Connect Electrum to 3rd Party Node?

[MaxDruthers]

I’m running a Bitcoin node through an Avado device. I’d like to connect the node to an Electrum wallet. The only support I could get was to “point it to your bitcoin node's RPC endpoint“. Is there any resource available for a less-than-technical but willing to learn person?

[ranochigo]

Electrum runs its own proprietary server and you'll need to install their software to be able to use it. I would recommend you to install and configure your own Electrum Personal Server [1] and use it from there.

If not, there's an alternative[2]. It connects directly to your Bitcoin Core RPC but it hasn't been tested extensively yet.

[1] https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server
[2] https://github.com/shesek/bwt

[pooya87]

Electrum runs its own proprietary server

(nitpicking) as far as i know the term "proprietary" is used for "non-free software, or closed-source software" whereas Electrum and its Electrum node/server implementations are all 100% open source and free to use.

[ABCbits]

I would recommend you to install and configure your own Electrum Personal Server [1] and use it from there.

You also can use ElectrumX (https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx), which is more popular option to create Electrum server.
Someone also make ElectrumX installer (https://github.com/bauerj/electrumx-installer) to simplify things, but you still need to change few configuration.