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288 sats \ 5 replies \ @BlokchainB 11 May 2023 \ on: Low Time Preference Routing Node | Spend and Earn Sats bitcoin

I took this approach but over time it failed me for the following reasons

  1. My instance of LND was corrupted. I my fees were stuck at 1 sat base fee and 1 ppm for routing fee. Not being able to adjust my fees caused my channels to be unbalanced. Probably lost so many sats rebalancing.
  2. Routing over tor is terrible the uptime isn’t great. Channels randomly go offline
  3. I started this using a Raspberry Pi. I had about 20 channels. It worked okay for about a year or so and then it just became unreliable. At least two times a month I was power cycling my node to get it back online. With so many sats at Risk I stopped routing and just use it as a personal node.
  4. I sold on magma in the early days. It wasn’t a pleasant experience but maybe they improved things. I did make some sats but my fees were so low I was probably getting taken advantage of

I may try this again with a more powerful machine and a fresh LND install. Thinking of going with a meekrat from system76 and will follow this guide because I still have the desire to route

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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @021da48107 11 May 2023

Do you know why your Raspberry Pi was going down? I used to use RPIs for things but I noticed booting them off sd cards was unreliable so I switched them to external usb SSDs. Eventually I moved to the 1L PCs (hp, dell, lenovo) used all over.

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @BlokchainB 12 May 2023

I could never pinpoint the issue. I would even hook up a monitor to my pi to see if could troubleshoot but the only thing that would get my node back is a power cycle. SSH wouldn’t work nor would accessing it via the LAN.

I should have tried re-flashing the SD card but I just got tired of it going offline. Maybe I should use the same pi start completely fresh and see if I have better luck but a part of me thinks if I am going to be serious about routing then I should get better hardware in general

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @021da48107 12 May 2023

I had the exact same issues when I was running the OS off an SD card. I'd give it another go with booting off a USB -> Sata adapter with an SSD attached.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 12 May 2023

I am assuming you can do this with umbrel?

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @021da48107 15 May 2023

I know you can setup the RPI 4 to run 100% off of USB. Once that was setup you could install linux and install Umbrel on top of that.

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