Where can I get Raspberry PI 4 Model B?

[Sushubh]

Nothing exciting. Just torrenting. Originally got it to stay connected to Reliance Broadband by running a python script on loop

 

[Skeeter]

how a pi does torrenting? I mean, torrents directly being downloaded to SSD/Harddisk through Pi?

 

[Sushubh]

yeah i mean pi has a sd card for os. i have a hdd connected to it. so torrents go there. you can automate the whole process if you want to. there are solutions where you can just add the content you want to watch. and they would automatically fetch torrent files, download them, sort them out in folders and so on. technically i can probably use it for a lot more things. i am just lazy. i don't even need it tbh. but i am too used to having access to a mini pc running 24x7 in case i need it for anything. so i just keep it.

 

[Skeeter]

alright, so is there a web GUI for the OS that handles torrenting/folders/files? accessible from an IP address?
I want to have a similar setup but since I do not have a windows machine, will I be able to access files through an iPhone, iPad or Macbook?

 

[Sushubh]

i mean it takes some work to get there. raspberry provides a linux based operating system. that is pretty easy to install. after that you can either use the gui to use it like a regular computer. to manage it remotely like from your pc or phone would take some extra effort to get to what i am talking about. you would need to install a torrent client, configure it to remote management and so on.

there might be ready to use solutions out there. but if you have never used linux before, it is definitely not going to be simple. unless you just use it as a pc either directly or through remote desktop connection or something similar.

as for accessing data on it, it would behave like a regular network computer so anything shared on it (which would require manual configuration) would be accessible from any device on the network. android file managers work fine. i am not sure how it works on ipads or iPhones, if they have the ability to access network drives. macbook and windows would work normally like accessing another computer on the local network.

 

[Skeeter]

Thank you so much for the detailed overview. I am looking forward to do this kind of thing as RPI-4B is overkill as an openwrt device. I dont need openwrt tbh, its just I wanted to setup mwan3 and DoT.

 

[Skeeter]

A small question- if I want to watch a movie stored on Pi through my mac, would I need to copy that movie to my mac and then watch it or it can be done otherway ? I mean, there will be significant disk write on my mac?

 

[Sushubh]

torrents can be resource intensive though. so mwan and torrenting at the same time might be a bit much? maybe not lol. i also use pi permanently on VPN so that also adds. but wireguard is much nicer compared to openvpn so it has been fine. it was a mess on pi2 which i originally had. pi4 is being underutilized lol. but it's totally worth it for the 10x lan speeds lol.

there are TONS of guides online for anything you might want to do with a pi. torrenting is one of the most obvious uses.

How to convert Raspberry Pi into a 24x7 Torrent Box

Convert Raspberry Pi to a 24x7 TorrentBox using the Transmission Torrent Client.

www.engineersgarage.com

 

[Sushubh]

again. it behaves like a network drive. pi4 has decent lan speeds so you can just directly watch content from your pi's hdd. i imagine there would be some form of local caching by the media player. or you can use kodi or plex type solutions maybe

 

[Skeeter]

@Sushubh is there any solution present which can download gdrive or some non-torrent stuff on harddisk through pi?