I've got plenty of inbound liquidity, still can't receive any payments. No routes. How fix? #lightning #asknostr
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You only have 2 channels. It’s likely the person you’re trying to receive from doesn’t have a path to your node.
More channels. Especially to larger, well connected nodes.
I can't afford to keep opening channels... This is what I thought the case might be but was hoping lightning routing was better. This network is really not built for plebs AT ALL. About to call it quits for the 2nd time because I just don't have the time or liquidity to be managing a lightning node.
Why didn’t you open a channel to the Zeus LSP node?
Was going to open to Olympus to be well connected but didn't want another 1 million sat channel. (Minimum) does their LSP node have a min channel size? Got that pubkey handy?
They have no minimum for private/non-routing channels
I run a lightning node at home with a dozen channels, but I only have one channel on my phone, with the Zeus LSP.
There are already so many potential problems you can run into when using a phone node, so I like to keep it simple for channels and make sure I have a peer who is dedicated to routing and having good uptime.
You should be able to open a channel with them right in the app, it’s a button called “connect to LSP”. I’ll also give you their pubkey here.
Mobile, self-custodial lightning where you run all the backend locally on your device is really cool, but it’s still a bit of a complicated set up at the current time. I can give you some tips and help you troubleshooting the channels you currently have, but my personal recommendation is to peer with a dedicated routing node.
Again, I think mobile lightning is incredibly cool. But especially if you’re already running a full, dedicated node somewhere else, 1 channel should be all you need to cover on the go payments. Think of it as a mobile lightning checking account which you could sweep to your main node whenever necessary.
nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 pubkey: 031b301307574bbe9b9ac7b79cbe1700e31e544513eae0b5d7497483083f99e581 
One correction: the easiest way is to just go to the channels tab, click the “Plus” sign at the top to add a new channel, and then use the big “open to Olympus” button. It will automatically fill in their node information for you🫡 
If you just opened these channels you may need to wait a day or two for gossip about your node to propagate through the network. Also if these are private channels you might need to include routing hints for others to find you.
Good points but having only 2 channels is probably the issue here
I got a payment through to your LN address nostr:npub1zmc6qyqdfnllhnzzxr5wpepfpnzcf8q6m3jdveflmgruqvd3qa9sjv7f60. Is that this node in the screenshot?
No it's a route redirect through cloudflare at my domain. It's actually Alby.
Gimme an invoice for your node
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I can find a route to you but the payment fails. Let me check logs and see what's going on
I’d be interested to know what they say!
Worked for me I just paid the invoice it just took a bit of time to go through
I feared this was the case...
nostr:npub1zmc6qyqdfnllhnzzxr5wpepfpnzcf8q6m3jdveflmgruqvd3qa9sjv7f60 just make sure you have “announce channel on” too https://video.nostr.build/0f7c9a4b0a1d7f568599e23807d922da84a44e50683844414c50392a3c78d632.mp4
