Index> The mainnet of Lightning Network

Lightning Shield supports both the testnet and mainnet of Bitcoin.
If you want to use the mainnet of Lightning Network, please change the Bitcoin network to it and restart.

• changing the network to the mainnet
• open channel from LNBIG (mainnet)

Changing Bitcoin network to the mainnet

Openning the channel from LNBIG

NOTE: Please use something Linux console.

1. Change the network to the mainnet and wait for an automatic reboot

Menu: Bitcoin > Change Blockchain Network

2. Mainnet starts

3. Check my node_id

Menu: Lightning Network > Information

4. Connect to LNBIG and making the API call

1. Select “LND / C-Lightning / BTCPay / Eclair” and click the NEXT.
   

2. click the COPY on “Commands for LND”

3. Save the text in lnbig.txt on your Linux console

5.Execute the command below in order to get the connection string

cat lnbig.txt | sed -e 's/^lncli connect \(.*$\)/\1/g' | sed -e 's/^\(.*9735\).*/\1/g'

ex.
   028a8e53d70bc0eb7b5660943582f10b7fd6c727a78ad819ba8d45d6a638432c49@lnd-33.LNBIG.com:9735

6. Connect LNBIG using the connection string

Menu: Lightning Network > Connect Node

7. If the connection is OK, execute the command below to get call the LNBIG API string.

cat lnbig.txt | sed -e 's/.*| \(.*$\)/\1/g' | sed -e "s/^\(.*private=0'\).*/\1/g"

ex.
   curl -G --data-urlencode remoteid@- 'https://lnbig.com/api/v1/oc?k1=040aa501-3273-442c-b966-13488f85e727&private=0'

8. Execute the command from Linux console

echo -n MY_NODEID | LNBIG_API_STRING

ex.
   echo -n 03019960f1fe3efb6dd3663606cc196e41ad31fb5535e1264a24d1a1986e7a9059 | curl -G --data-urlencode remoteid@- 'https://lnbig.com/api/v1/oc?k1=040aa501-3273-442c-b966-13488f85e727&private=0'

9. Check the LNBIG website

Bash script for LNBIG

If you connect Raspberry Pi via SSH, copy Commands for LND strings to lnbig.txt and execute the following script.

#!/bin/sh
PTARMCLI=/home/pi/Prog/ptarmigan/install/ptarmcli
LNBIG_TXT=lnbig.txt

CONN_STR=`cat $LNBIG_TXT | sed -e 's/^lncli connect \(.*$\)/\1/g' | sed -e 's/^\(.*9735\).*/\1/g'`
echo $CONN_STR
$PTARMCLI --connaddr $CONN_STR

NODEID=`$PTARMCLI -l1 | jq -r '.result.node_id'`
API=`cat $LNBIG_TXT | sed -e 's/.*\(https.*$\)/\1/g' | sed -e "s/^\(.*\)&private.*/\1/g"`
echo -n $NODEID | curl -G --data-urlencode remoteid@- "$API&private=0"