hassio-addons-avm/qbittorrent

About

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Qbittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client. This addon is based on the docker image from linuxserver.io.

This addons has several configurable options :

• allowing to mount local external drive, or smb share from the addon
• alternative webUI
• usage of ssl
• ingress
• optional openvpn support
• allow setting specific DNS servers

Installation

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The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on.

1. Add my add-ons repository to your home assistant instance (in supervisor addons store at top right, or click button below if you have configured my HA)
2. Install this add-on.
3. Click the Save button to store your configuration.
4. Set the add-on options to your preferences
5. Start the add-on.
6. Check the logs of the add-on to see if everything went well.
7. Open the webUI and adapt the software options

Configuration

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Webui can be found at http://your-ip:8080, or in your sidebar using Ingress. The default username/password : described in the startup log. Configurations can be done through the app webUI, except for the following options

Network disk is mounted to /mnt/share name

GUID: user
GPID: user
ssl: true/false
certfile: fullchain.pem #ssl certificate
keyfile: privkey.pem #sslkeyfile
whitelist: "localhost,192.168.0.0/16" # list ip subnets that won't need a password (optional)
Username: "admin" #username to access webui. Please change it as the default is admin for all installations. 
customUI: selection from list # alternative webUI can be set here. Latest version set at each addon start.
DNS_servers : 8.8.8.8,1.1.1.1 # Keep blank to use router’s DNS, or set custom DNS to avoid spamming in case of local DNS ad-remover
SavePath: "/share/qbittorrent" # Define the download directory
networkdisks: "//SERVER/SHARE" # optional, list of smb servers to mount, separated by commas
cifsusername: "username" # optional, smb username, same for all smb shares
cifspassword: "password" # optional, smb password
cifsdomain: "domain" # optional, allow setting the domain for the smb share
password, same for all smb shares
openvpn_enabled: true/false # is openvpn required to start qbittorrent
openvpn_alternative_mode: true/false # if enabled, will tunnel only qbittorrent and not webui through vpn. Allows webui connection from external networks, but risk of decreased stability. 
openvpn_config": For example "config.ovpn" # name of the file located in /config/openvpn. 
openvpn_username": USERNAME
openvpn_password: YOURPASSWORD

Integration with HA

Use the qBittorrent integration

Support

Create an issue on github, or ask on the home assistant thread

Illustration (vuetorrent webui)

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