Android app: BarTor

If you have an android phone, and are awesome, then you have already paid the measly $2.99 to get the Bartor app! if you haven’t you are missing out. it is the second app that I’ve considered worth the money (the first is open home) and it turned out to be worth way more than it costs

What it does: Bartor allows you to scan the barcode of a movie/cd/book/game, find the torrent for the product you want, and sends the torrent to your computer for downloading. I went to blockbuster the other day and almost filled my harddrive. i always see cool stuff that i want to download, but forget by the time i get home. the only qualm i have with the software is the lack luster help and setup documentation. most of the issue isn’t on the side of the software, but the side of setting up your home computer to receive the torrents. so im going to give a run though of how to set it up. ill be using utorrent in this example, but the same basic steps will be obvious (or ill post links or help to get other clients working aswell)

Step 1, the Utorrent setup: What we are going to do here is get utorrent installed, and the web interface configured. first step in this process will be grabbing utorrent from here. install it. After the install open up utorrent, click options, then preferences. go down to “Web UI” and check the box to “Enable Web UI”. Change the authentication UN/PW to something you can remember then check the “Alternative listening port” box and assign a reasonable port. (nothing that is already used by other stuff, like 8080,21,80 etc..) i chose port:666 (props to Id software) That’s pretty much it for utorrent config! next step is to make sure that you can access it from the outside. Find your outside ip address (You can find that Here), and type this in your browser “http:\\YourOutsideIpAddress:PortNumber/gui” if you don’t get a login prompt there is a problem. could be any number of things but most commonly your on a network, behind a router, and your router has no idea where to direct requests on that port! which leads us to the next step.

Configuring your router for port forwarding: Some of you may not need this step, if the previous instruction worked then skip this section. First off login to your router, if your using a linksys router with all defaults (your retarded) it will be 192.168.1.1 or some variation on the 192.168 network. the easiest way to find the ip address to login to your router is to use your gateway. now that your loged into your router click the “Applications And Gaming” tab. Type in the application name as bittorrent set the range as the port you chose in the Utorrent setup. put that port number in the beginning and end fields. Select protocol as both, and change the last octet of the IP address there to the IP address of the computer that is running utorrent. to do this, click start, run, type CMD and hit enter. this will being up a command prompt. then type “ipconfig” and hit enter. your ip address will be the 192.168.1.X number. type the X number into the blank. and check enable, then save settings. Congrats! you have successfully forwarded a port. Now the link in the last segment should work!

That link should be working now, and you should be able to access the utorrent web interface! now we are ready to configure the android app to send torrents to this interface! this is the easy part, just open BarTor, Hut the MENU button on your phone, hit settings, click the “Client Sites” tab, then click Add. Here you will type in your Outside IP address (again you can get that Here), The port number you chose when setting up the Utorrent web interface (the one we port forwarded) and the UN/PW that you chose in the Web UI setup. hit ok, then click the entry you just made to highlight it. that selects it as the default client site. just hit the back arrow key and your ready to start scanning! If you have any questions feel free to post them in the comments section, and have fun!

Scan this barcode with your G1 to install Bartor!

Update: just heard from the creator(s) of Bartor and they will be adding torrent montiring features soon!!! thats the only thing the free ones have over this tor client (that and the free ones are great at taking up system resources!)

I’m working to get torrent monitoring up and running in BarTor, but I want to make sure that I do it right and that it works well in all supported clients and not just uTorrent

Hurray!

Tagged as: Android, Android apps, Atheism, Bartor, g1, How to, Port Forwarding, review, Torrents, Utorrent