Torrent client for Raspberry Pi

Hello,

I am a new user to the community.
I am planning to order a Raspberry Pi for my personal use.
I understand that loading windows OS on Raspberry is still not possible.
Are any of the OS images provided under the downloads page has a build in torrent client?
If not is it possible to install one by our self?

Thanks,
Simon Mandy

get the debian image and open the terminal console and run:

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sudo apt-get -y install transmission transmission-daemon nano

then start transmission then stop it

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service transmission start && service transmission stop

then edit the configuration file

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nano .config/transmission/settings.json

edit the respective lines to:

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    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
    "rpc-enabled": true, 

after you are done customising your settings file, type CTRL +X to save it
then type

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service transmission start

to start the server

you can then open the server management by typing in your browser the ip address (or hostname) with :9091 as the port

Will this save the configuration over a reboot cycle?

get the debian image and open the terminal console and run:

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sudo apt-get -y install transmission transmission-daemon nano

then start transmission then stop it

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service transmission start && service transmission stop

then edit the configuration file

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nano .config/transmission/settings.json

edit the respective lines to:

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    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
    "rpc-enabled": true, 

after you are done customising your settings file, type CTRL +X to save it
then type

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service transmission start

to start the server

you can then open the server management by typing in your browser the ip address (or hostname) with :9091 as the port

Thank you. I cant wait to try this. My pi is yet to arrive.

For the above instructions they won't work, you need to type transmission-daemon rather than transmission. Otherwise you will just get "Service not found"

You will also need to run the commands as root or put sudo before them

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sudo service transmission-daemon start

The above guide still didn't work, after some time on google I found you were editing the wrong file

instead of

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.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json

edit

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/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Leestons is right. You may prefer transmission-daemon over transmission (transmission-gtk/transmission-qt). Another option is rtorrent.
Transmission-daemon is, obviously, a daemon and depends of transmission-common, a web client.
rtorrent is a command line client, very light and efficient. You will need to customize it as a daemon by hand and install a web client if you want.
Make your choice.

pi@raspberrypi /etc/transmission-daemon $ sudo service transmission-daemon status
[ ok ] transmission-daemon is running.

When i try to browse http://192.168.1.3:9091 i get an authentication promt. i tried pi as username and raspberry as password. But it did not work.

Any thoughts?

pi@raspberrypi /etc/transmission-daemon $ sudo service transmission-daemon status
[ ok ] transmission-daemon is running.

When i try to browse http://192.168.1.3:9091 i get an authentication promt. i tried pi as username and raspberry as password. But it did not work.

Any thoughts?

Change the password at /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

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pi@raspberrypi /etc/transmission-daemon $ sudo service transmission-daemon status
[ ok ] transmission-daemon is running.

When i try to browse http://192.168.1.3:9091 i get an authentication promt. i tried pi as username and raspberry as password. But it did not work.

Any thoughts?

Change the password at /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

I tried to change ,
"rpc-password": "raspberry",
"rpc-username": "pi",

But when i restart transmission daemon, above values are going back to original.

"rpc-password": "{0082efcb658c70808999caa271479eb704c91265DokKaybY",
"rpc-username": "transmission",

Please help

Stop the daemon before you edit the config file and then start it again.

I am still not successful in accessing transmission client web url. I see below error message when i try to http://<ip>:9091

403: Forbidden
Unauthorized IP Address.
Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it.
If you're editing settings.json, see the 'rpc-whitelist' and 'rpc-whitelist-enabled' entries.
If you're still using ACLs, use a whitelist instead. See the transmission-daemon manpage for details.


I am also posting the contents of my settings.json . Can someone please have a look and tell me whats wrong with my setup?

{
"alt-speed-down": 50,
"alt-speed-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-up": 50,
"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"blocklist-enabled": false,
"blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist",
"cache-size-mb": 4,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads",
"download-limit": 100,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"download-queue-enabled": true,
"download-queue-size": 5,
"encryption": 1,
"idle-seeding-limit": 30,
"idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
"incomplete-dir": "/root/Downloads",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"lpd-enabled": false,
"max-peers-global": 200,
"message-level": 2,
"peer-congestion-algorithm": "",
"peer-limit-global": 240,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
"peer-port": 51413,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 49152,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": "default",
"pex-enabled": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": false,
"preallocation": 1,
"prefetch-enabled": 1,
"queue-stalled-enabled": true,
"queue-stalled-minutes": 30,
"ratio-limit": 2,
"ratio-limit-enabled": false,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": true,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "{29c6ec5ca758c6f26c351dae3a51397f1a27aee1uZBiBJBA",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-url": "/transmission/",
"rpc-username": "pi",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
"scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
"script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
"script-torrent-done-filename": "",
"seed-queue-enabled": false,
"seed-queue-size": 10,
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"start-added-torrents": true,
"trash-original-torrent-files": false,
"umask": 18,
"upload-limit": 100,
"upload-limit-enabled": 0,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
"utp-enabled": true
}

You need to add the IP address of the computer you are accessing the daemon from in

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"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",

Separate them with a comma - for example

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"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.0.2",

You can also use wildcards:

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"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*",

And if you don't want a whitelist (so that all IP addresses can access the daemon) change

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"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,

to

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"rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,

I managed to make transmission working with the help of http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/setting- ... ui-in.html
2 times the pi crashed after few time i left the transmission running to download a movie.
I suspect that transmission's cpu utilization and memory utilization is high. top command shows transmission is utilizing 6 to 10% (or even 20% sometimes) of CPU. Memory utilization is 3.4%. Could it be the reason my pi is crashing?

[dom]

smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N should be added to cmdline.txt if you are using torrents. See:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/153

smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N should be added to cmdline.txt if you are using torrents. See:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/153

should i perform below?
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/smscnonturbo.conf
and add line options smsc95xx turbo_mode=N

smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N should be added to cmdline.txt if you are using torrents. See:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/153

should i perform below?
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/smscnonturbo.conf
and add line options smsc95xx turbo_mode=N

I understood what you said, I added smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N to /boot/cmdline.txt and rebooted. WIll let you know if that fixed the issue.

smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N should be added to cmdline.txt if you are using torrents. See:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/153

should i perform below?
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/smscnonturbo.conf
and add line options smsc95xx turbo_mode=N

I understood what you said, I added smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N to /boot/cmdline.txt and rebooted. WIll let you know if that fixed the issue.

Nothing resolved my issue.
But i switched from wireless to Ethernet and it working fine.

add "smsc95xx turbo_mode=N" is not useful for my Raspberry Pi while using transmission-daemon
It still crashed.

I add four heat sinks on top of the ICs (on PCB board) and remove "smsc95xx turbo_mode=N" in /boot/cmdlines, and now it doesn't crash, just perfect.

I use transmission-gt (GUI client on a VNC session). Pi Never Crashes.

a question

i changed the default download directory
"download-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads",
to
"download-dir": "/home/pi/Downloads",

when i add a torrent via WebUI i get write permission problem , how can i allow transmission-daemon to write into this directory?

i've tried to run daemon as a pi user still the same problem. this is the limit of my linux knowledge=)

thank you.

I'm having the same problem,

Cannot write into the directory where I want to save my downloads

Any help would be appreciated!