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Getting Started with the Seedbox Dashboard

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Every shared Pulsed Media seedbox and storage box has a web dashboard at https://SERVER/user-USERNAME/, where SERVER is the server name and USERNAME is the service username. Torrents, files, disk and traffic figures, and service restarts all start there. This page covers logging in and the core tabs, then the first things to do after signup.

Logging in

The quickest route is the service page in the client area: Services, then My Services, then the service. The Login to service button at the top and the Login row's Open seedbox link both open the dashboard, and the same page shows the username and, under Show password, the password. Resend seedbox details emails the login details again. The dashboard, SSH and SFTP all use this service login, which is separate from the billing login. Where do I find my seedbox login details? covers the setup email and SSH keys.

The tabs

The Welcome tab of a new test account at 760 pixels wide: the tab bar with its icons, the account figures and the first app tiles.

The dashboard is a row of tabs along the top, each with its own icon. The set is not fixed: Pulsed Media updates the tab list centrally, and tabs for optional apps appear once an app is enabled on the account.

The address bar follows the open tab, for example https://SERVER/user-USERNAME/#rutorrent, so a reload or a bookmark comes back to the same tab. The arrow keys, Home and End move along the bar and Enter or Space opens the tab. When the tabs do not fit, an arrow at the edge of the bar scrolls it. A small mark after a tab's name means its app needs you: an amber ring while it is not running, still setting up or has no login, a red dot when it failed or gave up after repeated failed starts. Hover over the tab to see the state. A tab that is slow to load shows a spinner in place of its icon, and after 15 seconds a note offers to open the app on its own.

The core tabs:

Tab What it is for
Welcome Your account at a glance: storage, traffic over the last 30 days, memory and server uptime, with your bonus beside them, and AI credits when the account has an AI credits key. Alerts appear above them only when something needs you. Below: your apps with one-click Open, Start, Restart or Set up, a Connect card with the host, username and SFTP/SSH port to copy, News, and a Get help form. On a panel without Configure, the Welcome tab also holds the app and account controls
ruTorrent The torrent client's web interface, see RuTorrent
File manager Browse, upload, download, rename and move files in the browser
Info Plan resources, service status, memory use, detailed disk usage and quota, referral link
Wiki This wiki, inside the dashboard
Configure Always last, at the right end of the bar. App start, stop and restart buttons, the Install Media Stack button, torrent configuration backup and restore, usage alert email, the panel frame source setting and other account settings. On a panel without this tab, these controls are on the Welcome tab

Other tabs depend on the account. Where the server has them installed, the Configure tab (the Welcome tab on a panel without Configure) has start buttons for qBittorrent, Deluge and Rclone, so do their tiles on the Welcome tab, and each gets its own tab once started (reload the dashboard to see it). Installed media stack apps get their own tabs too, a Console tab opens a shell in the browser on servers that support it, and Custom Tabs adds user-defined tabs. The feature list describes each web interface in more depth.

The Welcome tab's News card lists the latest Pulsed Media announcements and Väinämöinen's articles. Get help, under Help, sends a support ticket without leaving the panel. Billing questions, and accounts without an AI credits key, get a link to the ticket form in the client area instead.

First steps

  1. Add a torrent. In ruTorrent, add a .torrent file or paste a magnet link. Alternatively, upload .torrent files into the watch directory and they start automatically.
  2. Get the files. Finished downloads land in ~/data/. Fetch them over SFTP with a client such as FileZilla or WinSCP, see Seedbox access via FTP, SSH and SFTP, or straight from the browser through Browse files over HTTP in the Connect card on the Welcome tab.
  3. Read the figures. The Storage and Traffic · 30 days cards at the top of the Welcome tab show disk and traffic use against the plan's limits, and the Info tab has the detailed quota figures and a daily traffic graph. Checking disk usage and Monitoring bandwidth and traffic explain the numbers.
  4. Restart instead of waiting. If the torrent client stops responding, press Restart on its tile under Your apps on the Welcome tab (rTorrent's tile is called ruTorrent), or Start when the tile shows it is not running. The Configure tab restarts it too, or every service on the account at once (on a panel without Configure, the Welcome tab does). Restarting rTorrent has the details. If the dashboard itself does not load, the service page in the client area has a Restart account button, and Recreate/Rebuild Service rebuilds the account with default settings while keeping the files in data. To check the account and the server it runs on, Diagnose on the same page measures both and emails the figures, see Diagnose on PMSS. Open a ticket there starts a support ticket about that service.

Going further

The media stack adds media servers and download automation in the home directory. The Install Media Stack button in the Configure tab, or on the Welcome tab on a panel without Configure, runs the installer without SSH, and on the Welcome tab the tiles of media apps not installed yet say Set up and open Configure. Install Media Stack covers what it sets up and Media Stack Exposed and Protected Status what is reachable from outside. The Panel frame source setting, in the same place, chooses between the centrally updated tab list and a local copy, see Panel Frame Source.

The dashboard is part of PMSS, the open-source seedbox platform Pulsed Media has built and maintained since 2010, and it ships with every shared Pulsed Media seedbox and storage box plan.

See also

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