Error when trying to add watchtower on 0.5.1

Support and Troubleshooting
1

Hello,

I’m running 0.5.1 and am trying to add a watchtower. I was following the instructions (Umbrel Troubleshooting Guide under the section “how do I add a watchtower to my node?”)

I added the below to my lnd.conf file which on my machine is found here (umbrel/app-data/lightning/data/lnd/lnd.conf)

[wtclient]
wtclient.active=true
wtclient.sweep-fee-rate=10

[watchtower]
watchtower.active=true

when I use this command:

docker exec -it lightning-terminal_web_1 lncli wtclient add

with the watchtower I’m trying to add at the end, I get this error:

[lncli] could not load global options: could not load TLS cert file: open /data/.lnd/tls.cert: no such file or directory

I went looking at the folder it was referencing this is where I found the tls.cert file

umbrel/app-data/lightning/data/lnd

seems the program is looking for .lnd folder. Has anyone tried/successful adding a new watchtower on 0.5.1?

Thanks for any help.

2

I am having the same issue. Thanks for posting amafaskrowten.

3

I may have figured this out. I ended up looking at the /umbrel/bin lncli file and found the following deprecation notice. The command, for me, changed to the following - “./scripts/app compose lightning exec lnd lncli tower info”. Hope this helps

echo
echo " *** Deprecation notice ***"
echo " In a future version of Umbrel, ‘lncli’ will be removed."
echo
echo " Please instead use:"
echo " ./scripts/app compose lightning exec lnd lncli "
echo

4

I was able to see that info also, unfortunately i’m a total noob with command line usage and wasn’t able to recreate the command to add the watchtower. I used different variations of commands and when I was in the umbrel/scripts folder and used command “compose lightning exec lnd lncli wtclient add” i got the error

Error: no “compose” mailcap rules found for type "cannot open `lightning’ (No such file or directory

I may have to wait until they make adding this as easy as mynode does with it as a setting.

Thanks for responding!

5

Agreed, could we get some clarification on the use? how would the cli go when trying to check on the watchtower or anything with the new standard?

Thanks in advance,

6

still no assistance.