qbittorrent-natmap VS py-natpmp

# https://github.com/soxfor/qbittorrent-natmap

qbittorrent-natmap: # https://github.com/soxfor/qbittorrent-natmap image: ghcr.io/soxfor/qbittorrent-natmap:latest container_name: qbittorrent-natmap restart: unless-stopped volumes: - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro environment: - TZ=Etc/UTC - QBITTORRENT_SERVER=127.0.0.1 # - QBITTORRENT_PORT=8080 # - QBITTORRENT_USER=admin # - QBITTORRENT_PASS=adminadmin # - VPN_GATEWAY= - VPN_CT_NAME=gluetun - VPN_IF_NAME=tun # - CHECK_INTERVAL=300 # - NAT_LEASE_LIFETIME=300 network_mode: "service:gluetun" depends_on: qbittorrent: condition: service_started gluetun: condition: service_healthy

These ports change after every reboot and can only be manually inserted into my qBittorrent. Luckily someone wrote some code that automatically updates containerized versions of qBittorrent.

Using qBittorent-NatMap - would help with ExpressVPN (probably not)?

qBittorrent-NatMap - Automatically configures your qBittorrent container for proper port forwarding (big performance improvements)

It's a bit complex but I use a setup of three docker containers which all share the same networking. I use Gluetun (https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun) as the VPN client and qbittorrent as the torrent client (I use the linuxserver io image but any should qbittorrent client should work). For the port forwarding I use https://github.com/soxfor/qbittorrent-natmap which uses nat-pmp to request a port from ProtonVPN via the Gluetun interface and then automatically updates it in qbittorrent. Gluetun apparently supports Proton port forwarding by default and exposes the port via its API if you want to write your own script, but I couldn't get it to work and it uses openvpn. This setup uses a wireguard config on gluetun from Proton with nat-pmp enabled. I run this on a random weak decade old computer 24/7 but in a desktop environment you should be able to just run it on Docker desktop when you want to torrent. The docker compose file in the natmap repo gives a good idea of this docker stack.

I feel like the solution could involve https://github.com/soxfor/qbittorrent-natmap/pkgs/container/qbittorrent-natmap somehow, but the fact that I run the VPN connection on the router (rather than the NAS) means that I have no clue how to set it upt.

I just switched over myself and only did a quick test with natpmpc. While that works, on its own it isn't terribly practical. My long term goal is to get it working in a docker container which has proven more challenging. That said others seem to have been successful with this and I'm trying to adapt this: https://github.com/soxfor/qbittorrent-natmap

If your NAS supports Docker, you could use a combination of vpn container (gluetun), natpmp container (for port forwarding) and a qbittorrent container. I have it working on a raspberrypi

Since I couldn't find exact instructions for qBittorrent I decided to start something, that can be found here (github)

But the tool you need is https://github.com/yimingliu/py-natpmp

yup it seems the problem was with natpmpc. Managed to find a python client that just works, leaving it here in case others are trying to setup this: https://github.com/yimingliu/py-natpmp