Can send but not receive

[DerHuette]

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I followed your tutorial on medium.com ("Easiest Bitcoin Lightning Guide") and everything went well. Now I can open a channel and send with the Joule Extension. What does not work is receiving (tried with bluewallet on my android phone and with lightning-roulette.com). The error code is something like "unable to route payment to destination: TemporaryChannelFailure".

Do I have to do some more configuration for that? Could it be the problem that I don't have a static IP address? Is there a solution for that?

Thank you in advance!

Just forgot: yes, I do forward TCP port 9735 from my router to the machine running lnd.

• Please tell us about your environment:

  • Operating System: [ Windows 10 ]

[DriftwoodPalace]

Do you have enough inbound capacity on your node? You get that when sending payments or when someone is opening a channel to you. If not, you might want to try with a service like https://www.bitrefill.com/thor-lightning-network-channels or get someone else to open a channel to you.

[hkrugersa]

Some good advice on bootstrapping channels can be found at https://wiki.ion.radar.tech/tutorials/troubleshooting/bootstrapping-channels and raspiblitz/raspiblitz#395

[PierreRochard]

You can also try https://lightningpowerusers.com/home/