luci-app-rtorrent

rTorrent frontend for OpenWrt's LuCI web interface

🆕 2021-06-24: Complete rewrite from scratch (0.2.x)

🆕 202?-??-??: Complete rewrite from scratch No.2: this time in JavaScript (0.3.x)

Features

• List all torrent downloads
• Add new torrent by url/magnet uri/file
• Stop/start/pause/hash/delete torrents
• Categorize torrents by tags
• Set priority per file
• Enable/disable and add trackers to torrent
• Detailed peer and chunk listing
• Completely LuCI based interface
• OpenWrt device independent (written in lua)
• Opkg package manager support
• RSS feed downloader (automatically download torrents that match the specified criteria)

Screenshots

luci-app-rtorrent 0.2.0

Install instructions

Install rtorrent-rpc

opkg update
opkg install rtorrent-rpc screen

Create rTorrent config file

Minimal /root/.rtorrent.rc file (don't forget to update the paths!):

directory = /path/to/downloads/
session = /path/to/session/

scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:6000

method.set_key = event.download.erased, on_erase, "branch=d.custom5=,\"execute2={rm,-rf,--,$d.base_path=}\""

schedule2 = rss_downloader, 60, 300, ((execute.throw, /usr/lib/lua/rss_downloader.lua, --uci))

Create /etc/init.d/rtorrent autostart script

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common

START=99
STOP=99

start() {
  HOME=/root screen -dmS rtorrent nice -19 rtorrent
}

boot() {
  start "$@"
}

stop() {
  killall rtorrent
}

Start rtorrent

chmod +x /etc/init.d/rtorrent
/etc/init.d/rtorrent enable
/etc/init.d/rtorrent start

Install luci-app-rtorrent

opkg install libustream-wolfssl
wget -q https://github.com/wolandmaster/luci-app-rtorrent/releases/download/latest/e1a1ba8004c4220f -O /etc/opkg/keys/e1a1ba8004c4220f
echo 'src/gz luci_app_rtorrent https://github.com/wolandmaster/luci-app-rtorrent/releases/download/latest' >> /etc/opkg.conf
opkg update
opkg install luci-app-rtorrent

Upgrade already installed version

opkg update
opkg upgrade luci-app-rtorrent

References

https://www.pcsuggest.com/openwrt-torrent-download-box-luci/

https://medium.com/openwrt-iot/lede-openwrt-setting-up-torrent-downloading-a06fe37a1ea2