Raspberry Pi Torrentbox
Maybe I'm getting old, but I still use torrents a lot. It started when I was in college, I liked having all content I could imaging for free. After that I was mostly annoyed by having to many dvd-boxes and books on the shelves so torrents where a practical solution in the spatial domain.
Despite all streaming services available, torrents still have a function. There is no censorship, and as long as people want to share something valuable no corporate directive can make something obsolete.
I notice torrents are in strong decline, for lots of content only a few seeds are available.
So, let's keep independent content available for all free spirits, and let's create an always-on torrentbox!
There are some tutorials online, but most of them are hard to configure setups with customized Linux and Transmission, so lets make it easy.
You need:
- Raspberry PI (3 is good enough, and uses less energie than 4)
- external drive
Installation:
- Just use the standard Raspberry OS
- Install VPN client if your government thinks the world would be a better place without your public available harddrive.
- Install qBittorrent > sudo apt install qbittorrent
thats it!
If you want to run headless, install VNC. Want to have you files available on Windows network? Install Samba.
Now share your intellectual valuables!