It took me about 3 full days to get this all worked out and I thought a quick how to for the next person would be good. This is set up so you can mostly just copy and paste at this point.

I'm basically using the plug as a torrent server and NAS to store everything. I have a couple of Boxee Boxes around the house and they are set up to nightly access the shared drive that Transmission downloads into. My torrent files drop into a watch directory and get trashed once transmission picks them up. These are all options in the settings.json file.

First I followed this to boot off USB thumb drive (Sandisk Cruzer 4GB)
http://www.tonido.com/help/Topics/IDH_Topic240.htm

After booting up and verifying I was on the USB by running df -h from the prompt to see the rootfs was indeed on the USB drive I proceeded. You must do this from a USB drive or you will VOID your warranty.
I then ran the following commands in order. I recommend having something else to do during this time because some of them take a bit to complete. Run each one at a time.


Created my settings file, you can find examples on the transmission wiki so I'm not going to go into that right now. Also if you need help with nano you can find it on the web. You get two freebies though, ctrl-o saves the file, and ctrl-x gets you out of nano.


You need to chown your directories to the user debian-transmission once you've decided what they are in the settings file. This will allow Transmission to read and write to them.



Then I linked it to the proper place


I then restarted the service to verify I had it working correctly and it was reading my settings


Now at this point we actually have Transmission 1.5 installed and working but we want the newer version. I then followed the instructions here for building the newer versions myself.
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Bu ... omatarball

You'll need to run this for the development tools


And some that are not in the instructions but you'll need them for compiling anything over Transmission 2.0


Now we get download, uncompress, and build the 2.13 version


Copy the new builds to the proper place so that the init script will use them and restart the service.


At this point you should be running 2.13 and it should be set to autostart. Remember to restart anytime you change settings.json.

BAM!

Very cool! Thanks for posting!

I also have Transmission setup on my TonidoPlug. Running it with Transmission Remote GUI. Best torrent setup ever !!!

does this implementation of Transmission support peerblocking feature found in the GUI version of Transmission?

It is my assumption that it does, I have it configured in my settings.json file to do that and if you then download the transmission remote client and connect you can see that it is enabled. The web client won't show you at all, but this build was the newest when I wrote this up the other day.

Nice.. i think im going to have to look into this .. was one of the primary reasons I wasn't using the native torrent app .. this might resolve that.

i actually use an app on my mac called automatic, http://codingcurious.com/automatic/ that downloads new episodes of shows i like and drops them into a share on the plug called "watch". i have transmission watch this directory and it auto starts the torrent and trashes the original .torrent file. easy as pie and I've taught the wife how to search for stuff she wants that's not in the automatic program and add it via the transmission web panel. we dropped cable about a year ago and we have boxee boxes in all the rooms, loving it!

i have the big external drive with only 3 folders:
Downloads
Incomplete
Watch

I have transmission move the finished torrents to the downloads folder when finished so boxee won't scan an incomplete file and someone in the house try to play it.

for those attempting to do this with the tonido plug directly, i have been successful to a small extent. there is a nifty application called flexget. it runs on rss feed to identify and pick sitcoms you maybe following with the help of a small yml config file. i have linked almost 10 sitcoms to the eztv.it rss feed and on the hour, flexget checks the feeds for new releases and for any positive match it downloads the torrent file to a dir being watched by transmission client. voila !!

Does it support blocking of IP addresses? .. without some kind of IP address range blocking its not really useful (to me anyway) .. Transmission has the ability to let you subscribe to ip address block lists..

I have installed transmission on my tonidoplug, but its been very slow. Speed never goes beyond 30 KB/s. I have forwarded port 51413 on my router, and configured iptables to allow that port. Still no luck.

The same torrent file downloads in excess of 200 KB/s on the torrent client included with the tonido plug, so its not my ISP or Internet bandwidth thats the cause.