Alby Hub (LDK) open channel with CLN

Services Support
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Is it possible to open a channel between my Alby Hub and CLN both of which are hosted on Start9?

  • Attempts to add tor (.onion addresses) peers or channels fail in Alby Hub.
  • CLN has no clearnet hostname address.
  • I have my Alby Node ID, but can’t find Alby Hub’s hostname address anywhere. (tor or otherwise)

Seems CLN only operates on tor, and Alby (LDK) only operates on clearnet?
I want to set up Alby to receive Ocean Bolt12 payouts, but I’m not paying to open/buy a channel that may or may not stay open in Alby. I want to open a channel between Alby and CLN first. Why is this so hard to do? Any suggestions?

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Alby’s LDK “light node” doesn’t support connecting to .onions. They simply didn’t implement the feature.

Why not sent up Bolt12 offers on your CLN node?

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Ahh okay. Good to know.

Yeah, I have, I am. There was about a month where payouts to my CLN unexplainably would not go through, then unexplainably started working again.

I just want to do all the things. I found out Alby does Bolt12 now, wanted to give it a try.

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Just checking, is there a clearnet IP address available in new versions of CLN on Start9? I don’t like to update instantly with every new release. I’m still using CLN version 25.09.1~1. My understanding is that Alby now supports custom channels as long as they are initiated from their side… meaning I need the clearnet address of my CLN.

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Clearnet access to services is a feature dependent on StartOS and version 0.4.0. It isn’t related to CLN.