{"id":2136,"date":"2021-07-12T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coincharge.os24.work\/create-lightning-alias\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T13:20:20","slug":"create-lightning-alias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/create-lightning-alias\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Lightning Alias"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lightning Alias<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2139″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]\n
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To create a Lightning alias<\/h2>\n

The own Lightning Node has a unique Node ID consisting of more than 50 letters and numbers which looks like this for example:<\/p>\n

0318ac9faa9629e7da08819bc8fe0dd2ae3044d69b1b2283a63479acffeb968483<\/p>\n

0318ac9faa9629e7da08819bc8fe0dd2ae3044d69b1b2283a63479acffeb968483<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2153″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]This Lightning Alias can be freely defined and is stored on the Lightning Node.<\/p>\n

How to assign a Lightning Alias to your own Lightning Node is explained in this post.<\/p>\n

We explain how to change a Lightning<\/a>alias on Lunanode and on a Docker<\/a>installation. Then follows the instructions for setting up the Lightning alias for the hardware nodes of Nodl<\/a>and Raspiblitz<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]\n

Create Lightning Alias at Lunanode<\/h2>\n

To give your Lightning Node a Lightning Alias, it is necessary to log in to your server via SSH.<\/p>\n

To do this, you must log on to the server running the Lightning Node using the Terminal (Mac) or PuTTY (Windows) programs.<\/p>\n

If you run your BTCPay server with the Lightning Node at Lunanode, you will find the access data in the Lunanode backend.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The username for Lunanode is Ubuntu and the password is displayed next to it.<\/p>\n

The name of the server is called btcpayXXXXX.lndyn.com<\/p>\n

Where XXXX must be replaced by the own server designation.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2151″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The access to the server is composed of the username before the @ sign and then follows the name of the server such as btcpayXXXXX.lndyn.com[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]\n

Create Lightning Alias on Docker \/ Virtual Machine (VM)<\/h2>\n

Then open the terminal or PuTTY window on your computer and enter the command ssh followed by the username, the @ sign and then the name of your server.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2149″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]This should then look something like this:<\/p>\n

ssh ubuntu@btcpay123456.lndyn.com[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]After that, click Enter and you will be prompted to enter the password for the server.<\/p>\n

Then the following commands are entered and confirmed at the end with Enter:<\/p>\n

sudo su -<\/code><\/p>\n

cd \/root\/btcpayserver-docker<\/code><\/p>\n

Now you have to decide on a name for your Lightning Node. This name is placed between the quotation marks. Instead of Node_name write the name you want your Lightning Node to be called.<\/p>\n

export LIGHTNING_ALIAS=\"Node_Name\"<\/code><\/p>\n

After that the BTCPay must be restarted and this is done with the command:<\/p>\n

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Set up Lightning Alias on the Nodl<\/h2>\n

If you have a hardware node from the provider Nodl, you can change the Lightning alias name via the Nodl backend.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]You log in on your nodl and then go to the LND section.<\/p>\n

There you click on Details and Setting.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2147″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2145″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]At the bottom of the page there is a field Alias (public name for your node)<\/p>\n

Here you can enter the name and save it.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]\n

Raspiblitz<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]If you have a Raspiblitz, go to the Main Menu and select LND – LND Wallet Options. You get to the submenu of LND and there you go to the menu item Name (Change Name \/ Alias of Node).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2143″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2141″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]There you enter the desired name and confirm the entry with OK.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Changing the Lightning alias may take some time to propagate across the Lightning network.<\/p>\n

To check the distribution, you can search for your own Lightning Node at the 1ml.com site and check if the Lightning Alias is already displayed.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text] Lightning Alias [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2139″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text] To create a Lightning alias The own Lightning Node has a unique […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16715,"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/16715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coincharge.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}