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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 these incarnations feature a very simple and intuitive interface, on top on an efficient, cross-platform backend.
Transmission is intended to download KA Lite content to IIAB, from places like http://pantry.learningequality.org/downloads/ka-lite/0.17/content/ — and also to seed content, assisting others.
Once the packages are downloaded, please verify the content before copying it (carefully!) into KA Lite content directory: ``/library/ka-lite/content``
Caution
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Usage of Transmission consumes significant Internet data and system resources.
Caveat emptor! (That's Latin for "Buyer Beware")
Using It
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Login to Transmission's web interface http://box:9091 using administrative account::
Username: Admin
Password: changeme
Alternatively, you can run ``transmission-remote`` at the command-line.
Configuration
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Configure Transmission using its web interface: http://box:9091
You can also edit Transmission settings in '/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json'. Before you edit this file, ensure that transmission-daemon.service is stopped::
systemctl stop transmission-daemon
nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
Adding torrents
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Transmission can facilitate provisioning content onto your IIAB, e.g. by adding KA Lite content from places like: http://pantry.learningequality.org/downloads/ka-lite/0.17/content/
You can also download other torrents using Transmission's web interface, or by typing 'transmission-remote' at the command-line::
transmission-remote -a <path_to_the.torrent>
Known Issues
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* Default Transmission user/group may need fixing (https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/537). You can set Ansible variables 'transmission_user' and 'transmission_group' e.g. in /opt/iiab/iiab/roles/transmission/defaults/main.yml (you might need 'User=' and 'Group=' in systemd unit file /lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service — both might need to be set to 'debian-transmission' — if so 'systemctl daemon-reload' then 'systemctl restart transmission-daemon').
* Random Ports: Currently it is not possible to use random ports in the range 49152-65535. It is difficult to open multiple ports in IIAB's iptables-based firewall.
Troubleshooting
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Verify that transmission-daemon is running::
systemctl status transmission-daemon
Check that Transmission's settings are correct in::
/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json