Transmission — Guide — Felhom.eu ← Apps Transmission Simple torrent downloading, on almost no resources ● Running transmission.tester4.test Open ↗ Files ↗ What is it for? Download torrents to your own drive from a simple interface You see the finished files in the file browser and in your media player It uses very little: it fits on a small machine beside everything else If you want full control (queues, scheduling, detailed rules), qBittorrent is the stronger choice First steps Open transmission.tester4.test and sign in as admin with the password generated at install Finished downloads land on your drive, in the media/transmission/complete folder. Sonarr and Radarr take them from there without using extra space Download only what you have the right to. Downloads go out from your household's internet address, and by the nature of a torrent the other participants see that address. Before you start Downloading uses your household's internet connection, and so does the uploading It accepts no incoming connections, because the box opens no port at home. Downloading works anyway: measured at 34 seeds and 4 MB/s on a well-seeded torrent. Only poorly seeded torrents are slower, and you upload less. If you want it, you can switch port forwarding on yourself in the app's own settings Add a torrent Add only a torrent whose content you have the right to, for example a Linux installer from its publisher's own site. Select „Open” in the bar at the top: the „Add Torrents” window opens. Choose the torrent file, or paste the torrent or magnet link into the URL box. Leave „Start when added” ticked and select „Add”. A torrent file in the watched folder Transmission starts a torrent file by itself when you put it into its watched folder. In the file browser, open the media/transmission/watch folder on the downloads drive. Upload the torrent file there. A few seconds later the torrent appears in Transmission's list and starts. Stop and remove You can stop or remove a torrent at any time. Select the torrent and select „Pause”. „Start” carries on. To remove it, select „Delete”, then „Remove”. The downloaded files stay. To delete the files as well, right-click the torrent and choose „Trash data and remove from list…”. Slower downloads by day You can make it use less of your internet line during the day. Select the menu button in the bar at the top, then „Edit preferences”. Open the „Speed” tab, and under „Alternative Speed Limits” enter lower values. Tick „Scheduled times” and set when and on which days it applies. The setting applies at once; there is no separate save. Frequently asked questions Do I have to connect it to Sonarr and Radarr? No. For every drive, the box connected Transmission to Sonarr and Radarr. What they ask for goes into the media/transmission/tv or media/transmission/movies folder of that drive. If I remove the torrent, does the film leave the library too? No. Sonarr and Radarr put the same file into the library under a second name, and that stays after the torrent and its files are deleted. Can I switch on the temporary folder? Do not. „Use temporary folder:” is one folder for every drive, so every download bound for another drive would have to be copied over at the end. The box switches it off at every start. Can I change where it saves? Do not. Transmission sees only the media/transmission folder on your drives; a file saved anywhere else is not on the drive, and Sonarr and Radarr cannot find it. A setting was lost after a power cut. Why? Transmission writes its settings only when it shuts down properly. After a power cut, check your settings and enter them again if needed. Documentation Official documentation ↗