qBittorrent — Guide — Felhom.eu ← Apps qBittorrent Download torrents to your own drive, driven from the browser ● Running torrent.tester4.test Open ↗ Files ↗ What is it for? Download torrents to your own drive, driven from the browser You see the finished files in the file browser and in your media player Queueing, speed limits and scheduling: it can download at night and leave your line alone by day Radarr and Sonarr hand their downloads to this - without it they download nothing First steps Open torrent.tester4.test and sign in as admin with the password generated at install Keep the generated password: the box uses it to link the downloader with Sonarr and Radarr Downloads land on your drive, in the media/torrents folder. Sonarr and Radarr take them from there without using extra space Download only what you have the right to. Downloads go out from your household's internet address, and by the nature of a torrent the other participants see that address. Before you start Downloading uses your household's internet connection, and so does the uploading It accepts no incoming connections, because the box opens no port at home. Downloading works anyway: measured at 34 seeds and 4 MB/s on a well-seeded torrent. Only poorly seeded torrents are slower, and you upload less. If you want it, you can switch port forwarding on yourself in the app's own settings Add a torrent Add only a torrent whose content you have the right to, for example a Linux installer from its publisher's own site. In the bar at the top, select „Add Torrent Link...”. Paste the torrent or magnet link and select „Download”. If you have a torrent file, use „Add Torrent File...”. Stop and remove You can stop or remove a torrent at any time. Select the torrent and select „Stop”. „Start” carries on. To remove it, select „Remove”. To delete the downloaded files as well, tick „Also remove the content files”. Slower downloads by day You can make it use less of your internet line during the day. Select „Options”, then the „Speed” tab. Under „Alternative Rate Limits”, enter lower values. Tick „Schedule the use of alternative rate limits” and set when it applies. Save the settings at the bottom of the page. How long does it share? qBittorrent keeps sending a finished download to others. You can limit that. On the „BitTorrent” tab of „Options”, find „Seeding Limits”. With „When ratio reaches”, set after how many times the size it stops uploading. Save the settings at the bottom of the page. Frequently asked questions Where do the downloads go? To your drive, into the media/torrents folder. You see them in the file browser too. Do I have to set up the categories for Sonarr and Radarr? No. For every drive, the box created the categories that start with tv- and movies-, and switched on automatic management. Do not delete or rename them. If I remove the torrent, does the film leave the library too? No. Sonarr and Radarr put the same file into the library under a second name, and that stays after the torrent is removed. What does „Seeding” mean? The download is finished and qBittorrent is now sending it on to others. „Stop” ends that. Can I change where it saves? Do not. qBittorrent sees only the media/torrents folder on your drive; a file saved anywhere else is not on the drive, and Sonarr and Radarr cannot find it. Documentation Official documentation ↗