I wrote up a guide to installing transmission on the tonido plug 2

http://www.tonidouser.com/doku.php?id=a ... ansmission

It has two methods: apt-get and from source.

It's based on posts here in the forums by
- pmcallihan: viewtopic.php?f=37&t=4130
- geeknam: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=2138
and others.

I've tweaked the instructions a bit and tested them a few times on my plug. If you find any errors, please let me know or make the changes.

Looks good! Just what I was looking for. I'll be trying this sometime this week from source. Will you be expanding the wiki at all? I am interested in installing a Blocklist in Transmission.

(or on the whole plug, but no one seems to have figured out how to do that yet surprisingly)

Just added it, at your request.


It's possible and fairly common, but usually involves installing a proxy. Most people do it at the router or a proxy server, but you can do it locally. I'll see what I can find - but I'm not especially experienced at linux proxies.

Awesome. Much appreciated!

What's your recommendation for actually starting downloads from another machine? A browser plugin? I have a Windows 7 laptop and an iPad one. I'm looking for the easiest way to actually send the .torrent file to the TonidoPlug so that it starts on it's own.

There are 3 ways I know of: (simple to complicated)

1. Upload the torrent to transmission from a web browser, no plugin needed: http://<your address>:9091

2. Upload the torrent using Transmission Remote GUI, which installs on Windows 7, Mac and linux. http://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/

3. Make a "watch" folder that transmission monitors, share it, and then drop the torrents in from your Win 7 box by browsing to the network. The "watch folder" settings are in the json settings file.

Personally, I Method #2, unless I am transferring a bunch of torrent files from another box, then I use #3.

Basic instructions on #3: (it requires samba)
1. SSH into plug

2. create a watch directory:
# mkdir /home/torrent_watch
# chmod -R 777 /home/torrent_watch

3. edit the samba config file
# nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

4. add the following:
[torrent_watch]
path = /home/torrent_watch
read only = no
public = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes

5. Save & close

6. restart samba:
# /etc/init.d/samba restart

7. Stop transmission
# /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop

8. Edit the transmission config file
# nano /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json

9. Edit the following values:
Change:
"trash-original-torrent-files": true,
"start-added-torrents": true,

Add at the end (make sure to add a comma to the end of the preceding line)
"watch-dir": "/home/torrent_watch",
"watch-dir-enabled": true

10. Save & close.

11. Start Transmission.
# /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start

To add torrents
1. Browse to the "torrent_watch" shared folder on you plug from "Network" on your Win 7 box
2. Drag and drop the torrent files.

They will start automatically, and be deleted from the "watch" folder as they are added to the main torrent folder.

So, I've followed the guide and installed Transmission 2.42 from source. I have installed a blocklist, but can't see if it is successfully blocking anything. Any ideas on how to find out?

Not sure if this is the right place to ask or to start a new thread ...

I was having similar problems and got it solved by following the help here. My Transmission torrents were not downloaded giving an error of permission being denied. Now that's sorted by changing ownership of downloads folder to debian-transmission as mentioned above. This downloads folder is on the same stick as the one from which the plug boots. Now I added another stick to my hub and want to download to a folder there but trying to change the ownership of that folder doing exactly as I did earlier gives me an error of operation not permitted. So what I did was to change USER in transmission-daemon to root ... I know it might not be the best thing to do (im new to this!) so what would be the best way to achieve this? Thanks!

How was the other stick formatted? Did you use "chown" to change the owner?

It was formatted on a Mac previously. Yes, used chown - but operation not permitted.