Torrent app to run on Android TV, but control from elsewhere?

by TomEnom

I've already looked and concluded that there is very little official support amongst torrent apps for Android TV - so I'll need to side-load.

I looked at the 3 best known - uTorrent, bitTorrent, and Vuz - and they all have remote control ability, but only for controlling desktop computer from Android. No support for controlling Android from Android, or Android from browser.

I would add that I tried uTorrent and the ads were totally over the top. I don't mind paying, but seeing such obnoxious behavior in the free version makes me inclined to look elsewhere.

Flud doesn't appear to support remote control.
Transmission has a remote app for Android, but no server.

Is there anything that satisfies my requirements?

TuxPaper

If you only want to control it while on the same Wifi, BiglyBT has a 'secret' ability to access it remotely (only from your local network). You can use any Transmission compatible remote you want, you just need to setup the remote client to connect to your TV's wifi ip address (probably 192.168.<number>.<number>), with a port of 9093, no username/pw.

Of course, I recommend BiglyBT as your remote app too, but there's plenty more good ones out there (like TransDroid, Torrnado, TorrentToise, Gear Shift, etc)

BiglyBT is on the Android TV store, but it's hard to find with the word 'torrent' being blacklisted. You can either install it to your TV from the link above when you are on a desktop computer, or you can search for 'BiglyBT' on your Android TV and it should show up.

Disclaimer: I wrote the android app for BiglyBT ^ _ ^

TomEnom

Now I see that there are some 3rd party Chrome extensions for remote controlling torrent apps.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/torrent?_category=extensions

I guess some of the torrent apps can be controlled via a public http interface.

There is also an official Vuze remote extension but it appears to be very bad and abandoned.

I hesitate to add another Chrome extension - these things are running all the time regardless of how much you use them - but it looks like this will be the only solution.

THECOACH0742

Ttorrent is what you want. It has a webUI that can be controlled with transdroid.

theallen247

I use these.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teeonsoft.ztorrent http://www.frostwire.com/

maxdrive

Did you end up finding something you can control from outside your network?

Lincolns_Revenge

You're probably going to be disappointed in the end that many private and public trackers won't allow android based clients and you won't be able to establish a connection.

Your best option might be to control a web based client and seed box from an android web browser. The cheapest seed boxes are pretty cheap.

phoenixpersonc137

I took a little different approach, but it works great for me.

I connected a 1T hard drive to a raspberry pi running Raspbian, and shared the hard drive using smb.

Then I installed Transmission, told it to save to the hard drive, and I control it with their app which is great.

I use Archos Player and sync it with the smb folder once a day at noon.

So now I can start a download from work and see it inside the Archos app when I get home.