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nashod

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Registered: 2012-03-23

Posts: 40

Magnet links with Transmission-cli

I want to run Transmission as it's own user using the transmession daemon with the qt client as an interface, to that end I managed to set up everything but as they say the operation succeeded but the patient died (at leas they say it in my language ), basically everything seems to be setup just fine and yet I can't start magnet downloads from the browser because the client just hangs on fetching the metadata, if I just copy the magnet link and paste the url straight into the client it runs fine so what could be the problem?

relevant info:

settings.json in the var library (transmission-cli settings)

{
    "alt-speed-down": 50,
    "alt-speed-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
    "alt-speed-time-day": 127,
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
    "alt-speed-up": 50,
    "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::",
    "blocklist-enabled": false,
    "blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist",
    "cache-size-mb": 4,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "/multimedia/Unsorted",
    "download-queue-enabled": true,
    "download-queue-size": 5,
"encryption": 1,
    "idle-seeding-limit": 30,
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
    "incomplete-dir": "/var/lib/transmission/Downloads",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
    "lpd-enabled": true,
    "message-level": 1,
    "peer-congestion-algorithm": "",
    "peer-id-ttl-hours": 6,
"peer-limit-global": 200,
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 50,
    "peer-port": 51413,
    "peer-port-random-high": 65535,
    "peer-port-random-low": 49152,
    "peer-port-random-on-start": false,
    "peer-socket-tos": "default",
    "pex-enabled": true,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": true,
"preallocation": 1,
    "prefetch-enabled": 1,
    "queue-stalled-enabled": true,
    "queue-stalled-minutes": 30,
    "ratio-limit": 2,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": false,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": false,
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "{3ae57b9dba1f95fc1b7c61fa21a171078ff80d04V5Nh7Cso",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
    "rpc-username": "",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
 "script-torrent-done-filename": "",
    "seed-queue-enabled": false,
    "seed-queue-size": 10,
    "speed-limit-down": 100,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 100,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
    "start-added-torrents": true,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false,
  "umask": 18,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
    "utp-enabled": true
}

permession of download folder: owner transmission group trnasmission permessions 775 (drwxrwxr-x)

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: Magnet links with Transmission-cli

What command did you set your browser to run on magnet links?

If qtr doesn't work (try "qtr magnet://numbersandletters" in the command line), you could make your browser run a script calling transmission-remote, or you could use some browser extension (e.g. "Add to Transmission" in Firefox).

nashod

Member

Registered: 2012-03-23

Posts: 40

Re: Magnet links with Transmission-cli

What command did you set your browser to run on magnet links?

If qtr doesn't work (try "qtr magnet://numbersandletters" in the command line), you could make your browser run a script calling transmission-remote, or you could use some browser extension (e.g. "Add to Transmission" in Firefox).

apparently now magnet links don't work at all no matter what (they stoped working even when being added directly) I'm playing with the ports in my router but to no avail