im running umbrel on a rpi currently. I have also used raspiblitz and enjoy interfacing with the terminal, but I am currently attempting to make a decent node and figured ill use the gui tools that have been created
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I think Ill check umbrel out on another rpi I have (I was using a rpi5 for myNOde).
I was pretty newbie first playing around with settings originally with myNode. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with connections that originally were opened with low channel sats? (~95k). Im not entirely sure how to 'close them out' to reestablish with a larger balance.
I am moving away from RPI asap onto better HW, but to bootstrap and learn its good I think. In thunderhub (my personal interface choice), go to channels and click the "x" on the channel you want to close. I would advise against doing a force close if at all possible.
One of the reasons I was using RPI5s for the idea that they could be constantly running and access over LAN for monitoring and use.
In terms of closing channels, on myNode the user has Open Channels and their associated balances.
So you could have one peer with multiple channels open.
For example
1ML.com Local Balance 100k
1ML.com Local Balance 100k
1ML.com Local Balance 300k
But the options via actions is just View Info, View Remote Fee, Update Fee, Circular Re-balance, and Loop out.
If I actually got to peers there is an option to 'disconnect' but Im not sure what that would do to the Local balance.
rpi and other sbc are not that reliable in the long term. short term is great but they tend to fail in the end... the local balance refers to the liquidity beeing on your side of the channel if you close them you get them back on chain in your wallet associated with the LN client