Remote Start/Stop Transmission

Summary:

How To start, stop, or restart Transmission remotely

Remote Start/Stop Transmission

gunt76 05 Mar 2010 00:57

With help from TeinturMan, here is a set of scripts that you can use to start and stop Transmission via AccessBook through a browser interface. This is very useful if Transmission crashed while you are away from the MBWE. Now you can restart it.

SSH into your MBWE and use nano to create /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/StopTransmission.sh

copy and paste this code and then save the file.

# StopTransmission.sh
# This stops Transmission remotely
echo "killall transmission-daemon">>/shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/RemoteStopTransmission
sudo /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/SetWebUser.sh EXEC_SCRIPT /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/RemoteStopTransmission
rm /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/RemoteStopTransmission

Then use nano to create the file /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/StartTransmission.sh

copy and paste this code and save the file

# StartTransmission.sh
# This starts Transmission remotely
echo "/shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/Mybook_Mgr/Transmission/S90transmission start">>/shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/RemoteStartTransmission
sudo /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/SetWebUser.sh EXEC_SCRIPT /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/RemoteStartTransmission
rm /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/RemoteStartTransmission

To use these scripts, you must login to AccessBook remotely and browse to /PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/. Select the green triangle beside the appropriate file (StartTransmission.sh or StopTransmission.sh) to execute the script.

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MyBookLive Duo 4T
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Last edited on 05 Mar 2010 01:01 by gunt76 Show more

Re: Remote Start/Stop Transmission

jennyXT 08 Mar 2010 11:13

Thanks for this but can I have a little help. :(

I have the White Light version and transmission installed via Optware so things may be a little different

1) I don't have this directory /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/ the closest I have to this is /shares/PUBLIC/WWW/
2) I have no SetWebUser.sh
3) I don't have this directory /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Admin/Mybook_Mgr/

Can anyone please help me. Thanks!!

Re: Remote Start/Stop Transmission

gunt76 09 Mar 2010 16:50

This solution is only for the blue rings model of MBWE. For the white light version, use this hack by TeinturMan.

If you don't like this backdoor through Accessbook to start/stop Transmission, and would prefer to have full access to the MyBook Manager interface, there is a solution that will give you the same functionality as the white light hack by TeinturMan. Forward port 3210 to your MyBook. Then from a remote location https://<mybook_external_IP_address>:3210 This will give you the same access to MyBook Manager as if you are at home. The only problem is that you have yet another port open to the world into your MyBook. If for some reason someone ever guessed your password and got into your MyBook Manager, they could change your passwords and lock you out. By having the port closed and using the backdoor method described above, you don't have to worry at all about that problem as only users on your home network have access.

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MyBookLive Duo 4T
FeaturesPacks, Twonky, ownCloud

Last edited on 09 Mar 2010 16:59 by gunt76 Show more