George P. Burdell asked almost 2 years ago

Pending Channel Detection

Trying to join my first swap (Swap ID: 14610). I opened a channel 20 hours ago but My Swap still says 'Pending Channel Detection'. My connection is the only one in the pentagon that hasn't been detected. Any ideas as to why? How long should this take?

Thanks!

2 Comments

Denaro Libre wrote almost 2 years ago

First your funding transaction needs to get included in a block. Then it takes a variable number of confirmations on that block for the channel to be established (for CLN: 3, for LND it varies with the size of the channel, I belive it can be up to 6)
After that, LN+ needs to detect it which might take up to a few hours, but way fewer than 20

To check the status of your funding transaction you can look at either mempool.space or blockstream.info -- they both have an onion site and if you care about privacy you want to use TOR and the onion site of those website when you are looking up your transactions.

There is a way to look at more details about the status of the channel you opened: they are slightly different for CLN or LND (or other node implementations)

George P. Burdell wrote almost 2 years ago

Thanks, @Denaro.

I ended up restarting my node. Twice. Looks like the swap has detected the channel now.

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