Torrent Pi

Raspberry PI - Stream from torrents easily with a web remote.

Based on nilakshdas/flixtor

Install from Scratch

It is recommended that you use a large SD card, 8 GB should be enough.

• Download Raspbian

• Format then Write the Raspbian Image to your SD Card

• On first boot, please make sure to Expand Filesystem (click here if you missed doing it on first boot)

• Login to your Pi for the first time (user: pi / pass: raspberry)

Prerequisites

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb

Install Torrent Pi

git clone --recursive https://github.com/jaruba/torrent-pi.git
cd torrent-pi
sudo npm install

installing might take longer then you expect

Setup auto-login for your RPi

sudo nano /etc/inittab

change this line:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 tty1

to this line:

1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f pi tty1 </dev/tty1> /dev/tty1 2>&1

Setup Torrent Pi to run on start-up

Note: Torrent Pi does not require the Desktop GUI, this guide explains how to run it from the main terminal directly.

sudo nano /etc/profile

add this line to the end of the file:

. /home/pi/torrentPi.sh

now do:

sudo nano /home/pi/torrentPi.sh

and write:

sudo node /home/pi/torrent-pi/app.js

If you did not install torrent-pi in the default directory of your pi, make sure to change the path to the app.js file from your install path.

If this does not work, then it is most probably because of namespace collision and you should replace node with nodejs.