Hello Playon owners,

due to some requests from users i'd like to give you a short how-to including a script that will install transmission on your devices.
NOTE: This is for testing purposes. The transmission is very heavy for the box in terms of resources etc. so there might be stability issues. You can always remove the script of course and reflash for example to original state of the firmware.

1. extract the.rar file attached to this post onto the HDD of your playon (in the root). trans1.sh is the script which you should have in the root folder of the HDD than.

2. telnet into your player (with putty, or windows telnet client - google for a how-to telnet)

3. once logged in just call the script by entering '/tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1/trans1.sh' <- in some cases you need to make the file executable by entering 'chmod +x /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1.trans1.sh'

4. transmission will now be installed and automatically started on boot. The Standard Port in this case is 8080 so to access the transmission web management enter the ip address of your player + port in your favorite browser on your pc/laptop/phone - i.e. 192.168.0.20:8080

5. you can add torrents here and download them. Please note that due to the lower memory of the HD1 this will work differently depending on how you use the player. Try to download a torrent at once and not 10.


As mentioned above this is for testing purposes and will most likely render the unit instable in some cases. Anyways feel free to try and/or improve the script.

Any suggestions / problems found please let me know.