New Transmission add-on thread

well with general use on the 2.00b1 sparc release, i've found the following:
- when using transmission remote, speed values do not always get updated. webgui says correct 500kb/s download speed, transmission remote claims 0kb/s, yet % and downloaded mb is being updated. seems to be random; other seeding torrents are correctly reporting upload speed in both webgui and transmission remote.
- on restart of transmission (a full reboot of my duo in this case), then unfinished downloads are being re-checked. however, the 1 download i currently have, got stuck at 100% checking and didnt actually change to 'downloading' status. this happens in both webgui and Transmission Remote. manually pause and start the torrent fixes it.

just for peoples reference, 2.00b1 is actually a 1.93+ client.

thanks will report to dev

the file checking issue looks like an intermittent one, S-P.

same torrent, same circumstances, torrent sucessfully moved from checking to downloading without intervention.
still, it's checking downloads on every start of the transmission process.

is everyone else experiencing the same, or is it something funky with my permissions on the torrent state folder? i dont recall it on 1.93 final release, but was definitely experiencing it on the 1.92final, 1.93beta1, and on this 2.00beta1 release....

using the location: \\nas1\addons-config\Transmission\transmission-daemon\resume

i can see that it is sucessfully creating the .resume file with the following values:

-rw-------  1 nobody nogroup    3018 2010-05-30 10:56 armin_van_buuren_-_a_state_of_trance_454_-_2010-04-29.efec790f3659693c.resume

i've tried 'chmod 775 *' in the resume folder, which does sucessfully apply, however when transmission process starts, it re-writes the permissions back to the above quoted code (chmod 600?). this is true for all active downloads. paused downloads do not have their permissions changed untill they move back to an active status.

i dont know too much about reading linux permissions on windows, but windows sees these files as read/write, and not modify against the 'nobody' user. the 'nogroup' group has no permissions on these .resume files.

is this checking issue that i've had a transmission issue, or something funky on my NAS?

I'm late to this party so please excuse the naive questions.

I used the regular BitTorrent client on my NV+ for a long time. I've just upgraded to a Pro Pioneer and have had no luck getting that client to work (changing share/folder/user settings via FrontView fails, torrents are downloaded to SOMEWHERE but I can't find the files anywhere, etc.).

I just found out about this add-on and thought I'd try it. I've installed it, but when I click on "Transmission Interface" in FrontView it just launches a blank page.

Is there something obviously/likely wrong that I can correct in order to fix this?

Is it possible to configure/administer this add-on without enabling ssh on the box (which I haven't yet done, and would prefer to avoid if possible)?

config addon, yes.
but you'll need to change the permissions to 'guest' on the 'addons-config' folder, under the shares.
you can then edit the .conf file in your favourite text editor.

for me, the url is http://nas1:8181/transmission/web

i'd give your NAS a reboot since i seem to recall something similar on the very first install of transmission (upgrades are fine)

Rebooting the NAS made the Transmission interface visible on port 8181, and also added the "addon-configs" share to the list. Thanks very much.

I had some initial trouble making the settings.json file editable. I'm using AFP rather than CIFS for connections to my ReadyNAS and at first I couldn't get read/write access to that file unless I connected as "guest" using CIFS. But once I disabled Transmission before trying to edit the file (as the FrontView interface plainly says that you need to do) then I was able to connect as my one-and-only user, and the file became editable. Files are owned by user 65534 rather than by my user, but I'm hoping that won't be an issue.

I haven't actually made any config changes yet--I want to confirm that everything works with the default settings before I start changing them--but this is a good start.

It looks like the default settings use the same location as the original BitTorrent client, at least for completed torrents (i.e. folder "BitTorrent" on the "media" share).

I was seeding a number of torrents that I'd like to continue seeding if possible. I've copied them over to the Pro. If I can locate the original .torrent files with which they were downloaded (they must be somewhere on the old NV+, right?), is there a way that I can drop them into place somewhere in the Transmission config and have the Pro continue to seed them?

Now to see if I can actually download a new torrent...

easiest way i found to transfer torrents, was to use transmission remote dotnet (http://code.google.com/p/transmission-remote-dotnet/).

start off with the 100% complete torrent and move to your new NAS.
re-download the .torrent file
open transmission remote, and 'open with options', select the .torrent file.
point the location to the 100% completed torrent files (this is case sensitive, with / and not \, without a trailing /. ie: /media/Videos)

done!
im GUESSING the same can be done for partially completed downloads, just force a re-check (if it doesnt do it by default) when you add the torrent to transmission.

that said, your using AFP, so your on a mac? i think theres alternative tranmission remote clients, the dotnet version is windows...

ignore this post!

veehexx wrote:

easiest way i found to transfer torrents, was to use transmission remote dotnet (http://code.google.com/p/transmission-remote-dotnet/). start off with the 100% complete torrent and move to your new NAS. re-download the .torrent file open transmission remote, and 'open with options', select the .torrent file. point the location to the 100% completed torrent files (this is case sensitive, with / and not \, without a trailing /. ie: /media/Videos) done! im GUESSING the same can be done for partially completed downloads, just force a re-check (if it doesnt do it by default) when you add the torrent to transmission. that said, your using AFP, so your on a mac? i think theres alternative tranmission remote clients, the dotnet version is windows...

Yes, I'm using a Mac, but I have an XP Virtual Machine running in VMware so I can run Windows clients if necessary.

It looks like there is indeed a multi-platform Transmission remote app here:

http://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/

and it runs on the Mac. Not sure how to replicate your suggestion using this GUI, but I'll take a look.

Do I take it that the best way to control/administer/inspect Transmission is NOT via the Web GUI provided by the ReadyNAS add-on, but rather via its RPC interface using one of these remote-control clients?

And does this also provide pretty much the full set of controls that I would have access to if I edited the settings.json file directly?