rTorrent – connection refused

Hello, I’m running rtorrent as a service addon on a RPi2 that’s running on LibreElec 8.0.2 and Kodi 17. I was using the box since..ever and now suddenly rtorrent kept failing so I decided to reinstall the whole box from scratch – which I did with a Noobs image and installed LibreElec 8 as before. All settings are enabled just as before but now when I’m trying to open the rtorrent web interface it gives me the error that Connection was refused.
I can connect to the box via SSH but when trying to restart the rtorrent service it prompted it has found no running rtorrent service… so I’ve reinstalled rtorrent from “Unofficial OpenELEC Mediacenter OS Add-ons” once again, checked the settings disabled/enabled but to no avail… HELP PLEASE!!! Sad
PS: Also this was the pinnacle of my Linuxry otherwise I’m absolutely a noob or even less…

Thank you!

PS to Admins: the previous addon repo (baad baad banned) was removed from my box altogether as it didn’t help anyway…