Armory - Discussion Thread

[cp1]

Can you make it so that you can broadcast signed transactions immediately when loading armory, instead of waiting for it to scan the transaction history?

Or is it possible to broadcast it from bitcoin-qt?  I tried sendrawtransaction and pasting in my signed transaction, but it complains about it not being a serialized hex string.

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[etotheipi]

Can you make it so that you can broadcast signed transactions immediately when loading armory, instead of waiting for it to scan the transaction history?

Or is it possible to broadcast it from bitcoin-qt?  I tried sendrawtransaction and pasting in my signed transaction, but it complains about it not being a serialized hex string.

I should find a way to make that easier for sure.  But hopefully it won't matter so much after the need upgrade.   For now :

-switch to expert user mode
-click on offline transactions
-broadcast signed transaction
-load the transaction from file or clipboard
-click "Copy Raw TX (hex)"

Now the clipboard should contain the properly-formatted tx to be copied into bitcoin-qt or blockchain.info pushtx (I forget the exact URL, and I'm on my phone right now making it hard to look up)

[cp1]

Ah, I was just in advanced, not expert mode -- I restarted in expert mode and the copy hex button is visible.
Thanks!

[Mooshire]

Armory has stopped working, how can I take my encrypted wallet and get the first like 10 private keys from it?

[Mooshire]

I also have my paper backup

[etotheipi]

Armory has stopped working, how can I take my encrypted wallet and get the first like 10 private keys from it?

Open Armory in offline mode (there's a shortcut installed on both Windows an Linux when you use the installer), then use "Backup Individual Keys" to get access to all the keys in the wallet. 

[Mooshire]

Armory has stopped working, how can I take my encrypted wallet and get the first like 10 private keys from it?

Open Armory in offline mode (there's a shortcut installed on both Windows an Linux when you use the installer), then use "Backup Individual Keys" to get access to all the keys in the wallet. 

I try, but armory just goes so incredibly slow and freezes, which is my problem.

[etotheipi]

Armory has stopped working, how can I take my encrypted wallet and get the first like 10 private keys from it?

Open Armory in offline mode (there's a shortcut installed on both Windows an Linux when you use the installer), then use "Backup Individual Keys" to get access to all the keys in the wallet. 

I try, but armory just goes so incredibly slow and freezes, which is my problem.

It goes that slow in offline mode?   There's very little it should be doing in offline mode.  Anything unusual about your system?  Can you send me a log file?

[Mooshire]

Armory has stopped working, how can I take my encrypted wallet and get the first like 10 private keys from it?

Open Armory in offline mode (there's a shortcut installed on both Windows an Linux when you use the installer), then use "Backup Individual Keys" to get access to all the keys in the wallet. 

I try, but armory just goes so incredibly slow and freezes, which is my problem.

It goes that slow in offline mode?   There's very little it should be doing in offline mode.  Anything unusual about your system?  Can you send me a log file?

How to send log file? Also, I have a paper backup for the wallet in question

[etotheipi]

Armory has stopped working, how can I take my encrypted wallet and get the first like 10 private keys from it?

Open Armory in offline mode (there's a shortcut installed on both Windows an Linux when you use the installer), then use "Backup Individual Keys" to get access to all the keys in the wallet. 

I try, but armory just goes so incredibly slow and freezes, which is my problem.

It goes that slow in offline mode?   There's very little it should be doing in offline mode.  Anything unusual about your system?  Can you send me a log file?

How to send log file? Also, I have a paper backup for the wallet in question

If you can get into Armory, it's under "File"-->"Export Log File".  If not, you can just go straight to your home directory:

C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\Armory\Armory.exe.log
(the .log file name may be slightly different).

It's great you have a paper backup.... using that will be our last resort (basically, you need a working version of Armory in order to use it). 

[Mooshire]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h6ul1ux56yrsqx9/Armory.exe.log.txt

[etotheipi]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h6ul1ux56yrsqx9/Armory.exe.log.txt

Interesting.  Can you do me a favor and make a copy of the Armory shortcut on your desktop, then right click on the copy and add the following string to the "Target:"

--offline --skip-version-check --skip-online-check

Make sure there's a space between the end of the existing "Target" and that extra text.  Then try running it again.

Also, it looks like you're using Windows Server 2008, which theoretically should work but not everyone has had success.  I never figured out what was different about it...

[Mooshire]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h6ul1ux56yrsqx9/Armory.exe.log.txt

Interesting.  Can you do me a favor and make a copy of the Armory shortcut on your desktop, then right click on the copy and add the following string to the "Target:"

--offline --skip-version-check --skip-online-check

Make sure there's a space between the end of the existing "Target" and that extra text.  Then try running it again.

Also, it looks like you're using Windows Server 2008, which theoretically should work but not everyone has had success.  I never figured out what was different about it...

I'm using windows 8 o.o and trying now

[Mooshire]

Yeah, it's still running painfully slow. Not sure why, i'm not doing anything big. Checking in Task Manager to make sure there's nothing suspicious.

EDIT: It's all <20% CPU and <50% memory. I have 8 gigs of RAM

[cp1]

I'm trying to use armoryengine to find the balance of some addresses.  I tried following the example from import500kaddresses, but get an error.

Code:

from armoryengine import *
wlt = Cpp.BtcWallet()
wlt.addAddress_1_( hex_to_binary('9c633b56899c633b56899c633b56899c633b5689') )  # hash160
TheBDM.registerWallet(wlt)
start = RightNow()
TheBDM.setBlocking(True)
TheBDM.setOnlineMode(True)
print 'Loading blockchain took %d seconds' % int(RightNow()-start)
wlt.setBlockchainSyncFlag(BLOCKCHAIN_READONLY)
wlt.syncWithBlockchain()
print 'Full sync at %d seconds' % int(RightNow()-start)
print 'Wallet balance is: %s' % coin2str(wlt.getBalance('Spendable'))

Loading blockchain took 916 seconds

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/BitcoinArmory/balance.py", line 16, in <module>
    wlt.setBlockchainSyncFlag(BLOCKCHAIN_READONLY)
  File "/home/user/BitcoinArmory/CppBlockUtils.py", line 1087, in <lambda>
    __getattr__ = lambda self, name: _swig_getattr(self, BtcWallet, name)
  File "/home/user/BitcoinArmory/CppBlockUtils.py", line 51, in _swig_getattr
    raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: setBlockchainSyncFlag

Any ideas?  It looks like the permissions are fine and I deleted all the lock files I could find.

[etotheipi]

I'm trying to use armoryengine to find the balance of some addresses.  I tried following the example from import500kaddresses, but get an error.

Code:

from armoryengine import *
wlt = Cpp.BtcWallet()
wlt.addAddress_1_( hex_to_binary('9c633b56899c633b56899c633b56899c633b5689') )  # hash160
TheBDM.registerWallet(wlt)
start = RightNow()
TheBDM.setBlocking(True)
TheBDM.setOnlineMode(True)
print 'Loading blockchain took %d seconds' % int(RightNow()-start)
wlt.setBlockchainSyncFlag(BLOCKCHAIN_READONLY)
wlt.syncWithBlockchain()
print 'Full sync at %d seconds' % int(RightNow()-start)
print 'Wallet balance is: %s' % coin2str(wlt.getBalance('Spendable'))

Loading blockchain took 916 seconds

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/BitcoinArmory/balance.py", line 16, in <module>
    wlt.setBlockchainSyncFlag(BLOCKCHAIN_READONLY)
  File "/home/user/BitcoinArmory/CppBlockUtils.py", line 1087, in <lambda>
    __getattr__ = lambda self, name: _swig_getattr(self, BtcWallet, name)
  File "/home/user/BitcoinArmory/CppBlockUtils.py", line 51, in _swig_getattr
    raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: setBlockchainSyncFlag

Any ideas?  It looks like the permissions are fine and I deleted all the lock files I could find.

Ugh.   I need to update all that old example code.   That particular file is ancient and uses functions that don't exist anymore.  I'm pretty sure most of the examples in extras/sample_armory_code.py is good though.  At least, the methods for loading and accessing the blockchain.

[cp1]

Ah thanks, I'll give that code a shot.

[Mooshire]

Hey, I never got my problem fixed I still can't get to my coins

[cp1]

Ah thanks, I'll give that code a shot.

Success! Thanks!

[Mooshire]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h6ul1ux56yrsqx9/Armory.exe.log.txt

Please help PM me if you can help me turn my paper wallet into private keys.