Transmission Plugin does not enable ratio limit by default

[musiqslut]

Recently I received a massive bill my from my isp, due to the fact that I accidentally seeded for 1 TB on a movie I downloaded using the transmission plugin v 2.82.

The problem as it turns out was that, although I configured the "Global Seed Ratio" to 2 from the transmission web configuration in FreeNas, it was not enabled and nor is there an option to enable it. I assumed that it was enabled by default, but have since discovered it is not.

After setting the property "ratio-limit-enabled" to "true" in the settings.json file located at
/usr/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home, and re-starting transmission the ratio limit seems to be enabled.

This was a very costly mistake. Perhaps the default value for the property "ratio-limit-enabled" should be "true". Either that or the option to enable or disable should be added to the configuration web ui.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Probably shouldn't be enabled by default and it is in the webui. So I'm not sure what you are taking about?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Sorry to hear about that.
In the 2.84 update, I made it so some of the settings auto enable themselves when they are filled in (watch directory / incomplete directory/blocklist).

But, this isn't the case for 'global seed ratio' and especially not in the 2.82 plugin. I think to get rid of confusion I'll just remove the settings that aren't already available in the transmission webui.

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At least in the 2.84 version you can enable the ratio in the transmission webui then restarting the service. In the 2.82 version of the plugin I don't think changes from this webui stuck.