TL-WR1043ND - Install Transmission


Basically, I followed the reference & guide below: (thank you & credit goes to them Smile)

http://g300nh.blogspot.com/2010/06/bittorrent-client-transmission-on-dd.html
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Transmission_daemon#Install_Optware_Transmission

 

Note:

  • This installation is based on build r14929, which I've tested and seem to be stable compared to other builds
  • The Optware & packages is based on the stable version OpenWRT Backfire 10.03.1-rc4
  • To keep the device with minimal load, I only installed Transmission-Daemon package on the device and use Transmission Remote Gui on my Win7 to access it.  Install the Transmission-Web package if you wish to access it via web browser.

Pre-requisite:

  1. Read the above links and understand those steps clearly, copy those command lines on a Notepad in activity sequence, make sure you know what variable need to be changed accordingly.  If not really sure how to do it, then stop, don't continue any further!!
  2. Already completed the Optware Installation
  3. I'm a Windows user, so I download and install the following applications on my Win7 computer:
    • Transmission Remote Gui - use as a client to access the device, drag & drop torrent onto it, after which can close it and the device will download/upload accordingly.
    • Filezilla - use as a FTP client to download files from the device.

 

Please don't email and ask me if you hit any problem, I won't be able to help you much as I'm also newbie to Linux command Sealed.
I followed the guide above with some minor changes, been testing for few times, actually it's quite straight forward, almost like "copy & paste", eventually it works for me.

So, please go read & try again, have fun, it should work Smile!

 


Note: Ensure the device is accessible to internet.

Use PuTTY logon to the device, type:

opkg update
opkg install transmission-daemon

The Transmission-daemon has been installed.

Create some folders for the Transmission:
Note: Choose to name you prefer folder name.

mkdir -m 777 /mnt/Share
mkdir -m 777 /mnt/Share/Download
mkdir -m 777 /mnt/Share/Download-WIP

Run it, wait for about 10sec then kill it:
transmission-daemon
killall transmission-daemon

The purpose is to initiate the "settings.json" file.

 


 

Next, use WinSCP, logon to the device and navigate to folder: /mnt/root/.config/transmission-daemon/
and look for the file "settings.json", right-click to "Edit", delete everything and replace with this:

Note: Change folders, port, network segment accordingly

{
"blocklist-enabled": 1,
"download-dir": "/mnt/Share/Download",
"incomplete-dir": "/mnt/Share/Download-WIP",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": true,
"download-limit": 100,
"download-limit-enabled": 1,
"encryption": 2,
"max-peers-global": 35,
"peer-port": 51234,
"pex-enabled": 1,
"port-forwarding-enabled": 1,
"rpc-authentication-required": 0,
"rpc-password": "",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-username": "",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.1.*",
"upload-limit": 200,
"upload-limit-enabled": 1
}

 


Back to the device, go to "Administration --> Command", edit and add the following to "Save Startup":

sleep 2
killall transmission-daemon
sleep 2
/opt/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -g /mnt/root/.config/transmission-daemon

Add the following to "Save Shutdown":

killall transmission-daemon
sleep5 unmount && /dev/discs/disc0/part1


It's done, exit PuTTY & WinSCP, reboot the router.

 


 

Run the Transmission Remote GUI from PC and start torrenting, enjoy ! Cool

 

 

However, I noticed it uses almost all the memory and CPU can easily hit 100%, at the moment I also can't find any solution to get the SwapFile working on DD-WRT, that lead me to consider OpenWRT ...... Wink