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Setup suggestions for my personal lightning node

1015 sats \ 24 comments \ @CheezeGrater 16 Dec lightning

Hello fellow stackers!

I come bearing a request. I am setting up a lightning node for personal use, the primary need is being able to custody my own hot-ish wallet sats and access them from my phone.

What channel setup and clients would you suggest for this? I'm looking for as low a hassle setup as is feasible, so I'm going with umbrel for the server.

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0 replies \ @CheezeGrater OP 17 Dec

The setup I am going to try:

Umbrel on a mini PC Alby Hub + Alby Go Zues

1288 sats \ 5 replies \ @Wumbo 16 Dec

Wumbo's personal advice:

Start with a full PC. Don't go the raspberry Pi route. You can find a used mini pc on amazon for $200. Which is faster than raspberry pi
Start9 OS is good option for the OS. Nothing wrong with umbrel but supports limited chip sets.
When in doubt open a few large channels vs many small channels.
When vetting who to open channel to, look at Average Age Channel and recent closed channels of nodes that you are thinking of connecting to. You want avg age to be large (they keep channels open for a while). For recent closed channels make sure there are not to many force closes. You can use amboss.space as a resource.

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 16 Dec

Nothing wrong with umbrel but supports limited chip sets.

You referring to Apple? Curious if that's what you are talking about. I run both Umbrel and StartOS on 1 liter PCs.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Wumbo 16 Dec

I thought umbrel only supported Arm processor, however I can not find any links to back this up. Looks like it will work with x86 now.

Years ago I was trying to install umbrel on a x86 machine and several troulbeshooting hours later found a web link saying it is only ARM.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 17 Dec

Yeah they have supported x86 for a while now. Over a year at least.

48 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo 17 Dec

"Back in my day", I am just an old fart.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @CheezeGrater OP 16 Dec

Thanks! I have a mini PC with umbrel up and running

162 sats \ 0 replies \ @leo 16 Dec

Get an old laptop or desktop computer, with a new SSD
Install Ubuntu on it
Run Bitcoind and Litd (which includes LND). This is a handy guide: https://www.nodeacademy.org/
Start with one or two channels, set your routing fees high and regularly use the node
Connect to it from Zeus on your phone via LNC

1039 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 16 Dec

Before you start I would suggest you to read these guides:

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 16 Dec

You will not regret reading these guides.

1100 sats \ 1 reply \ @purpurato 16 Dec

When you get a Zeus or Blixt wallet you already have a node, you don't actually need to open a public one unless you want to act as a routing node. By opening channels to an LSP you can use their wrapped invoices and have an extra layer of privacy and keep your sats in self custody without opening another node.

That's my 2 sats

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @purpurato 23h

Thanks for that reward, please let us know what you did in the end and what would be your advice for that question in the future.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @cleaningup12 16 Dec

I'd go with @purpurato on the zeus native all in one node.

I completely ****** my channels yesterday and zeus automatically got all my sats back onchain

Also read @DarthCoin guides.....like I should have 🤦

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 16 Dec

blixtwallet or zeus

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StackerSports 16 Dec

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @rizful_com 16 Dec

https://docs.megalithic.me/set-up-a-lightning-node/choosing-hardware

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 16 Dec

I have a basic RasPi 4 running Umbrel and a LND node, plus AlbyHub. Using Alby Go on my phone.

But I'm willing to bet you'd be better off reading @DarthCoin 's write ups.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 21h

My setup:

Main: Phoenixd + Alby Hub + Alby Go

Backup: Lightning.pub + Shockwallet (3 minutes setup)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 17 Dec

the primary need is being able to custody my own hot-ish wallet sats and access them from my phone.

I would simply use Zeus in this situation.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlackDog 17 Dec

Few days back, I re-setup by full node. I went form RPi 4 + Umbrel to ASUS NUC (32GB, 2TB). I tried Start9 but went back to Umbrel. My concern is, that Start9 is a bit dead (looking into Git statistics). I want something with development. So far the node works pretty well. The RPi was sometime lagging.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Skipper 16 Dec

Zeus works great and has good UI/UX, that's what i use daily. You don't have to be online 24/7. You can be always online, by leave it running in the background but that will consume a lot of battery.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 16 Dec

I am setting up a lightning node for personal use, the primary need is being able to custody my own hot-ish wallet sats and access them from my phone.

One note, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong. StartOS one real downside is remote access from what I have seen. Umbrel makes it VERY easy to set up Tailscale and remotely access your node via VPN using the Zeus wallet app.

I mention this because you point out using your phone and I'm still trying to figure out a good mobile access besides Tor for StartOS.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 16 Dec

I think a channel with Phoenix or ASINQ nodes would be a good idea.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @8ce907e71b 16 Dec outlawed

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