What is the best foss torrent client to use with sonarr? (feddit.rocks)

submitted 7 months ago by mariah@feddit.rocks to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Im on debian linux. Ive been trying to add transmission to sonarr but it just says auth failed

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[-] jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 7 months ago

qBittorrent?

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

2nd this. Not too complicated but also feature rich. Transmission is good too but a lot of tweaks are only configurable with file changes followed by a restart. This is a big PITA for someone like me that uses Docker.

[-] jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Same here, I use the qBittorrent in Docker with the Vuetorrent WebUI.

[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Also, the old Transmission version (3.0.something) that is in either Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 has a memory leak. It gets killed every week or so in one of my Ubuntu LXCs that only has Transmission and OpenVPN with 4gb ram available.

[-] kawa@reddeet.com 4 points 7 months ago

qBitorrent is the way, although I never tried Deluge

[-] tun@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Migrated from deluge, rTorrent, uTorrent and transmission to qBitorrent.

Deluge has problem when you have many torrents seeding or downloading.

rTorrent setup is not very easy.

uTorrent and Transmission are not recommended for not following the etiquette and bundling other software AFAIR.

[-] mariah@feddit.rocks 2 points 7 months ago

Ill try it

[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 months ago

qBittorrent tends to be the popular one but all the standard FOSS clients should work fine with Sonarr (e.g. qBittorrent, Deluge, Transmission).

I don't have Transmission in front of me here to give you specific guidance but auth failed basically means you should double-check Transmission's web ui user/password/port number & make sure it's the same both there & in Sonarr. The same would apply for any other torrent client you want to set up in Sonarr.

[-] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago

I like deluge personally - qbittorrent is my fallback though.

[-] Meuzzin@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I've always been a fan of Deluge. The Thin Client interface is the bee's knees. But, QBittorrent is my new fave. Wish they had a thin client instead of web though...

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

deluge / qbittorrent

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

Not the nost popular choice but I'm happy with Transmission. I figured out a a way to make my weird VPN subscription work with Haugene's docker image years back and it's working nicely for me.

[-] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Transmission running on the same machine? VM / Container?

I was using deluge for the longest time but went back to transmission in an lxc under proxmox.

Some more info about your config would help troubleshoot.

[-] mariah@feddit.rocks 1 points 7 months ago

Same machine

[-] mariah@feddit.rocks 1 points 7 months ago

When i add /home/mariah/shows to sonarr it does nothing

[-] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 1 points 7 months ago

I use rtorrent with Flood as the frontend web ui.

[-] mariah@feddit.rocks 1 points 7 months ago

The problem is sonarr is running as my user and transmission-daemon is root

[-] mdfy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

You should reconsider running as root, if any vulnerabilities were exploited in transmission, You've lost everything.

[-] mariah@feddit.rocks 1 points 7 months ago

How do i change the user

[-] sloopbun@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

I usually make a dedicated user for torrent clients. Works well. This allows me to run multiple instances of transmission in the vm, for example. Manage them through systemd services.