If you don't want to bother with this, something a lot of people do is run qBittorrent with Proton in Docker. There are containers that will pipe any changes directly into qBittorrent. The one I use on my media server is from binhex. All self contained and easy to update since it's Docker.
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Fair warning, my personal machines run linux so I’m not able to test this.
You could use a script like the one listed here to notify you of IP address changes:
https://superuser.com/a/1892075
Edit: I use something like this with a pushover notification to let me know when my external IP address changes
Edit2: or this: https://woodward.digital/public-ip-address-changes-alert-powershell/