xbmcbuntu & transmission-daemon
 

Hello All

Well its that point where as a relative Linux noob i have to ask for help as google has not been able to help me (please bare in mind i really have searched hard and experimented before getting to the point of asking for help as i do try to do it myself first)

I have a Acer Revo 3700 on which i am running (very happily) xbmcbuntu Eden (based on ubuntu 11.10).

Essentially it is configured to boot automatically into XBMC without showing any desktop environment, however if you choose to you can access this.(which i believe is based on 'openbox')

What i am trying to acheive is to have a torrent program start automatically on boot. Previously i had transmission to do this and used the desktop to 'add it to start up programs' and i added the 'minimised' switch so it didn't start with an open window.

I can't however replicate this in xbmcbuntu.

After a lot of reading i began to understand that i didn't want to use the GUI i needed to have transmission-daemon installed and have this run and access it via the remote client ability.

The problem is that as a traditionally GUI based user i'm struggling with correctly identifying how to configure transmission from the command prompt (via ssh)

i have successfully installed transmission using sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon.

i found the transmission website and followed the instructions there about what to change. (https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EditConfigFiles)

so i editited the original settings.json in the correct folder (original attached) with the code i believe i need to run transmission-daemon with an alternative speed limit enabled and access capable from my network (on the 192.168.0.* range)

i then restarted transmission-daemon using the command listed in the web page above but am blocked access.

Deciding to stop there adn see if i could get the daemon to start on boot i followed the instructions here (https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Scripts/initd) to place a script in the init.d folder. but it doesn't work.

Any ideas what i may have done wrong and how to make it start in boot?

I've attached the settings.json that i have 'concocted from the website, the original, and the inid.d transmission.daemon script i created as text files for reference

Thanks

James

Hi jlivin25,

Make sure that you stop the transmission service before editing the settings.json
From the shell run:
For you to be able to connect to the web interface you only need to change the "rpc-whitelist" option to match your network.
So if your network range is 10.0.x.x, change the rpc-whitelist like this"
Then start the transmission daemon
Once it is started you can access the web interface in a browser by going to "http://xbmcip:9091"
From there you can configure speed and other options as you like.

transmission
 

Thanks very much mate.

I have followed your instructions, thank you

However it doesn't appear to have worked.

I stopped the daemon.

edited settings.json, added 192.168.*.* as you can see from the attached screenshot (settings.jpeg)

Then restarted the daemon

tried to access through web browser and get a forbidden notice...:(

see 403 forbidden.jpeg, any other ideas?

James

Hi James,

I think you are editing the wrong file.
You should edit you might also want to change the andThe default password is "transmission"

You do not need edit or add any startup script, transmission-daemon should start automatically when you boot.

transmission-daemon
 

Hi FNC

Thanks for the advice I will give it a go as soon as I get near my computer. I genuinely thought I had the right file location, so will check :) I will also change username to transmission, I'll leave the password as transmission until I can confirm its fixed :)

Will update in about 9 hrs when home

James

Solved
 

Hello

Thats absolutely worked, thankyou!!!

i will now set to work configuring the other bits :)

Many thanks FNC!!