Remote access via Windows remote GUI application like Transmission RemoteGUI

[Kenju]

Hi, I used to use Transmission and since a certain tracker needs me to downgrade I thought it would be a nice opportunity to research whether Qbittorrent on my Synology could be a nice alternative.

The advantage of using Transmission is that it has a lot of support from other applications both on mobile as well as desktop to still manage your torrents as if they are managed locally. I really liked TransmissionRemote GUI and same sorts of programs for that while on Android I use Torrnado.

So my question is whether there are any options available that can do the same for Qbittorrent. The WebUI makes it quite difficult to use different locations (I like to keep my content organized under specific folders) as you need to type everything. And something like TransmissionRemoteGUI doesn't seem to exist outside of Electorrent which is as limited as the WebUI. Do I really need to switch to an alternative?

[Peter]

Yeah Transmission uses "RPC" for its interface, that's why the remote is so "rich", compared to other programs. Even the own GUI apps for Transmission are just pretty much interfaces, while the core application is just CLI.

IIRC rtorrent also used XMLRPC.

qBittorrent uses the Web UI which has an API. But it's not an RPC like protocol.