jaymoulin/transmission repository overview

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⁠Transmission Bittorrent Client - Docker Image (Multiarch)

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This image allows you to run an headless Bittorrent client on your machine easily thanks to Docker.

⁠Installation

This will start Transmission

docker run -d --restart=always --name transmission -u $(id -u) -v /path/to/incoming/torrents:/to_download -v /path/to/downloaded/files:/output -p 9091:80 -p 51413:51413 -p 51413:51413/udp -e PORT=80 jaymoulin/transmission

⁠Credentials

Configure your credentials with docker exec transmission configure <username> <password> command. The container will restart and your credentials will be applied. Default credentials are empty (no username, no password).

⁠Volumes

• Mount a volume to /to_download folder so you can put .torrent files in to be downloaded
• Mount a volume to /output folder to retrieve your downloaded files

⁠Ports

• 9091 is the port for web interface. You can go to http://machine_ip:9091 to display interface
• 51413 and 51413/udp are the port for torrents

⁠Variables

• You can also change the PORT variable for web interface. Default is set to 9091 but you can define whetever you want

⁠Updating

When Transmission new version is released, you will be able to update your running version with this command:

docker exec transmission apk upgrade --update --no-cache transmission-daemon && docker restart transmission

⁠Appendixes

⁠Install Docker

If you don't have Docker installed yet, you can do it easily in one line using this command

curl -sSL "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jaymoulin/e749a189511cd965f45919f2f99e45f3/raw/0e650b38fde684c4ac534b254099d6d5543375f1/ARM%2520(Raspberry%2520PI)%2520Docker%2520Install" | sudo sh && sudo usermod -aG docker $USER