Start transmission-daemon and bind it to VPN IP address

start_transmission_daemon.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Kill transmission-daemon if it is running
transmission_da_pid=$(pgrep transmission-da)
if [ $transmission_da_pid ]; then
  killall transmission-daemon && echo "Closing existing tranmission-daemon processes ..." && sleep 8
fi

# Get VPN IP to bind to
bind_address=$(ip addr show tun0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}')

# If IP wasn't found then quit
if [ -z $bind_address ]; then
  echo "VPN doesn't seem to be up. Will not start tranmission-daemon"
  exit
fi

# Start transmission-daemon
transmission-daemon --rpc-bind-address=127.0.0.1 --bind-address-ipv4=$bind_address

echo "transmission-daemon started and bound to address $bind_address"

A quick update as I stumbled upon this thread and used the suggested service unit successfully, but the ExecStart= line should be updated to remove the parameter assignation = as Transmission 3.00 now uses a space, and by using the suggestions by @ikwyl6 the line could be set to:

ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error --bind-address-ipv4 $(ip -br addr show tun0 | awk '{print $3}')"