Transmission

Jannich Brendle on July 9th, 2009

For some time I have wanted to play with the json-rpc interface of Transmission. Today I jumped into it. I decided to make a program that would run on my local computer and should be called via cron every X minutes, and scan a directory for .torrent files. Any .torrent files found should be added [...]

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Jannich Brendle on July 9th, 2009

I wrote a blog some time ago describing running transmission on OpenWrt. Apparently I forgot to include the startup script in the blogpost, so I am posting it here. Insert the following snippet into /etc/init.d/transmission. #!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common START=99 start(){ # Adjust as needed. username=username password=password torrentpath=/mnt/torrent transmission-daemon -b -f -p 9091 -t -u $username -v [...]

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Jannich Brendle on May 4th, 2009

Well, I’ve just recieved my brand new 1TB external harddrive, which is a Western Digital Desktop Elements. I’m also the owner of a ASUS wl500gp router running OpenWRT, and I figured, why not combine these two things, and run a bittorrent client on the router. Preparing the harddrive The harddrive I recieved was preformatted with [...]

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