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I am running Electrum on a Amazon Web Service server. I took the MPK from the desktop Electrum wallet and used it to create the Electrum wallet on the AWS server.

I tested it thoroughly and find it fantastic but there is one problem. At the moment my desktop Electrum wallet shows only the BTC balance for addresses generated from it. The AWS Electrum wallet shows the correct BTC balance which includes addresses generated from the desktop and server clients.

What is the best manner to ensure the desktop client always shows the ALL correct addresses and balances that were generated from itself and the server using "addrequest --force"

Can anyone help point me in the right direction please

1. Check the server you're connecting to has the right number of blocks.
2. It should do it automatically (syncing) what OS version are you using)?
3. If you get really stuck, make a new wallet and recover it from the MPK.

Also, have you considered updating to using a seed as some stuff for the mpk might be slightly outdated/handled differently.

Thank you jackg but the server is doing everything correctly and showing the correct balance (all addresses from the desktop and server --force including all balances).

The desktop wallet is showing only the addresses and balances associated with the desktop client so the issue is probably not with the server.

How do I get the desktop client to show balances and addresses generated by the server? I already reloaded the desktop client using the seed but it is still the same

Increase the gap limit. See 1c here: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/frequently-asked-questions/#why-does-restoring-my-wallet-from-seed-lead-to-a-different-wallet

Great, I increased it and ALL previous addresses with ALL associated funds showed up. Everything is perfect now, the server and desktop clients show the same information.

Thanks Abdussamad, nice handy information in the link you provided :)

Can I still send payments using the "sendto" command from the online server?

I thought using MPK to have read only addresses was supposed to stop that in case the server got hacked.

If you use the MPK to recover your wallet in electrum you can't use the "sendto" command in a console because you are using a watch only wallet.

Unless if you recover your wallet with seeds (not watch-only wallet)

take note it's not really "sendto" command in the console command list in "help()" it should be "payto"

Yes sorry it is "payto" thank you for correcting. I made a test payment in Putty using the "payto" command and ended up with the following:

"complete": false,
"final": true,

The payment was not made to a different desktop wallet therefore the watch-only functionality of a server wallet is working great. I suppose "complete" means "transation completed" and in my case the watch-only wallet shows "false" whereas on a seeded wallet would show "true" and would send the payment.

The more I test and play with Electrum, the more I understand it and think it is awesome. Thanks

"complete" is more related to whether the transaction has been "fully signed" and can be successfully broadcast.

In this instance, complete is "false" as the transaction is unsigned and cannot be broadcast (it will be rejected by the network).

Once the transaction is signed with the correct private key(s), it will show as complete = "true"

I got it, thanks. In my case it is working great :)