Same as how is getalby relay reachable to the outside world.
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While you host it on your personal computer at home?
We've seen quite some frustration from users with similar processes (static IP or dynamic DNS configuration, open ports in firewall, router configuration, etc).
Why would you want to host the relay locally?
Meanwhile is nice to have a decoy LN address like @ getalby.com, sometimes I want also to use private domains for private stuff.
I do not want to depend on Alby relays, LN address domain and any connection with Alby.
I want to restrict the access with nwc to certain pubkeys and accounts, through my own relay.
Like I can do with LNbits + nwc extension, on my own hardware, own domain.
Okay, got it. You can configure Alby Hub to use any relay you like:
https://github.com/getAlby/hub?tab=readme-ov-file#optional-configuration-parameters
Linking your Alby account (which gives you an LN address & other features) is also completely optional.
I don't think we'll ship a relay as part of Alby Hub any time soon though.
I attempted to change the relay on my Start9 server, but got lost looking for the .env file (I am addmittedly a Linux/CLI novice). Would it be possible to have these kinds of options in the configuration section on the OS UI?
This is just a question. Alby Hub is an amazing product that is free to use and I don't want to come off as ungrateful.
Not exactly sure how the environment configuration works on Start9, probably they would need to allow you to change it in the Start9 configuration UI.
We currently don't have plans to allow configuration in the UI (we don't yet support connecting to multiple relays, so that would render all existing connections unusable, etc).