Eric P

Helipad 0.2.2 is now available in the Start9 community app store: https://marketplace.start9.com/helipad?api=community-registry.start9.com&name=Community%20Registry
This new version adds:
* Support for Fountain/Podcast Guru/Boostbox metadata for invoices
* Lightning invoice support
* LNURL boostbacks
* Triggers based on sender name, app name, and podcast name
* Triggers for MIDI instruments and Open Sound Control
* Websockets for more immediate pews
* And more!

2026-03-29 23:25:32 CEST

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Helipad 0.2.2 is now in the Start9 Community Beta Marketplace: https://marketplace.start9.com/helipad?api=community-beta-registry.start9.com&name=Community%20Beta%20Registry
It should be in the main community marketplace in a week or so.

2026-03-13 17:57:41 CET

@npub1cwm…wcs6 Why do some of the Fountain keysend boosts omit the podcast/episode/guid info? For example, the boost you sent yesterday for SXWorldwide had nothing to identify what was being boosted:
{
"action": "stream",
"app_name": "Fountain",
"message": null,
"name": "EricPP",
"sender_id": "hIWsCYxdBJzlDvu5zpT3",
"sender_name": "[email protected]",
"ts": 60,
"value_msat_total": 25000
}
I think @npub1zlr…h0fa ran into this as well with boosts to his show.

2026-03-06 17:06:31 CET

Helipad v0.2.2 is now available on Umbrel: https://apps.umbrel.com/app/helipad
The Start9 version will be out soon.
This new version adds:
* Support for Fountain/Podcast Guru/Boostbox metadata for invoices
* Lightning invoice support
* LNURL boostbacks
* Triggers based on sender name, app name, and podcast name
* Triggers for MIDI instruments and Open Sound Control
* Websockets for more immediate pews
* And more!

2026-03-05 16:16:37 CET

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Yeah, you have to set up an NWC connection in AlbyHub, which will give you an NWC connection secret to use. You can use that to pull in all the transactions from the AlbyHub.

2026-03-05 15:28:56 CET

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I think it just uses NWC to connect your Alby account to your AlbyHub. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/47.md

2026-02-20 17:27:16 CET

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What was the Hive issue? I wonder if it's the same issue I ran into with my IRC bot a couple weeks ago.
I had to switch my list of endpoints because many of them were rejecting or failing on my requests.

2026-02-20 17:01:17 CET

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Do you have the code for this on Github? This lets you submit podpings but it doesn't give any confirmation that it made it on the Hive blockchain.

2026-02-20 03:07:52 CET

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Your RSS value block looks correct to me. I think the method is ignored now.

2026-02-20 02:26:16 CET

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I've heard others say the same thing, including TJ yesterday.
I think wallet changes and lack of options made things harder. Fountain is still the only free option for sending boosts. Options for receiving boosts have gotten better though.
I have an IRC bot for sending/receiving podpings that I could probably turn into a website or add to the PI website.
Does Sovereign Feeds help for your feeds? Podcasting2.org is a good resource for finding tag info.

2026-02-19 19:33:11 CET

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It's easy to feel demotivated with the complexity of this stuff, but everyone here is trying to make it better. What things can we do to make it better from a podcaster's standpoint?

2026-02-19 17:56:00 CET

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I think both ideas could be combined so that it remains simple while allowing for podcaster-defined boost boxes and other crypto-currencies (stablecoins?) to work with it.

2026-02-14 17:33:26 CET

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Sending the URL in the wallet transaction lets that person know they have new metadata to check. How would they know that otherwise?
I agree it's not the best solution but rather the best one that we have that's been adopted so far.
The best one would be one that works with Monero and any other value method besides Lightning.

2026-02-14 17:25:17 CET

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The new metadata is being hosted by the apps on their servers rather than the wallets. That's not really a great solution either, but it's the best we have so far.

2026-02-12 00:33:34 CET

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USDC runs on Ethereum and Solana and not on Lightning.
The only stablecoin that supports Lightning is Tether (USDT-L). They do this through Edge Nodes on the Lightning network that convert between USDT and BTC: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/usdt-on-lightning-the-good-the-bad-and-the-unknown
You could technically have other stablecoins use this, but what's the point? Why not just use Ethereum where they're natively supported?
The apps could start supporting Ethereum for stablecoins, but that's a huge lift to take on.

2026-02-06 17:54:59 CET

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The uuid versions all have different purposes https://ntietz.com/blog/til-uses-for-the-different-uuid-versions/
Uuid v5 is generated from a piece of data, which the PI docs say to use the feed URL for the data.

2026-02-03 20:26:41 CET

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I have some code to implement a PoW check for the PodcastIndex site if you want. It's on every single API request and could slow things down a tad.
Alternatively, I could have it do a longer PoW check when you load the site and then skip checks on each request.

2026-01-31 20:11:10 CET

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My dad watches a bunch of AI videos and didn't know they were AI until I pointed it out. The videos all have the same format of an AI voice over stock/AI photos and videos.
The voice overs are actually really good and make it hard to tell that they're AI until they mispronounce something. For example, one of the videos pronounced 'Dodge HEMI' as 'Dodge HE-MAI'.
The videos sorta mimic to the Ken Burns-style documentary format, which is probably why older people fall for them easier.

2025-12-29 19:51:01 CET

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You got it looking nice! Much better than the wall of code that it used to be.

2025-12-20 19:07:46 CET

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Hrm. Can it actually determine that by title alone?
Which fields would you use to determine if something is AI spam or not?

2025-12-16 16:34:30 CET

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Excellent. I'm glad it's working well for you.
I tried to keep it pretty close to what Partytime outputs except for database ids and separate tables for chapters, transcripts, etc (since it has no item ids).
Some of the Partytime rules might need some cleaning up too. For example, it does string trims on newsfeed titles and links but not descriptions, but does do trims on item descriptions and itunes titles but not regular titles.
@npub1unc…6rz6

2025-12-16 16:16:50 CET

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Wouldn't you want the pubDate order reversed? The first song is the oldest and the last song is the most recent?
@npub1ncy…zkql @npub1p7v…qql0 @npub1e88…nva7 @npub18a6…pny4

2025-12-15 04:05:58 CET

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Ok. I have it in a state that's good enough for me: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/feedparser/pull/8
Plus I'm tired of looking at it.
I used Claude to build the previous version with tests. Then I thought it would be a fun challenge to delete the code that Claude added and have GPT 5.1 rebuild it from the tests, which worked out better than I thought. Then I went through manually and cleaned up some of the spaghetti code and bad assumptions it made.

2025-12-09 18:56:43 CET

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The Junie guidelines doc seems pretty similar to the CLAUDE.md doc that Claude uses. I wonder if I can just copy it.
I bet Cursor has the ability to export the prompts. My prompts are extremely basic and I tend to iterate over them during a chat session. I open a new session for each new feature or change I want to do.
@npub1cwm…wcs6

2025-12-09 18:49:58 CET

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I still need to check out Junie. I've been using Cursor with Claude to do a lot of this stuff. Now I need to go back and clean it up. @npub1cwm…wcs6

2025-12-09 08:23:28 CET

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Traits could work to enforce the same function signatures. Are you think sort of like a plugin system where each tag would register itself with a central object?

2025-12-09 08:21:03 CET

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Here's what I got so far: https://github.com/ericpp/feedparser/commits/main/
It's supposed to implement everything that partytime does but I need to clean it up.

2025-12-08 23:39:57 CET

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I can adapt it. I was thinking of doing something similar, but with separate structs and separate state for each tag.

2025-12-08 21:47:23 CET

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I have a bunch of stuff I worked on over the weekend to contribute after work

2025-12-05 02:59:02 CET

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Do you have a TODO list of things you need help with?

2025-12-01 20:50:18 CET

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Only Fountain as far as I know. I think @npub1qvx…hseu is working on a similar idea.
Here's some that I've received:
rss::payment::boost https:// fountain.fm/episode/5H1M0mVGFFpPb8sRzIFV?payment=UDfOKyUmiH8qXOOsQGUP Just wanted to be clear. Last weeks question wasn’t about Hive failing next week or something. Just
rss::payment::stream https:// fountain.fm/episode/5H1M0mVGFFpPb8sRzIFV?payment=6TIVLOA4sje9UzUYYjTc undefined

2025-11-20 17:05:43 CET

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What happens if you send a podping for a RSS feed that has been deleted? Does the index see the 404, mark it as dead, and remove it?
@npub1vc9…g9a3 @npub1fh2…2kq0 @npub13cg…ck4q @npub1cjz…4eyx

2025-11-20 01:08:41 CET

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How do you know how much time someone listened? Don't most podcast players download the mp3 and play it locally?

2025-11-18 18:17:31 CET

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I did notice HTTP 500s to some of the Hive nodes, but was still able to podping.

2025-11-16 16:44:36 CET

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She has the recovery words for that hub from July. I think it should be as simple as running the Alby Hub windows app, typing in the recovery words, and transferring the balance?

2025-11-16 06:19:06 CET

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Hrm well then I'm not sure what it's supposed to do. It opened in the app when I tried it a year ago.

2025-11-16 06:07:23 CET

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Yeah but that's your umbrel one. The windows app should look similar to that.

2025-11-16 05:58:13 CET

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That's the Alby website. The Alby Hub app should be an app on your computer

2025-11-16 04:53:36 CET

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What does the Alby Hub app show?

2025-11-16 04:29:44 CET

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I think you can sign in but you need to give it the secret words somewhere. I haven't done it before but maybe @npub1glq…4zwa would know more?

2025-11-16 04:18:16 CET

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There should be an advanced setup button when you first launch it. I think it's the Import Existing Mnemonic button.

2025-11-16 03:57:22 CET

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The secret words are the only thing that matters. You can use those to restore your node onto any computer.
Try loading Alby Hub app on your computer and use the secret words to set it up. You shouldn't need to open a channel to see if it has a balance or not.

2025-11-16 02:15:27 CET

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Ah good. Yeah I meant the Lightning app in Umbrel. So the Lightning words match the Lightning words you wrote down? And they don't match the Alby words you wrote down?

2025-11-16 01:59:10 CET

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Do either match what you see in Umbrel now?

2025-11-16 01:52:56 CET

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The secret words are in the Lightning app in umbrel. Click the dot menu and click on View Secret Words.
If they're the same then you restored the node you were using in July. If they're different, then make sure to write down the new secret words

2025-11-16 01:24:09 CET

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Its probably somewhere in the Start9 interface then. Did you use these secret words to set up this node?

2025-11-16 01:18:20 CET

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Were those the words you wrote down to set this hub up? If you go into your hub and go to Settings -> Backup -> View Recovery Phrase , do they match what you wrote down?

2025-11-16 01:05:06 CET

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You'll need to set up a separate hub for that then. I think each hub can only have one set of secret words.
You could try installing the alby hub windows app and recovering the hub with that set of secret words from July. If there's sats in there, you could transfer them to your new hub.

2025-11-16 00:52:10 CET

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Do you have the recovery words for whatever hub you had set up in July?

2025-11-16 00:47:03 CET

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That would've been the 12 secret words it had you write down when setting up that hub. They let you recover the hub if it crashes or you accidentally delete it. Without them, you're pretty much SOL for ever recovering it.

2025-11-15 23:56:23 CET

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It looks like you're using the podcaster wallet shim: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7106897 I think thats updateable through https://podcasterwallet.com

2025-11-15 23:47:25 CET

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You'll have to update the valueRecipient tags in your feed to point to the new node (if you haven't already)

2025-11-15 23:12:40 CET

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I think you can connect both accounts to your hub. You would set the proton one up as a subwallet in albyhub.
Not sure which account had the 100k sats in it. Maybe @npub1glq…4zwa could find it for you.

2025-11-15 22:59:34 CET

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Do they show up anywhere on getalby.com? They used to have a transfer button on this screen https://getalby.com/node to transfer from Alby to your node.

2025-11-14 19:35:37 CET

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Its alright. It gives you a qr code to scan.
I haven't looked into the nifty Bitcoin Connect library that @npub1unc…6rz6 is using for his app, but that seems really easy to connect.

2025-11-14 19:17:29 CET

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NWC gives you the calls it supports when you connect a wallet. You could reject the connection if it doesn't support the `pay_keysend` call.

2025-11-14 18:34:08 CET

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The Wallet API seems to be a point of centralization in an otherwise decentralized system. NWC lets us fully decentralize.

2025-11-14 18:31:47 CET

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Dude. I don't know what tone you're reading my messages in, but I mean no ill will behind them. I love you all and your company for doing all the work you do in this space.
It's your absolute right as a company to choose who you want to do business with. If it ever chose not to do business with the US or me personally, I wouldn't be able to use Podverse, Podcast Guru, Curiocaster, Lnbeats, or most of the other apps because they all use the Alby Wallet API rather than NWC

2025-11-14 00:12:11 CET

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A 1M sending channel does cost $1000 but a 1M receiving costs 5-10k sats. I think that's where the disconnect is.

2025-11-14 00:08:28 CET

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I'm not sure how Alby's fee credit system works, but if she had a receiving channel open, it could receive the sats from Alby and then let her send them out.
Receiving channels from LSPs are 5-10k sats

2025-11-14 00:02:17 CET

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Would she be able to link this with a CoinOS wallet instead? That might be easier if she just wants to get the sats out.

2025-11-11 22:47:07 CET

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There are countries you cannot serve and ones you choose not to serve. This seems to be the latter, if I'm reading between the lines.
The US isn't great at following "international law" either, especially with the current president. Should I prepare to be cut off sometime in the future?
It does make me worry about how dependent we are on Alby. Most of the apps still use the Wallet API rather than NWC and I wouldn't be able to use any of them if you blocked my account.
@npub1a6u…lzz0

2025-11-10 16:27:27 CET

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Is there a way to get this same info from Nostr? It looked like it only contained the feed/item guids whereas this has the entire TLV record.
I thinking of the case where someone reinstalls Helipad and it has to batch load a bunch of previously received rss::payment records. Nostr would be more efficient for that than fetching URLs one at a time.

2025-11-09 21:07:38 CET

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Hrm. I've only used it on the user side and it seemed easy to use. I know it uses mailbox relays to route messages sort of like how NWC uses Nostr relays to route messages.
I can see Brian's point. It would suck to not be able to use Lightning with the podcast apps because they depend on Alby's Wallet API that is geoblocked in his country.
At the same time, there are ways to solve it if he wants to solve it. NWC seems like the clearest solution. Complaining doesn't solve anything.

2025-11-09 19:34:12 CET

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That's another option too. Let's add a <valueRecipient type="hive" to the spec and use HIve wallets.
@npub1e88…nva7

2025-11-09 19:33:36 CET

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That is definitely a problem. We shouldn't be using a single company's API to link wallets to apps. We need decentralized solutions for that.
I think NWC works for that even though it is an Alby open source solution. LNC is another option to explore.
@npub1e88…nva7

2025-11-09 19:29:00 CET

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I don't know why you don't see this as an opportunity. We need more wallets and you have an opportunity to provide that with your V4V Hive wallet.
@npub1e88…nva7

2025-11-09 19:21:05 CET

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The only thing that changed was Alby dropping their free wallet offering and leaving us with Fountain as the only free option left.
We need more wallet options and unfortunately most of the options only support LNURL. Thus the push to adopt LNAddress and LNURL.
Alby frankly did us a favor. We should've never been so dependent on one wallet and we should've gone through this process years ago.
@npub1e88…nva7

2025-11-09 19:15:53 CET

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Nothing has changed with keysend as far as I can see.
The deprecation notice you pointed to was for SendPayment is replaced with SendPaymentV2. Keysend works V2 and here's the Helipad code to prove it: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/helipad/blob/main/src/lightning.rs#L188-L271
The LND doc change you pointed to seems to be a correction. AcceptKeysend never had a default and should've always been documented as accept-keysend=false: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/commit/1d5844c196cca27d569ea3efd193cc5d2dd61491#diff-0e426a43248661127a0c0ee115aef7a1093b635f8993b3f7ebb1dd9f05b8f249
Can you point to any LND announcement of dropping keysend?
@npub1e88…nva7

2025-11-09 08:14:32 CET

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What is the project? I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to help you test it.
Let's build the solution rather than complaining about the problem.
@npub1e88…nva7 @npub1glq…4zwa @npub19vl…qjjz

2025-11-08 01:02:02 CET

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The Lightning app in Umbrel should show numbers in the columns if it's fully synched. See: https://getumbrel.github.io/umbrel-apps-gallery/lightning/1.jpg
I wonder if Lightning/LND is still synching up.
@npub1glq…4zwa @npub1gw9…74re @npub1fmx…wp74

2025-11-07 17:04:16 CET

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I wonder how many are dead feeds. All of the noagendatube ones are definitely no more.

2025-11-07 16:42:29 CET

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The apps could sign the message with their own private keys like @npub1j0h…u952 metaBoost proposal recommends. https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/676

2025-11-07 00:34:21 CET

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[email protected] should work now.

2025-11-06 19:53:30 CET

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https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/web-ui/pull/492

2025-11-06 17:01:17 CET

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It lets you move to something else in the future if you want. Otherwise you'll have to update a bunch of feeds with new addresses.

2025-11-06 16:56:03 CET

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If you add redirects from podcastindex.org/.well-known/keysend/podcastindex to getalby.com/.well-known/keysend/podcastindex
and
podcastindex.org/.well-known/lnurlp/podcastindex to getalby.com/.well-known/lnurlp/podcastindex
then [email protected] can be your lightning address.

2025-11-06 15:55:13 CET

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It's a separate purchase. They have you pick an LSP (Megalith, Zeus, Flashsats, or LNServer) to buy liquidity from.

2025-11-03 22:38:29 CET

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It looks like it https://github.com/getAlby/hub?tab=readme-ov-file#lnd-backend-parameters
@npub1glq…4zwa

2025-11-03 01:28:15 CET

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Did they actually steal them or are they holding them hostage until you set up a hub?

2025-10-09 18:08:16 CEST

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Could add a PoW challenge to the main site API.

2025-10-08 00:04:55 CEST

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Yeah that makes sense. Apps that know to look for it can find it and apps that don't get the default enclosure.
[@james](https://socl.crid.land/users/james ) @npub1fmx…wp74 @npub1rcn…dw4h

2025-10-07 23:44:49 CEST

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How is L402 a value recipient type? I thought it goes into the enclosure/altEnclosure tag?
[@james](https://socl.crid.land/users/james ) @npub1fmx…wp74 @npub1rcn…dw4h

2025-10-07 00:58:45 CEST

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V4V Karaoke!

2025-10-03 20:09:58 CEST

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And it looks like most (all?) of the new Fountain feeds are using lnaddress rather than node address.

2025-10-03 19:46:32 CEST

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The node and lnaddress types for podcast:valueRecipient are documented here: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/examples/value/value.md#value-recipient-address-types
The value slugs doc does list "wallet" as a valid type for podcast:value, but I'm still not sure what it is for: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/examples/value/valueslugs.txt

2025-10-03 19:42:04 CEST

@npub1fkf…84sp What is the "wallet" value recipient type? Isn't it supposed to be "lnaddress" ?
see: https://serve.podhome.fm/rss/6c047b0d-3d30-4eb7-894c-82fdd40d7e33

2025-10-02 02:30:53 CEST

@npub1fmx…wp74 @npub1rcn…dw4h Here are lnaddresses for the PC 2.0 feed:
Dreb Scott (Chapters) -> [email protected]
Sovereign Feeds -> [email protected]
Fountain Boost bot -> [email protected]
Reflex.io -> [email protected]
[email protected] -> [email protected]
I wasn't able to find ones for these peoples:
Podcastindex.org -> ?
Boostagram Monitor -> ?
Podping -> ?
Alecks Gates -> ?
You can verify these by using https:// getalby.com/.well-known/keysend/username and comparing the node addresses.

2025-09-29 18:17:23 CEST

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I dont think it needs to be kept fully sovereign. I just want sovereignty to be an option.
I worry about it going the other way and being fully non-sovereign and putting the same banks who debank people for their speech back in charge.
@npub16rt…fjkv @npub1g2v…achf @npub1rcn…dw4h [@agates](https://activitypub.agates.io/users/agates ) @npub13cg…ck4q

2025-09-28 18:14:00 CEST

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Preventing financial deplatforming is important too, no? Non-KYC BTC is a good way to prevent that. I don't think it needs to be the only option, but it should be an option.
@npub16rt…fjkv @npub1g2v…achf @npub1rcn…dw4h [@agates](https://activitypub.agates.io/users/agates ) @npub13cg…ck4q

2025-09-28 03:31:06 CEST

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That should be the dest field in the new call. It looks like they did remove the dest_string field in the new one though. @npub16rt…fjkv @npub1jzz…avap @npub1fmx…wp74 [@agates](https://activitypub.agates.io/users/agates ) @npub13cg…ck4q

2025-09-28 02:57:30 CEST

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It's not deprecated though. The only thing they deprecated is the particular SendPayment call that @npub1jzz…avap was using https://api.lightning.community/api/lnd/lightning/send-payment/index.html
That's because they created a new SendPaymentV2 call to replace it https://api.lightning.community/api/lnd/router/send-payment-v2
Both RPC calls should be able to do keysends.
LND did default keysend to off in newer versions but they never said it was deprecated or that they're removing it.
@npub1fmx…wp74 @npub1rcn…dw4h [@agates](https://activitypub.agates.io/users/agates ) @npub13cg…ck4q

2025-09-23 17:14:48 CEST

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It seems like it runs on the Ethereum EVM rather than Lightning. Many of the stablecoins are ERC-20 tokens, so that makes sense.

2025-09-23 03:56:32 CEST

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Looks like it's built on top of x402 https://www.x402.org/

2025-08-15 16:48:46 CEST

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I'm not sure what you mean. You can still use the well-knowns to look up keysend and lnurl information for a Lightning Address.
e.g. [email protected]:
Keysend: https://getalby.com/.well-known/keysend/ericpp
LNURL: https://getalby.com/.well-known/lnurlp/ericpp
Fountain and Alby support keysend and lnurl lookups, but most wallets only support lnurl lookups.

2025-06-04 15:25:23 CEST

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The login just logs you into an Alby wallet. Everything else (including subscribe) works without logging in.
What wallet are you using and is there an API for it? It would be good to have more options.

2025-06-03 21:34:55 CEST

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What do your customers want and what apps do their listeners use?
It's near impossible to get all apps to implement any specific feature much less this one and I don't think it matters. The only apps that matter are the ones your customers/listeners use.