Add a local node to bitcoin?

I have 5 Umbrel VMs running and I’d like to connect them all together as peers. Umbrel Team, can you please add this to the Bitcoin/Bitcoin-Knots “Advanced Settings” in the UI. I’ve tried modifying the ./umbrel/app-data/bitcoin/data/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf file without any success. Anybody have any ideas how to enable RPC and add local nodes?

# Load additional configuration file, relative to the data directory.

includeconf=umbrel-bitcoin.conf

server=1

rpcallow=192.168.2.0/24

rpcauth=bitcoin:77ef21bd026a1cc44f...

rpcwhitelist=bitcoin,umbrel

rpcuser=bitcoin

rpcpass=xxxx

connect=192.168.2.201

connect=192.168.2.203

connect=192.168.2.204

connect=192.168.2.206

This has been a long time coming. SSH into your umbrel and run this command.

sudo docker exec -it `sudo docker ps |grep bitcoind |cut -d " " -f 1` bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo
sudo docker exec -it `sudo docker ps |grep bitcoind |cut -d " " -f 1` bitcoin-cli addnode [IP] onetry
e.g.
sudo docker exec -it `sudo docker ps |grep bitcoind |cut -d " " -f 1` bitcoin-cli addnode 192.168.1.209 onetry
sudo docker exec -it `sudo docker ps |grep bitcoind |cut -d " " -f 1` bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo |grep "addr"

You should see the address listed there. Also look at your bitcoin debug.log
cat ~/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin/data/bitcoin/debug.log
cat ~/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin-knots/data/bitcoin/debug.log

I don’t believe this last through reboots or restarts, so hopefully the Umbrel team will add this ability to the Advanced Settings in the UI.

Try to add the info you need in the exports.sh in the BIN_ARGS section, it may work.