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Board Electrum
Re: Electrum Lightning Network walkthrough
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satscraper
on 13/02/2022, 11:01:24 UTC
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Thanks, that helped. Now  I have the choice between two options one of which is Remote Node ID and this is exactly  what I would like to use. But I'd like to have channel exclusively between two wallets I own, no middle-position node in between. Is that possible or the only way for me  to have my wallets LN-connected  is to establish connection of each of two wallets to one and the same  known peer?
Those two are the only option if "Trampoline Routing" is enabled.
You can customize the remote node once you've disabled the said feature in the settings.

However, I haven't succeeded yet with creating a channel between two Electrum wallets.
You can try though - by providing each other's 'Lightning Node ID' as the "Remote Node ID" (Wallet->Information) followed by the IP address and port.
eg: 02d50fdf1806b54aee46a0ed8c6d8512bee87e88e25029f3384a983c43c5d6a16c@111.111.111.111:9735
But like I've said, it never worked at my end.

I have spent two days trying to stitch directly my two Electrum clients by opening LN channel and all  my attempts have ended with CanceledError(). My both electrum clients were online showing fully sync LN graph.   The format for remote node ID had been properly chosen.

The communication  between two of my clients  was  established right off the bat after opening separate channels for each client with the same public LN node ("endurance" in my case).

Probably I should give up all further attempts to make direct LN channel between   my Electrum wallets.  Angry