New Transmission add-on thread

2.01 for Sparc corrected you can download it 8)

I change the url for torrent creation to http://nas@ip/ctransmission (button in frontview added )

I installed the Transmission add-on tonight, but ran into a problem.

I had a couple of files downloading in Transmission when I needed to restart my router. It is the sort of thing that has happened before and never caused an issue.

This time, however, after the network came back up and I reconnected to the transmission web interface I noticed the in-progress downloads were not displayed (empty).

I tried to add them again from the torrent files, and while the torrents picked up where they left off (amount of data downloaded) they produced an error stating they were being denied permission to write to the Downloads directory (the file path had two slashes // between the download dorectory and the downloaded file).



I thought I might have to disable/enable Transmission in Frontview. When I tried to load front view I received this error:



At this point I tried to run the stop/start scripts and received the following error when running the stop script as root via SSH:

NAS:/c/addons-config/Transmission# sh transtop.sh
head: -1: invalid number of lines
Unexpected response: <h1>401: Unauthorized</h1>Unauthorized User
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip

head: -1: invalid number of lines
Unexpected response: <h1>401: Unauthorized</h1>Unauthorized User
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip

head: -1: invalid number of lines
Unexpected response: <h1>401: Unauthorized</h1>Unauthorized User
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip

head: -1: invalid number of lines
Unexpected response: <h1>401: Unauthorized</h1>Unauthorized User
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip

So I decided the Transmission install must be busted and I reinstalled Transmission, but all the issues persist.

I then tried to remove Transmission using the "remove" button in the Frontview UI, but that (along with the other buttons within the Transmission section of the Frontview UI) does not respond to clicking.

Not sure what to do now. I tried to chmod 777 the whole downloads directory, but that had no effect on the permissions issue.

I could live with Transmission not stopping/starting and Frontview not responding to input, but all torrent downloads being denied permission to download is a bit more of a problem.

Any assistance/ideas are warmly welcome...

Thanks,
-Delhux

Did you Check the password in the 2 startup script as described in the official post ?

Just noticed that one, my bad. I'm assuming that is the Transmission user/pass and not Frontview.

Not sure how it happened, but chmod'ing the addons-config/Transmission/ directory to 777 seemed to solve the permissions error.

As for the start/stop scripts, the "start" script now puts out an error about incorrect number of headers.

I noticed the web browser is loading A LOT of items when pulling up the web UI. Figured I'd leave it alone overnight and see how it is in the morning.

delhux wrote:

Just noticed that one, my bad. I'm assuming that is the Transmission user/pass and not Frontview. Not sure how it happened, but chmod'ing the addons-config/Transmission/ directory to 777 seemed to solve the permissions error. As for the start/stop scripts, the "start" script now puts out an error about incorrect number of headers. I noticed the web browser is loading A LOT of items when pulling up the web UI. Figured I'd leave it alone overnight and see how it is in the morning.

please read this :

better transmission start/stop script you have now 2 script you need to modify to start/stop transmission properly (torrents are stopped and restart in the last state after a reboot for example) scripts are in /c/addons-config/Transmission/ : transtart.sh transtop.sh

Hi

I've just upgraded to v2.01 from 2.00b2 and I have a small problem every time I try and log in to transmission either through web interface or remotegui I can't

To get everything back to normal I have to login to frontview and restart transmission the indicatoris grey then turns green after restartand will be ok for 5 mins to a day

anyone else have this problem or solved it

Cheers

Alain

Hi all!

I'm not sure if i'm missing something here or whats wrong.

I have installed Transmission, I got it to work, I can download/upload torrents etc. but to be able to edit the settings.json I need to stop the service from runing then edit the file and then turn it back on.

I go to installed addons in the gui, I get a error message, "populateDivFromUrl /addons/TRANSMISSION/TRANSMISSION.jseval error caught SyntaxError: underminated string literal"

back to the gui, I can't do anything with Transmission, when i untic the addon the Save buttons is greyed out, if I click the remove button nothing happens.

Any ideas what i'm doing wrong or something else?

Edit

When trying to run the transtop.sh file I get the following erros.

./transtop.sh
head: -1: invalid number of lines
head: -1: invalid number of lines
head: -1: invalid number of lines
head: -1: invalid number of lines


best regards

/Patrik

1) can you post the content of your settings.json and explain with which tool you open it ?
2) did you edit the scripts to add your transmission admin password (same as the one you put in settings.json)

better transmission start/stop script you have now 2 script you need to modify to start/stop transmission properly (torrents are stopped and restart in the last state after a reboot for example) scripts are in /c/addons-config/Transmission/ : transtart.sh transtop.sh

you can also replace your settings.json with

{
    "alt-speed-down": 50,
    "alt-speed-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
    "alt-speed-time-day": 127,
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
    "alt-speed-up": 50,
    "blocklist-enabled": true,
    "cache-size-mb": 2048,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "\/c\/media\/BitTorrent",
    "encryption": 1,
    "incomplete-dir": "\/c\/media/BitTorrent\/Incomplete",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": true,
    "lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
    "max-peers-global": 200,
    "message-level": 1,
    "open-file-limit": 32,
    "peer-limit-global": 240,
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
    "peer-port": 51413,
    "peer-port-random-enabled": 0,
    "peer-port-random-high": 65535,
    "peer-port-random-low": 1024,
    "peer-port-random-on-start": false,
    "peer-socket-tos": 0,
    "pex-enabled": 1,
    "pidfile": "/var/run/transmission-daemon.pid",
    "port-forwarding-enabled": true,
    "preallocation": 2,
    "proxy": "",
    "proxy-auth-enabled": false,
    "proxy-auth-password": "",
    "proxy-auth-username": "",
    "proxy-enabled": false,
    "proxy-port": 80,
    "proxy-type": 0,
    "ratio-limit": "2.000000",
    "ratio-limit-enabled": true,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": false,
    "rpc-enabled": true,
 "rpc-password": "password1",
    "rpc-port": 8181,
    "rpc-username": "admin",
    "rpc-whitelist": "*",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "\/c\/addons-config\/Transmission\/email_alert",
    "speed-limit-down": 100,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 10,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": true,
    "start-added-torrents": true,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false,
    "umask": 0,
    "upload-limit": 100,
    "upload-limit-enabled": 0,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
    "watch-dir": "\/c\/media\/BitTorrent\/sources\/",
    "watch-dir-enabled": 1
}

can you post the content of your settings.json and explain with which tool you open it ?

I use Putty and I did copy your settings.json and I use nano to edit the file. Here you can see I have added the standard username and password, changed it as it was encrypted.

in putty I try to stop the Transmission with ./transtop.sh or sh transtop.sh I still get same error.

In the scripts, there is already added the admin/password1 or I have to edit more in here?

{ "alt-speed-down": 50, "alt-speed-enabled": false, "alt-speed-time-begin": 540, "alt-speed-time-day": 127, "alt-speed-time-enabled": false, "alt-speed-time-end": 1020, "alt-speed-up": 50, "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0", "bind-address-ipv6": "::", "blocklist-enabled": true, "cache-size-mb": 2048, "dht-enabled": true, "download-dir": "/media/BitTorrent/", "encryption": 1, "incomplete-dir": "/c/media/BitTorrent/Incomplete", "incomplete-dir-enabled": true, "lazy-bitfield-enabled": true, "lpd-enabled": false, "max-peers-global": 200, "message-level": 2, "open-file-limit": 32, "peer-limit-global": 240, "peer-limit-per-torrent": 60, "peer-port": 51413, "peer-port-random-enabled": 0, "peer-port-random-high": 65535, "peer-port-random-low": 1024, "peer-port-random-on-start": false, "peer-socket-tos": 0, "pex-enabled": true, "pidfile": "/var/run/transmission-daemon.pid", "port-forwarding-enabled": true, "preallocation": 1, "proxy": "", "proxy-auth-enabled": false, "proxy-auth-password": "", "proxy-auth-username": "", "proxy-enabled": false, "proxy-port": 80, "proxy-type": 0, "ratio-limit": 2.0000, "ratio-limit-enabled": true, "rename-partial-files": true, "rpc-authentication-required": true, "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0", "rpc-enabled": true, "rpc-password": "password1", "rpc-port": 8181, "rpc-username": "admin", "rpc-whitelist": "*", "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true, "script-torrent-done-enabled": true, "script-torrent-done-filename": "/c/addons-config/Transmission/email_alert", "speed-limit-down": 400, "speed-limit-down-enabled": false, "speed-limit-up": 5, "speed-limit-up-enabled": true, "start-added-torrents": true, "trash-original-torrent-files": false, "umask": 0, "upload-limit": 100, "upload-limit-enabled": 0, "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14, "watch-dir": "/c/media/BitTorrent/sources/", "watch-dir-enabled": 0 }

This is from the transtop.sh

#!/bin/sh # ************* # transmission stop by super-poussin # ************* # Variables # # Path to transmission-remote REMOTE="/usr/local/bin/transmission-remote" # Options to be passed to transmission-remote TRANSOPT=" localhost:8181 -n admin:password1" # ************* # Stop torrents SEED="$($REMOTE $TRANSOPT -l | tail -n +2 | head -n -1 | grep Seeding |awk '{ p$ echo $SEED > /c/addons-config/Transmission/seeding.txt RUNING="$($REMOTE $TRANSOPT -l | tail -n +2 | head -n -1 | grep Downloading |aw$ echo $RUNING > /c/addons-config/Transmission/downloading.txt IDDLE="$($REMOTE $TRANSOPT -l | tail -n +2 | head -n -1 | grep Idle |awk '{ pri$ echo $IDDLE > /c/addons-config/Transmission/idle.txt LIST="$($REMOTE $TRANSOPT -l | tail -n +2 | head -n -1 | awk '{ print $1; }' | $ for ID in $LIST; do $REMOTE $TRANSOPT --torrent $ID --stop > /dev/null done chmod 777 /c/addons-config/Transmission/*.txt

This is from transtart.sh

#!/bin/sh # ************* # transmission stop by super-poussin # ************* # Variables # # Path to transmission-remote REMOTE="/usr/local/bin/transmission-remote" # Options to be passed to transmission-remote TRANSOPT=" localhost:8181 -n admin:password1" # ************* LIST=`cat /c/addons-config/Transmission/seeding.txt` for ID in $LIST; do $REMOTE $TRANSOPT --torrent $ID --start > /dev/null done LIST=`cat /c/addons-config/Transmission/downloading.txt` for ID in $LIST; do $REMOTE $TRANSOPT --torrent $ID --start > /dev/null done LIST=`cat /c/addons-config/Transmission/idle.txt` for ID in $LIST; do $REMOTE $TRANSOPT --torrent $ID --start > /dev/null done

/Patrik

I am experiencing the exact same set of issues that Putte has described here.