As you can see in the image below, the status of the lightning channel that I opened says "AWAITING UNILATERAL". I use Core Lightning. Can someone please help and guide me on closing this and get my funds back please?
"channels": [
{
"peer_id": "0242a4ae0c5bef18048fbecf995094b74bfb0f7391418d71ed394784373f41e4f3",
"peer_connected": false,
"channel_type": {
"bits": [
12,
22
],
"names": [
"static_remotekey/even",
"anchors/even"
]
},
"updates": {
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"htlc_minimum_msat": 1,
"htlc_maximum_msat": 44794000,
"cltv_expiry_delta": 34,
"fee_base_msat": 1000,
"fee_proportional_millionths": 10
}
},
"last_stable_connection": 1754704819,
"state": "AWAITING_UNILATERAL",
"scratch_txid": "1c9a3183fbbd66c96611565b818adf8a19b68969df767756fe4dbfbef720adba",
"last_tx_fee_msat": 1735000,
"lost_state": false,
"feerate": {
"perkw": 1250,
"perkb": 5000
},
"direction": 1,
"channel_id": "0c083da5ddc03b218391c21445e9bcd51c54f2a031ee107818dc4b041066f0e9",
"funding_txid": "e9f06610044bdc187810ee31a0f2541cd5bce94514c29183213bc0dda53d080c",
"funding_outnum": 0,
"close_to_addr": "bc1phmqcsnrp335m65ez2xmhdcn0r7skk7stx35av5ktrejnegf8hf6s0zrdgx",
"close_to": "5120bec1884c618c69bd532251b776e26f1fa16b7a0b3469d652cb1e653ca127ba75",
"private": false,
"opener": "local",
"closer": "local",
"alias": {
"local": "5435122x6893881x58217"
},
"features": [
"option_static_remotekey",
"option_anchors_zero_fee_htlc_tx",
"option_anchors"
],
"funding": {
"local_funds_msat": 45340000,
"remote_funds_msat": 0,
"pushed_msat": 0
},
"to_us_msat": 45340000,
"min_to_us_msat": 45340000,
"max_to_us_msat": 45340000,
"total_msat": 45340000,
"fee_base_msat": 1000,
"fee_proportional_millionths": 10,
"dust_limit_msat": 546000,
"max_total_htlc_in_msat": 18446744073709551615,
"their_max_htlc_value_in_flight_msat": 44887000,
"our_max_htlc_value_in_flight_msat": 18446744073709551615,
"their_reserve_msat": 546000,
"our_reserve_msat": 546000,
"spendable_msat": 40503000,
"receivable_msat": 0,
"minimum_htlc_in_msat": 0,
"minimum_htlc_out_msat": 1,
"maximum_htlc_out_msat": 44794000,
"their_to_self_delay": 144,
"our_to_self_delay": 144,
"max_accepted_htlcs": 30,
"state_changes": [
{
"timestamp": "2025-08-09T14:15:57.730Z",
"old_state": "CHANNELD_AWAITING_LOCKIN",
"new_state": "CHANNELD_SHUTTING_DOWN",
"cause": "user",
"message": "User or plugin invoked close command"
},
{
"timestamp": "2025-08-10T13:32:22.353Z",
"old_state": "CHANNELD_SHUTTING_DOWN",
"new_state": "AWAITING_UNILATERAL",
"cause": "user",
"message": "Forcibly closed by `close` command timeout"
}
],
"status": [
"Loaded from database"
],
"in_payments_offered": 0,
"in_offered_msat": 0,
"in_payments_fulfilled": 0,
"in_fulfilled_msat": 0,
"out_payments_offered": 0,
"out_offered_msat": 0,
"out_payments_fulfilled": 0,
"out_fulfilled_msat": 0,
"htlcs": []
}
]
