lndash

lndash is a simple read-only web dashboard for lnd.

Features

• Peer view
• Channel view
• Forwarding Events (routed payments) view
• Looking Glass Tool (route/path lookup)
• Lightning Network Graph

Installation

Please note that the following installation instructions are still a work in progress. This guide was written on a Debian system.

1. Install dependencies.

apt-get install python3-pip python3-virtualenv virtualenv

2. Clone lndash repository.

git clone https://github.com/djmelik/lndash.git

3. Enter lndash project directory.

cd lndash

4. Set up python virtualenv.

virtualenv -p python3 venv

5. Activate virtual environment.

source venv/bin/activate

6. Install python libs & dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

7. Copy the tls certificate and readonly macaroon from lnd to config directory.

cp ~/.lnd/tls.cert config/tls.cert
cp ~/.lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/readonly.macaroon config/readonly.macaroon

8. (Optional) If lnd is installed on a remote host, edit main.py and update lnd's server IP.

lnd_grpc_server = 127.0.0.1:10009

9. Run the application.

gunicorn main:app

10. (Optional) You can set up an nginx reverse proxy and publicly expose your lndash instance. Note: need to write these instructions.