Tagging #[2] and #[3] only for visibility. Not at all saying my issue is an important use of your time 🙂
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Hey there, your relay is designed to work over Tor for now. You need to go into your Properties page and copy/past the `ws://
.onion` URL and use that instead of the .local URL you are trying to use now. What device are you using? You will need to ensure you are properly running Tor on that device for this to work. Instructions below:https://docs.start9.com/latest/user-manual/connecting/connecting-tor/index
If this is on Android, I'm not sure we have found a client yet that actually succeeds in adding your own relay. Works great on iris.to for web as well as Damus for iOS, not sure about Amathyst.
Thanks for the reply!
Interesting, the .local address is working on snort.social from my laptop. I see it connect and events published successfully
On mobile, where it isn't working, I'm running amethyst. Neither the .local or .onion (running amethyst through orbot) seem to work
Humm Amethyst needs orbit to go into Tor. That part works, correct?
Then the next step would be to try to see if the phone has access to your nonTor address. I am not sure if there is a way to test it.
amethyst does seem to work (albeit slower, obviously) over tor using orbot. Just not when trying to connect to my relay's .onion address.
When not using tor, I can access the .local address from my phone's web browser and see the "Please use a Nostr client to connect" message (so DNS/network isn't an issue). But when I try to use the .local address in amethyst it doesn't connect.
When you say ".local address", are you talking about the websocket URL from Properties, except with "wss" instead of "ws" and ".local" instead of ".onion"?
Ah ok I see where I was getting tripped up...
I was grabbing the URLs from interfaces, not properties. Copying the URL from properties, importantly with the "ws://" rather than "wss://", the .onion address does in fact work with amethyst through orbot.
Sorry for the confusion gang. Didn't realize wss:// vs ws:// was a thing 🤦♂️
And just to close the loop. The .local address also works with "ws://" if people don't want to use tor and are on the same network. Rad
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