Armory - Discussion Thread

[subseaguru]

is there an older version of armory somewhere that works?

[teste]

Hi, I sent some bitcoins to my Armory wallet and something strange happened.

On Armory main window I see a different Uncorfirmed value than when I click on Wallet properties window.
Obs: After some minutes the value is now the same on Main Armory window and Wallet Properties window. (But I took a screenshot when the value was different)

Is this a minor bug?

[Wusolini]

Hi guys, I just want to ask whether the feature "open relevant wallet" from the main "transactions" list works properly?
After right click on any transaction and "open rel. wal.", it just open a wallet which is marked in my "Available wallets" (top right) 
I would rather see the real relevant wallet.
Anybody else having same issue or just me?

[bitpop]

Hi guys, I just want to ask whether the feature "open relevant wallet" from the main "transactions" list works properly?
After right click on any transaction and "open rel. wal.", it just open a wallet which is marked in my "Available wallets" (top right) 
I would rather see the real relevant wallet.
Anybody else having same issue or just me?

Yeah mine's random

[megashira1]

Hi, I recently withdrew about 5btc into my offline Armory wallet about a week ago. Transaction was completed and I could see funds sitting there. I recently restarted Armory and the funds are now missing with the transaction history missing?

[dracling]

Hi, I recently withdrew about 5btc into my offline Armory wallet about a week ago. Transaction was completed and I could see funds sitting there. I recently restarted Armory and the funds are now missing with the transaction history missing?

Is the blockchain fully loaded?

[Wusolini]

Hi, I recently withdrew about 5btc into my offline Armory wallet about a week ago. Transaction was completed and I could see funds sitting there. I recently restarted Armory and the funds are now missing with the transaction history missing?

try to rescan database

[megashira1]

Hi, I recently withdrew about 5btc into my offline Armory wallet about a week ago. Transaction was completed and I could see funds sitting there. I recently restarted Armory and the funds are now missing with the transaction history missing?

try to rescan database

Problem fixed ty

[Wusolini]

Hi, I recently withdrew about 5btc into my offline Armory wallet about a week ago. Transaction was completed and I could see funds sitting there. I recently restarted Armory and the funds are now missing with the transaction history missing?

try to rescan database

Problem fixed ty

np, I had similar issue while ago 

[RustyNomad]

Love Armory but will be, unfortunately, switching to Electrum today.

Been waiting now for close on an hour now for Bitcoin Core to update the last 80 odd blocks.

I'm not a frequent user meaning that I often have a couple of hundred blocks to update when I open Armory. My ISP seems to be seriously trotting P2P traffic due to torrent downloads and this seems to have a direct effect on the updating of Armory/Bitcoin Core as the updating takes ages, even if just a hundred blocks.

I understand that this is no fault attributable to Armory so actually sad as I loved it but these updates are killing me. Would love to see a Armory 'thin client' in the future even if a scaled down version used only to do quick checks.

[etotheipi]

Love Armory but will be, unfortunately, switching to Electrum today.

Been waiting now for close on an hour now for Bitcoin Core to update the last 80 odd blocks.

I'm not a frequent user meaning that I often have a couple of hundred blocks to update when I open Armory. My ISP seems to be seriously trotting P2P traffic due to torrent downloads and this seems to have a direct effect on the updating of Armory/Bitcoin Core as the updating takes ages, even if just a hundred blocks.

I understand that this is no fault attributable to Armory so actually sad as I loved it but these updates are killing me. Would love to see a Armory 'thin client' in the future even if a scaled down version used only to do quick checks.

Who knows how long it will be, but I know that Core is going to eventually implement parallel downloading of blocks.  The problem right now is that Core only downloads from one peer at a time, and if that peer happens to be slow, it takes forever.  It's an epic weakness in a program that requires handling many gigabytes of data, and they apparently have a test branch that solves it.  But I don't know how long it will be before that is released.  When they finish that, we will remove the torrent feature from Armory, as the new Core feature will essentially obsolete the benefits of a separate tor downloader (gmaxwell has written about being able to saturate his bandwidth with the new parallel downloader).  Until then, I'm not sure there's much we can do.  I appreciate that you understand it's not directly attributable to use, and maybe when they get that in there, catching up won't be so difficult anymore.

On the other hand, I just leave Armory running.  Can use File-->Minimize to keep it hidden.  It shouldn't require much in terms of resources, and then is instantly available whenever you need it.  But I understand not everyone wants to do that (or might be resource-limited)

[Ente]

On the other hand, I just leave Armory running.  Can use File-->Minimize to keep it hidden.  It shouldn't require much in terms of resources, and then is instantly available whenever you need it.  But I understand not everyone wants to do that (or might be resource-limited)

As yet another way, I have bitcoind (of bitcoin-core) in autostart. As it itself has no GUI, I won't even see it. The blockchain is always up-to-date this way, and whenever I run Armory, it's all ready in less than a minute.
Also, that way I help the Bitcoin network with a semi-always online node (with portforwarding).

Ente

[justusranvier]

Until then, I'm not sure there's much we can do

You could let Armory download blocks from the node it connects to as a peer instead of requiring direct file access to the blockchain so that we aren't limited to using Armory with Bitcoin Core.

[RustyNomad]

Until then, I'm not sure there's much we can do.... 

Thanks for the information. I'll keep an eye open for that. I will however try what you and others suggest in keeping core/Armory running in the background and see how that goes over the next week. Seems to be the solution.

[Newar]

On the other hand, I just leave Armory running.  Can use File-->Minimize to keep it hidden.  It shouldn't require much in terms of resources, and then is instantly available whenever you need it.  But I understand not everyone wants to do that (or might be resource-limited)

As yet another way, I have bitcoind (of bitcoin-core) in autostart. As it itself has no GUI, I won't even see it. The blockchain is always up-to-date this way, and whenever I run Armory, it's all ready in less than a minute.

How about a solution like amule / amuled? The daemon runs in the background and the GUI only connects when needed.
http://wiki.amule.org/wiki/FAQ_amulegui

[picobit]

What is the recommended offline bundle for a Raspberry Pi?  The 0.92.1 on the website; the 0.92.2-testing version posted here; or a newer version?  I plan to set up a new offline computer for long-term storage.

[etotheipi]

What is the recommended offline bundle for a Raspberry Pi?  The 0.92.1 on the website; the 0.92.2-testing version posted here; or a newer version?  I plan to set up a new offline computer for long-term storage.

For a non-OSX offline computer, it doesn't make a difference.  0.92.2 is basically just a bugfix release for OSX and some privacy issues with online computers (and will be "official" very soon)

[Newar]

I think it'd be good if you made the offline version of Armory to work with Lubuntu.  As most people use older hardware for offline machines plus the latest Lubuntu 14.04 is an LTS version.  [...]

I installed on Lubuntu 14.04 (works for others too). It's not that hard to do: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=777625.0

[GodHatesFigs]

If I forget my encryption phrase, can I restore my wallet from an unencrypted paper backup?

[Ente]

If I forget my encryption phrase, can I restore my wallet from an unencrypted paper backup?

Yes, that's the point! :-)
Also, I encourage everyone to at least have one unencrypted, physical paperwallet.

Ente