turtlematic a coloured label, right click (or hold the control key and left click) on Turtlematic in a Finder window and mouse down to "Label" and pick a colour.
Step 2
Apply your turtle tag to all the applications that you'd like Turtlematic to recognise as internet applications. For example, you might want to select Safari, Mail and iChat. Now, whenever one of those applications is open, Turtlematic will slow Transmission down so that your webpages, emails or IMs load much faster.
Step 3
Relaunch Turtlematic. Turtlematic only checks what your turtle tag is set to when it opens, so now you've set your turtle tag you have to close and re-open Turtlematic to make the change take effect.
Step 4
Now open up Transmission. In Transmission's preferences, make sure that 'Enable remote access' is on. Turtlematic only works if you do not restrict access to certain IP addresses and logins, so make sure those aren't set.
Step 5
Now check you have your speed limits set to a sensible speed. You should set this in 'Global bandwidth limits' under Bandwidth in Transmission's preferences window. For the average home network, 12KB/s down and 6KB/s up should be fine, but you may want to alter this for your own network.
Step 6
You're done! Turtlematic should now be successfully set up. Try it out by having Transmission with downloads running, but none of your speed limiting apps open, then opening one and seeing if the speed drops in Transmission. Tada! If you have Growl installed, you can have notifications pop up to tell you when Turtlematic is taking action. From now on, you don't have to leave BitTorrent downloads running just overnight, because with Turtlematic they can run during the day too without disrupting your internet speeds!
Transmission's speed limit mode
Transmission's own Speed Limit mode overrides Turtlematic! This applies even if both are active and Turtlematic is set to download slower than Transmission's Speed Limit mode - the Speed Limit value is used in this case, and whenever Speed Limit is active.
Growl notifications
If you get fed up of any of the growl notifications, you can turn some or all of them off in growl's settings in System Preferences.
Bug reports
If you find a bug in Turtlematic, you can send us an email to bug@soyasoftware.com, or use the bug report form here.
Donations
If you love Turtlematic and would like to give us a donation for the hard work we put into it, you can send us a PayPal donation here.
Misc.
For any other queries, don't hesitate to send an email to us at info@soyasoftware.com