Transmission v2.03 for Nokia N900
 

There is an older version of Transmission software. However, that seems to have lots of bugs & issues on the N900.

Recently Transmission has released v2.03. I have a request if the developers of the older Transmission can work on this new version 2.03 and give N900 users a stable & good software for downloading torrents with pause & resume facility..

The website for Transmission software is:
http://www.transmissionbt.com/

The download page has all the source code & relevant download files:
http://www.transmissionbt.com/download.php

Kindly update with the possibilities of a Good Torrent downloader for the N900 !!

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All the experts & developers on Maemo.org, is this possible ??

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it is the work of one dev

http://talk.maemo.org/member.php?u=9523

when i asked him for an update in january (i was looking to add 'make torrent' as a feature), he said he wouldnt be revisiting it 'for awhile'

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So isnt there anyone else who can work on this, especially considering this community has a large pool of very good developers & experts..

I am definitely sure this will be a very very useful application for many N900 users..

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for as much as i use it, the old version works fine. sometimes it goes crazy on CPU tho

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Just a little knowlege @ dev, but will give it a go :)
WIP :

http://j.imagehost.org/0725/screenshot14.png
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http://i.imagehost.org/0583/screenshot05.png
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http://i.imagehost.org/0136/screenshot15.png

2.03 is working so far. Will have a look @ the one here on maemo and maby fix some stuff.
Dont know if this will be more then a deb, since this is not my project :)

Re: Transmission v2.03 for Nokia N900
 

Great Optx - not a heavy user of transmission but would love a newer version which fixes some of the issues.

Re: Transmission v2.03 for Nokia N900
 

If you want, you could become the maintainer. I lost interest in it (yes, I'm a ****) due to not being able to figure out what caused its massive slowdowns, my considering the UI of the current version to be "finished" and thinking that porting the Qt GUI would be better (alas, the only bit of Qt it's possible for me to say I'm confident with is QtDBus -- not exactly what's needed for GUI work...).

**** the Qt client... I tried it the other day and the Transmission devs focus on the GTK GUI.

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Thx OptX.. I am sure u'll b able to bring the newer version to Maemo5..

qwerty12 you can still try & help Optx to bring a newer stable version.. This application will be gr8 for N900 users..

Thnx OptX and qwert12.. Hope to get a good news soon..

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2.03 works on the N900 directly?? If so, how ??

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Most probably bottlenecked by the slow eMMC, IO seems to slow down the N900.

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The question is: even more than the N8x0's ?

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Not directly. I took the souce and compiled it quick and dirty to see if it works. The prog. is working, but ui is funked up, so not all settings can be use/seen atm. Will have a look around maemo and the source from qwerty12 how to make this ui useable.

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Yeah, noticed that IO operations use massive CPU amounts. What should happen then in a multi-threaded IO intensive application :)

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Interesting use of the big C right there. The C word. We really do need a more shocking utterance.

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how soon will the app be ready ??

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I have to wonder if just bumping it to 2.03 will really "magically" fix all the troubles the previous version had on the N900 (I have my own doubts). Remember that same version worked very well on the N8x0....

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Little bit offtopic, but today I did firmware upgrade to my Argosy media player. The new firmware now have BitTorrent client that I'm testing right now... It has a web server interface that I do access from my computer with a web browser. The firmware is GPL, so it is possible to port the BitTorrent part to N900? If nothing else, just for the sake of having fun... :) In addition there may be some cool bitsfor media decoding too. (It plays pretty much all media formats...)

The firmware source code can be loaded here:
http://www.argosy.tw/mana_php/prod/file/HV335T_GPL.zip

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its all upto Optx & other dev to see if it helps..

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Since my little dev knowlege, it could take some time to get it something out of this.
Still looking / searching for info's to change the gui. Maby i type the wrong search, since im from germany :(

Any infos would be great :)

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OptX, I really appreciate you r trying your best to make Transmission possible.. I request all the gr8 dev on maemo.org to please help OptX to develop this very useful & wonderful application for N900..

OptX what about putting your work for testing & getting response from all dev on how to improve this app ?? juz an idea..

And hv u made any further progress ??

Re: Transmission v2.03 for Nokia N900
 

OptX, I found this link. I am no dev, but does this link help you in anyway :

http://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/

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THX for the Info's :)
I know now where to start (THX to javispedro :))
Looks like this is something that takes time for a noob like me :o but i allready started to read about how this is done.
Will have a look @ this gui also, but i think it would be better to run just Transmission imho.
Edit :
I used the webui from Transmission itself :)
Looks like this :
http://i.imagehost.org/0968/screenshot23.png
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http://i.imagehost.org/0413/screenshot30.png
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http://i.imagehost.org/0815/screenshot33.png

Works real nice, and it is easy going :)
Slowdowns are still here, just a short time till it gets back up, but still here. Dont know how this was b4.
I set this whole thing up that it looks @ a specific folder for .torrents, So just need to download the file, rest is done by transmission.

Since it will take a while to get into this hildonize stuff, i could make a howto for this one if somebody wanna test it :)

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There is one more link I found which could help (maybe you already referred to this)

http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.n...yle_Guide.html

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Wow !!! looks really kool & mind-blowing.. Bow down to you Optx and sincere thanks to you for giving it so much time !! It has been a one man army show..

Is it possible to download torrents directly from a web browser like we do on the pc?? And how soon are you gonna upload it on Maemo for testing??

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personally transmissions worked like a charm for me since i switched downloads to the sd card and tweaked a couple of settings, are there any major improvements in the new version other than hoping it'll fix (for those who find it broken at least) some issues?

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The one with the webui works in that way. You choose the .torrent
you want to download, and save it to a folder. Transmission looks in that folder for files and add them automatic. So it is just downloading, rest is done by transmission.

As i told, it will take some time to make it work the way like qwerty12 did it. Im new to this "hildonisation" stuff and have to read and try some stuff. When this is done, i will talk to qwerty12 and we will see what we do :)

For now i can make a package with all files and a howto, so it can be done easy without donwloading it from maemo, if you like.


@ festivalnut, here you can see, what was done since 1.75 :
Changes
Can you please share your tweaks ?

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im totally waiting for this new release :)

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Sure.. I think that would be good as many users & dev can test it and help u to make a complete app.. I must say gr8 goin OptX !!

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I suggest starting from qwerty12's build, since I really doubt his changes are the cause of the I/O weirdness. (Unless 1.0 -> 2.0 Gtk+ UI changed too much).

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Thats what i am doing. I started reading pages about hildonisation, have downloaded the source code from qwerty12's build. This is the best way for me to see how and what to change. Without that little help it would take much longer for me to understand :)

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Pack is ready to hit the road.
Remember: This is still early beta but looks like working ok so far. One thing i dont get is that the N900 wants to update this version (2.03-1) version with the older (1:1.76-1maemo0) :confused:


I made also a little install script.
Howto (rootsh is needed) :

1. Get the AIO-Pack from here : AIO-Pack

2. Unzip it, and put the files (install.sh & transmission.tar.gz) in the same folder on your N900 via usb. I've used the download folder in MyDocs. You can create even a new folder if you like to.

3. Open Terminal and type root
!!! root can harm your N900, even brick it, if you do something wrong !!!

4. Change to the directory where you put the two files. cd /path/to/files/...
(cd /home/user/Mydocs/download, in my case)

5. Type sh install.sh and wait for the script to be done.


6. Close Terminal

You should now have 2 new transmission icons (red+green) to start/stop the deamon in the background. Once it is started, wait a short time, then open the browser and type http://127.0.0.1:9091.
Now you should be able to use transmission from the GUI.
If you want to download a torrent, just save the .torrent file inside /home/user/MyDocs/torrent.
The deamon itself watches this folder, and adds it automaticly.
Some settings can be changed in the lower left corner.
Thats it.
I hope this is explained well enough :)

edit : changed AIO file, was not working... sorry !!

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Thx OptX !! It has been wonderful work by you so far.. Will test the files soon..

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I do seem to remember qwerty12 and myself discussing the CPU usage in Transmission, and tweaking the allocated ul/dl bandwidth seemed to make things right, more or less.

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this new version works fine for me, cant wait for a version that launches staight on the icons though.. nice work Optx :D

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thanks works very well - I can fianlly access one of my favourite sites, which insisted on this new version of transmission

I need some help though as I am a bit of a newb

I wanted to change the download directory to my SD card but I don't know what to call it for transmission

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Hey optx.. what is the progress as far as a complete version is concerned.. so far this seems to work fine, except it requires some fine tuning..

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the download seems to b a little slow on GPRS, but perfect on wifi..

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Hey OptX !! are there any further improvements ???

when do you expect to post it to extra-debels for testing purposes ???

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guys.. Please give ur views on how this version of Transmission developed by OptX works & what improvements it requires, if any??

REQUEST all dev's to please help OptX to complete building this app & releasing this app soon..