How to set a name and color for the Umbrel node
People running Umbrel the first time a quite happy being part of the lightning network. But soon you recognize due website like 1ML.COM that other nodes have names and not a combination of numbers and letters. So the question rises how to give my own node a name and a color? This quick tutorial is focused on this topic.
- First of all you need to connect to the umbrel node. The user is umbrel the password is the same as for the weblogin.
Linux:
ssh umbrel@<internal ip/external ip/tor-name>
If Umbrel runs on a raspi, the directory structure looks like this:
umbrel@umbrel:~ $ ls
umbrel
umbrel@umbrel:~ $ cd umbrel/
umbrel@umbrel:~/umbrel $ ls
LICENSE.md README.md SECURITY.md app-data apps bin bitcoin db docker-compose.yml electrs events info.json karen lnd logs nginx scripts statuses templates tor
umbrel@umbrel:~/umbrel $ id
uid=1000(umbrel) gid=1000(umbrel) groups=1000(umbrel),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),60(games),100(users),105(input),109(netdev),996(docker),997(gpio),998(i2c),999(spi)
- Windows ** For Windows its best to use Putty.
After login, and moving to the umbrel directory with the command cd umbrel (see shell snippet above), you can open the lightning daemon configuration file with nano like this.
umbrel@umbrel:~/umbrel $ nano lnd/lnd.conf
Right at the beginning of the file you will find [Application Options], as an example:
[Application Options] alias=MyNodeName color=#000000 listen=0.0.0.0:9735 rpclisten=0.0.0.0:10009 restlisten=0.0.0.0:8080 maxpendingchannels=3 minchansize=100000 accept-keysend=true tlsextraip=10.21.21.9 tlsextradomain=domain.local tlsautorefresh=1 tlsdisableautofill=1
If you dont have a name and color yet the lines alias (line 2) and color (line 3) simply add them. It is normal that they do not exist by default. For the color you can choose anything in between of #000000-#FFFFFF a colortable comes in quite handy. Please note that the choosen color must start with a sharp (#).
For saving the file press CTRL+X, then Y and Enter/Carriage Return, so the file is saved under lnd/lnd.conf.Restart lnd You have two options here, restarting via the webinterface or do it on the commandline. I will only describe the later one, as i assume you already know the webinterface good enough.
For restarting (not rebooting) Umbrel you can use the following commands in the shell:
umbrel@umbrel:~ $ sudo scripts/stop;
umbrel@umbrel:~ $ sudo scripts/start;
- Check if everything worked out
As soon as the restart is done, you can verify that everything works by analysing the output of docker.
docker ps|grep lnd
If everything is alright the lnd container runs normally. If it is constantly restarting, something in the lnd/lnd.conf file is wrong and you need to check your changes. And jumpt to point three (3) above.
3169d1afee7c lncm/lnd:v0.12.1 "/usr/local/bin/lnd" About a minute ago Restarting (1) 10 seconds ago lnd
Attention the id (field one) will be different at your console.
The End
I hope this tutorial was helpful for someone :)
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