Well i guess i screwed something up, dammit. I had to switch back over to legacy alby. I will revisit this later. Thanks all of you for helping me test.
Discussion
What issues have you been seeing? And what Alby Hub setup are you using? Is it self-hosted?
I opted for self hosted, on my laptop. I was able to open a channel, but i could not seem to do zaps properly. Maybe a connection issue with node and my lightning address? Although it appeared that it connected. I'm not super techy, so probably just error on my part.
I've done the same thing: self-hosted on my laptop.
The thing is, a Lightning node has to be on to send and receive zaps. Laptops aren't the best for that because they're designed to be easily shut off and carried around.
My solution is to have the Alby Hub on my laptop as my personal "bank," and use a separate wallet (Minibits, in my case), to send and receive zaps on Nostr.
So I can refill my Minibits wallet from the Alby Hub, then turn off the hub. Or vice versa I can send sats to the hub, then turn it back off. So most of my sats are in the hub and self-custodied, but I'm not using it as my "daily driver."
All that being said, to get the hub working with Nostr zaps, you'd have to set it up with Nostr Wallet Connect. Without NWC, it should be able to receive sats over your Alby address as long as the hub has a channel open. However, I think you'd have to manually approve zaps on the hub, unless you connect the app from which you're sending zaps with NWC. And then it would work as long as you laptop is online.
I'm still learning this stuff myself, but that's what I've gleaned so far. Happy to chat about it more, if it will help!
Wow, thats alot of good info, thank you. I'm starting to think it would just be much less complicated to switch to minibits or similar, and not use alby. I gave it a shot because the email they sent me said that custodial alby wallets would be deprecated eventually. Could i still do one tap zaps with minibits?
Yeah, if you connect Minibits to your Nostr apps with NWC, you can do one-tap zaps.
I like how Alby Hub allows for self-custody, but currently it's not the best option for people to use as a daily driver unless they have home server setups or feel like paying for hosting.
Thank you, it does seem like alot of work just to use alby. I guess i just got comfortable with alby, and thats all i've used for nostr. I think i'll be looking into minibits. Thanks again.