qbit2mqtt

qbit2mqtt is a utility service that provides statistics from qBitTorrent instance to Home Assistant over MQTT. It developed as a replacement for HA integration that sometimes does not work and requires HA network / credentials access to torrent client.

qbit2mqtt automatically discover its entities into HA via MQTT discovery.

qbit2mqtt allows HA to control alternative speed setting and (maybe) will support more active features.

Running

Simply run script on host or using docker

python3 qbit2mqtt/__init__.py
# or using docker
docker compose up -d 

You need to provide information about qBitTorrent instance and MQTT broker via environment variables (see sample.env)

Generic parameters are:

• QBIT2MQTT_NAME - name of qBitTorrent instance for HA
• QBIT2MQTT_INTERVAL - monitor interval in seconds. 5 seconds by default
• QBIT2MQTT_DISCOVERY_INTERVAL - discovery interval in seconds. 30 by default

qBitTorrent instance parameters are:

• QBIT2MQTT_QBIT_URL - url of qBitTorrent instance with scheme. http://localhost:8080/ by default
• QBIT2MQTT_QBIT_USER - username for qBitTorrent. admin by default
• QBIT2MQTT_QBIT_PASSWORD - password for qBitTorrent. admin by default

MQTT broker parameters are:

• QBIT2MQTT_MQTT_HOST - broker hostname. localhost by default
• QBIT2MQTT_MQTT_USER - broker authentication username. Empty by default. Leave empty to disable authentication
• QBIT2MQTT_MQTT_PASSWORD - broker authentication password. Only used when QBIT2MQTT_MQTT_USER is not empty