On Umbrel Alby Hub just used your LND with all the channels and everything.
If you do an advances setup and chose differently you get a new node. But that’s not the default, as this would not make sense as you mention
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I did the standard setup and none of my channels were there.
wanna send some screenshot and details?
Umbrel sets the env variables of LND and if those are there LND is used.
My understanding that albyhub was just another interface for the lightning node like thunderhub or RTL. I paid 32k sats for that channel from megalith.
If you want you can get a channel from the integrated LSPs, yes.
People use it as a easy channel opening alternative to thunderhub.
So albyhub is not an i terface?
It’s built around NWC and the idea on how to connect apps (like nostr clients) to the node and to make lightning integration possible.
But its pretty much on my umbrel buts it is its own separate lightning node. It doesnt interact anyway with my umbrel lightning node.
then you somehow have configured to use the embedded node (based on LDK)