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Transmission README
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Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). All its incarnations feature a very simple, intuitive
interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.
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The transmission program is used to download and seed Ka-Lite packages. Once the packages are downloaded, Please verify the content
before copying them to Ka-Lite content directory.
Caution
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Usage of transmission consumes significant Internet data and system resources.
Caveat emptor! (That's Latin for "Buyer Beware").
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Access
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You can login transmission using its web interface http://box:9091/ with the following administration account.
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Username: Admin
Password: changeme
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Alternatively you can also access transmission using the 'transmission-remote' or 'transmission-remote' on the command line.
Configuration
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You can configure transmission using the web interface http://box:9091.
You can also edit the transmission settings in '/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json'. Before you start editing the
'settings.json' file, Please ensure that transmission-daemon.service is stop.
$ sudo systemctl stop transmission-daemon.service
$ sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
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Adding torrents
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The transmission provisioning system is designed to add ka-Lite packages. You can also use transmission is
download torrent using the Transmission web interface or using 'transmission-remote' program.
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$ transmission-remote -a <path_to_the.torrent>
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Known Issues
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Currently it is not possible to use random ports in the range 65535-49152. It is difficult to open multiple ports in IIAB firewall.
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Troubleshooting
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Please check if the transmission daemon is running:
$ sudo systemctl status transmission-daemon.service
Check the transmission settings '/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json' are correct.