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I want to make my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ a media & torrent box.

In addition, I don't want to connect it to the TV - so I want the media to be shared via SAMBA or similar, control the pi through SSH and use torrent client like Deluge that can be remote controlled.

I know this is a common question but I encounter a lot of problems so I decided to share.

In general, my problems are:

  1. LibreELEC - Can't install Deluge. I tried Transmission but I encounter a problem running it.
  2. Raspbian / OSMC - I couln't mount the HDD as Read+Write and couldn't share the media to my TV.
  3. Ubuntu - it seems like Ubuntu is yet to be deployed for PI 3 B+

Notes:

  • My client computer running on Windows.
  • I will consume the media using Kodi installed on my TV.

More Details:

  1. LibreELEC

    • I managed to share the media to my TV but Transmission didn't work.
    • I found that there could be another unofficial torrent clients that I haven't try yet, Mainly because I found that LibreELEC could not be fully controlled by SSH / Browser (apt-get is disabled, can't manage add-ons by browser and more).

  2. Raspbian/OSMC

    • First, I couldn't found the pi by its hostname and try to fix that from here without any success.
    • Furthermore, I installed miniDLNA but I couldn't found the Media from my TV (but, weird, I found it from my local Windows machine).
    • About the external HDD, I tried to mount with -rw flag but without success. From dmesg I found that there was a problem with my HDD: "volume is dirty run chkdsk and mount on windows"

Edit: I found an answer to all my questions.

Does anyone managed to achieve something similar and can, at least, recommend a suitable OS for the mission? I'm jumping from one OS to another and I surely missed some potential solutions.

Thanks

jurl
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I managed to resolve my issues using Raspbian.

Edit: also works with OSMC.

It seems like I got a mix of unrelated errors, combined with my impatience to run back and forth between OS lead to total failure.

I will answer for each bullet:

  1. Raspbian/OSMC
    • (Can't reach by hostname) It seems like I needed two things: Install avahi and samba (to support my windows client).
      At first I had an error to install samba because I forgot to run apt-get update so I gave up to early with no reason :(
      After fixing that - I had to configure avahi to announce about the samba service.
    • (Minidlna didn't work) This is mistake, I had to enable UPnP at my TV (Kodi) and add the Raspberry Pi by hostname/IP (I think it didn't found it automatically because I had to configure avahi. But I didn't try it).
      At the end, I choose samba as my media sharing method.
    • (HDD read-only problem) It seems like the hard disk had some error. I ran dmesg to found that (as described at my question). Using this thread on my windows machine solved it.

At last, about LibreELEC, as @rohtua said, LibreELEC is read only system, already has samba installed and runs from root by default so I didn't encounter most of my errors.

jurl
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