Guide for making Lemaker Guita a remote downloading Machine

jacer

Here is a guide for making your Lemaker Guita a downloading machine. You can add, delete, stop downloadings from your cellphones, tablets, PCs using a web browser. You should connect your USB drive or portable hard drive to the Lemaker Guita first. Of course you can also to choose download it to the SD card or EMMC but it is not advised. We need to install Aria2, Nginx, and YAAW or Aria2web.First, lauch terminal with shortcut CTRL+ALT+T, then input commands below.

1. sudo apt-get install aria2 nginx vim

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then run commands belw to  make sure you have the /dev/sda1

1. df -h
   
2. fdisk -l

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make a external folder for mounting sda1

1. sudo mkdir /media/external

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downloading the YAAW  to the home folder andconfigure it

1. cd ~
   
2. wget https://github.com/binux/yaaw/archive/master.zip
   
3. unzip master.zip
   
4. cd yaww-master
   
5. sudo mkdir /var/www/html/yaaw
   
6. sudo cp -R * /var/www/html/yaaw
   
7. sudo chmod 777 -R /var/www/html

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You can also use Aria2Web as Aria2 front using below commands to configure

1. cd ~
   
2. wget https://codeload.github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2/zip/master
   
3. unzip webui-aria2-master.zip
   
4. cd webui-aria2-master
   
5. sudo mkdir /var/www/html/aria2
   
6. sudo cp -R * /var/www/html/aria2
   
7. sudo chmod 777 /var/www/html/aria2
   

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Let`s configure Aria2

1. sudo mkdir /etc/aria2
   
2. sudo touch /etc/aria2/session
   
3. sudo vi /etc/aria2/aria2.conf

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copy and paste below to the editing fil press ESC then input :wq to save the file.

1. 
   
2. dir=/media/external
   
3. disable-ipv6=true
   
4. enable-rpc=true
   
5. rpc-allow-origin-all=true
   
6. rpc-listen-all=true
   
7. rpc-listen-port=6800
   
8. input-file=/etc/aria2/aria2.session
   
9. save-session=/etc/aria2/aria2.session
   
10. max-concurrent-downloads=10
    
11. continue=true
    
12. max-connection-per-server=5
    
13. min-split-size=10M
    
14. split=10
    
15. max-overall-download-limit=0
    
16. max-download-limit=0
    
17. max-overall-upload-limit=0
    
18. max-upload-limit=0
    
19. lowest-speed-limit=0

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Testing with below command for aria2 service, if no error then press CTRL+C

1. sudo aria2c --conf-path=/etc/aria2/aria2.conf

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Make a autostart script

1. sudo vi /etc/init.d/aria2c

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1. #!/bin/sh
   
2. 
   
3. RETVAL=0
   
4. case "$1" in
   
5.         start)
   
6.                 echo "Starting aria2c"
   
7.                 if [ -e /dev/sda1 ]
   
8.                 then
   
9.                         mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,uid=lemaker,gid=lemaker /dev/sda1 /media/external
   
10.                 fi
    
11.                 aria2c --conf-path=/etc/aria2/aria2.conf -D
    
12.                 echo "Start aria2c done."
    
13.         ;;
    
14.         stop)
    
15.                 echo "Stoping aria2c"
    
16.                 killall aria2c
    
17.                 if [ -e /dev/sda1 ]
    
18.                 then
    
19.                         umount /media/external
    
20.                 fi
    
21.                 echo "Stop aria2c done"
    
22.         ;;
    
23. esac
    
24. exit $RETVAL
    

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Make the script executable

1. sudo chmod +x  /etc/init.d/aria2c

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run the script

1. sudo service aria2c start

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1. sudo update-rc.d aria2c defaults

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Now open your web browser and input IP address as below.

1. http://LemakerGuita`s Lan IP/yaaw

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or

1. http://LemakerGuita`s Lan IP/aria2
   

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You can add download link using two of the GUI as you pleased.

If you have your own Domain, you can use DDNS and rpc 6800 to use the downloading machine wherever
you goes.

hnsncxy

Thanks for your sharing

jacer

I will share Samba and minidlna configuration next week. Kind busy this week.