Got the tallycoin part setup but I think I need to put Bitcoin in the wallet and then open some channels first before I can us it?
Discussion
You need to have inbound liquidity, yes. Opening channels gives you outbound liquidity, so you’ll need to send some sats out of the channel to get inbound liquidity, or have/pay someone with a routing node to open a channel with you.
Is this your first time setting up a Lightning node?
Yes I never set it up before and was just using the Bitcoin node.
You can buy inbound liquidity from a site like https://amboss.space/magma
For example you could buy a 1M sat channel (for a small fee) and someone will open a channel to your node, providing you with inbound liquidity.
Or if you know anyone with a node that has public channels you can have them open a channel to you.