New Transmission 2.84 add-on for ReadyNAS Duo/NV+ (sparc)

Thank you tarobun for this build! I deleted 2.42, installed 2.82, and it's working just fine - after I figured out that the web interface port changed.

I've just installed Transmission 2.82 and I've tried to access it remotely (I've set up port forwarding on my router) but get a 403 response (Unauthorized IP Address). It works fine locally. Looking at addons-config\Transmission\settings.json I can see the line:
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,10.0.0.*,192.168.*.*",

My router is on 192.168.1.70 so it looks like it should work. Can anyone suggest what the issue is and what I need to do to resolve it?

Thanks

I've installed v 2.82 on my Duo (sparc) with 4.1.13.
It seems to have installed properly, and the little green light is on.
The ReadyNAS Status pages says "The Transmission add-on has been successfully installed."

When I click the button titled "Transmission Interface", a blank Firefox window opens. Its URL is "about:blank".

I tried rebooting the Duo. No change.

How does one access the GUI, and why does the Transmission Interface button point to a blank webpage?

NAS-t wrote:

I've installed v 2.82 on my Duo (sparc) with 4.1.13. It seems to have installed properly, and the little green light is on. The ReadyNAS Status pages says "The Transmission add-on has been successfully installed." When I click the button titled "Transmission Interface", a blank Firefox window opens. Its URL is "about:blank". I tried rebooting the Duo. No change. How does one access the GUI, and why does the Transmission Interface button point to a blank webpage?

Have you got a PHP package installed? You will need one.

There is a free app from Super_Poussin for Sparc and x86, or some modern releases from WhoCares? which is not free. (Though I have a vague memory of WhoCares? releasing a slightly older PHP version for free, maybe?)

InTheShires wrote:
Have you got a PHP package installed? You will need one.

Uh... I do? Weird. I don't have any PHP addon installed, and the interface button works just fine.

NAS-t wrote:
I've installed v 2.82 on my Duo (sparc) with 4.1.13.

I've had 2.82 installed on my NV+ for quite some time. I'm still on 4.1.12, but unless something broke the interface, it should work "out of the box"

NAS-t wrote:
When I click the button titled "Transmission Interface", a blank Firefox window opens. Its URL is "about:blank".

The only thing i can think of is that your port number is wrong.
Look in: \\"YourNASHere"\addons-config\Transmission\settings.json
Your looking for "rpc-port": 8181,
8181 is MY port. You have to find out which is yours. And , if you have a favorite number, you can change it to use that. For reasons not to be explained right now, stay above 1023, and below 65535 and you'll be fine.
Once you have a number, the current, or the one you changed to, check so the number matches in the text-box on the Frontpage-page. At this point you can try it again.
Remember to stop the service before you try and save the edited file. Might even have to stop the service to get read access, for some reason. (I don't have to, but i remember having to, earlier. Not sure if it's user rights, firmware, or Transmission that changed to make it "not be needed".)

NAS-t wrote:
How does one access the GUI, and why does the Transmission Interface button point to a blank webpage?

The GUI is accessed through the button on that wep-page, but honestly. Get Transmission Remote or Transmisson Remote GUI. It takes a little to figure out how to configure them, but once thats done, it's a lot more user-friendly... No, not kidding, get one of them. The second seams to be more advanced, but does something weird every now and then. For what ever reason it makes the x86 Transmission i got running on a HP WHS freeze up if i leave the app running. Get that one, and see how it works for you. (Still, we should figure out what ti takes to get the web GUI running for you, it should wok, as a backup, if nothing else.)
B!

@Shires,

Thanks for the reply.

No, I don't have a PHP package installed, unless that's something that is part of the ReadyNAS RAIDiator software. (I don't know what a PHP is, nor what I would do with it if I had it!).

However, thanks to advice from someone with a lot of experience using Transmission on OS X, I've discovered that the Transmission Interface for v2.82 can be accessed at http://nas:9091/transmission/web/
( "nas" is the local network name of my Duo).
Apparently, port 9091 is the standard port used by Transmission on a Mac, so I tried it on the Duo, and was in like flint.

I've been able to initiate a torrent, which is downloading to the Duo as I type this. So far so good.

NAS-t wrote:
I've discovered that the Transmission Interface for v2.82 can be accessed at http://nas:9091/transmission/web/

Put 9091 in the textbox on the web-gui launch page, and see what that does for you. If it works... Push "save" before closing the page.
B!

@ Mr_B,
Confirmed - PHP not required. Transmission seems to be running fine right now on my Duo, and I've not installed a PHP package.

Thanks for the pointer to Transmission Remote GUI. I may check it out, but things seem to be working right now, and I'm not sure I want to add yet another layer of new software. Transmission Remote won't help me since it's a Windows program and I have a Mac.

I tried looking for \\"YourNASHere"\addons-config\Transmission\settings.json
Actually, I looked for //nas/addons-config/Transmission, since OS X uses forward-slashes instead of back-slashes. But no such folder is found.

You suggested that I put 9091 in the textbox on the web-gui page, and then push Save. Are you referring to the web page on FrontView which lists the Transmission add-on? On my Duo, there's no place to enter a port number.

Regardless, since I now know how to access the web page (at http://nas:9091), I don't need to go fiddling around with the port number.

Cheers!

NAS-t wrote:
Thanks for the pointer to Transmission Remote GUI. I may check it out, but things seem to be working right now, and I'm not sure I want to add yet another layer of new software.

Do IT *tries to sound like Peanut, from/in "Spark of Insanity"* No really. Your just adding a magnet url handler. It pops up like any torrent client, has virtually no CPU usage, since it's not actually DOIN anything, the NAS does it all. And, when you don't use it, you just kill it off, and the NAS doesn't care.

NAS-t wrote:
I tried looking for \\"YourNASHere"\addons-config\Transmission\settings.json Actually, I looked for //nas/addons-config/Transmission, since OS X uses forward-slashes instead of back-slashes. But no such folder is found.

Weird. I'm guessing the share isn't added, or it's shared "as something else". Since my NAS speaks Swedish i can only guess, but i think you need to look under "shares" and see if there is anything there that seams to point at configuration stuffs for the addons.

NAS-t wrote:
You suggested that I put 9091 in the textbox on the web-gui page, and then push Save. Are you referring to the web page on FrontView which lists the Transmission add-on? On my Duo, there's no place to enter a port number.

Wait... What? Right above the "Show Web Interface" button for the Transmission GUI, i have "Transmission RPC Port (from settings.json):" and a text box to enter info in. Thats where you should put 9091. You don't have that text box?
B!

Nope - no text box for the Transmission RPC Port.
On my Duo, the Installed Add-ons page contains a section titled "Transmission. P2P Client". In the upper-right corner is a little green dot (indicating that the add-on is active, I presume).
Below that, it says: Please disable the add-on before modifying the /addons-config/Transmission/transmission-daemon/settings.json file
Below that is a button titled "Transmission Interface", and another button "Create Torrent".
Finally, an invitation to send a donation via PayPal.
Lower-right corner has v2.82.

Perhaps you're referring to another web page?