Edit:  I've changed the title of this thread to reflect what I'm trying to achieve, which is getting dcker hub repository of the biglybt bit torrent client working on unraid (as there is no unraid template for it).  Skip below to my 3rd post here to see my steps and where I am stuck with it

 

I finally built my long wanted media\unraid server, horray.  I'm excited to get it setup and right now I'm waiting on a large pre-clear for my array!

Anyway, my plan was to setup Sonarr and Radarr with a bittorrent client and run Jellyfin.

The problem I'm finding is all the guides online call for running deluge as a bit torrent client.  The bit torrent client I want to use however (BiglyBT) does not appear to be available for unraid.  I cant find and install for it, not any guides talking about it.  There is a linux version however on their website. 

So 2 questions:

1. Am I able to install BiglyBT easily to unraid?  If so are there any instructions I can find for this?  my linux is terrible and anything I do in it is always just following guides because I have no idea what most of the commands I enter do (since guides hardly ever explain what the code is doing)

2. Alternatively I have a tiny fanless PC (i3, 7th gen, 8 gb ram) which runs windows (very easy for me to use)  that runs some home automation software.  I could install sonarr, radarr and BiglyBT for windows easily.  Could I then simply point my working directories to my unraid server (SMB shares) and have it work normally?  I assume zonarr and radarr are not too resource intensive that my i3 couldnt handle them (i've never used them before).  Jellyfin I would run off Unraid of course (I currently have Jellyfin running on the i3 but can really only server 1 stream at a time, but my unraid server was built to run jellyfin with at least 15 streams)

 

Thanks

Edited January 29, 20215 yr by 007craft

Never heard of BiglyBT so I'd ask why do you want to use this versus an established docker (rTorrent for example) that is ready to install and use on Unraid?

 

Having a second computer running sonarr/radarr/whatever else defeats [some of] the purpose of having Unraid in the first place.. if you are going to have another computer doing all the work then you might as well just have a NAS hard drive and not Unraid.

 

However, what you could attempt to do is just try to get this BiglyBT running on your own or with some guidance from other sources... that's part of the "fun" with Unraid/Docker.  Google biglybt unraid, biglybt docker, stuff like that and see if you can figure anything out.  Right off the start it seems like https://github.com/Fullaxx/biglybt might be a good place to start experimenting.

The whole reason I went with Unraid is because it was easy.  I do enough troubleshooting and management in my life that any extra effort is never "fun" haha.

I want to use BiglyBT because it is the open source fork of Vuze and Ive been using vuze and BiglyBT for 15 years now and do not want to switch to something else.  I also went with unraid because Im installing a jellyfin server and it supports it easily, vs NAS setups.  Ideally I prefer to use windows as a server but unaid seamed more reliable and easy to use than setting up a windows with raid.

 

I already did a google search for biglybt and unraid and results are pretty much non existent.  I guess is there a guide somewhere on installing any generic linux app on unraid by creating a docker container?

Edited January 24, 20215 yr by 007craft

You can install existing dockers from docker hub but you have to figure out how to set them up since there isn't an Unraid template already created for them. 

Ok so I tried to give this a shot.  1st step was to enable searching on docker hub through community apps.  I did this and found the already created docker image file of biglybt (as shown here ( https://hub.docker.com/r/fullaxx/biglybt/). After I hit Install it seemed to go in correctly.  So I then went to edit the template and changed 2 things.  First was to point /config to my appdata folder.  I'm not sure if this did anything tho but I noticed my other dockers like Krusader have that setting.  The second thing I did was setup the port mapping.

 

Now I need to try accessing BiglyBT via VNC.  Unlike with Krusader, I do not see a webUI or start option.  I only see >_Console.  It looks like Unraid has noVNC built in as I use it when accessing Krusader so I took a look at the URL I was going to.  It was http://192.168.1.102:6060/vnc.html?resize=remote&host=192.168.1.102&port=6060&autoconnect=1 for Krusader so I simply replaced the ports with my BiglyBT ports to get http://192.168.1.102:5901/vnc.html?resize=remote&host=192.168.1.102&port=5901&autoconnect=1.  Then I get a connection (Which is good news because it looks like its running) however all I get is a white page that says RFB 003.008.  I googled this error and it sounds like it has something to do with authentication with Java (Biglybt uses Java) when trying to VNC.  Can anybody who knows coding and understands dockers and unraid better help me get this working?  Thank you

 

EDIT:  I managed to VNC in using VNCViewer on my windows machine by using the address of 192.168.1.102::5901 (needed 2 colans).  So Biglybt is up and working, but its less then ideal as I cannot use novnc to access it via web browser.  I already added a fancy web_gui button to the unraid template so it would be convenient to get this working.
 

Edited January 29, 20215 yr by 007craft

I know this is an old thread.

 

But did you manage to get WebUI button that opens NoVNC and connects to BiglyBT?

If yes, can you tell how you did it?

After porting my old windows server to unraid, I wanted to move a huge amount of still seeding torrents along with it onto my new unraid server.
On windows they are all seeding in biglybt and I didn't find a quick and easy way to move them to any other torrent client yet.

So I thought setting up a bigly docker is probably the easiest way to transfer and continue seeding them for now.

So to get the VNC WebUI working, I added an extra novnc docker via dockerhub to access biglybt via vnc.

For this I also used the container by Fullaxx: https://github.com/Fullaxx/novnc

biglybt

Container Port: 5091 > Host Port: 5091

WebUI: http://[IP]:[PORT:5092]/vnc.html?autoconnect=1&resize=remote

 

novnc

Container Port: 8080 > Host Port: 5092

Container Variable: VNCADDR > 192.168.100.100:5091 (replace with your server IP)

 

 

That way you can click your biglybt container in the unraid UI and access it via the "WebUI" entry.

Maybe this helps someone in the future.