sisaenkov/transmission repository overview

⁠sisaenkov/transmission

Transmission⁠ is designed for easy, powerful use. Transmission has the features you want from a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, magnet links, DHT, µTP, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, webseed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.

⁠Overview

• Based on linuxserver/transmission⁠.
• Optimized for myself: Transmission easy client Chrome extension⁠ + FreeNAS 11⁠ + portainer.io⁠ templates⁠.
• Disabled creation of complete/incomplete directories, disabled /watch directory.

⁠Usage

$ docker run -d --name=transmission --restart=always \
	-v <path_to_config>:/config \
	-v <path_to_downloads>:/downloads \
	-e PGID=<gid> -e PUID=<uid> \
	-e TZ=<timezone> \
	-p 9091:9091 -p 10894:10894 \
	-p 10894:10894/udp \
	sisaenkov/transmission

⁠Parameters

⁠Volumes:

• /config - transmission config files and logs directory
• /downloads - local path for downloads

⁠Ports:

• 9091/tcp (WebUI port)
• 10894/tcp (peer listening port)
• 10894/udp (peer listening port)

⁠Environment variables:

⁠Setting up the application

WebUI is on port 9091, the settings.json file in /config has extra settings not available in the webui. Stop the container before editing it or any changes won't be saved.

⁠Securing the webui with a username/password.

This requires 3 settings to be changed in the settings.json file.

Make sure the container is stopped before editing these settings.

"rpc-authentication-required": true, - check this, the default is false, change to true.

"rpc-username": "transmission", - substitute transmission for your chosen user name, this is just an example.

rpc-password will be a hash starting with {, replace everything including the { with your chosen password, keeping the quotes. Transmission will convert it to a hash when you restart the container after making the above edits.

⁠Updating Blocklists Automatically

This requires "blocklist-enabled": true, to be set. By setting this to true, it is assumed you have also populated blocklist-url with a valid block list.

The automatic update is a shell script that downloads a blocklist from the url stored in the settings.json, gunzips it, and restarts the transmission daemon.

The automatic update will run once a day at 3am local server time.

⁠Info

• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime docker logs -f transmission

• container version number docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' transmission

• image version number docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' sisaenkov/transmission