After having seen how to setup a remote torrent client for Raspbian, we are now going to see how to setup a remote client for the Raspbmc OS.
Doing so will allow you to download torrents right to your Raspberry Pi media player using Raspbmc using your own computer (either on the local network or outside of your home).
Instaling Transmission for Raspberry Pi
The setup is nearly identical to the Raspbian, so you can follow the steps explained here. Good news is, if you use an external storage, you do not have to do the step to configure ntfs storage as Raspbmc is already configured for that.
Raspbmc specifics
There is one additional step in order to make the transmission-daemon work properly: give Transmission-daemon the proper authorization to write on an external device. In sudo mode,
service transmission-daemon stop
nano /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
change
USER=debian-transmission
to
USER=root
and restart the service
service transmission-daemon start
You can now use the 9091 port of your Raspberry Pi to manage your torrents.
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