Users now able to control their BitTorrent downloads from any PC or iPhone via their web browser.

The first thing you need to do is download and set up the WebUI (Web User Interface) plugin if you haven’t done so already. For those that haven’t, I wrote a guide previously called “Controlling uTorrent Remotely: a Beginner’s Guide” that tells you just what to do.

Controlling uTorrent Remotely: a Beginner’s Guide

So after you have the Web UI plugin installed and set up correctly, log in and open up your Google Homepage. If you don’t already have a necessary g-mail account to do this have no fear. Simply go to the BitTorent Site Invite Trading Post in the forums here at Zeropaid and ask somebody for one. There’s a ton of people out there who have them and are always willing to give them out.

On your Google Homepage select “Add more to this page.”

Then select “Add by URL”

In the box paste the following URL:

http://river.hidden.googlepages.com/uTorrent.xml

After clicking the “add” button of course, return to your Google HP. You should then see the picture below.

What we need to do now is configure the widget so that it will then display the torrent trackers currently loaded in the uTorrent client server.

In the “Address” box you will enter your IP address. If you are unsure what it is go to the IPTools website and it will tell you your address.

The “Port” box is for the port you currently have open as the listening port for incoming connections to the uTorrent client server. You can find it under uTorrent’s “Preferences” tab as shown below.

Lastly, for the “Guest username” type in the username you previously chose to use with the Web UI plugin

When all is said and done you should have all the information entered as shown in this picture below.

Once you’re done just click the “Save” button to proceed.

You will immediately get a prompt from uTorrent asking you to login. This is the username and password you selected when you previously set up the Web UI plugin.

Then presto the widget will load the torrent trackers you currently have running in uTorrent.

The cool thing about this plugin is that it could allow you to monitor the status of you uTorrent downloads from work or school in a fairly easy and convenient fashion.

This is definitely a Google HP widget that is a must have for all of you BitTorrent users out there.

A little while back I posted a thread in the Zeropaid forums that shows just how much difference there is in the memory footprint of a variety of applications, uTorrent versus Azureus being the figures to note. uTorrent’s is much smaller that Azureus and this is why this new WebUI plugin is such a welcome development, as it helps to make uTorrent even more competitive.

For those on the go, be it at school, work, or even play, the ability to control uTorrent remotely is a must have. So let’s get started and get this little bad boy up and running.

INSTALLATION

CONFIGURATION

STARTUP

INSTALLATION

First off, if you don’t have the uTorrent client server already, download and install it now.

Once this is done then download the WebUI plugin.

Now find and locate the folder that contains the SETTINGS FILE for uTorrent, which is usually found in the folder location as pictured below.

Then take the WebUI plugin you just downloaded and drag and drop it into the SETTINGS FOLDER as pictured below. It’s downloaded as a WinRAR archive meaning it must be decompressed into a regular folder, instructions for doing so can be found in Zeropaid’s WinRAR – File Archive Tutorial.

So far so good, now it’s time to configure the plugin and take it for a test drive.

CONFIGURATION

Open up uTorrent and scroll down the OPTIONS TAB to PREFERENCES as shown in the image below.

Select “WebUI” from the ADVANCED OPTION. Then check the “Enable Web Interface” box and choose a username and password to use.

This is all we need to do to configure the plugin, now it’s time to check it out.

STARTUP

First of all we will now need to use uTorrent’s corresponding client server beta version that is located in the folder of the WebUI plugin we recently downloaded. It’s name is as follows:

uTorrent-1.6.1-beta-build-478

The address you need to type in the URL browser is as follows:

http://(your IP address):(Listening Port)/gui/index.html

So for example, we’ll say my IP address is 12.345.67.890 and my listening port is 41000. I’ll then need to type http://12.345.67.890:41000/gui/index.html in my internet browser.

After the page loads it will prompt you to enter your username and password as pictured below.

After selecting “okay,” of course, the browser will load uTorrent’s WebUI control page.

The options are just as they are in the standard uTorrent client server and should be self-explanatory to use. However, for those that either need some refreshing or are simply new to the whole “BitTorrent” thing, check out uTorrent – A Beginner’s guide to BitTorrent downloading here at Zeropaid to help u get started.