Zeus

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Time: 10 minutes

There is a Zeus: Bitcoin/Lightning Wallet app available in the Play Store but the project's alpha release are also great to use. It has a nice interface and you can attach it to your own node via Tor. Since this app uses the REST-api and not RPC-calls (like e.g. Zap) this app feels a bit smoother and also has a bit more functionality.

Preparation

Since we are running a headless server, we don't have a QR code that we can scan later so we need to paste a connection string. We create this connection string using lndconnect on your Pi. SSH your Pi and type:

lndconnect --host=xxx.onion --port=8080 -j

Where xxx.onion says, of course you enter your onion address for LND's REST API. A piece of text will appear that looks something like the following:

lndconnect://xxx.onion:8080?cert=very many_characters&macaroon=very many_characters

Copy that chunk of text from SSH and paste it into a Google Docs document, for example (because we'll want to have that text on our phone later).

Zeus

  1. On your phone, switch to this Google Docs document and copy the entire string lndconnect://xxx.onion:8080?cert=heel_many_characters&macaroon=heel_many_characters.
  2. Open Zeus
  3. GET STARTED
  4. Connect a node >
  5. + ADD A NEW NODE
  6. IMPORT
  7. Fill in the alias of your node at Nickname (optional).
  8. SAVE NODE CONFIG

You are now connected to your own Node.