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Follow these steps to setup remotely controlling Transmission from your phone. Once done you can access the iPhone Web GUI from your phone to control and monitor your downloads, as well as being able to add new downloads from your mobile browser.
In OSX: Open Transmission and in the Menu bar go to 'Transmission' > 'Preferences' > click 'Remote' tab > check 'Enable Remote Access. Enter a username and password if you want. Take note of the PORT number (you can change it if you wish). You will need this later.
You need to configure your router to forward the PORT above to your local Transmission server. Make sure your server is assigned a fixed IP address by your router. You can Google instructions on how to do this. For OSX users, I've done it for you: http://smokingapples.com/software/tutorials/managing-your-torrents-using-your-iphone-with-transmission-14-web-interface/
Your public IP address can be found here: http://www.whatismyip.com/
You can also optionally setup a dynamic DNS service on your local server so you can access the machine via a URL rather than an IP address. This is useful if your ISP assigns you a new IP address each time you connect. One option is: http://www.no-ip.com/
The Web Interface for Transmission should now be accessible. To test it, turn off the WiFi on your phone (so you are using 3G/EDGE), and access this address from your phones browser:
http://yourserver.ip:port/transmission/web/
(Replace yourserver.ip with the public IP address/server address and PORT number set above)
All okay? then continue...
Copy the HTML files and images to the your Transmission client's 'web' folder:
If using the native Mac OS X Transmission.app this should be located under "~/Applications/Transmission.app/Contents/Resources/web". You can access these folders by right-clicking on the Transmission.app icon and choosing 'Show Package Contents'.
There are two methods for doing this:
EASY INSTALL: Go to the following page and follow the instructions. This page can be viewed on your Desktop Browser, iPad or iPhone. It should also work with Android phones. (Please let us know if it doesn't - we have not been able to test this.)
http://yourserver.ip:port/transmission/web/installbookmarklet.html
(Replace yourserver.ip:port with the public IP address/server address and PORT number set above. Note the colon separating them.)
