[TUTORIAL] Native Transmission on asuswrt routers through optware

wbennett77 · Jun 21, 2014

We need a usb-flash formatted EXT2 or a usb-hdd formated EXT3 DON'T TRY TO INSTALL ON NTFS OR FAT32 FORMATTED DISKS BECAUSE YOU ONLY GET A BIG HEADACHE

Will this work on EXT4?

TeHashX · Jun 22, 2014

wbennett77 said:
Will this work on EXT4?

Yes, on 56u and 68u

wbennett77 · Jun 22, 2014

Does Transmission support scehduling? For example, if I want to schedule all downloads to run between 2am and 8am (during this time the downloads do not count towards my total allowed by my ISP) is it possible in the GUI?

TeHashX · Jun 23, 2014

wbennett77 said:
Does Transmission support scehduling? For example, if I want to schedule all downloads to run between 2am and 8am (during this time the downloads do not count towards my total allowed by my ISP) is it possible in the GUI?

sure

wbennett77 · Jun 23, 2014

I have installed Transmission, added the swap (wouldn't work without) but I don't see the folders Incomplete and Complete. I downloaded two files, one small and one large successfully but have no idea where they are lol!

Cheers!

TeHashX · Jun 23, 2014

wbennett77 said:
I have installed Transmission, added the swap (wouldn't work without) but I don't see the folders Incomplete and Complete. I downloaded two files, one small and one large successfully but have no idea where they are lol!

Cheers!

look where the folders are in /opt/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
don't forget to stop transmission when editing settings.json

wbennett77 · Jun 23, 2014

TeHashX said:
look where the folders are in /opt/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
don't forget to stop transmission when editing settings.json

I changed the completed to Transmission/Complete and left the other at Incomplete. I can see the seeds and resume files but not the actual files themselves.

TeHashX · Jun 23, 2014

wbennett77 said:
I changed the completed to Transmission/Complete and left the other at Incomplete. I can see the seeds and resume files but not the actual files themselves.

did you added full path?
/mnt/sda1/Transmission
or if the disk has a label
/mnt/LABEL/Transmission

wbennett77 · Jun 23, 2014

TeHashX said:
did you added full path?
/mnt/sda1/Transmission
or if the disk has a label
/mnt/LABEL/Transmission

I think my problem lies here. I am going remove the current label from the disk and let it get the default sda1, it will easier this way.

If I leave the download folder as the default "Transmission" this will be ok as well?

I will let you know how I make out. Thanks!

Update: Turns out I just needed to reboot the router and all is good.

Thanks TeHashX

Cheers!

zbinsd · Jun 23, 2014

TeHashX said:
have you disabled Asus download master?
reboot router and try with another internet browser

Per the instructions, I installed Asus download master, then deleted it, so it's not available.

Per your suggestion, TeHashX, I restarted the router, but now I get the error:
"Starting transmission-daemon:./opt/bin/transmission-daemon: can't load library 'libevent-2.0.so.5'
[FAILED]"

So, I re-installed download master, then disabled it (instead of deleting it).
I get the same error.

Transmission (at http://192.168.1.1:9091/transmission/web/) is trying to load a bunch of assets (such as jquery and other js files) but is being prevented from doing so.
I have verified this in Chrome and Safari.

Any ideas how to open up that communication?

Thanks!

TeHashX · Jun 23, 2014

Witch router?

Code:

ipkg install libevent libiconv

zbinsd said:
Per the instructions, I installed Asus download master, then deleted it, so it's not available.

Per your suggestion, TeHashX, I restarted the router, but now I get the error:
"Starting transmission-daemon:./opt/bin/transmission-daemon: can't load library 'libevent-2.0.so.5'
[FAILED]"

So, I re-installed download master, then disabled it (instead of deleting it).
I get the same error.

Transmission (at http://192.168.1.1:9091/transmission/web/) is trying to load a bunch of assets (such as jquery and other js files) but is being prevented from doing so.
I have verified this in Chrome and Safari.

Any ideas how to open up that communication?

Thanks!

zbinsd · Jun 25, 2014

TeHashX said:
Witch router?

Code:

ipkg install libevent libiconv

My router is the Asus RT-N66U (VER.B1)

I tried

Code:

ipkg install libevent libiconv

but it gives:

Code:

Package libevent (2.0.20-1) installed in /opt/ is up to date.
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package libiconv.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'

TeHashX · Jun 25, 2014

zbinsd said:

My router is the Asus RT-N66U (VER.B1)

I tried

Code:

ipkg install libevent libiconv

but it gives:

Code:

Package libevent (2.0.20-1) installed in /opt/ is up to date.
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package libiconv.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'

don't need libiconv on n66u, you are missing some step, try to install from scratch and will work.
Post here outputs from following commands first:

Code:

mount
df
free
uname -a

zbinsd said:

My router is the Asus RT-N66U (VER.B1)

I tried

Code:

ipkg install libevent libiconv

but it gives:

Code:

Package libevent (2.0.20-1) installed in /opt/ is up to date.
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package libiconv.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'

zbinsd · Jun 25, 2014

TeHashX said:
don't need libiconv on n66u, you are missing some step, try to install from scratch and will work.
Post here outputs from following commands first:

Code:

mount df free uname -a

Thanks TeHaxhX. Here are the outputs:

Code:

admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
devfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /jffs type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /tmp/mnt/ROUTER_HD type vfat (rw,nodev,noatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=winnt,flush)

Code:

admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                24576     24576         0 100% /
tmpfs                   119880      4656    115224   4% /tmp
devfs                   119880         0    119880   0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock4            1024       504       520  49% /jffs
/dev/sda1             78131648  20597760  57533888  26% /tmp/mnt/ROUTER_HD

Code:

admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:       239764       162776        76988            0         6576
 Swap:            0            0            0
Total:       239764       162776        76988
admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# uname -a
Linux RT-N66U 2.6.22.19 #1 Mon Apr 14 08:13:27 CST 2014 mips GNU/Linux
admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root#

zbinsd · Jun 25, 2014

I got it. Looking at the output of `mount` showed me the vfat. So, I reformatted and everything's working now.
Here's how I managed the drive reformatting.

http://rtn66u.blogspot.com/2013/02/telnetting-in-to-format-to-usb-disk-to.html

Thanks so much, TeHashX!!!

lwizard · Jun 26, 2014

Transmission update to 2.83

Is it normal that doing IPKG UPDATE and IPKG UPGRADE does not upgrade transmission to 2.83? I'm still on 2.82 but 2.83 was relesed at least one month ago..

TeHashX · Jun 26, 2014

lwizard said:
Is it normal that doing IPKG UPDATE and IPKG UPGRADE does not upgrade transmission to 2.83? I'm still on 2.82 but 2.83 was relesed at least one month ago..

Optware version wasn't updated. Look here http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/

TeHashX · Jun 26, 2014

lwizard said:
Is it normal that doing IPKG UPDATE and IPKG UPGRADE does not upgrade transmission to 2.83? I'm still on 2.82 but 2.83 was relesed at least one month ago..

Here is v2.83 but I don't think will start because require openssl v1.0.0, if someone will compile openssl for optware please post here

Mivis · Jun 28, 2014

I´m getting this error when trying to install, what can i do?

Code:

Asus@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root# wget -c -O /opt/etc/init.d/S95transmission http://
goo.gl/VCgvw2
Connecting to goo.gl (173.194.41.227:80)
Connecting to dl.dropboxusercontent.com (54.243.91.96:80)
wget: not an http or ftp url: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47669650/RT-N66U/Transmission/S95transmission

TeHashX · Jun 28, 2014

Mivis said:

I´m getting this error when trying to install, what can i do?

Code:

Asus@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root# wget -c -O /opt/etc/init.d/S95transmission http://
goo.gl/VCgvw2
Connecting to goo.gl (173.194.41.227:80)
Connecting to dl.dropboxusercontent.com (54.243.91.96:80)
wget: not an http or ftp url: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47669650/RT-N66U/Transmission/S95transmission

Try
wget -c -O /opt/etc/init.d/S95transmission http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47669650/RT-N66U/Transmission/S95transmission

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