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@ cadayton
2025-02-26 16:16:32
The whoa of trying to balance public lightning channels on LND.
```
Node Active Capacity RemBalance(In) LocBalance(Out) Sent Received HTLCs Fee Weight
---- ------ -------- -------------- --------------- ---- -------- ----- --- ------
LQwD-Canada True 2,000,000 40,330 1,956,990 23,134,761 25,091,752 0 2020 1116
Uila-Hawaii True 1,000,000 959,376 37,613 3,984,098 3,024,721 0 2351 1116
```
```
pwd: PS /root/BTCPayServer/btcpayserver-docker
Creating an Lightning Invoice for 5000 sats
$mylncli = "lncli --macaroonpath /root/.lnd/admin.macaroon addinvoice 5000"
$mylncli = "docker exec btcpayserver_lnd_bitcoin " + $mylncli
$rslt = Invoke-Expression $mylncli | ConvertFrom-JSON
```
```
Self-Paying the Lightning Invoice for 5000 sats
$cid = '888921066311188486' # LQwD-Canada
$hop = '021eb3cebc4aee0e563d6ec77131035e817ad69c6c7577e0582e14ca06c502596a' # Uila-Hawaii
$mylncli = "lncli --macaroonpath /root/.lnd/admin.macaroon payinvoice "
$mylncli = "docker exec btcpayserver_lnd_bitcoin " + $mylncli
$mylncli += "--allow_self_payment --fee_limit 30 --force "
$mylncli += "--outgoing_chan_id " + $cid + " "
$mylncli += "--last_hop " + $hop + " "
$mylncli += "--pay_req " + $rslt.payment_request
Invoke-Expression $mylncli
```
Interactive output generated from payinvoice command
When the command runs the console is locked up with a bunch of tabular output to the console
showing the attempts at finding a payment route. Then finally...
SUCCEEDED | LQwD-Canada->Jupiter01->WalletOfSatoshi.com->Uila->SANJOSE_UBETCHA
Now we see how the channel balances have changed.
./Get-PSLndExplorer.ps1 -lndcmd PayCh -dpx
```
```Node Active Capacity RemBalance(In) LocBalance(Out) Sent Received HTLCs Fee Weight
---- ------ -------- -------------- --------------- ---- -------- ----- --- ------
LQwD-Canada True 2,000,000 32,780 1,965,159 23,139,764 25,104,923 0 1401 1116
Uila-Hawaii True 1,000,000 954,376 42,614 3,984,098 3,029,721 0 2350 1116