Transmission BT Ansible Role

Ansible role for installing and configuring Transmission.

Requirements

Debian based system.

Installing

You can easily install this role using ansible-galaxy:

ansible-galaxy install elboletaire.transmission -p roles

Variables

There are no mandatory variables.

Web interface & RPC

Variable	Default
transmission_password
transmission_rpc_auth_required	false
transmission_user	{{ ansible_user_id }}
transmission_rpc_whitelist_enabled	true
transmission_rpc_whitelist	127.0.0.1
transmission_rpc_host_whitelist_enabled	true
transmission_rpc_host_whitelist	""
transmission_url	/transmission/

Folders

Variable	Default
transmission_download_dir	{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/downloads
transmission_umask	2
transmission_watch_dir_enabled	true
transmission_watch_dir	{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/torrents
transmission_incomplete_dir_enabled	false
transmission_incomplete_dir	{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/.incomplete

Speed limits & ratio

Variable	Default
transmission_speed_limit_up_enabled	false
transmission_speed_limit_up	100
transmission_speed_limit_down_enabled	false
transmission_speed_limit_down	100
transmission_ratio_limit_enabled	false
transmission_ratio_limit	2

Blocklist

Variable	Default
transmission_blocklist_enabled	false
transmission_blocklist_url	http://www.example.com/blocklist

Please, refer to the transmission documentation to better understand this variables.

Example Playbook

A very simple example:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: transmission
      sudo: yes

A bit more complex example:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: transmission
      sudo: yes
      transmission_user: Krilin
      transmission_password: Bu1m4
      transmission_rpc_auth_required: true
      transmission_rpc_whitelist_enabled: true
      transmission_rpc_whitelist: "127.0.0.1,192.168.1.*"

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Oscar Casajuana <elboletaire at underave dot net>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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