Hey Tommy - you should be able to get Transmission working using the guide in this thread if you do what I did with the startup script (adding spaces after the square brackets - see my second post in this thread).
As for CouchPotato, I managed to get that working using the guide on this forum here - [GUIDE] CouchPotato V2 on MBL, but I had to manually go through the startup script and parse it correctly. I was going to post it on the thread for other users (or for the OP to just copy/paste into the guide) but the topic seems to be closed, so Iāll PM it to you.
I managed to get both working on my 3tb MBL once Iād parsed them correctly. Currently have CouchPotato working perfectly with Tranmission, controlled using an IMDB extension for Chrome! I only wish I could get SickRage (newer version of SickBeard) working for TV shows. I managed to install it and get it running on startup but it just seems to keep crashing.
Is their any chance someone could post a confirmed corrected script for the transmission compile and install. I tried to correct the square bracket spacing issue myself but the script still failed. Thank you.
Hello people.
I tried to install Transmission and had the same problems that fadetonoir.
So I used the file that James provided, is am with this error.
We are going to change some configs to install Tranmission
This process takes around 30 minutes. Are you sure? (Y/N)Y
MyBookLive:~# ./setup.sh
Welcome! Compile and Install Transmission 2.84
Created by Proglin v2015-09-10
ALWAYS back up your data before proceeding.
This script was only tested with MyBookLive firmware 02.43.10-048
Your firmware version is: 02.43.10-048 Mon Feb 22 14:27:25 PST 2016
We are going to change some configs to install Tranmission
This process takes around 30 minutes. Are you sure? (Y/N)Y
Thank you so much for this beautiful script. Unfortunately Iām not a Linux expert, then I tried it and it failed at step 12. Here is the copy-paste of the āreportā. Maybe this is because I already have Transmission 2.82 installed on my NAS. What do you think ? What should I change in the script in order to update my current package please ?
Thanks for your help
MyBookLive:~# ./setup.sh
Welcome! Compile and Install Transmission 2.84
Created by Proglin v2015-09-10
Last Update: v2016-02-26
ALWAYS back up your data before proceeding.
This script was only tested with MyBookLive firmware 02.43.10-048
Your firmware version is: 02.43.10-048 Tue Jun 23 05:32:03 CEST 2015
We are going to change some configs to install Tranmission
This process takes around 30 minutes. Are you sure? (Y/N)Y
Hi Phil7. This script was made to run on ānormalā mybooklive. So if it already have another version it is better to do a firmware upgrade than run the script.
But wait a little because they release another version of transmission (2.92). I will try to see if it still compatible.
Do you have to have a specific firmware version for your device or would this work with the latest available? Because Iāve read that with the newer firmware this installation was blocked.
Thanks for your answer but unfortunately I canāt make a āsimpleā package update because of very old dependencies that must be updated. Maybe I should return to a normal firmware, then apply your script.
It would be great if you could make it to 2.92, and even better if you could check in your script if a previous version is already there and make a package update instead of canceling the whole script (but maybe thatās not that easy cause of dependenciesā¦).
By the way, for those on 02.43.10-048 with this Tramisssion installed. Does your device go to sleep (blue light) where thereās no activity going on it? Because there are several reports here on the forum of that firmware version that, even with the ethernet cable unplugged, the device would never enter sleep mode.
Iām having the same problem as Proglin on a freshly new My Book Live device. It fails on step 12 with:
ā12/22 Downloading sources of TRANSMISSIONThe command failed, exiting.ā
I donāt have anything installed nor any customizations applied; as itās running after a fresh disk image. Also, Iām on the 02.43.10-048 firmware (same as you).
I dissected and debugged the script yesterday, and I came up with a correction for it. The Transmission source download was failing because the server certificate is outdated. Avoiding the certificate verification bypasses this error, and the script proceeds normally.
