After using Umbrel, Citadel, and Start9, I am now back to mynodeBTC. And incredibly relieved to find that I can use the command line again!
Docker turns Unix into an API-only hellhole of non-automation and pointy-clicking.
Mynode does it the right way. I can finally go back to scripting my node activities again - yeah!
Why not Raspiblitz?
How about RaspiBlitz? That's also non-docker, and real FOSS
Decent solution, but I'm going the way of the ThinkPads now, and it seems like raspiblitz is ARM only, right?
The name is biased, but the #Raspiblitz scripts run on anything Debian compatible on aarch64 and amd64 including Thinkpads:
https://github.com/raspiblitz/raspiblitz/tree/dev/alternative.platforms
you can find prebuilt images too.
If would prefer more manual work see: https://v2.minibolt.info/ (built from the Raspibolt guide)
Oh, that's good to know, thanks. I'll try again when I'm back 🫡
Ehh, the docker compose solution wasn't that bad vs. mynode IMO. There wasn't much I couldn't do with it, escept a few really small docker-compose tweaks 🤷♂️
That said, if those aren't advanced enough...nix-bitcoin blows them all out of the water 😎
*without a few, not except a few
Shill me your nix-bitcoin 0-100 installer and I'll be on it in no time. @n1ckler got me interested a while ago, but getting off zero seemed hard at the time and I never got around to it.
Problem with the dockers is I can't do stuff like
[[ grep '$pattern' bitcoind.log ]] && bitcoin-cli … blabla | lncli … thisandthat …
I.e. scripting across services. Which used to be the whole point of Unix, of which Linux is a rather tumor-esque variant.
You can run any command in any container from the host; you can definitely pipe bitcoin-cli output to lncli. If you need to actually change the images (nit just the compose files), then it's a bit much.
For cross service scripting, nix is top tier IMO, but you're right, without any experience with the nix language, it's a little bit of a learning curve.
Just saying stuff like this sucks: Extra output to stdout makes scripting cumbersome to impossible, super long command as replacement suggestion, and that command doesn't even work. And if it did, it probably wouldn't do transparent I/O redirection.
umbrel@umbrel:~ $ bitcoin-cli --version 2 >/dev/null
*** Deprecation notice ***
In a future version of Umbrel, 'bitcoin-cli' will be removed.
Please instead use:
./scripts/app compose bitcoin exec bitcoind bitcoin-cli
[output of --version deleted for clarity]
umbrel@umbrel:~ $ ./scripts/app compose bitcoin exec bitcoind bitcoin-cli --version
-bash: ./scripts/app: No such file or directory
