Saturday 7 December 2013

BitTorrent & Media Server

Introduction

A couple of months ago I installed a combined Bit Torrent & Media Server in my living room. This does two things...
  • Downloads torrents from Internet
  • Streams video over my home network to TV

Motivation

The motivation for setting up this server was to save time. Six month ago I was using my laptop to download torrents and transferring files on to USB memory stick, this was really slow.

How it works

I control the server using app I have installed on both my smartphone & tablet. This can be used for adding torrents and monitoring the progress of downloads. There are many apps that do, I'm using
Remote Transmission (available on Google Play Store).



The Server

This is a Raspberry Pi with a Wifi dongle and a 500MB hard drive attached. Torrents are downloaded by this computer and saved on to the hard drive attached. Torrents are also shared on the network and can be played on TV or device that can stream video.


Media Streaming







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