# Does the slider in Electrs change its behavior?

**URL:** https://community.umbrel.com/t/does-the-slider-in-electrs-change-its-behavior/24910
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 18, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/does-the-slider-in-electrs-change-its-behavior/24910 "2026-03-18T15:44:49Z")
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### Author: ![oppedahl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b2d939/32.png) [@oppedahl](https://community.umbrel.com/u/oppedahl)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/does-the-slider-in-electrs-change-its-behavior/24910/1 "2026-03-18T15:44:49Z")

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In the GUI management page for Electrs, there is a slider. Slide to the left and “local network” is blue colored, and the “address” is “umbrel.local”. Slide to the right and “tor” is blue colored, and the “address” is a 62-character string ending in “.onion”.

My question is, does the slider change the behavior of the Electrs server? If I slide to the right, does this turn off the clearnet function at “umbrel.local”? If I slide to the left, does this turn off the Tor function?

Is this documented somewhere? Is there a way that I could have gotten the answer to this question other than posting on this forum?

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### Author: ![Pinipon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@Pinipon88](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Pinipon88)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/does-the-slider-in-electrs-change-its-behavior/24910/2 "2026-03-19T14:06:19Z")

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The slider just shows you different information, but doesn’t activate-deactivate anything. You can connect to Electrs locally or using TOR either way.  
AFAIK it’s not documented in Umbrel itself, but you can always check the docker-compose.yml file either on your server or on github.
