Hello GL.iNet Family,
I am a user of the Flint 2, Slate 7 and Beryl 7. Please integrate the QBittorrent client into the firmware, similar to built-in applications like AdGuard Home. This is one of the few missing features needed. We hope you will consider this, integrate it into the beta firmware, and make it a standard application. Thank you.
Hi,
Thank you for your suggestion.
We will pass this feedback to our product team for further discussion.
I agree, there's no torrent client, especially since the router has a USB port, but I think it's better to add Transmission-it'll be lighter on the router, so it might perform better.
Have you tried this?
Qbittorent is more functional and more professional.
You can install docker already on the system and you could very easily configure a qbittorrent server via docker with very little extra work. I don't see the purpose of this being integrated in the router from the factory as qbittorrent has no added networking-related functionality for end users. This would also put gl-inet in further risk of being regulated and restricted in other countries as oppositional parties to them who want to fear-monger could point out the routers connections to tools commonly used for piracy.
TLDR: You can already install it if you want via docker, but it definitely doesn't need to be integrated into the system.
Asus uses download master in there routers.
Can’t see why gl-inet can’t do it.
Hi charles2,
Can you guys also discuss wether it can be introduced as plugin extensive to the gl ui?
Now I don't think these binaries are big, but I do know if further similar requests get accepted the firmware becomes to big to sit on smaller routers, some people already asked for a more lighter version, I feel the same way on this.
No point. Just use docker. Install as much stuff as you want.
I still see no point in them bundling this instead of just letting you do it yourself through docker. They should avoid bloating their router as much as they can especially with pre-compiled binary blobs and their very limited storage space. Do you have a good reason why this shouldn't just be done through something like docker? You can still have the webUI and all that if you do it through docker.
I agree but OpenWrt is not really a secure place for docker, most run still under root.
I myself also use a qtorrent docker container in a debian environment, docker really can remove the need with distros and package problems, its really easy to deploy.
If qBittorrent were to run just as a regular application on the Gl-inet router I'd have to imagine it would also be running as root, so I don't really understand your argument. You could always create a new user and manage permissions and such for one if you wanted to run an app with less privileges, a podman setup would probably be better for your scenario.