[Testnet] Lightning Channel creation fails ("new channel" button greyed-out)

[brianddk]

• OS: Windows 11 AMD64
• Version: 4.5.0 (standalone windows binary)
• Testnet Balance: 0.0709104 tBTC
• Confirmations: 6+
• Server: testnet.hsmiths.com

I'm following the procedure outlined in issue #148, and I can't click the "New Channel" button in the Lightning tab because it is greyed out. Are Electrum's Testnet Lightning Channels offline this week?

[SomberNight]

What does it say in menubar>Wallet>Information, for Lightning?

[brianddk]

What does it say in menubar>Wallet>Information, for Lightning?

Thank you. Lighting was not enabled. I can never remember where that button is, thank you for reminding me.

For future readers, the Wallet-Information dialog is where the "Enable" button for Lightning is.

Sorry for the spam.

[brianddk]

Went into menubar>Wallet>Information and enabled Lightning

For Lightning: it reports Enabled, non-recoverable channels with a crossed out cloud icon.

Node-id: 025e66e613a0f771312e2bbdfc9a45c95a57cf0f73126b1bbd274887a0b9739fb3

Perhaps it's syncing LN routes now. IIRC that took a minute or two on the original release.

[brianddk]

Yep... it finally synced LN and is working now...

[SomberNight]

What does it say in menubar>Wallet>Information, for Lightning?

Thank you. Lighting was not enabled. I can never remember where that button is, thank you for reminding me.

Note that Lightning is enabled by default if you create a new wallet file using a segwit electrum seed.
But yes, otherwise it's off by default. And it can only be enabled for standard deterministic wallets with p2wpkh script.