[GUIDE] TRANSMISSION 2.84 on mybooklive (02.43.10-048)

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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Hello!

After some long hours researching I made an automated script to install Transmission 2.84 on my device: MyBookLive 2TB

Let me share here. If you find it useful comment here :slight_smile:

Before start you need to follow this steps:
Extra steps - Post 66

Obs: I´m using windows and putty

1. You need to connect as root on your mybooklive  

2. Type:

vi setup.sh

3. Press:

i

4. Select the code below and CTRL+C

IMPORTANT: Code moved to next post (reason: characters limit reached)

5. Right click on PUTTY windows. (It will paste the code)  

6. Press **ESC** then type:

:wq


7. Press **ENTER**  

8. Type:

chmod 777 ./setup.sh

9. Press **ENTER**  

10. Type:

./setup.sh

11. Press **ENTER**

Done! Just read the message displayed and answer properly

Have fun!

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Code from STEP 4:

Last Update: 2019-06-13 by @milosgacanovic: Changed wheezy repository to archive.debian.org

Copy the code from here: https://pastebin.com/HiUgGtr0

Reference Code

#!/bin/bash

#Compile and Install transmission bittorrent client on mybooklive

#Author: Proglin 2015-09-10

Update: 2019-06-13 by milosgacanovic: Changed wheezy repository to archive.debian.org

Update: 2019-01-30 Using predownloaded sources to avoid wget SSL permission

Update: 2017-06-14 Update main code with suggestions from HTaborda and olimatis.

Update: 2016-10-06 by olimatis: New source for Transmission

Update: 2016-04-24 by HTaborda: Introduced --no-check-certificate to the Transmission source download; server certificate outdated

Update: 2016-02-26 LibEvent Extract Folder name changed + Compile Changed

Update: 2016-02-22 LibEvent URL changed

Note:

I strong recommend you to download an update firmware

Save it in public folder

If anything goes wrong you can update your firmware to clean the mess using:

/usr/local/sbin/updateFirmwareFromFile.sh /DataVolume/shares/Public/apnc-024310-048-20150507.deb

References:

#Building – Transmission
#Scripts/initd – Transmission
#http://falkhusemann.de/blog/2012/05/compiling-transmission-bittorrent-for-debiand/
#[GUIDE] How to unbrick a totally dead MBL - My Book Live - WD Community
#Support | Western Digital
start=$SECONDS

#Pre-downloaded folder location

/shares/Public/tmpDL

CONFIGURATION TRANSMISSION VERSION

#TRANSMISSIONSOURCE=‘https://github.com/transmission/transmission-releases/raw/master/transmission-2.84.tar.xz’
TRANSMISSIONSOURCE=‘/shares/Public/tmpDL/transmission-2.84.tar.xz’
DIRTRANSMISSIONSOURCE=‘transmission-2.84’

EXTRA CONFIGURATIONS

#TMPFOLDER=‘/root/temp’
#LIBEVENTSOURCE=‘https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz’
LIBEVENTSOURCE=‘/shares/Public/tmpDL/libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz’
#LIBEVENTEXTRACTNAME=‘libevent-release-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz’
DIRLIBEVENTSOURCE=‘libevent-2.0.18-stable’

#Change TMP Folder to have more space!
TMPFOLDER=‘/shares/Public/tmpCompile’
TMP=$TMPFOLDER
TEMP=$TMPFOLDER
TMPDIR=$TMPFOLDER
export TMPDIR TMP TEMP

clear
echo “Welcome! Compile and Install Transmission 2.84”
echo “Created by Proglin v2015-09-10”
echo " Last Update: v2019-06-13"
echo “ALWAYS back up your data before proceeding.”
echo “This script was only tested with MyBookLive firmware 02.43.10-048”
printf "Your firmware version is: “;tail -1 /var/log/version.log
echo “”
echo “NOTE from Author: I have not MyBookLive since 2016. Changes after 2016 are based”
echo " on user forum comments.”
echo “”
echo “We are going to change some configs to install Tranmission”
read -p “This process takes around 30 minutes. Are you sure? (Y/N)” -n 1 -r
echo # (optional) move to a new line
if [[ $REPLY =~ [1]$ ]]
then
echo “OK. Exiting.”
exit
fi

mkdir -p $TMPFOLDER
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
fi

rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/wd-nas.*
cp /etc/apt/sources.list $TMPFOLDER/sources.list.bak
echo “”
printf “1/22 Configuring repositories… (part 1/3)”
APTSOURCESOLD=“#Modified to install Transmission (old packages)
deb Index of /debian squeeze main
deb-src Index of /debian squeeze main
#deb Index of /debian wheezy main
#deb-src Index of /debian wheezy main\n”
printf “$APTSOURCESOLD” > /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get -qq clean
apt-get -qq update >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “2/22 Installing packages… (part 1/7)”
apt-get -q -y --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confold” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-overwrite” install tar >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “3/22 Installing packages… (part 2/7)”
apt-get -q -y --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confold” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-overwrite” install ca-certificates >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “4/22 Installing packages… (part 3/7)”
apt-get -q -y --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confold” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-overwrite” install intltool >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “5/22 Installing packages… (part 4/7)”
apt-get -q -y --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confold” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-overwrite” install build-essential >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “6/22 Installing packages… (part 5/7)”
apt-get -q -y --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confold” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-overwrite” install libtool >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “7/22 Configuring repositories… (part 2/3)”
APTSOURCESNEW=“#Modified to install Transmission (new packages)
#deb Index of /debian squeeze main
#deb-src Index of /debian squeeze main
deb Index of /debian wheezy main
deb-src Index of /debian wheezy main\n”

printf “$APTSOURCESNEW” > /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get -qq clean
apt-get -qq update 2>/dev/null
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “8/22 Installing packages… (part 6/7)”
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get -qq -y --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confold” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-overwrite” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” install libssl-dev >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “9/22 Configuring repositories… (part 3/3)”
APTSOURCESOLD=“#Modified to install Transmission (old packages)
deb Index of /debian squeeze main
deb-src Index of /debian squeeze main
#deb Index of /debian wheezy main
#deb-src Index of /debian wheezy main\n”
printf “$APTSOURCESOLD” > /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get -qq clean
apt-get -qq update >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “10/22 Installing packages… (part 7/7)”
apt-get -q -y --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confold” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-overwrite” install libcurl4-openssl-dev >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “11/22 Extracting sources of LIBEVENT…”
#Getting sources of Transmission and LibEvent
#wget -q $LIBEVENTSOURCE -O $TMPFOLDER/${LIBEVENTSOURCE##*/} >/dev/null 2>&1
#wget -q $LIBEVENTSOURCE -O $TMPFOLDER/$LIBEVENTEXTRACTNAME >/dev/null 2>&1
#cp $LIBEVENTSOURCE $TMPFOLDER/$LIBEVENTEXTRACTNAME >/dev/null 2>&1
#if [[ $? > 0 ]]
#then

echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit

#fi
#extract
#tar xf $TMPFOLDER/${LIBEVENTSOURCE##*/} -C $TMPFOLDER >/dev/null 2>&1
tar xf $LIBEVENTSOURCE -C $TMPFOLDER >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

printf “12/22 Extracting sources of TRANSMISSION”
#Getting sources of Transmission and LibEvent
#wget -q $TRANSMISSIONSOURCE -O $TMPFOLDER/${TRANSMISSIONSOURCE##/} >/dev/null 2>&1
#wget --no-check-certificate -q $TRANSMISSIONSOURCE -O $TMPFOLDER/${TRANSMISSIONSOURCE##/} >/dev/null 2>&1
#cp $TRANSMISSIONSOURCE $TMPFOLDER >/dev/null 2>&1
#if [[ $? > 0 ]]
#then

echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit

#fi
#extract
tar xf $TRANSMISSIONSOURCE -C $TMPFOLDER >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

#clean cache
apt-get clean

#Getfilenames of directories
#AFTER_SLASH=${LIBEVENTSOURCE##/}
#file="${AFTER_SLASH%%?}"
#file=${LIBEVENTEXTRACTNAME}
#DIRLIBEVENTSOURCE=${file%.tar.xz}
#DIRLIBEVENTSOURCE=${DIRLIBEVENTSOURCE%.tar.gz}

#Configure LIBEVENT
cd $TMPFOLDER/$DIRLIBEVENTSOURCE
printf “13/22 Configuring LIBEVENT to compile…”
./autogen.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
fi
./configure --prefix=/usr >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

#Compile LIBEVENT
printf “14/22 Compiling LIBEVENT…”
make >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

#Install LIBEVENT
printf “15/22 Installing LIBEVENT…”
make install >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

#Configure TRANSMISSION
#AFTER_SLASH=${TRANSMISSIONSOURCE##/}
#file="${AFTER_SLASH%%?}"
#DIRTRANSMISSIONSOURCE=${file%.tar.xz}
#DIRTRANSMISSIONSOURCE=${DIRTRANSMISSIONSOURCE%.tar.gz}

cd $TMPFOLDER/$DIRTRANSMISSIONSOURCE
printf “16/22 Configuring TRANSMISSION to compile…”
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-lightweight --enable-daemon --enable-utp >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

#Compile TRANSMISSION
printf “17/22 Compiling TRANSMISSION…”
make >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

#Install TRANSMISSION
printf “18/22 Installing TRANSMISSION…”
#mkdir -p /root/.config/transmissiond
make install >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

#settings.json
read -d ‘’ SETTINGSJSON <<“EOF”
{
“alt-speed-down”: 300,
“alt-speed-enabled”: true,
“alt-speed-time-begin”: 420,
“alt-speed-time-day”: 127,
“alt-speed-time-enabled”: true,
“alt-speed-time-end”: 30,
“alt-speed-up”: 10,
“bind-address-ipv4”: “0.0.0.0”,
“bind-address-ipv6”: “::”,
“blocklist-enabled”: true,
“blocklist-url”: “http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz”,
“cache-size-mb”: 8,
“dht-enabled”: true,
“download-dir”: “/DataVolume/shares/Public/Torrents/Completed”,
“download-queue-enabled”: true,
“download-queue-size”: 5,
“encryption”: 2,
“idle-seeding-limit”: 30,
“idle-seeding-limit-enabled”: true,
“incomplete-dir”: “/DataVolume/shares/Public/Torrents/Incomplete”,
“incomplete-dir-enabled”: true,
“lazy-bitfield-enabled”: true,
“lpd-enabled”: false,
“message-level”: 2,
“peer-congestion-algorithm”: “lp”,
“peer-id-ttl-hours”: 6,
“peer-limit-global”: 260,
“peer-limit-per-torrent”: 80,
“peer-port”: 51003,
“peer-port-random-high”: 65535,
“peer-port-random-low”: 49152,
“peer-port-random-on-start”: false,
“peer-socket-tos”: “lowcost”,
“pex-enabled”: true,
“port-forwarding-enabled”: false,
“preallocation”: 2,
“prefetch-enabled”: 0,
“queue-stalled-enabled”: true,
“queue-stalled-minutes”: 60,
“ratio-limit”: 0.1000,
“ratio-limit-enabled”: true,
“rename-partial-files”: true,
“rpc-authentication-required”: false,
“rpc-bind-address”: “0.0.0.0”,
“rpc-enabled”: true,
“rpc-password”: “{ee82e7a5337f8d06704c133d83fd69da54bdc785ixojPp6Z”,
“rpc-port”: 9091,
“rpc-url”: “/transmission/”,
“rpc-username”: “transmission”,
“rpc-whitelist”: “127.0.0.1,192.168..”,
“rpc-whitelist-enabled”: true,
“scrape-paused-torrents-enabled”: true,
“script-torrent-done-enabled”: false,
“script-torrent-done-filename”: “/DataVolume/shares/Public/Torrents/Scripts/processaTorrent.sh”,
“seed-queue-enabled”: true,
“seed-queue-size”: 10,
“speed-limit-down”: 1100,
“speed-limit-down-enabled”: true,
“speed-limit-up”: 85,
“speed-limit-up-enabled”: true,
“start-added-torrents”: true,
“trash-original-torrent-files”: true,
“umask”: 0,
“upload-slots-per-torrent”: 8,
“utp-enabled”: true,
“watch-dir”: “/DataVolume/shares/Public/Torrents/Monitora”,
“watch-dir-enabled”: false
}

EOF

#INIT.D file
read -d ‘’ INITD <<“EOF”
#! /bin/sh

BEGIN INIT INFO

Provides: transmission-daemon

Required-Start: networking

Required-Stop: networking

Default-Start: 2 3 5

Default-Stop: 0 1 6

Short-Description: Start the transmission BitTorrent daemon client.

END INIT INFO

Original Author: Lennart A. Jaette, based on Rob Howell’s script

Modified by Maarten Van Coile & others (on IRC)

Do NOT “set -e”

----- CONFIGURATION -----

For the default location Transmission uses, visit:

ConfigFiles – Transmission

For a guide on how set the preferences, visit:

EditConfigFiles – Transmission

For the available environement variables, visit:

EnvironmentVariables – Transmission

The name of the user that should run Transmission.

It’s RECOMENDED to run Transmission in it’s own user,

by default, this is set to ‘transmission’.

For the sake of security you shouldn’t set a password

on this user

USERNAME=root

----- ADVANCED CONFIGURATION -----

Only change these options if you know what you are doing!

The folder where Transmission stores the config & web files.

ONLY change this you have it at a non-default location

#TRANSMISSION_HOME=“/var/config/transmission-daemon”
#TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME=“/usr/share/transmission/web”

The arguments passed on to transmission-daemon.

ONLY change this you need to, otherwise use the

settings file as per above.

#TRANSMISSION_ARGS=“”

----- END OF CONFIGURATION -----

PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script.

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DESC=“bittorrent client”
NAME=transmission-daemon
DAEMON=$(which $NAME)
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

Exit if the package is not installed

[ -x “$DAEMON” ] || exit 0

Read configuration variable file if it is present

[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables

[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS

Function that starts the daemon/service

do_start()
{
# Export the configuration/web directory, if set
if [ -n “$TRANSMISSION_HOME” ]; then
export TRANSMISSION_HOME
fi
if [ -n “$TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME” ]; then
export TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME
fi

# Return
#   0 if daemon has been started
#   1 if daemon was already running
#   2 if daemon could not be started
start-stop-daemon --chuid $USERNAME --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile \
        --exec $DAEMON --background --test -- -f $TRANSMISSION_ARGS > /dev/null \
        || return 1
start-stop-daemon --chuid $USERNAME --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile \
        --exec $DAEMON --background -- -f $TRANSMISSION_ARGS \
        || return 2

}

Function that stops the daemon/service

do_stop()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been stopped
# 1 if daemon was already stopped
# 2 if daemon could not be stopped
# other if a failure occurred
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/10/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
RETVAL=“$?”
[ “$RETVAL” = 2 ] && return 2

    # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
    # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
    # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
    # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
    # needed by services started subsequently.  A last resort is to
    # sleep for some time.

    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
    [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2

    # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
    rm -f $PIDFILE

    return "$RETVAL"

}

case “$1” in
start)
echo “Starting $DESC” “$NAME…”
do_start
case “$?” in
0|1) echo " Starting $DESC $NAME succeeded" ;;
*) echo " Starting $DESC $NAME failed" ;;
esac
;;
stop)
echo “Stopping $DESC $NAME…”
do_stop
case “$?” in
0|1) echo " Stopping $DESC $NAME succeeded" ;;
*) echo " Stopping $DESC $NAME failed" ;;
esac
;;
restart|force-reload)
#
# If the “reload” option is implemented then remove the
# ‘force-reload’ alias
#
echo “Restarting $DESC $NAME…”
do_stop
case “$?” in
0|1)
do_start
case “$?” in
0|1) echo " Restarting $DESC $NAME succeeded" ;;
*) echo " Restarting $DESC $NAME failed: couldn’t start $NAME" ;;
esac
;;
*)
echo " Restarting $DESC $NAME failed: couldn’t stop $NAME" ;;
esac
;;
*)
echo “Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}” >&2
exit 3
;;
esac

EOF

#Setting TRANSMISSION to auto startup
printf “19/22 Configuring TRANSMISSION to auto startup”
printf “$INITD” > /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
chmod +x /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
chown root:root /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
#Adding autostart to transmission
update-rc.d transmission-daemon defaults >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

#Starting TRANSMISSION
printf “20/22 Configuring TRANSMISSION settings.json”
/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
fi

#Wait transmission to create config files structure
sleep 5

/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
fi

#configuring SETTINGS.JSON
printf “$SETTINGSJSON” > /root/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json
echo " OK!"

printf “21/22 Cleaning temp files”
#Cleaning temp files
cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.new
cat $TMPFOLDER/sources.list.bak > /etc/apt/sources.list
rm -rf $TMPFOLDER
apt-get clean
echo " OK!"

#Starting TRANSMISSION
printf “22/22 Starting TRANSMISSION”
/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start >/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? > 0 ]]
then
echo “The command failed, exiting.” ; exit
else
echo " OK!"
fi

end=$SECONDS
echo “Total time: $((end - start)) secs.”
echo “Done!”
echo “Cross your fingers and access http://mybooklive:9091/”
echo “TODO: REMEMBER to configure: settings.json”
echo “”

Have fun 2

  1. Nn ↩︎

3

You’ve made a big contribution to the community!  This script is well written with a lot of comments for others to understand. 

4

Thanks for this! I’ve been planning to install transmission for some time and this is going to make it a lot easier.

I’ve already installed miniDLNA, do you think they could conflict somehow?

Does Transmission run smoothly? No problems? In particular: is your MBL still able to go to sleep (blue light) when nothing is downloading?

5

I have 2.82 on my MBL, runs good, no issues and yes it goes to sleep.

6

miniDLNA uses Lib6 and Transmission uses it to, but I think it might run without problem. I´ve never tested.

Transmission runs smooth. No problem using with regular access to MBL files. Since I compiled it, I´m downloading torrents. My last version (2.82), as post above said, go to sleep normally if there is no torrents working. I can tell you after my torrents finish :slight_smile:

7

Really nice guide! Everything seems to work just fine. I can access transmission web interface through my browser (chrome) on my PC but I can’t seem to access it though my phone.

When I type in http://mybooklive:9091 in my phone’s browser (chrome) all I get is “ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED”.

Is there anyway to solve this? It Would be nice to add torrent’s through your phone. I have used many remote torrent apps but no one seems to be able to let me choose the download paths.

I’m running Android 4.4.2 (rooted)

Thanks in advance!

8

Gigahurtz wrote:

When I type in http://mybooklive:9091 in my phone’s browser (chrome) all I get is “ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED”.

Is your phone on the local network or on teh celluar network? Most likley the latter, so how could it access an internal IP address? it can’t.  You need to setup remote access - which involves port forwarding and a static external IP or at least a dydns.

9

As wdlive76 said you need to check if you are using your local network. Otherwise you will need to make it public over the internet (It isn´t trivial to do)

BTW I have never tried to access directly http://mybooklive:9091 from my mobile. I use this free app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neogb.rtac

 If works ok.

10

Yes both are on the same network, still can’t access it. The transmission app does not fill my needs I’m afraid…

11

if on the same network, use the local  ip address of the MBL

192.1.1.5:9091 for example.

12

That did the trick! Replacing mybooklive with the IP adress of mybooklive seems to work. Thanks :slight_smile:

13

Thanks for Sharing! worked good! 

how should I config the settings.json file? sorry, I’m kind of newbie on this. 

Thanks!!

14

These are the settings I put in this script:

{

“alt-speed-down”: 300,

“alt-speed-enabled”: true,

“alt-speed-time-begin”: 420,

“alt-speed-time-day”: 127,

“alt-speed-time-enabled”: true,

“alt-speed-time-end”: 30,

“alt-speed-up”: 10,

“bind-address-ipv4”: “0.0.0.0”,

“bind-address-ipv6”: “::”,

“blocklist-enabled”: true,

“blocklist-url”: “http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1&amp;fileformat=p2p&amp;archiveformat=gz”,

“cache-size-mb”: 8,

“dht-enabled”: true,

“download-dir”: “/DataVolume/shares/Public/Torrents/Completed”,

“download-queue-enabled”: true,

“download-queue-size”: 5,

“encryption”: 2,

“idle-seeding-limit”: 30,

“idle-seeding-limit-enabled”: true,

“incomplete-dir”: “/DataVolume/shares/Public/Torrents/Incomplete”,

“incomplete-dir-enabled”: true,

“lazy-bitfield-enabled”: true,

“lpd-enabled”: false,

“message-level”: 2,

“peer-congestion-algorithm”: “lp”,

“peer-id-ttl-hours”: 6,

“peer-limit-global”: 260,

“peer-limit-per-torrent”: 80,

“peer-port”: 51003,

“peer-port-random-high”: 65535,

“peer-port-random-low”: 49152,

“peer-port-random-on-start”: false,

“peer-socket-tos”: “lowcost”,

“pex-enabled”: true,

“port-forwarding-enabled”: false,

“preallocation”: 2,

“prefetch-enabled”: 0,

“queue-stalled-enabled”: true,

“queue-stalled-minutes”: 60,

“ratio-limit”: 2,

“ratio-limit-enabled”: true,

“rename-partial-files”: true,

“rpc-authentication-required”: false,

“rpc-bind-address”: “0.0.0.0”,

“rpc-enabled”: true,

“rpc-password”: “{ee82e7a5337f8d06704c133d83fd69da54bdc785ixojPp6Z”,

“rpc-port”: 9091,

“rpc-url”: “/transmission/”,

“rpc-username”: “transmission”,

“rpc-whitelist”: “127.0.0.1,192.168..”,

“rpc-whitelist-enabled”: true,

“scrape-paused-torrents-enabled”: true,

“script-torrent-done-enabled”: false,

“script-torrent-done-filename”: “”,

“seed-queue-enabled”: true,

“seed-queue-size”: 10,

“speed-limit-down”: 1100,

“speed-limit-down-enabled”: true,

“speed-limit-up”: 85,

“speed-limit-up-enabled”: true,

“start-added-torrents”: true,

“trash-original-torrent-files”: true,

“umask”: 0,

“upload-slots-per-torrent”: 8,

“utp-enabled”: true,

“watch-dir”: “”,

“watch-dir-enabled”: false

}

If you wanna fine tune this settings you can take a look here:

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EditConfigFiles

At least it is importante to adjust this values for your needs

"speed-limit-down": 1100, 
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": true, 
    "speed-limit-up": 85, 
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": true,

This ones is for my internet connection: 10Mb/s

You can change this values using client web interface, but they’ll be gone every time that you reboot you MBL. To make it persitent you need to follow the link above. (stop transmission, edtit file, start transmission)

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Thanks for the guide! However, I’m having problems using the script - I get a ‘command not found’ error several times when running it - including on lines 45, 52, 70, 79, 88, 97, 106 (amongst many others) so it basically seems to have a problem with the ‘If’ command. What could be the problem?

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Hi fadetonoir. I don´t know the reason, but I guess it might be something related with enconding characters when copying/pasting.

Check this article so see if it helps:
http://serverfault.com/questions/475925/how-to-fix-putty-showing-garbled-characters

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Hi Proglin - thanks for the help! It turned out to be an issue with spaces - apparently there needed to be spaces after square brackets at the beginning of the statements, so “if [[$REPLY =~ [1]$ ]]” needed to be “if [[ $REPLY =~ [2]$ ]]”. Having gone through the whole script and changed them all it now works fine! Not sure why that has been a problem for me and nobody else but discovering that has also helped me with a couple of other scripts that weren’t working.

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Probably this happened because community.wd.com changed the forum software. My original post had [spoil] and [code] too on it to help copy/paste

Soon I will try to edit it trying to fix this issue.

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That explains another problem I’m having - other scripts/bits of code that I’ve been trying to copy and paste from this forum have also not been parsed correctly, like some of them appear all on one line, with no carriage returns/paragraph breaks. For example, I’ve been trying to setup Couch Potato (to use with Transmission) using this guide here - [GUIDE] CouchPotato V2 on MBL
And I get to the step where you create the startup script and it says ‘Paste this’ but then everything is all on one line, so it doesn’t work. I’ve tried parsing it myself but I don’t understand it well enough to get it exactly right. It did occur to me that it might just be my PC or browser but if the forum has changed software since these guides were written then that must be the cause!

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Yes can we make a stink about this issue please because it caused me to waste a lot of time, and i still haven’t got couchpotato or transmission auto-starting! Cheers