mynode rasp pi 4 builds and comparisons

[BlackHatCoiner]

it is synching bitcoin core first.

It isn't syncing Bitcoin Core, from your screenshots and my QuickSync's conclusion at least. It's just syncing the block chain. You have to connect the software (which is Bitcoin Core) manually with your raspberry pi's local ip which is pretty much unknown judging by the UI. Do you know how I can find it out?

once the core synchs the software pops this screen

Thanks. So far, have you tried anything despite LN?

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[philipma1957]

it is synching bitcoin core first.

It isn't syncing Bitcoin Core, from your screenshots and my QuickSync's conclusion at least. It's just syncing the block chain. You have to connect the software (which is Bitcoin Core) manually with your raspberry pi's local ip which is pretty much unknown judging by the UI. Do you know how I can find it out?

once the core synchs the software pops this screen

Thanks. So far, have you tried anything despite LN?

I use advanced ip scanner


https://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com/


it should detect it.

If you plug in the correct ip the sign in screen asking for password will pop up. same as if you use  mynode local

[BlackHatCoiner]

@philipma1957, Is it able to load you addresses from the mempool viewer? To me it generally goes extremely slow, but addresses aren't loading at all. Once I try to load one it returns me:

Error loading address data.
Error: Connection to server lost, please retry

And as long as I retry, it never works properly.


As for this:

Have you understood how we run it? I mean, the green color means that it's running, the yellow that it's waiting, but the grey? That it's offline? I'm scratching my head (and googling), but I haven't found how so far.

[philipma1957]

@philipma1957, Is it able to load you addresses from the mempool viewer? To me it generally goes extremely slow, but addresses aren't loading at all. Once I try to load one it returns me:

Error loading address data.
Error: Connection to server lost, please retry

And as long as I retry, it never works properly.


As for this:

Have you understood how we run it? I mean, the green color means that it's running, the yellow that it's waiting, but the grey? That it's offline? I'm scratching my head (and googling), but I haven't found how so far.

at the moment I have all nodes offline. I am doing a real world project.

A install of a 8 by 14 shed.

[Rath_]

• What's the safe way to turn it off? Do I just hold the power button until it's shut down? What could happen on a power outage?

You can hold the power button for 3 seconds. Everything should shut down gracefully; give it some time before unplugging the power cable. If the power goes out, your Bitcoin Core database might get corrupted at worst. Reindexing is a CPU and I/O intensive task so it might take a long time on the Pi.

• Does it store anything else despite the block chain? For example, for the electrum server. My external SSD is 1TB and I want to know that it is enough.

The blockchain data and ElectrumX database should be the most storage intensive. At the time of writing this post, the former weighs ~423 GB (with txindex and blockfilterindex on) and the latter ~68 GB. LND and other services use barely any storage.

[BlackHatCoiner]

Does LND work for you? I keep getting that it scans something and then it fails.

It is nice that it has all these packages installed, but I confess that it's slow as f*ck. Apart from the full node and the electrum server, there's no reason to run anything else. The mempool viewer fails to load the balances of the addresses and goes extremely slow for everything else. I synced the Electrum server and it then allowed me to install the rpc explorer which is even slower.

I also got a weird message yesterday saying that I'm running out of storage. It it warned me that 96% of the space is written (when Electrum was syncing on 70%) and that I should shut down QuickSync to free some space. I imperatively did it, but don't know if I keep the whole chain anymore.

Yeah, I'm a little disenchanted after all. 

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When I do the dell micro build  with a vm I will post results.

OK, aren't you done now ?

[philipma1957]

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When I do the dell micro build  with a vm I will post results.

OK, aren't you done now ?

I never did it.

My thought on LN is to not be involved at doing it for this time.

I have too much on my plate mining and running that business and also caring for my bro-in-law Frank as he is suffering from vascular dementia.
I spend far too much time on the farm and him to be able to do the testing and development I wanted to do with this.
Life sometimes does this to all of us. It simply makes a shift in the plans the only way to go.

[estenity]

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When I do the dell micro build  with a vm I will post results.

OK, aren't you done now ?

I never did it.

My thought on LN is to not be involved at doing it for this time.

I have too much on my plate mining and running that business and also caring for my bro-in-law Frank as he is suffering from vascular dementia.
I spend far too much time on the farm and him to be able to do the testing and development I wanted to do with this.
Life sometimes does this to all of us. It simply makes a shift in the plans the only way to go.

thank you so much for the response.

[philipma1957]

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When I do the dell micro build  with a vm I will post results.

OK, aren't you done now ?

I never did it.

My thought on LN is to not be involved at doing it for this time.

I have too much on my plate mining and running that business and also caring for my bro-in-law Frank as he is suffering from vascular dementia.
I spend far too much time on the farm and him to be able to do the testing and development I wanted to do with this.
Life sometimes does this to all of us. It simply makes a shift in the plans the only way to go.

thank you so much for the response.

A long time ago there was a great fedex commercial the "star" of it promises everyone "I can do that" he then gets a lull in all the calls sits asks and asks : "How am I going to do all that?" the answer = Fedex



I have been in that spot since July 31 2021 when my bro-in-law had the stroke giving him vascular dementia. But no fedex for my bro-in-law