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Manual mode

Background

These plugins require the following C-Lightning options to be specified either as command line flag or in the config file:

gid=123
onion-tool-path=~/src/lightning/devtools/onion
disable-plugin=bcli
sauron-api-endpoint=https://blockstream.info/testnet/api"

An example testnet config file might therefore look like this:

network=testnet
daemon
log-level=debug
log-file=/tmp/l1-testnet/log
rescan=5

# lnproxy config
onion-tool-path=~/src/lightning/devtools/onion

# sauron config
disable-plugin=bcli
sauron-api-endpoint=https://blockstream.info/testnet/api

You can specify your config file by placing it in a folder, and starting lightning using:

lightningd/lightningd --lightning-dir=path/to/config/directory/

When you start lightning, new commands added by the plugins will be displayed.

Startup

First, lets setup an alias for cli/lightning-cli:

# from within the lightning directory:
export lcli="$(PWD)/cli/lightning-cli"

we start the lightning node:

lightningd/lightningd  --lightning-dir=/path/to/config_dir

To watch the plugin logs (via C-Lightning logger) you can run:

tail -f /path/to/config_dir/log

Next we need to add the node gid:pubkey pair of any node we will connect to into the plugin router, e.g.:

lcli add-node <remote_pubkey> <remote_host:remote_port> <listening_port>

This will echo a listening TCP port for the added node. If you want to accept an incoming connection from this node, you should direct it to this port.

To make an outbound connection, you can use the proxy-connect command. This will internally pass the connection through lnproxy and then make the onward connection to the specified tcp_port:

lcli proxy-connect <remote_pubkey>

You should see returned 'ID' field indicating connection is complete. Next, we can try to open some channels:

lcli fundchannel <remote_pubkey> <amount> <feerate> false

If successful, you will see the channel open transaction ID. We need to wait for channel_update to be exchanged for the channel before we can make a payment.