Troubleshoot qBittorrent not connected when using eddie-cli on Raspberry Pi

[C M 0]

Hi! I am trying to run qBittorrent off my headless Raspberry Pi, connected with AirVPN. Without VPN, torrenting has been working, however it has stopped working once connected with AirVPN. 

I am using a headless Raspberry Pi and connected with eddie-cli. I have logged in and confirmed that I can connect to websites with the VPN running.
I am using qBittorrent via the Web UI, and I have bound the adaptor to Eddie.
I have enabled AirVPN port forwarding in the Client Area and set qBittorrent to listen on the same port, and enabled this port through my firewall.

I am honestly stuck on how to continue troubleshooting - any advice on troubleshooting qBittorrent and AirVPN via the command line would be very appreciated!

 

[OpenSourcerer 1477]

On 5/26/2025 at 5:02 PM, C M said:

I am honestly stuck on how to continue troubleshooting - any advice on troubleshooting qBittorrent and AirVPN via the command line would be very appreciated!

Can you view the qB log in the WebUI? Or does qbittorrent-nox log to STDERR or something? In any case, qB logs would probably help.

[C M 0]

Thanks for suggesting the logs - I was able to find them and found that despite setting the port in the WebUI, it still wasn't listening on the right port, so I changed it in the config file.

I have tried setting up the VPN in with Goldcrest, OpenVPN and Eddie CLI, but I am still getting the same issue  . I have also since confirmed with the API check that I am connected to AirVPN with my current setup with OpenVPN.
This is currently what my logs look like:

(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - qBittorrent v4.5.2 started
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Using config directory: /home/qbittorrent/.config/qBittorrent
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - qBittorrent termination initiated
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - qBittorrent is now ready to exit
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - qBittorrent v4.5.2 started
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Using config directory: /home/qbittorrent/.config/qBittorrent
(C) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - The configured network interface is invalid. Interface: "tun0"
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Trying to listen on the following list of IP addresses: "tun0:MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Peer ID: "-qB4520-"
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - HTTP User-Agent: "qBittorrent/4.5.2"
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Distributed Hash Table (DHT) support: ON
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Local Peer Discovery support: ON
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Peer Exchange (PeX) support: ON
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Anonymous mode: OFF
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Encryption support: ON
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Restored torrent. Torrent: "ipleak.net torrent detection"
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Restored torrent. Torrent: "Frederick Engels - The Principles of Communism (1914).epub"
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Restored torrent. Torrent: "ubuntu-25.04-desktop-amd64.iso"
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - IP geolocation database loaded. Type: DBIP-Country-Lite. Build time: Thu May 1 11:20:15 2025.
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Using built-in Web UI.
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Web UI translation for selected locale (en_GB) has been successfully loaded.
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:48 - Web UI: Now listening on IP: *, port: 8080
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:57 - Network configuration of tun0 has changed, refreshing session binding
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:57 - Trying to listen on the following list of IP addresses: "tun0:MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T15:15:58 - Network configuration of tun0 has changed, refreshing session binding
(N) 2025-05-29T15:15:58 - Trying to listen on the following list of IP addresses: "tun0:MY_PORT"

After I first set up and started the VPN, the logs said it had successfully connected. I think this was still just set to Any Interface and is connecting to ethernet.

(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - qBittorrent v4.5.2 started
(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Using config directory: /home/qbittorrent/.config/qBittorrent
(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - qBittorrent termination initiated
(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - qBittorrent is now ready to exit
(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - qBittorrent v4.5.2 started
(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Using config directory: /home/qbittorrent/.config/qBittorrent
(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Trying to listen on the following list of IP addresses: "0.0.0.0:MY_PORT,[::]:MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Peer ID: "-qB4520-"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - HTTP User-Agent: "qBittorrent/4.5.2"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Distributed Hash Table (DHT) support: ON
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Local Peer Discovery support: ON
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Peer Exchange (PeX) support: ON
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Anonymous mode: OFF
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Encryption support: ON
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - UPnP/NAT-PMP support: ON
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "127.0.0.1". Port: "TCP/MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "127.0.0.1". Port: "UTP/MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "192.168.PRIVATE_IP". Port: "TCP/MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "192.168.PRIVATE_IP". Port: "UTP/MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "::1". Port: "TCP/MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "::1". Port: "UTP/MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "PUBLIC_IP". Port: "TCP/MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "PUBLIC_IP". Port: "UTP/MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "LINK_LOCAL%eth0". Port: "TCP/MY_PORT"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Successfully listening on IP. IP: "LINK_LOCAL%eth0". Port: "UTP/MY_PORT"
(W) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Couldn't load IP geolocation database. Reason: No such file or directory
(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Using built-in Web UI.
(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Web UI translation for selected locale (en_GB) has been successfully loaded.
(N) 2025-05-29T14:31:02 - Web UI: Now listening on IP: *, port: 8080
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:03 - Detected external IP. IP: "PUBLIC_IP"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:05 - Detected external IP. IP: "PUBLIC_IP"
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:05 - IP geolocation database loaded. Type: DBIP-Country-Lite. Build time: Thu May 1 11:20:15 2025.
(I) 2025-05-29T14:31:05 - Successfully updated IP geolocation database.
(W) 2025-05-29T14:33:38 - UPnP/NAT-PMP port mapping failed. Message: "could not map port using UPnP[192.168.PRIVATE_IP]: no router found"
(W) 2025-05-29T14:33:38 - UPnP/NAT-PMP port mapping failed. Message: "could not map port using UPnP[192.168.PRIVATE_IP]: no router found"

In both cases though, qBittorrent still showed red when set to the tun0 adapter, and flame when set to any interface, whilst connected to AirVPN. When not connected and set to Any Interface, it shows green.
 

Edited ... by C M
More trouble shooting since first submitted