How to use raspberry pi to download torrent files

In order for the proxy settings to take effect, you need to restart the Deluge daemon. From the terminal enter the following commands:. You can find many of these torrents online, including this one from BTGuard and this one from TorGuard.

Load either or both torrents into Deluge and wait a moment. Both will report the IP address they detect from your client. If that IP address matches your public IP address , then the proxy or VPN is not configured properly and you should return to the previous section to check your configuration. From there, all you need to do is change the default locations in Deluge.

That little SD card is going to fill up real fast, however, so we need to change it. That way, we can easily access our downloaded torrents over the network and have a network-accessible watch folder for auto-loading torrent files. Click OK to set the directories.

For our test we grabbed the. Before we leave the Deluge setup, there is one final detail to attend to. Run the following command in a Terminal to do so. With the rc. Your rc. There are two major errors you may encounter here. Open up the terminal on your Pi and manually start the daemon and WebUI using the commands we learned earlier in the tutorial.

Check to see that it works now. If it does, go back up and fix your rc. Second, if you can open up the client, but it shows permission errors for your existing torrents like the Linux torrent we used to test things earlier , that indicates that your external hard drive was not mounted, or mounted incorrectly. Review the sections on installing an external drive and setting it to auto-mount on boot in our Low-Power Network Storage tutorial.

Now that you have your torrent box configured and ready to rock, there are a few additional tools and modifications you can look into to really enhance your user experience.

None of these tips and tricks are necessary, but they do make your Raspberry Pi turned Torrent Box easier to use. Install Browser Plugins : There are several Deluge-centered plugins for Chrome and Firefox that improve the user experience, including:.

Activate Deluge Plugins : There are a host of great plugins already included in Deluge, and even more third-party plugins. Some of the included plugins you may want to take advantage of include:.

Check the ones you want and a new entry will appear in the preferences menu e. For more information about third-party plugins and how to install them, check out the Plugins page in the Deluge Wiki.

After configuring, testing, and tweaking enhancements and plugins, you have a more than capable torrent box that costs mere pennies a day to operate.

Find a quiet and out-of-the-way spot to plug it in, load it up with torrents, and leave it to do the heavy lifting of downloading and seeding for you. Browse All iPhone Articles Browse All Mac Articles Do I need one? Browse All Android Articles Browse All Smart Home Articles Customize the Taskbar in Windows Browse All Microsoft Office Articles What Is svchost.

Browse All Privacy and Security Articles Browse All Linux Articles Browse All Buying Guides. Best iPhone 13 Pro Case. Best Bluetooth Headphones for Switch. Best Roku TV. Best Apple Watch. Best iPad Cases. This command will ask you for the password for the pi user, which by default is raspberry.

In this example file1. You can also specify an absolute path, like this:. Once you establish an SFTP connection with your Pi, you can drag and drop files with the click of a button. This program is recommended by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Samba makes it easy to access the Pi via shared network devices.

I couldn't find it in the file. I'm on RPi3, maybe that's why? I've no idea. I'm new to Raspberry and I'm hardly familiar with Linux coding and whatnot.

I've followed these instructions both on my pi, and my home media server for different locations and its worked both on raspian jessy and unbuntu server :. Hi James, great post! Worked really well for me. Seems to have something to do with the listening port, which is listed as closed. I can download just fine but seeding won't work.

Any ideas on what to do? Googling doesn't give a conclusive answer, and it's complicated by all the people trying to get remote access do their Transmission through the VPN, which is not what I want to do.

I just want to be able to seed. If I remove the iptables entry it works fine. So I've tried reinstalling using this guide a few times now and I keep ending up with the same problem.

Transmission daemon won't start. See 'systemctl status transmission-daemon. Hey James is there a way to get port forwarding to the pi working with a vpn setup? Seems to tell me the port is closed whatever I try. I have followed all the instructions very carefully, and I am having a couple of issues. I can, however, ssh into the pi which is what I will be doing anyway so that is minor.

Does anyone know what else might cause this to happen, and how I might correct it? I am new to linux so still learning about permissions and stuff. I assume I need to give transmission-daemon permission to modify the folder? If anyone can help, let me know! I'm positive. The problem persists and I have no clue what to do. Is there any chance to get to know how to make the same things on OSMC? I have tried to use instucions above but not all commnads are working. First of all, thanks for your tutorial.

I set up my Raspberry Pi like you described. But the iptables configuration could be improved, I think. When I kill the openvpn process while downloading torrents, transmission continues but using my real ip address.

Unfortunately I have never used iptables before. Do you have an idea how to configure iptables in a way that network traffic just stopps if there is no vpn interface?

If you simply kill the process or if it crashes then all network traffic will continue to flow after the VPN tunnel goes down. The down. Using this method means that you put all your trust into the OpenVPN client never crashing and working perfectly in general.

Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but you certainly gamble with the ultimate privacy you are trying to achieve. The solution is to create a method that works independently of OpenVPN or any other method of connecting to an encrypted tunnel such as Libreswan an IPsec implementation that can be used to connect via the generally more performant IKEv2 if the VPN provider supports it.

The safest way of doing this is by creating a set of iptables rules that limit connections to only the IP address es of the VPN server. If an application supports the binding to an interface, then that should be used. Another way is to use netns to associate the VPN tunnel interface to a namespace and then launch an application by binding it to the namespace.

This applies to any such method that I'm familiar with, but I don't claim to know them all. I have learned a lot from it. I just would like to know what these two following commands do. I have tried to follow the tutorial with a newly installed Raspbian Jessie and get as far as installing Samba. When I search smb. If I enter all of [torrents] testparm advises that security mask, force security mode, directory security mask and force directory security mode are unknown parameters and ignored.

When I try to restart samba I get the error message 'Failed to restart samba. I downloaded Raspbian Wheezy and it looks like that what the instructions were written with as it worked fine. One issue Im having though is connecting to the webUI from outside my LAN Even this guide seems to only get you lan and not wan access. A wrinkle that I'm using is binding deluge to the tunnel IP, so there's no leaks and no awkward worries about traffic going outside if the tunnel is down.

But in this case, I'm deleting the default route to the tunnel, because I don't want my web browsing traffic being VPN'd. I'm doing that with a script command in the config which is kind of inelegant.

I couldn't figure out the official openvpn way to do it. I wonder if you might know? I'm also trying to get a script running to automatically fill in the tunnel IP in the deluge config, but the examples I've found are not for raspbian and need some work.

Hey, I have a problem with avahi, he stop working after a short time. Can you help-me? I have a Raspberry Pi 2. I actually got it to automatically start the command at startup and it connects, but i am unable to do anything after. It just hangs at Initialization Sequence Completed, and I am unable to cancel it. I checked through and I don't think i missed anything about that, but can you help me figure out what I am doing wrong?

Hi — The tutorial is fantastic from what I can see — Thanks. I have one issue though. I cannot however access the transmission webui. Any ideas anyone? I have tried using the local name and the ip address.

Many thanks. I'm having the same issue. Everything works dandy, everything copied properly. I still cannot access this however Hi, Yep. I had a problem too. I added the entries into the Transmission config file after all other entries. It looks like the final entry must NOT have a trailing comma note the final entry in the default file reads: 'utp-enabled': true No comma! Sounds like you may have white listed the wrong subnet, the default is only local host If you have a different router manufacturer you may have a different subnet usually Alternatively the host name isn't broadcasting correctly, have you tried connecting via the direct ip?

Interesting project. How about the average transfer rate for the Raspberry NAS? Terrific explanation and instructions for a moderately complicated process. I struggled with a few odd issues such as Samba apparently not liking my use of an underscore in the new username , but got through in the end.

Shoutout to commenter 'Steve' on September 1st, who noted the very necessary --crl-verify option when using PIA proxy. Otherwise, rc. Since this is shared and writeable, aren't they unnecessarily exposed to tampering intentional or not?

Hi, thanks so much for the tutorial. I followed all of your instructions to the letter, but for some reason my vpn is not booting at startup. Am I missing something? I have a question regarding access to the Pi once it is connected to the VPN.

This allows me to VPN into my house and access all my local devices. It is using tun as I need the Android support. This issue with tun is that it assigns a different IP to my clients - I imagine I should be able to change the IPtables on the Pi so my If anyone has any suggestions please point me in the right direction I have been reading for hours and hours with no luck. This allows the ssh connection to be made and packets to route properly back out on the wlan0 interface through the gateway, not the tunnel.

On second thought