Howto: Transmission Bittorrent with Clutch Webinterface

[ZeusII]

hi there,

i'm just getting started with my brand new DS209+. Getting a decent torrent client plus GUI to work is my main problem.
i already tried the rtorrent/wtorrent guide without success, so i gave this HowTo a try.
unfortunately i couldn't get this to work either.
i'm a synology-noob and my linux knowledge is rather shallow, but i 've been using PCs for over two decades now, so i know how to use a telnet console.

it seems the guides do not apply to the most recent packages of the applications anymore.
i followed each and every step and it just won't work.

don't get me wrong, i appreciate the work and time that went into the HowTos as without them i wouldn't even have the slightest idea of what to do at all. however, if they do not get updated once in a while, the authors should at least warn noobies like me that, unless you use the old packages, you'll never get it to work properly.
i mean, the idea of a HowTo is, after all, to provide a more or less simple step by step guide for people who don't know all the linux magic by heart and can't figure it all out themselves.

your syno has a "new and more powerful" cpu that's not compatible (right now) with all the packages out there.

anyways, why don't you use the bundled download station?

it's based on rtorrent 0.8.2 and works perfectly out off the box (you need to have the latest firmware thouh)

[bzhou]

I thought DS209+ is using the same CPU as DS408/DS508, no?
If yes, there is an optware syno-e500 feed for those.

[LosOutlandos]

Back in June or July I installed Transmission and Clutch via the HowTo in the Wiki, but now I only use the built-in torrent client. So yesterday I intended to finally uninstall the programs that make transmission work on the Diskstation to free up some resources but, as a complete Linux noob, failed miserably.
I tried the following:
to stop the transmission-daemon process via "killall -9 transmission-daemon", which resulted in the following messages:

killall: Could not kill pid '2295': Operation not permitted
killall: Could not kill pid '2450': Operation not permitted
killall: Could not kill pid '2451': Operation not permitted

also, "ipkg remove transmission" resulted in:
ipkg_conf_init: Failed to create temporary directory `(null)': Permission denied

Could someone with some insight in these matters please help me out?
BTW, I'm logged in as admin (thus root, right?)

Thanks!

[ZeusII]

BTW, I'm logged in as admin (thus root, right?)

nope, login as root.

[LosOutlandos]

BTW, I'm logged in as admin (thus root, right?)

nope, login as root.

thank you and forgive my stupidness

EDIT: it seems another roadblock appeared: when using "ipkg remove php-fcgi" it tells me:

No packages removed.
Nothing to be done

This is also the case for transmission, lighttpd, php, and clutch.

Could you give me another nudge maybe?

[ZeusII]

seems it's already uninstalled..

do a ipkg list_installed to verify.

[LosOutlandos]

seems it's already uninstalled..

do a ipkg list_installed to verify.

that command tells me:
Successfully terminated.

and doesn't list any programs.
What irritates me is that when I open the page http://diskstation:8081/clutch/, the interface of clutch appears (and the message that the daemon doesn't seem to be running.)
So it still seems to be installed?

[ZeusII]

seems something bad happened to your ipkg installation since you installed everything.

try runing htop (install it via ipkg install htop) and kill manually all the processes related to transmission, and else you see runing there (it's easy, up and down you highlight the process, press F9 and then select the option "9" and enter. F10 to quit).

then, reboot to see if they start again or not, if not, just install the new version, configure and youre done.

[LosOutlandos]

I'm afraid that after the restart every process related to transmission seems to be back

Maybe I can update IPKG somehow? Or is there a way to "reset" the system so that all the linux filesystem parts are rewritten without having to format the harddisk?
Thanks for your insights!

[aibo99]

Hello,

Did anyone install Transmission 1.42 ?

As I checked the repository, I found there are two packages of Transmission 1.42.

tansmission_1.42-1_powerpc.ipk (25-Dec-2008 00:47 / 732K)
transmissiond_1.42-1_powerpc.ipk (25-Dec-2008 00:48 / 220K)

1. What are the differences ?
2. Do I need to install both ?
3. Do I need Clutch to access the web interface of Transmission 1.42 ?

Appreciate it if you could offer me some help.

Thanks

[bzhou]

Just use transmission. It comes with a web UI that used to be called Clutch.
The transmissiond is some add-on.

[waffl]

Hi.
I am a bit confused now that Clutch is bundled into Transmission 1.42 - So the case is that I no longer need lighthttpd, php etc?

My confusion then is how I access transmission or the clutch interface? I'm sorry if it's a silly question but it also seems that the transmission configs aren't in the directory specified on the wiki.

Just wondering if there is an updated howto for Transmission 1.42+ around?

Thanks!

Edit:

Synology 207+
Firmware DSM 2.0-0731

Edit - Solved:

Okay, I figured it out. Plain and simple, just need to edit the settings.json file to whitelist the IP to connect to clutch.

I found this post informative: http://www.synology.com/enu/forum/viewt ... 741#p43544
As well as this wiki about the transmisison settings file: http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EditConfigFiles

This is all running perfectly without lighthttpd etc!

[jrosado]

I've done the mistake of upgrading from 1.34 to 1.42 and after a long fight with the rpc-enable-whitelist, i still have a major problem:

Every time i had a new torrent, it simply does not start. I have to kill transmission-daemon and restart it again

Where can i find the 1.34 version?

[kjdkraker]

I have installed Transmission 1.42 and it downloads just fine.
However, I cannot move the downloaded files using Windows Explorer: insufficient rights. Moving files using FileStation works fine.
The downloaded files are owned by root. I guess this is a common rights issue but I could not find how to resolve this.
I suppose the downloaded files should be owned by guest or something. How do I configure this properly?

[jrosado]

finally solved my problem. It had to do with the optional encryption peers. I disabled this setting and enabled the port forwarding, and now it's working all OK. Here is my settings file

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{
    "blocklist-enabled": 0,
    "download-dir": "\/volume1\/Torrents",
    "download-limit": 100,
    "download-limit-enabled": 0,
    "encryption": 0,
    "max-peers-global": 200,
    "peer-port": 51413,
    "pex-enabled": 1,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": 1,
    "rpc-authentication-required": 0,
    "rpc-password": "******",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-username": "jfr",
    "rpc-whitelist": "*.*.*.*,192.168.*.*,127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": 0,
    "upload-limit": 50,
    "upload-limit-enabled": 1
}