BETA PLUGIN: Transmission Bittorent (2.33-BUILD1)

[BadIntentions]

LINK: http://depositfiles.com/files/b88w5fs8n

I JUST finished gluing this together. Its the most recent release version of Transmission (2.33), tweaked and tuned to run fairly well on the Javelin. Install the plugin and visit port 9091 on your Javelin (for example http://s4:9091). The username is 'transmission' and the password is 'password'

By default everything goes in the /VOLUME1/DOWNLOADS folder. if this is not correct, edit the settings (click lower left corner gear icon and click preferences).

KNOWN ISSUES:

1) Disabling the plugin is not possible via web interface. Just login to telnet and issue '/APP/TRANSMISSION/bin/transmission_control stop'

2) Package is fairly large, possibly larger than it has to be. I will see if there is something I can do to manage the bloat. Right now it is at 17MB.



It seems to download fairly happily at 3MB/s (about 25mbit/s) from a well seeded file using 75% or so of the CPU. That is with encrypted clients.

[kevinkar]

Excellent. The default BT is excruciatingly slow and quite weak in the GUI department. I'll be able to give it a try on Sunday when the next episode of Top Gear is posted.

Where do all these plugins go? Somewhere in the hardware flash no doubt. I'm wondering if you can put a larger plugin on the Volume 1 drive and link to it from the flash so that you can install much larger plugins. Sure, if the drive is out they wouldn't run but that might be fine if the user knew and understood it.

I don't know how all this really works so sorry for the ignorant question.

Kevin

[BadIntentions]

The plugins are stored on volume 1 under a folder named pluginapp. I just want to shrink the size of the plugin, but it turns out to be much smaller than most other plugins.

The integrated client (MLDonkey) is horrid, slow, ugly, doesn't seed right, and its too easy to accidentally share your files on EDK and other p2p networks with it.

[kevinkar]

Issuing the command /APP/TRANSMISSION/bin/transmission_control stop results in the following output for me:

Exporting ENV variables:
Starting torrent services:
transmission-daemon.../APP/TRANSMISSION/bin/transmission_control: 63: [[: not found
done.
transmission-remote... done.

But it's not actually stopped. The daemon is still running. Issuing various kill commands to the PIDs involved don't actually kill the client.

Any thoughts?

[BadIntentions]

yeah, i made a typo in the init style script.

just type 'killall -9 transmission-daemon' and 'killall -9 transmission-client'

[invader980]

FIRST OF ALL THANK U GOD!!!!!! FOR THIS PLUGIN lol Good to see some development for this awsome hardware.... the stock software just dosent cut it .

secoundly ... is there any way/instructions on changing the defualt user info

i know this is n beta stages and not to important of a feature ... but ive had home made seedboxs hacked by weak logins and pending sopenas because of it so im kinda over cautious

by the way: Dose this plugin use any resources from the stock bt client ? or can we disable it and remove all emule servers ?

[BadIntentions]

<snip>secoundly ... is there any way/instructions on changing the defualt user info

You can edit the startup script (/VOUME1/APPLUGIN/TRANSMISSION/bin/control). However, I enabled access control by default. Only 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x can access the client. This means it is impossible to control transmission from outside your home/business network. Internet users will see an access denied page, even if the port is forwarded. Edit settings.json to change this.

by the way: Dose this plugin use any resources from the stock bt client ? or can we disable it and remove all emule servers ?

I actually erased its folder myself. Yes, you can disable it if you don't want to use emule/ed2k networks. This application is completely independent. It does not support these outdated relics.

[kevinkar]

All that's left is to edit your script so the shutdown command works without needing to "kill -9" or figure out how to get the web interface On/Off to work!

Regardless, this worked great. It's not as full featured as say micro torrent but it's way better than what Patriot supplied. Thanks for the work you've done. It's greatly appreciated.

Kevin

[BadIntentions]

All that's left is to edit your script so the shutdown command works without needing to "kill -9" or figure out how to get the web interface On/Off to work!

Regardless, this worked great. It's not as full featured as say micro torrent but it's way better than what Patriot supplied. Thanks for the work you've done. It's greatly appreciated.

Kevin

Its nice to know my work is appreciated. I'll have the startup script figured out probably by next weekend. Just in time to have no TopGear episodes to download (Not until this fall!)

[invader980]

Its nice to know my work is appreciated. I'll have the startup script figured out probably by next weekend. Just in time to have no TopGear episodes to download (Not until this fall!)

loL@ that ... WORK GREATLY APPRECIATED.. wish i could help this box has SOOO much potential , just needs the right person to unlock it ... this plugin has changed my life (tear in eye) lol.


one thing i did notice .... after the installation of this program boot up times on the nas have trippled ( not sure wat that is the result of) strange because the transmissions page still wasnt available during the startup process. I assume it somthing else but just throwing that out there for someone else to test.

Also on stress test(crazy download 20 torrents at one time mode ) i did get the s4 to freeze on me (i know of course it not intended for this lol) and it resulted in all services stopping ... also causing the buttons to be non responsive ( had to literally pull the plug) which was alittle scary .


im a stranger to linux (assuming that wats runnin this lil box) but is there a way to hard code a restart function on error for this plugin , or would that have to be coded into transmissions its self ?