New Transmission add-on thread

Well, I installed the latest update last night... damn that was painful. The installation kept stalling. It turns out, as I learned later, that what was happening is that the wget's for the level1 file were hanging... just standing still holding the whole process up. I found that if I ran the install and killed the wget after it hung then the installation process seemed to proceed normally. Not sure what the wget is precisely for or why it was not completing correctly.

One thing that I'm find EXTREMELY annoying is the add-on's incessant behavior of changing the ownership of all my torrects and the /addons-config/Transmission directories. I change the runtime user of the service so that it matches the user ownership of the files in the share where Transmission puts my files. But having to fight with the installer each and every time is getting old.

I wonder if there is some way that parameters in the start script could be put in the addon configuration (not transmission, but the actual addon config panel in the Frontview services page) and the service would no longer automatically start each time it's installed/upgraded...? This would make a HUGE difference in the installation and upgrade process for those of us who don't like having all their files owned by "nobody".