Remote control your uTorrent

July 7, 2008 in mobile, torrent
Tags: abc, ajax, azureus, bitcomet, control, dns, download, dynamic, gui, interface, mobile, no-ip, port, remote, torrent, utorrent, webui

Many times, we need to leave our computers ON in order to finish our Torrent downloads. If it is just one or 2 download jobs, it is fine, but if you have several running at the same time, it may not be easy for you to decide which ones need to start when. So, you work out a whole schedule for them but who has the time and the patience for this? This guide will tell you how to control your uTorrent from work, a friend’s place or even your car!

So, how will we do it? Simple, WebUI (Web User Interface).

Step 1: Enable the WebUI feature in uTorrent.

It is simple in the new versions of uTorrent, but in the old one, you need to press Ctrl+P. Now in the ‘Preferences’ tree, look for ‘Advanced’. On expanding it you will see the option of ‘WebUI’. Check ‘enable Web Interface’ on the right side. It is recommended that you create a password for it, so that the service is not abused by someone else.

Step 2: Check if your port is open to accept incoming connections.

In the status bar below in the main uTorrent window, you will se a green tick mark or a yellow exclaimation. Click that. Now, you will see a button on the lower side of the window saying ‘Test if port is forwarded properly’. Click on this button, and it will open your browser window. There should be a gree ‘OK’ in the browser window. If not, then forward your port from your firewall, or add it as a NAT entry in your DSL router/modem (both for UDP and TCP).

Step 3: Download the WebUI from uTorrent’s website.

Get it here.

Step 4: Install the WebUI.

Open your C: in Windows Explorer. In the ‘address’ field write ‘%appdata%\uTorrent’ (without quotes). Place the webui.zip file in this directory (from the webui_v0.310_beta_2.rar archive).

Step 5: Test the WebUI.

Open your Firefox or Internet Explorer 7 (Internet Explorer 6 is not supported) and type:

http://127.0.0.1:<port_number>/gui/index.html

It will ask for your Username and Password. Enter it, and you will see your Web Interface. Remotely, you will need to enter your IP address instead of 127.0.0.1.

Step 6: For dynamic IP users.

For users with a dynamic IP, we must use a dynamic DNS service, like no-ip.com or DynDNS. After you activate it, you will have to type something like this when you are on a different system:

http://username.no-ip.org:<port_number>/gui/index.html

Step 7: WebUI on your mobile.

For any JAVA enabled phone, you need to get the JAVA application which connects to your uTorrent. Open this link in your JAVA enabled phone.

If your phone is not JAVA ready, download this zip, extract it, inside there is a folder called ‘iphone’ take that folder and place it inside the webui.zip (using WinRAR) that you installed in at ‘%AppData%\uTorrent’ on your PC. Don’t extract the webui zip just add the iphone folder to it. To access this interface you will need to type:

http://yourname.no-ip.com:<port_name>/gui/iphone/i.html

Step 8: Still not enough? How about control them via Facebook?

You can add the Facebook Application from here and log in with your Facebook ID. Fill in the details and you can even control uTorrent via Facebook!

We are done.

That’s it!  You have successfully proven yourself to be a control freak! I hope you all enjoyed reading this guide. I guess it will be very helpful to many!

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