Transdrone
This article will show you how to configure Transdrone. Transdrone is an app for Android devices which allows you to manage your torrent clients remotely.
Table of contents
Installation
Install Transdrone to your Android device(s) via the Play Store.
Configuring
This section runs through the set-up procedure for several of the torrent clients you may have installed.
rTorrent
To connect Transdrone to rTorrent, upgrade to nginx first to create the necessary HTTP RPC. Go through the nginx installation guide first, then come back to this guide.
In the app, go to Settings, Add new server and select Add normal, custom server
- Name
- Give the connection a name (you can choose any name you like)
- Server type
- rTorrent
- IP or host name
- server.feralhosting.com where server is replaced with the server name e.g. mimas or apollo.
- User name
- rutorrent (the word 'rutorrent', not your ruTorrent username)
- Password
- The same password as you use to access ruTorrent
Once these are set, press Advanced settings and input the following:
- SCGI mount point
- /username/rtorrent/rpc where username is replaced by your username
- Use SSL
- Make sure this is selected
Deluge (via webUI)
In the app, go to Settings, Add new server and select Add normal, custom server
- Name
- Give the connection a name (you can choose any name you like)
- Server type
- Deluge 1.2+
- IP or host name
- server.feralhosting.com where server is replaced with the server name e.g. mimas or apollo.
- Deluge web password
- Your Deluge web UI password
Once these are set, press Advanced settings and input the following:
- Port number
- 443
- Folder
- /username/deluge where username is replaced by your username
- Use SSL
- Make sure this is selected
Transmission
In the app, go to Settings, Add new server and select Add normal, custom server
- Name
- Give the connection a name (you can choose any name you like)
- Server type
- Transmission
- IP or host name
- server.feralhosting.com where server is replaced with the server name e.g. mimas or apollo.
- User name
- Your Transmission web UI username
- Password
- Your Transmission web UI password
Once these are set, press Advanced settings and input the following:
- Port number
- 443
- Folder
- /username/transmission where username is replaced by your username
- Use SSL
- Make sure this is selected
qBittorrent
This is not available from the Feral software page. Please follow the guide to Install qBittorrent
In the app, go to Settings, Add new server and select Add normal, custom server
- Name
- Give the connection a name (you can choose any name you like)
- Server type
- qBittorrent
- IP or host name
- username.server.feralhosting.com where username is replaced by your username and server is replaced with the server name e.g. mimas or apollo.
- User name
- Your qBittorrent web UI username
- Password
- Your qBittorrent web UI password
Once these are set, you may need to find out the port qBittorrent is running on (skip ahead if you already know it!). To do this, connect via SSH and copy and paste the following command, before pressing Enter:
echo "$(sed -rn 's|WebUI\\Port=||p' ~/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf)"
Back in the app, press Advanced settings and input the following:
- Port number
- port - the port that qBittorrent is running on (see section directly above if you don't know this)
Troubleshooting
- I'm not able to connect to rTorrent through Transdrone.
-
- Double-check the following:
- You've made the switch to nginx;
- You're using the username rutorrent in the basic settings;
- After you've switched to nginx, you haven't then changed your ruTorrent password. The RPC password will not update automatically - reinstall nginx.
- I get an error "Web interface not connected to a running daemon
- Access your Deluge web UI and make sure the daemon is connected. You should also ensure that the default daemon in ~/.config/deluge/web.conf matches the one in ~/.config/deluge/hostlist.conf.1.2