Refer to Editing Configuration Parameters for details on setting these parameters.
Note: this page does not include old legacy parameters.
Advanced
| Option | Kind | Default Value | Description
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| dht-enabled | Boolean | true |
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| encryption | Number | 1 | 0 = Off, 1 = Preferred, 2 = Forced
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| lazy-bitfield-enabled | Boolean | true |
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| open-file-limit | Number | 32 |
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| peer-socket-tos | Number | 0 |
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| pex-enabled | Boolean | true |
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| rename-partial-files | Boolean | true | Sets wether default Transmission should postfix partially downloaded files with ".part"
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| preallocation | Number | 1 | 0 = Off, 1 = Fast, 2 = Full (slower but reduces disk fragmentation)
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| umask | Number | 18 | Sets transmission's file mode creation mask. See the umask(2) manpage for more information. Users who want their saved torrents to be world-writable may want to set this value to 0. Bear in mind that the json markup language only accepts numbers in base 10, so the standard umask(2) octal notation "022" is written in settings.json as 18.
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Bandwidth
| Option | Kind | Default Value | Description
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| speed-limit-down | Number (KB/s) | 100 |
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| speed-limit-down-enabled | Boolean | false |
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| speed-limit-up | Number (KB/s) | 100 |
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| speed-limit-up-enabled | Boolean | false |
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| alt-speed-enabled | Boolean | false | aka 'Turtle Mode'. Clicking the "Turtle" in the gui when the scheduler is enabled, will only temporarily remove the scheduled limit until the next cycle.
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| alt-speed-up | Number (KB/s) | 50 |
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| alt-speed-down | Number (KB/s) | 50 |
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Scheduling
| Option | Kind | Default Value | Description
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| ratio-limit | Number | 2.0
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| ratio-limit-enabled | Boolean | false
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| alt-speed-time-enabled | Boolean | false | Note: When enabled, this will toggle the alt-speed-enabled setting.
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| alt-speed-time-begin | Number | 540 ==9am | Minutes from midnight
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| alt-speed-time-end | Number | 1020 ==5pm | Minutes from midnight
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| alt-speed-time-day | Number/bitfield | 127 == all days
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- alt-speed-time-day Start with 0, then for each day you want the scheduler enabled, add:
- Sunday: 1 (binary: 0000001)
- Monday: 2 (binary: 0000010)
- Tuesday: 4 (binary: 0000100)
- Wednesday: 8 (binary: 0001000)
- Thursday: 16 (binary: 0010000)
- Friday: 32 (binary: 0100000)
- Saturday: 64 (binary: 1000000)
- Examples:
- Weekdays: 62 (binary: 0111110)
- Weekends: 65 (binary: 1000001)
All Days: 127 (binary: 1111111)
Misc
| Option | Kind | Default Value | Description
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| blocklist-enabled | Boolean | false |
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Directories
| Option | Kind | Default Value | Description
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| download-dir | String | default locations |
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| watch-dir | String | |
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| watch-dir-enabled | Boolean | false | Note: When watch-dir-enabled is true, only the transmission-daemon, transmission-gtk, and transmission-qt applications will monitor watch-dir for new .torrent files and automatically load them.
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Peers
| Option | Kind | Default Value | Description
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| peer-limit-global | Number | 240 |
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| peer-limit-per-torrent | Number | 60
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Bit Torrent (Peer) Ports
| Option | Kind | Default Value | Description
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| peer-port | Number | 51413 |
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| peer-port-random-enabled | Boolean | false |
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| peer-port-random-high | Number | 65535 |
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| peer-port-random-low | Number | 1024 |
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| port-forwarding-enabled | Boolean | |
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Proxy
| Option | Kind | Default Value | Description
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| proxy | String | |
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| proxy-enabled | Boolean | false |
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| proxy-auth-enabled | Boolean | false |
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| proxy-auth-username | String | |
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| proxy-auth-password | String | |
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| proxy-port | Number | 80 |
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| proxy-type | Number | 0 | (0 = HTTP, 1 = SOCKS4, 2 = SOCKS5, default = 0)
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| Option | Kind | Default Value | Description
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| rpc-authentication-required | Boolean | (default = false) | If set, then a username and password will be required to access the rpc services.
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| rpc-enabled | Boolean | true | If set, then rpc services are enabled.
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| rpc-password | String | - | The ssha1 encrypted password (starts with a '{') to access the rpc services. A new password can be entered in plain text and will replaced with the encrypted version when the configuration file is next saved.
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| rpc-port | Number | 9091 | The port Transmission listens for rpc services on.
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| rpc-username | String | | The username to access the rpc services.
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| rpc-whitelist | String | "127.0.0.1" | Comma-delimited list of IP addresses. Wildcards allowed using '*'. Example: "127.0.0.*,192.168.*.*".
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| rpc-whitelist-enabled | Boolean | true | If set, then the whitelist is used to prevent other IP addresses from accessing Transmission.
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