New Transmission add-on thread

May have to give that a go - am still rebooting Transmission every 2-3 days to get rid of permission errors. Bit of a pain having incomplete torrents mingled with the complete ones, but less of a pain than the constant file ownership change !

efalsken wrote:
Does anyone find a way to rename/move or seed a torrent from the readynas from any (specified) path? I often will download torrents directly into my media/videos folder and want to keep seeding from there so I can watch them while seeding.

There's this tool called Transmission Remote GUI which allows you to change the location of the data of your torrents. You can find it here.

Make sure you get all the permissions right in the folders you want to move the files to. Anything you do in the GUI is being done with the same rights as Transmission has on your NAS.

JarnoG wrote:

efalsken wrote: Does anyone find a way to rename/move or seed a torrent from the readynas from any (specified) path? I often will download torrents directly into my media/videos folder and want to keep seeding from there so I can watch them while seeding. There's this tool called Transmission Remote GUI which allows you to change the location of the data of your torrents. You can find it here. Make sure you get all the permissions right in the folders you want to move the files to. Anything you do in the GUI is being done with the same rights as Transmission has on your NAS.

:shock: this tool is awesome - why did I put up with the web GUI for so long !

After having spent some time away from Transmission (basically went back to utorrent on the pc, but such a waste of electricity!) I installed the latest release - and wow...been playing with it all evening and works amazing! Thanks to super poussin for all his hard work. Dude, I'm paypal-ing a small token of my gratitude.

Then, just when I thought it couldn't get much better, I came across this thread which introduced the tool Transmission Remote GUI...and I'm amazed. Again. Just after I had wasted a couple of hours trying to edit settings.json, I find this little beauty does it all so much easier and so user friendly! It definitely needs more exposure, perhaps on the other Transmission threads on this board?

I use Transmission Remote dotnet (http://code.google.com/p/transmission-r ... loads/list) . What's the difference between it and remote-gui?

I just checked this tool out and it seems to have more options than remote-gui, but most is the same.

Advantage of the remote-gui is that it doesn't require .NET allowing it to run on a non-Windows as well.
Since I'm working on Windows-only I just switched to the Remote dotnet, so thanks for the tip! :D

tlaurent wrote:

I've been confronted to the same permission issue as described by seanmt and phantomwhale. I've configured Transmission to download in a different share than the default one (/c/p2p/BitTorrent/ rather than /c/Media/BitTorrent), but I kept the default user to nobody:nogroup (so far...). I couldn't understand how I could have permissions issues as I didn't change the default user and all my directories where following these permissions. Then, I had a look into /addons-config/Transmission/transmission-daemon/settings.json and I noticed that 2 path were hardcoded to the default download directory: "incomplete-dir": "/c/Media/BitTorrent/Incomplete" "watch-dir": "/c/Media/BitTorrent/sources/" I think the "incomplete-dir" one is the root of the problem as (I guess...) Transmission probably download all the different chunks here until the torrent has completed. So, if the directory is missing or doesn't have the right permissions, Transmission throws a "Permission denied". So, I've created the "Incomplete" and "sources" directories in my new share (and set the right permissions to nobody:nogroup) and changed the settings.json to point "incomplete-dir" and "watch-dir" to the new locations, and so far, so good, I can download without seeing the "permission denied" error again. One last word, make sure you stop Transmission before making the changes in settings.json, and just to be sure, remove all your current torrents from the list and re-add them once you've made all the changes and restarted Transmission. Hope this might help a few of you.

How to configure transmission and the directory access privilege to use a directory of an existed share to store? (eg: /myshares/mydownload/p2p/)

Am I right in thinking there is no light build anymore (for the duo)? Do we just use the full larger version?

randomnut wrote:
Am I right in thinking there is no light build anymore (for the duo)? Do we just use the full larger version?

you're right , simply because transmission inclide all the things I develop previously in the light version

Great. I must say I'm finding transmission very good, although the download speed in the latest beta isn't as fast as in the latest stable.

Would it be possible to get more options in the gui? E.g max peers per torrent, max active torrents, etc? I should hopefully be sending you a donation soon!