Your ultimate guide of hosting DTube IPFS node! (my first exclusive DTube video)
Terminal commands
To initialise IPFS node for the first time: ipfs init
To change IPFS location (do this everytime you launch a terminal window): export IPFS_PATH=/your/file/path
To add video/thumbnail from local storage: ipfs add "filename.fileext"
To pin video/thumbnail on IPFS node: ipfs pin add <hashvalue>
To download others' videos/thumbnails from other IPFS nodes: ipfs get <hashvalue>
To view what's pinned on your IPFS node: ipfs pin ls | grep 'recursive'
To show network stats: ipfs stats repo
To show bandwidth stats: ipfs stats bw
▶️ DTube
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I wrote a small commandline tool to make pinning easier. https://github.com/johnn3y/ipfs-pin-steem
How about a Winodws version? I have a Windows-Server node and this would be helpful.
ipfs-pin-steem.exe
Future builds will be found on Github or you can install it with
pip install ipfs-pin-steem.Thanks! Appreciate that 😃
Great work with laying out the ipfs commands in a clear video.
Hands down best video online.
Thanks for teaching me how to get and pin videos to my ipfs node. I was able to pin this very video. The 480p and source videos worked without any problems, but the 720p video gets stuck at about 70%. Not sure why.
Thanks again and hopefully others can watch and learn from this video from my node!
If you can't pin the 720p version of this video successfully, that is because I'm hosting the 720p version of this video. The problem I have here is my ISP's terms of service does not allow any kind of p2p traffic therefore it will not work. The other versions are on dtube's official node so you are able to pin those.
I will be moving away from my LTE connection to fibre connection, which allows p2p traffic (it throttles at peak hours). That is when I can start hosting all my videos, completely bypassing the official uploader limits.
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Is your IPFS server running? Your Firebase EP5 video is not loading (just like other videos that I tried loading that are over a month old).
Too bad it's down due to its instability on my network. May have to move to renting a VPS server if I cannot circumvent ISP blocking all p2p traffic.