From mark at friedenbach.org Sun Dec 13 03:13:01 2015 From: mark at friedenbach.org (Mark Friedenbach) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:13:01 +0800 Subject: [Lightning-dev] GUI for Lightning Network? In-Reply-To: References: <201512130130.12334.luke@dashjr.org> Message-ID: This line of thinking is technically informed. Lightning nodes will have to be on 24/7 in order to be routed through, so it is probably better to approach this the same way one would a server daemon: your favorite back-end API stack (REST, JSON-RPC, whatever) with request authentication, copious logs, and some sort of authenticated web interface to view pretty graphs. A mobile command and control application would be gravy. That said, there is probably room for a "lite mode" client which is an endpoint -- it is not online 24/7 to be routed through, but can send or receive payments when turned on. The correct approach here is to probably integrate with existing wallets as another payment type. On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Denis Gorbachev < denis.d.gorbachev at gmail.com> wrote: > Luke, > > Are you talking about the wallet integration or LN node management? > > Suppose you are running an intermediary LN node. You want to compare your > fees for current month VS previous month. You can do that with command line > (dump the logs, parse them, etc) or you can do that with GUI. > > Two questions: > - Is this a real use case? > - Why not implement it as web application that connects to LN node > backend? > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 8:30 AM Luke Dashjr wrote: > >> On Sunday, December 13, 2015 1:03:12 AM Denis Gorbachev wrote: >> > Hi everybody, >> > >> > Do you think it's a good idea to write a GUI for LN node management? >> > >> > Which features would you like to see there? >> >> I would like to see it transparently supported in Bitcoin Core GUI, using >> an >> external library. >> >> Luke >> > -- > @DenGorbachev > > _______________________________________________ > Lightning-dev mailing list > Lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: