Marius van Witzenburg "Learned my lesson in life, now setting my action to stay in life."

Manual how to install Transmission on FreeBSD as torrent client daemon

This manual is for Transmission 2.00 and higher.

Installation
Install required ports:

cd /usr/ports/net-p2p/transmission-daemon ; make install clean
# If required, install transmission-web
cd /usr/ports/www/transmission-web ; make install clean

Login to unpriv account and start transmission-daemon.

su - mariusvw

transmission-daemon

Now transmission created the default configuration kill it.

# Get current pid:
ps aux |grep transmission
# Kill it:
kill 43541

Edit the configuration to your needs:

vi .config/transmission-daemon/settings.json

You can view an example config here:

{
    "alt-speed-down": 1500,
    "alt-speed-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
    "alt-speed-time-day": 62,
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": true,
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
    "alt-speed-up": 100,
    "bind-address-ipv4": "172.20.20.1",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "",
    "blocklist-enabled": true,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "/home/mariusvw/Downloads",
    "encryption": 1,
    "incomplete-dir": "/home/mariusvw/Downloads",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
    "lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
    "message-level": 2,
    "open-file-limit": 32,
    "peer-limit-global": 240,
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
    "peer-port": 53945,
    "peer-port-random-high": 65535,
    "peer-port-random-low": 49152,
    "peer-port-random-on-start": false,
    "peer-socket-tos": 0,
    "pex-enabled": true,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": true,
    "preallocation": 1,
    "proxy": "",
    "proxy-auth-enabled": false,
    "proxy-auth-password": "",
    "proxy-auth-username": "",
    "proxy-enabled": false,
    "proxy-port": 80,
    "proxy-type": 0,
    "ratio-limit": 2.0000,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": true,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": true,
    "rpc-bind-address": "172.20.20.1",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "YOUR PASSWORD HERE",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-username": "mariusvw",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,172.16.23.8,172.16.32.102",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "speed-limit-down": 100,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 100,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": true,
    "umask": 18,
    "watch-dir": "/home/mariusvw/Downloads/__WATCH_DIR",
    "watch-dir-enabled": true

}

Restart the daemon:

transmission-daemon

Surfto:

http://192.4.1.9:9091/transmission/web/

Have fun downloading!

Optional and OLD scripts:
Dynamic Speed Script
Change maximum speeds on time period:

0 23 * * * /home/mariusvw/transmission-speed.sh fast > /dev/null 2>&1
0 8 * * * /home/mariusvw/transmission-speed.sh slow > /dev/null 2>&1

Create speed-change script: transmission-speed.sh

#!/bin/sh
action=$1
case $action
in
'slow')
/usr/local/bin/transmission-remote -n mariusvw:<yourpassword> -d 100 -u 10
;;
'fast')
/usr/local/bin/transmission-remote -n mariusvw:<yourpassword> -d 500 -u 50
;;
esac

Easy commands
You can use this to easily enter transmission-daemon commands without having to enter your username and password every time.

 #!/bin/sh
action=$1
if [ -n "$action" ]
then
/usr/local/bin/transmission-remote -n mariusvw:<yourpassword> $action
fi

I hope this is useful for the ones who like to work with Torrents and share easy without leaving on your desktop PC if you have a server available.