How do I connect Damus to my AlbyHub on my Umbrel (reachable via Tailscale).

When I select Damus on the AlbyHub apps store and get that QR code and copy the pairing secret and the paste that into Damus, I see a connected wallet but the address is wss://relay.getalby.com or something and zapping doesn't work.

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That sounds fine. Who did you zap? Can you pay invoices ok directly from Alby Hub? Do you see payments in Alby Hub after zapping?

Does the wallet load fine on your Alby dashboard? Use Nostr Wallet Connect from there, rather than from your node.

Go to https://getalby.com/connections while logged into your Alby account and select "NWC Connections" and add a new connection for Damus. Paste that connection string to Damus and Zap away.

Yea I had done all that. Still doesn't work.

Here's a thing I don't understand... I use Primal and ai can zap there and receive, it seems, Primal is its own wallet as well.

Now when I also use Damus and connect via Alby to my own LN node... when someone zaps me, how does Nostr know where the sats should go? Into my Primal wallet or into my Alby wallet??

Zaps will go to whatever wallet is listed as your lightning address on your profile. Right now that appears to be your Alby wallet.

So I just received a zap from Moritz. Then I tried to use the "Send" function in my Alby dashboard. Tried to send 42 sats and it says "insufficient funds". I have 121 sats in my Alby wallet right now.

What's your current balance and does the Alby Hub node page say something about the channel reserve in that channels list?

channel looks like this, current balance is 1,205 sats. Just tried to zap you, still doesn't work.

nostr:npub1xv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqmclk3x ohh now I see "0 sats" for spending in that channel. Is this because I need to fill up the reserve, first?

yes, sadly that's the issue I think. Olympus there requires that reserve.

Balances in lightning are still hard to get right. Drop some more sats and then try again.

Thanks for the help! Maybe the error message in Alby could be more helpful? "Insufficient Balance" is of course right, but if the wallet can detect that it's actually insufficient reserves, it could have pointed me towards the proper solution right away.

time to try out the SEPA transfer in Alby and load up some corn... :)

yeah, let me know how your experience with that is anything we should improve

Awesome! SEPA transfer is still pending, but I found 500k sats lying around in an ages old Bluewallet, moved them into Zeus, opened another channel and now I am able to zap in Damus.

This is the moment where Lightning has clicked for me.