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Running Transmission on Synology DS1010+

Synology’s Disk Station Manager (DSM) comes pre-packaged with it’s own download manager, but I have never been a fan of it, and have already heavily customized it but was still not quite happy with it. Over the last 12 months I modified my installation so that I can subscribe to RSS feeds and then automatically download feeds into the download manager for purchased content.

This guide assumes that you have good knowledge of Linux and have already installed IPKG onto your NAS. I will not go into all the package dependencies, but have included as an attachment my current IPKG installation list which should give you a good indication of what is required. This guide should work with any Synology product, provided that you have bootstrapped IPKG.

Once you are done with the installation you will have a Transmission installation which will provide you with:

You will have to install the following pre-requisite packages: ipkg install grep libxslt sed bash (please let me know if there are others I might have missed)

Let’s start – we begin with the Transmission installation as it is fairly quick:

As the next step we will create a short-cut in DSM for Transmission:

Finally we will get the automatic RSS downloads going. The RSS-catch script is universal and will also work with the Synology Download manager:

With the above in place I have a perfectly automated Transmission solution in place. I have also included the IPKG list for any possible dependencies I might have missed.

I did notice an improvement of download rate with Transmission installed (I started using Transmission from Thursday):

Update 2011-01-22: I changed the S90transmission.sh to have the log-file write to /var/log instead of /opt/etc/transmission. (This change is not included in the downloads below)

ipkg-list-installed.txt rss-feed.zip transmission-etc.zip

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