I need someone's help: I just downloaded Spectre Wallet like 5 days ago and, I can't for the love of god get this dam thing to sync. All the icons say its connected and the little wheel refresh button keeps turning and turning but it downloads nothing. It keeps saying 0 active network connection. Ive been patient for 5 days now and still nothing. Any help would be welcome. I would love to start staking as soon as possible.
In general, try the Slack channel for any support. (
https://spectreproject.slack.com) The devs are rarely, if at all, hanging out here.
But to answer your question: most likely you have to add some connections manualy. Here is the section in the FAQ :
https://github.com/bitcoinx2/spectre/wiki/FAQ#7-i-have-zero-connections. It says:
- Go to this page: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/xspec/#!network and click on the node list for version 1.3.3.
- Then, you will see a list of nodes that look like "addnode=abcde12345xyz.onion".
- Go to the debug console (Tools -> Debug, then the "Console" tab)
- For the list of nodes of step 2, replace the '=' with a whitespace, and append ' add', so that it looks like this:
addnode abcde12345xyz.onion add - Write this line into the console input field and press Enter.
- Repeat this for a few nodes (maybe 5 or so should be enough to get things running).
Wait a few minutes after this, and you should be synching just fine. This is a known problem and will be resolved in the next version.