Transmission spk Manual

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Installation

Download and install transmission-version.spk to your Synology NAS.
Create a new share named transmission (all lowercase), give full access (read/write) to the user transmission and to yourself to access the content.
New content will be download in /volume1/transmission/download.
New torrents will be watched for in /volume1/transmission/incoming. Transmission will not moved them away once taken in account, you have to do it yourself.
You can access transmission web interface through the Synology Disk Station manager. Or directly through http://yournas:9091/. No password is required. See below on how to set one.
If you have installed my package 1.83 or later, use upgrade, and your torrent shall restart smoothly. Transmission will be stopped before the upgrade.

Setup the Authentication

Credits goes to angrymr-t from the Synology Forum. Original post here.

Make sure the Transmission service is not running via the package management in DSM.
Open a terminal using an SSH client like Putty (make sure SSH is enabled in DSM, via: Network services > Terminal).
Edit the settings.json using the command vi /usr/local/transmission/var/settings.json (if you don’t know vi, read: http://www.washington.edu/computing/unix/vi.html).
Set rpc-authentication-required to true.
Set rpc-username to the username of your choice.
Set rpc-password to the password of your choice (type it in plain text, it will be encrypted the next time you start the service).
See http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/ConfigurationParameters for the full list of settings.
Save the settings file.
Start the Transmission service via the package management in DSM.

Technical Details

At installation time, a transmission user will be created. It will be removed along with the package when it get uninstalled. Transmission is run as this user.
The configuration file is /usr/local/transmission/var/settings.json. It is advised to edit it and activate the authentication.
To run transmission from the command line to see the log in real time, use
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/transmission.sh console from a shell.
The file /usr/local/etc/transmission.cfg can be used to customize how transmission is run. It can be used to set environment variables, just like this: export EVENT_NOEPOLL=1. This file must be executable (chmod +x /usr/local/etc/transmission.cfg) or it won’t be read. Only from 2.04.

#1 | Written by Rinze about 2 years ago.

Hi,I just installed this (thanx alot) but ran into the “permission denied” problem I’ve seen around the forums. On my Synology box, the problem was caused by the following:

If you create the transmission share AFTER you install the package, some folder will not be created. So what I did was:
1. create the transmission share
2. install the package
3. grant the transmission user (added by the installer) read+write permissions on the share

hope this helps
Rinze
#2 | Written by Jim about 2 years ago.

Does this not work on DMS beta 3? I can’t seem to get the service to run.

Thanks!
#3 | Written by Jim about 2 years ago.

After further reading I found that uninstalling and manually creating a user “transmission” with no password, then re-installing did the trick. DMS 3 removes the “adduser” command.
#4 | Written by frisco about 2 years ago.

Hi,

After upgrading from 2.04 to 2.10 on a DSM 3, all went perfect, package console shows 2.10 but from web interface or Windows transmission GUI, version shows 2.04. ??

Anything wrong?

Thanks for your feedback and great job done with this nice package, I’ll love it
Cheers
frisco
#5 | Written by Joseph about 1 year ago.

Works like a charm. Had to struggle with Vi as always, but no biggy. WOrks with DSM3.0
#6 | Written by Pierre about 1 year ago.

Yeah it works really well out of the box !

Thanks
#7 | Written by Erik about 1 year ago.

Jim, your help is much appreciated, your trick worked like a charm!
#8 | Written by huhuu about 1 year ago.

Uninstalled Sarav’s 2.0.4, installed this one, set the stuff in the json file, and everything is working. Great job, easy installation, excellent documentation and links, up to date version, what else is needed. Keep up, you are the best!!
#9 | Written by DJKlump about 1 year ago.

Hey. For those who got DSM 3 and cant install this because of the bug in SSH ..
What i did was, i installed the Transmission 1.83 (http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?p=85336#p85336) and then downloaded this 2.12 and just made an upgrade in package installer
By the way im using an DS-110j
#10 | Written by Will0913 about 1 year ago.

I’m using a DS209 with DSM3.0 1354 installed.
yesterday I upgraded my transmission from 2.04 to 2.13
everything went smoothly except I can’t change the download folder
I turned transmission of from DSM and edited the setting.json file
when I turned it back on, it still tried to save the files in /volume1/transmission/download folder.
what did I do wrong?
#11 | Written by kjack about 1 year ago.

Hi! I need some help. I tried to update from 2.04 to 2.13 but I got message “the service can’t be stopped”. The I tried to remove the package but got message that the service couldn’t be removed. So I had to remove it manually as well as transmission folder and and transmission user. Then I tried to install transmission 2.13 but system message appeared “the package can’t be installed”. Could you help me?
DS-209, DSM 3.0 1354
#12 | Written by mininewb about 1 year ago.

Hi and thank you for you great package.

I had two remarks:
- When transmission is run from the Packet Manager it creates two entries in the ‘Start’ menu.
- I could not find anywhere information about DHT support and if Transmission requires a UDP port or not. Could you clarify this for me ?

DS-411+, DSM 3.0 1372, 2.13 SPK
#13 | Written by Dario about 1 year ago.

When i telnet to my DiskStation en type ‘ps’ to see the active processes, i see multiple instances of the transmission-daemon:
8698 transmis 29488 S /usr/local/transmission/bin/transmission-daemon -g /
8701 transmis 29488 S /usr/local/transmission/bin/transmission-daemon -g /
8703 transmis 29488 S /usr/local/transmission/bin/transmission-daemon -g /
8704 transmis 29488 S /usr/local/transmission/bin/transmission-daemon -g /
Is that supposed to be the case?
#14 | Written by zebulon about 1 year ago.

@Dario: transmission is a threaded, depending on your NAS (i.e. the version of Linux and the version of ps), you will see all the threads or only one. On my DS408, I see all threads (same as you), on my 210j, I only see one. Nothing to be worried about.
#15 | Written by zebulon about 1 year ago.

@mininewb: with DSM 2.x, one entry was for the desktop, the other one for the side menu. With DSM 3.x, noth are shown in Start Menu. i will fix this on the next release. Check the main transmission website (http://www.transmissionbt.com/) for the features and limitations. But I can already tell you that it supports DHT (use transmission-remote-dotnet to configure it) and that the incomming UDP port is the same as the TCP one (though it is note currently mappe through UPnP).
#16 | Written by Manolo about 1 year ago.

Hi all.

I’ve installed Transmission in my DS110j and everything is going fine. Anyway, do you know the way to create a torrent of files stored in transmission folder? I’ve tried this from other forum:

- create torrent on PC. Don’t start seeding.
- load torrent into DL station and start DL. (it’s always be 0.00% – nobody seeding!)
- stop DL (we must manually replace files)
- copy files from PC into correct directory on NAS. (if you start and stop this torrent, on my DS108j i find it on the /volume1/@download/ – last created directory – replace with files copied from PC – see filename (check uppercase/lowercase))
- start DL – system will check download progress and:
- if you don’t limit upload (Ad.1) – system will continue share to others
- if you limit upload (Ad.1) – move files to destination download directory and stop

with no success.

Regards. Manolo.
#17 | Written by Patrik about 1 year ago.

Ok, i got it all straightend out now, well, except for one thing, it seams that it is not possible to have a download folder with a DS211J, whatever I name the folder it will never move the files from incoming to download. When i remove the use of an incoming folder, transmission crashes (after giving a permission denied), when i start it up again the old settings are back. All this is taking place in the volume1/transmission folder.
#18 | Written by ilovetea about 1 year ago.

This package never installs on my 210j, DSM 3.1-1605.
Somehow, the /usr/local/transmission/bin folder is always empty, transmission-daemon is missing. eventually, service never starts neither from package manager nor manually via transmission.sh start.

Just reisntalled syno system firmware — same thing. Would appreciate any advice — before dsm upgrades old packages (like 2.10 if i remember) worked on this box.
#19 | Written by NCK about 1 year ago.

Hi.

Just installed the transmission 2.22 SPK on DS210J running DSM 3.1-1605.
Initially i got the permission denied error after having added a torrent and having it run for a little while. I then changed the name of the transmission share to lower case, and that has solved the problem. If it is the case that transmission is case sensitive about the created share, this might be worth mentioning in the manual.
Anyway, thanks for creating this easy to use alternative to the ghastly DSM DL station.
#20 | Written by justd about 1 year ago.

Hi
Where can i observe the logs for transmission?
tks!
#21 | Written by Daan about 1 year ago.

This must be an incredibly stupid question, but I can’t seem to figure it out.

I want to change the watchfolder-path, so I understand I have to edit the /usr/local/transmission/var/settings.json. But how do I get there?

I presume I have to get in to the root of the Synology somehow. Can someone help me out here?

Thanks a lot in advance.
#22 | Written by Daan about 1 year ago.

I’m sorry, I found it already… Although nothing seems to work. I set the watchfolder, I set the rights for transmission to go into that folder. The .torrent is there, but nothing happens.
#23 | Written by Jos about 1 year ago.

Are you sure you edited (and saved) the settings.json file? It’s not very intuitive to do this via SSH. Make sure you confirm the edit by opening the file again in the editor after making the changes.

Also, you probably should stop Transmission before changing the settings file and then run it again after you’re finished.

I just did it on my fresh installation and it worked.
#24 | Written by Lyrebird about 1 year ago.

is it possible to let transmission use the external esata drive to download and seed?

My volume1 is a raid1 for my important files, and I use esata drive for downloading and uploading. However, when i create a share, it is always in the volume1. Please advice!

Thanks.
#25 | Written by Matreiro about 1 year ago.

Great job doing this spk’s…. I’m a newbie to the synology scene, I’m an Extremer eTRAYz user but I bought an DS 411j and I’m just waiting for the delivery man. I was looking for a way to install the 2 programs I use the most, Trasnmission and Pyload… All comments and pages leave to this and to your amazing work on building SPK’s of SABnzbd, Transmission, etc., but I would like to put a little challenge in place, and ask if you could do the same for Pyload, because after much reading the only way I found to put it to work is throw the command line and I’m no IT guy and the command line scares the shit all of me.

Thanks for all your work and think about Pyload, please!!!
#26 | Written by lfyang about 1 year ago.

after i stopped the transmission, then i try to use
vi /usr/local/transmission/var/settings.json
to edit the said file via puTTY, i got the message “/usr/local/transmission/var/settings.json” permission denied.

How to handel it?
TKS!
#27 | Written by daftz about 11 months ago.

Works great on a DS411+II, DSM 3.1.

Thanks for this !
#28 | Written by Devillr about 10 months ago.

I’m not using it now, but I have planned to isntall it as soon as my DS 410 arrives. But I have a few questions:

- Is it possible to Limit the Upload capacity directly in the WebGUI?
- Hoq can I add a IP Blocklist like the P20 List by Bluetack? Does Transmission support this including automatic updates or is there another way?

Thanks for answers.
#29 | Written by zebulon about 10 months ago.

@Devillr: Go and check directly on transmission’s web site: http://www.transmissionbt.com/. But yes, you can limit the upload rate through the web GUI, and specify a IP block list.
#30 | Written by Josh N about 10 months ago.

For the newest version (2.32) it would be worth including a step in these instructions that the user needs to create the “download” and “incoming” directories – transmission will not create these directories itself, and will choke on any download attempt until the “download” directory is created.
#31 | Written by S Scub about 10 months ago.

I can’t start a download, it shows the following error message: “Error: No such file or directory (/volume1/transmission/download/[Torrent Folder Name]/1.Cover.jpg) I know others have this issue and the cause is, that transmission doesn’t auto-create the needed download folder. But I have created it, but as the error message still shows up, did I create it in the right place? Here’s a screen of what i did: http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2601/r6yh32gd_png.htm
Or do I even have to create the torrent folder name? But that would be kinda annoying…

Also, the manual states “New torrents will be watched for in …/incoming”. So I understand, if I add a torrent there it should be auto-startet, which isn’t the case. Did I understand it wrong or is this the same fault as the downloading error?
Might it been a problem with the read/wright permissions? As far as I can tell transmission and a secondary user have it, but I just noticed, that if I login to the NAS via Windows it doesn’t show the transmission share, just the other which I named “Main”…

Thanks in advance for any helpful answers.
Oh, btw, also thank you for the package, Zebulon, the installation is even easier than any Windows installation, flawless. =)
#32 | Written by S Scub about 10 months ago.

Addition to my previous post (which is yet awaiting moderation): Now I see the transmission share in Windows. Not sure if I was blind before or if it appeared out of nowhere. I deleted the stopped torrent and re-added it. On the first try transmission crashed and had to be restarted via the DSM, on the second try it started the download. Earlier the download stopped twice at ~400KB, now it stopped at ~4.6MB, not sure if it means anything at all. There is still no data in the download folder.

Behaves a little strange to me…
Anyways, help is much appreciated.
#33 | Written by duk about 10 months ago.

Is there any reason I can’t/shouldn’t set the download/incoming dirs to my preexisting “download” share and remove the “transmission” share? I like to keep the number of shares to a minimum. The transmission user already has r/w access to my “download” share (although it doesn’t own it).
#34 | Written by Roman A. Proskurnin about 9 months ago.

I can’t to create folder …/downloads/_soft when I download torrent.
I have error “no such file or directory”
What I must to do?
#35 | Written by foxcorn about 9 months ago.

works great on DS-106e. DSM 3.1-1613, Thanks!
#36 | Written by Ben about 9 months ago.

Hi, I’ve been using the Transmission 2.33 spk. I’m finding that every time I re-start transmission the settings.json file gets overridden. Hence I’m continually losing settings which I set via the config file, which I can not set via the transmission web interface.

Any ideas how I can get around this problem?
#37 | Written by Paul about 9 months ago.

Works great on DS411+II! Thanks for this package!
I use alternative folders and edited settins.json for this.
Made the folders in the Syno File Browser and didn’t run into permission problems.
#38 | Written by Thomas about 9 months ago.

Does not work on a Synology DS210j with DSM 3.1-1748 until you create the two directories (2.b) :

/volume1/transmission/download
/volume1/transmission/incoming
#39 | Written by Seger about 9 months ago.

@ S Scub as I se in your pic, you have it wrong, while your NAS is volume1 you should have done like this NAS/transmission/download not NAS/transmission/volume1/transmission/download

and your transmission folder will popup in windows because its a share.
#40 | Written by Fabio about 8 months ago.

@lfyang
connect via ssh using root as username, not administrator. password is the same as admin. then, you’ll be able to edit that file
#41 | Written by bob about 8 months ago.

“Download and install transmission-version.spk to your Synology NAS.” – how to install damn *.SPK file? could you be more specific how to install it???
#42 | Written by bob about 8 months ago.

you could mention “package manager” at least
#43 | Written by btotaku about 7 months ago.

Hi there, i successfully installed version 2.33.spk to Synology DS 410 with DS3.2 – with private trackers i have an issue though which is not really clear to me; when adding a torrent i get the following error message: “Tracker returned an error: Kein Fehler – Torrent gestoppt”. In English: “Tracker returned an error: no error – torrent stopped”.
Has anyone having the same problems when using this client on private trackers? Any idea how to solve this is MUCH appreciated! ^^
#44 | Written by Jeroen about 7 months ago.

The config file is not in /usr/local/transmission/var/ (as this directory does not exist), but it is in /usr/local/var/transmission/.
#45 | Written by Bruce about 6 months ago.

Firstly, thanks for the package.
However I can’t seem to get it to seed. I have successfully downloaded a number of torrents, I know the listening port is open (canyouseeme.org confirms it), but there is no seeding. Clearly I am missing something basic.
Installation is Synology DS211J, DSM 3.2, Transmission SPK 2.33, using default port 51413 which is confirmed open.
Any help greatly appreciated…
#46 | Written by John about 6 months ago.

I believe the location of settings.json has changed from /usr/local/transmission/var/settings.json to /usr/local/var/transmission/settings.json. Small difference
#47 | Written by Bruce about 6 months ago.

Update to #45; all working now. Turns out I was probably testing with torrents that were of no interest to others…. A new fresh torrent overcame the situation.

Again thanks for the package.
#48 | Written by Bay about 6 months ago.

Hi, I have a DS212j, I installed transmission but I don’t see the user transmission when I try to edit the privileges. Any help is welcome.
#49 | Written by Bay about 6 months ago.

Nevermind, I saw in the comments of the post related to moving everything to a repository that the transmission user is now hidden. When the first download is started, the package will create the directory “download”, but what about the directory “incoming”? Do I need to create it myself? If yes, who should be the owner and which permissions should be set?

Thanks!
#50 | Written by Mike about 6 months ago.

I had to create the download and incoming dir’s myzelf. No biggy.
However if I put a torrent file in the “incoming” folder it does not auto start the download. It dos watches the folder but does nothing to start the download. Anyone?
Synology DS211+ and transmission 2.33 (12565).

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