Transmission installed and running on 1.7.1

[CarpeNoctem]

Hey folks, wanted to give something back to this amazing community so I thought I could show you how I got Transmission Torrent Client working on my WDR3600 running 1.7.1 latest ispy build.

1. I followed this guide http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/transmission but I omitted the installation of transmission-cli and transmission-remote due to storage constraints. I decided to install it straight to the router's internal memory and use an external USB as the download destination.

2. Once I managed to succesfully install it, the very useful plugin Services Manager shows the newly installed Transmission service ready to be autostarted if you so desire. I don't, simply because this amazing plugin gives me the freedom to start and stop it whenever i desire, without using unnecessary router resources. If you also have the Services plugin, it should look like so:



3. Now here's the kicker. I knew if I used OpenVPN to connect, I could access the Transmission Web Service without issues. Thing is, I wanted to be able to access it through the DDNS host assigned to my Dynamic IP, and no matter how many rules I tried, I'd always get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. So, I decided to edit the /etc/config/firewall and add the following rule:

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config remote_accept 'transmission'
	option proto 'tcp'
	option zone 'wan'
	option local_port '9091'
	option remote_port '9091'

I restarted the firewall and voilá, I could access my Transmission using the DDNS hostname associated with my Dynamic IP.

Bear in mind, if you plan on doing this, it is essential that you enable the following option either in the transmission or settings.json file:

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"rpc-authentication-required": true,

This enables basic authentication that you can also set up within the same file in the fields

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"rpc-password": "password",

and

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"rpc-username": "username",

Hopes this helps anyone interested in setting up their own torrent client without having to turn on a computer.

Cheers!!

UPDATE: In my case it worked with the rules I added, but if you get no peers, you can always add the following to the firewall script:

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config remote_accept 'transmission_2'
	option proto 'tcpudp'
	option zone 'wan'
	option local_port '51413'
	option remote_port '51413'

[nworbnhoj]

Great post - thank you!

[tapper]

Thanks nice post.

[CarpeNoctem]

I should add that when you configure the client, it creates a couple of folders that could fill up the router's internal memory.

What I do to avoid this is edit this line in /etc/config/transmission:

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option config_dir '/tmp/transmission'

And change it to the path of your USB drive. Once you do this, the settings.json file is generated and the Blocklist, torrents and resume folders are created inside of the external drive, keeping your internal memory free.

[ispyisail]

And change it to the path of your USB drive

I didn't manage to find the path

What path did you use

[CarpeNoctem]

Ispy, using Webshell and the output of mount, this is the path I used to generate the settings.json and the additional folders:

[Harybald]

Once I managed to succesfully install it, the very useful plugin Services Manager shows the newly installed Transmission service ready to be autostarted if you so desire. I don't, simply because this amazing plugin gives me the freedom to start and stop it whenever i desire, without using unnecessary router resources. If you also have the Services plugin, it should look like so:

https://thetimeposts.com/
casinomagzine.com
solar movies
recipesny.com

[ispyisail]

Took me a while to work out how to do it.

I used two USB thumb drives. (have two USB ports on my machine)

Using TL-WDR3600 and Gargoyle 1.6.2

First drive was set up as "Extroot" so I could install all Transmission packages

The second drive is setup as "swap" and "drive storage"

Set the config directory to

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	option download_dir '/tmp/usb_mount/2C7C-7EB9'

to help find the correct directory

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mount 

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root@Gargoyle:~# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=63360k)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=512k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noatime,mode=600)
/dev/sda1 on /overlay type ext4 (rw,noatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
overlayfs:/overlay on / type overlayfs (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/,upperdir=/overlay)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sdb1 on /tmp/usb_mount/2C7C-7EB9 type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdb1 on /tmp/share_home/anonymous/share type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,relatime)
root@Gargoyle:~#

Tip: I had some problems but it the end I fully formatted both drives using a windows machine then all the problem went away. I suspect that gargoyle does not do a full format?

[griftopia]

This is pretty cool. I just finished setting up my WD N750 bridge the way I wanted. I read this post. I hooked a USB drive to the router and enabled DLNA. I can watch videos OFF the USB stick on my Samsung TV which has DLNA client support built in !!!

A mini computer, bridge, torrent client, file server all in one !!! Itching to try this weekend. Hope installing transmission not to hard.

Actually, wondering if a simple client could be written to capture streams given a url instead of torrent. that would be more useful to be able to watch things offline.

[Krog]

o great

thanks , if a make a torrent it be very useful