How To Enable External Remote Control

Asked by Glenn Brown

Hello,

I recently switched from uTorrent to qBittorrent for several reasons, but I am finding myself missing features from uTorrent - such as remote access from any pc, at present I seem to only be able to do this on an internal network.

Can anyone help me with this? :)

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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) said :
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You can control qBittorrent remotely using its Web UI (enable from settings). It works remotely as long as the Web UI port is properly forwarded on your router.

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Glenn Brown (glennbrown-92) said :
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You misunderstand -.-

I can use the Web UI yeah, BUT HOW DO I USE IT FROM ANY COMPUTER - THERE IS NO SET UP FOR AN EXTERNAL PC TO ACCESS???

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Brian D (turbo) said :
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Glenn --

as Christophe said, enable the Web UI in the settings, and take note of the port that you assign to the Web UI.

make sure your router(s) are configured to forward packets on the appropriate port (as assigned by you, when you enabled Web UI) to the appropriate computer (your desktop) on the network.

Then, from anywhere in the world, using just about any web browser, surf to http://<your public IP address>:<port>

  where <your public IP address> is either your public IP address as assigned by your ISP or a domain name specifically assigned to your public IP address, and

  <port> is the port you assigned to the qBittorrent Web UI when you set it up in step 1.

 example: if my public IP address were 119.911.43.34 and I set up the Web UI on port 8888, I'd surf to

    http://119.911.43.34:8888

...in the Web UI setup, you'll note there's the capability of setting up a username and password (i highly recommend you do this!)... you'll be prompted to fill in the user and password when you access the Web UI.

I hope this answers your question -- if it does not, I'm afraid I don't understand what you're asking.

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