qBittorrent for WD My Cloud

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JoaquinAR

Re: qBittorrent for WD My Cloud

Post by JoaquinAR »

Hi.

I have it working on My Cloud since some days ago. Works better than Transmission (though it doesn't have remote clients for Windows/Windows Phone, hope that changes soon).

Quick guide disclaimer: I don't take responsibilities if your disk gets bricked, your pet attacks you or your girlfriend leaves.

Pre-requirements: Enable and login into SSH with root user (default password is welc0me).

Attention: It will only work on 3.x firmware version. It won't work on 4.x firmware and it will probably cause a lot of damage to it. You can compile it for firmware 4.x but look on WD Forums on how to do that.


Backup your sources.list:
cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak
Add the sid repo to sources.list:
echo deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main >> /etc/apt/sources.list
Update the sid packages list:
apt-get update
Install qBittorrent:
apt-get install qbittorrent-nox
Install Jakster's script to run qBittorrent on startup:
wget -O /etc/init.d/qbittorrent-nox-daemon http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38905385/qbittorrent
Set Jackster's script to automatically run qBittorrent on startup:
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/qbittorrent-nox-daemon
update-rc.d qbittorrent-nox-daemon defaults
Move back your original sources.list:
mv -f /etc/apt/sources.list.bak /etc/apt/sources.list
Start qBittorrent:
/etc/init.d/qbittorrent-nox-daemon start
Access and configure qBittorrent from within web UI. You need to change two things there:
  • "Save files to location" (inside Downloads tab), set it up to /DataVolume/shares/Public and then whatever folder you want to download your files to. For example /DataVolume/shares/Public
  • Disable "Pre-allocate disk space for all files" since it'll probably cause qBittorrent to return error for large torrents.
Should you want to stop qBittorrent:
/etc/init.d/qbittorrent-nox-daemon stop
Should you want to remove qBittorrent auto-start:
update-rc.d -f qbittorrent-nox-daemon remove
Should you want to uninstall qBittorrent:
apt-get remove qbittorrent-nox
Good luck.
Last edited by JoaquinAR on Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:47 am, edited 1 time in total.
kpyhere

Re: qBittorrent for WD My Cloud

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