bumi

🍉, Developer, Bitcoin, lightning network ⚡, working on Alby and web monetization for a better and diverse web. bumi (npub1glq…4zwa) on twitter

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2026-01-23 16:31:20 CET

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I also get those frequently. from different emails/companies.
I don’t understand it, but I ignore it as scam.

2026-01-15 18:20:03 CET

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how does it fail? I see podcastindex seems to work 🤔

2026-01-14 12:38:57 CET

Who is testing if the new lightning address based podcasting v4v spec works for Alby lightning addresses?
@npub1cwm…wcs6 it's being 🚢

2026-01-10 02:04:29 CET

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and how does your transaction list look like?
maybe an error on the recipient side?

2026-01-10 01:54:29 CET

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any lightning address works

2026-01-10 01:51:35 CET

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and if you pay an invoice from within the hub interface?

2026-01-10 01:49:22 CET

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where do you send to? and what’s the error?

2026-01-10 01:43:44 CET

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sending or receiving?
channels are all fine?

2025-12-06 15:24:24 CET

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what’s the boost meta server?

2025-12-01 18:18:23 CET

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how do I best test it?

2025-12-01 17:06:57 CET

what podcast players do already support the rss::payment Metadata proposal?

2025-11-24 15:18:42 CET

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I think the important part is to grow the amount of people who send boosts and to grow the amount of podcasts that support it.
I think even a Pi handles enough of those payments.
where is that worry coming from?

2025-11-23 20:13:37 CET

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I don't think LNURL should cause any problems.

2025-11-23 20:09:27 CET

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that error was because if a hub is down or has issues while it gets many payment requests then it gets blocked for a while.
Typical LNURL load so far looked differently than boost requests. We also adjusted this.
what problems do you see?

2025-11-19 14:46:51 CET

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I don’t think that’s true. The screenshot shared shows the application in the file explorer. it also says “Application”… why not start that and share a screenshot?
if downloaded from the web it is a zip file.
I really can’t help anymore if always strange things are done instead of what is recommended.

2025-11-19 12:07:40 CET

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setup steps to open a channel, make backups and such are essential. otherwise nothing can work no matter in what circles you run (a car doesn’t drive without turning the key :))
once that was done, it worked.
anyway, enjoy your setup now. it works,you got everything working. congrats.
great that you have the desire to be self-sovereign with all the powers and responsibilities
again, if you have a specific question let me know. just spare me of your attacks and rants

2025-11-19 09:48:53 CET

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her hub on the Pi is running. a channel is opened, money has been received.
that is all setup and free. and she can receive and send boostagrams (won’t work with coinos etc.)
don’t make the mistake again to throw this setup now away and break it again with some other things.
she might need to update the RSS feeds to use her new node.
but from the node and setup side all is fine.

2025-11-19 09:45:40 CET

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I just don’t understand why you don’t do what people tell you.
if in a app there are 4 steps to complete you need to do that otherwise things won’t work.
if we tell you to start an app then I don’t understand why you don’t do that and share a screenshot.
we try to walk you through things and you always do something else and just complain.
thanks for your understanding. you’re in good hands here, many people help you.
if you have something specific feel free to reach out

2025-11-19 00:43:32 CET

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The Pi is working fine, and that’s all setup. Darren opened the channel and payments can be sent and received.
that last thing here was about looking at that forgotten setup from July which still might hold sats.

2025-11-19 00:06:39 CET

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we simply asked you to start that app on your computer. as you did before. We tried to help you access what you forgot in July and all you reply is another rant… you prefer writing five long posts over a click on your computer and sharing a screenshot?
sorry, I can’t help you anymore. I really tried hard.

2025-11-16 21:30:26 CET

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I don’t know… you started it before I guess.
start it again. there is only one app.

2025-11-16 21:28:21 CET

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we did that: https://github.com/getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect/tree/feat/strike
but strike was missing things and they sadly dropped it. we should ask them to pick it up again.
currently generally the interest is bigger and more NWC support is coming.

2025-11-16 21:24:15 CET

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you shared a screenshot of some windows folder. start that alby hub app there.
then go to “Node” and send a screenshot?

2025-11-16 18:22:24 CET

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if the windows app is there it is best to start running it.
I don’t know how it was setup and if our backup service was used and what still exists.
maybe it’s needed to run the recovery tool to recover the channel balances.

2025-11-16 11:40:23 CET

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yes our logs show that in July a Alby Hub was started (not in the Alby cloud), a channel was opened and funds of that amount were transferred. what, where that Alby Hub we don’t know.
The backup requires the wallet backup key - that recovery phrase from July of that hub. (this is not the words of the Umbrel Lighning app, not from the extension, … but from that hub that was setup in July)

2025-11-16 00:30:58 CET

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no, that account does not have a cloud hosted hub… otherwise it would also show.
I can’t know what hub you have setup in July.
if you don’t have it anymore, then import the seed from july.

2025-11-15 23:56:58 CET

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btw. logs show that you already have setup and connected an Alby Hub on July 3rd. With a channel and the transfer. Which Alby Hub is that?

2025-11-15 23:04:27 CET

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click on "Transfer to linked wallet"

2025-11-15 22:27:51 CET

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yes, guess those 8k are the ones on the old account which can be transferred on the wallet configuration page.

2025-11-15 22:07:14 CET

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that probably shows the spendable balance. but that channel probably requires you to fill up the channel reserve first (in alby hub this is shown on the node page, I think also for LND nodes. best check all that in your lightning node app or alby hub on umbrel)
to transfer your old Alby balance go to: https://getalby.com/node (you had posted a screenshot before)

2025-11-14 17:35:28 CET

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yes,
though the code is one thing, running it is another thing. but you sure can run things yourself.

2025-11-14 15:30:09 CET

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not sure if I understand what you mean there.
if you run things yourself, then you have to manage that yourself. You will not get the benefit of anyone doing things for you.
You have to choose to either do things yourself or outsource it to others.
not sure what your goal is and why?

2025-11-14 14:40:41 CET

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and you'll also will have to maintain and update it. for example the current update that is worked on to support the new way to share boosts with LNURL.
but it's for sure easy to do.

2025-11-14 14:31:26 CET

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You're not required at all. We just provide a convenient service there maybe?
But you can use whatever you want or easily run a lnurl service that uses your NWC connection. Also on any domain.
That's why NWC! :) We also had published code for that.
but you have to manage things yourself and might need to learn to do that. all your choice.

2025-11-14 11:17:25 CET

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...
and it's important to note that it's company's individual choice where to offer services to.

2025-11-14 11:10:33 CET

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...
I wish there would not be a requirement for this and that's why free and open source...
run things yourself then you only need yourself.
and generally don't you think everyone is free to choose who and where buy from or offer to?
happy to hear your feedback. thanks.

2025-11-14 11:09:48 CET

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...
and here you now complain to a tiny open source company for caring about openness and int. laws and regulations.
Maybe you should rethink what you complain about...
We don't do business in countries who's leaders are wanted for crimes against humanity and war crime. We comply with sanctions by various countries.
...

2025-11-14 11:09:29 CET

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...
I also believe we provide very valuable services and people can choose what they want or if they want to do V4V.
Every few months we hear from this troll that some 80% of something is built and is attacking and blaming others.
From all the many places we can't do business in that's the only one who thinks he has some entitlement to get some service. even wanting it for free.
...

2025-11-14 11:08:56 CET

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it is actually pretty clear isn't it?
I guess you are very much aware that to not depend on countries, companies, projects, laws, regulations,... you have to be self-sovereign. Run your own node, etc.
Remember Phoenix, WoS, etc. in the USA? or current trade discussions?
And we all build for that, don't we?
Since day one we've been pushing for open source and open interoperable standards and publish the software under open licenses.
...

2025-11-14 00:23:16 CET

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great.
maybe you'll have to share where to find it.
and keep in mind it's a node on a private home network with no public IP afaik.
🙏

2025-11-14 00:20:24 CET

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that's awesome. perfect. Can you do that with her?

2025-11-14 00:17:26 CET

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"costs" meant to me you pay somebody else? and the money is gone.
if that has a different meaning then I misunderstood this.
If I want to be able to do bank transfer of $1000 then I need to have that money in the bank account. but it's my money in the bank account. it's the same with the channel.
I didn't know the word "cost" is used like that. sorry.
if you buy the incoming channel from the LSP one has to pay and the money is then the prover's money.

2025-11-14 00:12:55 CET

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there are no fee credits... we just try to setup a LND node... :)
https://noauthority.social/@Vox/115540335266435030

2025-11-14 00:10:49 CET

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To simply get a channel with 1m capacity you don't need $1000USD. Such a channel cost much less than $20USD from a LSP.
If you want to put $1000USD in a channel to be able to send $1000USD then you need those, yes.
Maybe @npub1ma0…yclm should say what she wants. because to me in this conversation we talked about a node that should run at home with LND to send/receive boosts.
I might be wrong.

2025-11-14 00:06:14 CET

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sure, but if you follow the conversation it's about setting up a raspberry pi, with umbrel, to run a full self-sovereign node. It also has to run with Bitcoin Core and LND.
Sounded like the PI was bought specifically for that.
That's how I understood it, but I might be wrong.

2025-11-14 00:00:35 CET

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To me talking about withdrawing sats is different to setting up a self-sovereign node.
that's why to me your comment was confusing. Also I was confused why you think a channel costs $1000. Sorry that I don't understand that.
Guess we all try to help here. Great that you help.
I prefer conversations that don't throw f* words around.

2025-11-13 23:50:20 CET

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awesome, can you show @npub1ma0…yclm how to do that?

2025-11-13 23:49:21 CET

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the screenshot here shows ~8k sats on the account.
You think 18+ months is fast? And you can still use any NWC wallet to simply migrate the funds.
Here we talk about setting up a self-sovereign lightning node on a home computer running Umbrel to be in full control and own everything.
to me your comments are a bit confusing and should not be mixed here.

2025-11-13 23:46:01 CET

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people can't open a channel to a node that is not publicly accessible (Umbrel nodes on private networks are not publicly accessible)
yep, another option to manage LND and open a channel is thunderhub or the CLI.

2025-11-13 23:42:43 CET

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your old Alby balance might not be enough (probably below 10k)
and you don't want a subscription where a channel is included or can be post-paid.
I hope it is clear that you have to follow those setup steps and also need a channel if you want to be self-sovereign.
You can also do everything manual...
But I guess I can't help you anymore here then.

2025-11-13 22:45:29 CET

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that's not true. why do you think a channel costs that much?
A channel for incoming capacity costs a few dollars.
If you want to receive keysend payments (for the "old" podcasting spec) then you need an public channel with incoming capacity.

2025-11-13 22:36:15 CET

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pretty please believe me. You have to go through the setup steps.
everything else does not matter and is irrelevant.
first finish the setup steps otherwise nothing will work.

2025-11-13 08:49:19 CET

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great, and you see this “get started” list?
you have to complete those otherwise nothing can work.
is that not clear?
follow those steps please.

2025-11-12 22:56:26 CET

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click in the navigation on "Home" - the wallet is not the first/home page.
what do you see there?
you'll have to finish those steps of the Alby Hub setup.

2025-11-12 22:37:13 CET

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I really want the first page when you open Alby Hub...
You will probably see some setup steps that you have to complete there.
(see on the left side of that screenshot, there it also says that you completed 1 out of 4 steps and you have to finish the setup)

2025-11-12 22:33:39 CET

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great. so it looks different and shows now proper numbers. so that looks good now.
Now show me what you see when you open Alby Hub.

2025-11-12 22:25:34 CET

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so first that LND needs to be fixed. anything else does not work and can not work. (does not make sense to work on the roof of a house when the foundation is not there :))
can you show me the current Lightning app screenshot?

2025-11-12 22:01:24 CET

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let's please go step by step.
so your LND node is now up and that other screen shows proper data?
The Alby Hub app on Umbrel is setup? - what does it say on the "node" page?

2025-11-11 14:59:05 CET

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does it work now for you?

2025-11-11 11:40:37 CET

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thare are many countries that can not be served.
those are due to int. or local regulations or ones who don’t follow int. law.
those should be looked at and complaine about.
I actually stopped commenting on their trolling and their sad and false claims.
if you have questions let us know.
Go choose what works for you. consumers and companies freely choose who to do business with?
as we are in the V4V community here maybe keep V4V in mind ;)

2025-11-09 21:19:16 CET

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I want to hear comments when now people are forced to run raw LND for podcast apps... :)
Sadly there are many countries that companies and projects like ours don't serve. Strangely enough only he thinks he has some right to get a free service and work from others.
And we've been helping grow NWC to support any type of wallet with full interoperability. He could even implement some hive-NWC thing.
podcast apps can easily integrate NWC.
that wining is boring.

2025-11-09 21:08:56 CET

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where is your drop in replacement for a non custodial keysend wallet? please show us something! show the 80%... I really want to see that.
Or is it just easy to blame things on others?
btw. I might be soon in your region wanna meet for a tee and chat some time?

2025-11-09 20:56:21 CET

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jfyi: I guess LNC is dead and only for LND. people would need to run a LND node and LNC complexity is crazy and in many environments impossible to use (due to wasm)
but I am not sure what to make out of that wining that comes every few months anyway...

2025-11-09 14:10:42 CET

@npub1e88…nva7 do you have a hint on how to best get a 12 year old who has fun with garageband and publishes songs on spotify to get his songs up on RSS with v4v?
do you know some child friendly resources?

2025-11-09 12:00:21 CET

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please somebody help him. since years and years he is always bravely building and always has those 80% of something so amazing - the solution to everything - but it is always the other’s people fault that he can’t ship what he was promised to. always something turns against him. now it’s even the whole evil community who does not like keysend anymore.
please help him.

2025-11-08 12:30:28 CET

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yes, that seems to be the issue here. Maybe somebody from Umbrel/LND can help?
but first try to restart it.

2025-11-08 12:29:10 CET

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that looks good. but your "Lightning Node" (LND) does not look right. on that other screenshot you should see some data. Can you restart that?
Alternatively you can use Alby Hub standalone and not with LND.
that's up to you.
But if you want LND then we need to somehow get that running first.

2025-11-07 10:56:52 CET

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did you remove those numbers there, or is it still loading?
how does the bitcoin core app look like? is it synced?
if you want to use Alby Hub with LND you have to make sure Bitcoin Node is synced (share a screenshot) and LND is properly running.

2025-11-07 10:21:32 CET

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need to do what? where should the boost info be put?

2025-11-06 18:30:48 CET

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it runs on fly.

2025-11-06 18:29:52 CET

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a yearly plan comes with a channel with incoming liquidity.

2025-11-06 09:15:12 CET

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this is how it looks on Umbrel normally:
https://demos.getalby.com/demo/cmhmn7zwk09bsdqxaxsuc4ape
and if you tell me your alby account I make sure you get a free channel. That should get you started in minutes.
if Grok tells you other things like to sync bitcoin core and use LND etc. then you'll have to get support for those in those communities.

2025-11-05 15:07:35 CET

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yes, it's great. but you get my point, don't you?

2025-11-05 14:54:50 CET

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and I try to help, but there is hardly any information of what's her problem and just screams how bad everything is.
I feel like I get trolled here.

2025-11-05 14:49:16 CET

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It generally is easy. of course being self-sovereign requires some knowledge and interest and with that power comes responsibility.
You can't try to live off-grid but then complain to others that no power is provided when you want it... if you understand what I mean.
And as mentioned you try to do strange things there.
and I don't get why you prefer some AI answers over letting us help you?
You ask AI but then come here to scream "NIGHTMARE" ... 🤷‍♂️

2025-11-05 14:42:47 CET

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I don't know what you mean with "at the top". Where at the top? which cards?
but it sounds like you have Umbrel running on that raspberry pi? and you installed Alby Hub already through the Umbrel app store?

2025-11-05 14:40:58 CET

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Self hosting is great, but maybe she should just use Alby Hub and not LND and all the things?
and I guess it's clear if you insist on being self-sovereign and self-host then you also have to take responsibility.
Otherwise it's like insisting to live off-grid and then complain that nobody provides power when the solar panel goes down.
You can't have both either be self-sovereign or make others responsible for you.

2025-11-04 22:26:04 CET

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I know.
I just think some sub wallet would be best and easiest in this case and hope the podcast community could do that.
regulatory hurdles make things really hard if not self-hosted.

2025-11-04 22:16:29 CET

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how about you setup a “sub wallet”?
is there no podcaster who wants to helpout another podcaster?!

2025-11-04 22:13:20 CET

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no I sure can’t! I can’t access sats of some account and just send them to some random lightning address.
our model did not change and alby is the best solution for the podcasters. if some other system is better, just use that…
I don’t recommend starting with the most complex setup ever that does not make sense when one does not want to deal with it…
sounds like the quest here is to make it impossible (grok can’t setup LND on a pi in a place with powercuts…)

2025-11-04 22:01:18 CET

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where does it say running?
and you use umbrel on your Pi?
I don’t want to waste your and my time… are you really interested in doing this on some raspberry pi?
I don’t think you installed Umbrel “on your computer” - how? where?

2025-11-04 20:39:12 CET

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(especially in countries with problematic infrastructure you will need to maintain such a setup a bit and need to want to do that)

2025-11-04 20:33:13 CET

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if you want LND in your pi:
1) is LND installed and running and synced?
normally you do that on the command line with lncli I guess. - how did you install LND?
2) if synced. then we go to alby hub.
how did you install Alby Hub on that raspberry pi?
(and again, I doubt you will be happy with a pi+lnd+albyhub at home setup.
maybe ask here if somebody has a “sub wallet” on their node for you.)

2025-11-04 20:19:45 CET

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sounds to me like you try to do the most complicated setup with things that are not needed (like syncing the chain), following some AI answers(which are probably problematic if not reviewed/understood) and all that even though you hate tech. :)
are you sure you want to do that?
I am sure you’ll continue to have problems with LND and a raspberry pi.
just Alby Hub would be easier…🙈
but we can go step by step if you want.

2025-11-04 00:11:11 CET

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simply in the docker file as env variables.
or you can configure it during setup in the UI (advanced options)

2025-11-03 22:56:12 CET

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yes, any LND node that you can connect to with gRPC should work.

2025-11-03 22:55:37 CET

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I totally do. that was a general comment...I wish it would be all easier... or we would have a protocol that supports easier solutions.

2025-11-03 22:08:22 CET

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I know it's all complicated...
and we as a community say this now for so long and don't have good solutions?

2025-11-03 22:03:16 CET

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In the early days Alby ran a node for you, but now you have to own your own (just as you own the RSS feed for example)
We do our best to make it easy and usable.
If you don't like it you should use something else.

2025-11-03 22:03:05 CET

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@npub1ma0…yclm it seems you have already played with the Alby Hub wallet some months ago. You still have to update your feed to use your node in the value tag.
To receive lightning payments your node has to be online. Thus it is not practical to use a desktop PC. You can use any server (cloud or home). Alby also offers hosting.

2025-11-03 19:09:10 CET

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I (and everyone at support) would be happy to help if there is a real question.
assuming it's an inactive account that did ignore everything for 1-2 years and now might need to do setup.
but I understand it's more fun to wish other people get skinned alive... :)

2025-11-03 10:16:14 CET

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I sure could help if @npub1ma0…yclm has a proper question...
I can't help by getting skinned alive or such.
I know - and you know - nothing gets stolen and a "timely manner" related to the hub was a timeframe of 18+ months or so...

2025-10-02 17:24:34 CEST

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there are two RGBs now. be careful.

2025-08-26 23:42:08 CEST

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maybe create an issue there?

2025-08-26 16:50:48 CEST

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let me know how it goes or what you miss

2025-08-26 16:23:46 CEST

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It’s no longer maintained.
doing it with NWC now is lightyears easier now.
there seems to be this NWC library:
https://github.com/supertestnet/python_nwc
or maybe even this is helpful:
https://github.com/getAlby/simple-boost
with NWC this works perfectly with a private node.

2025-08-22 11:51:58 CEST

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is this OK? or do you or some users need help?

2025-08-18 17:08:35 CEST

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which users are those?
We had actively contacted and worked with users to help them with the new setup who still had received sats on the old node.
The setup works just as before for all users who updated.
what do you mean by enter an “lnurl”?

2025-07-27 17:23:30 CEST

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as you say it’s complex with many external parties involved.
but yes, support should have said try to reconnect with a restart.

2025-07-27 16:51:53 CEST

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megalith says if self-hosted nodes do not reconnect you must restart.
it was down dor maybe 30ish minutes afaik.