LN LiTd Peer Connect

Hey everyone,
I’m working in Taproot Assets Over the Lightning Network.
I have Umbrel installed on a Raspberry Pi, running a Bitcoin node. I’m accessing my Umbrel remotely via Tailscale. I installed Litd, minted, and finalized an asset, everything is working smoothly. My Lightning node is accessible at http://<My-tailscale-IP>:8433, and I can log in via the GUI to see my node’s public key.

My friend followed the exact same setup as I did.

Now, I want to connect to his node as a peer from mine so I can open channel with him and transfer him the asset.

To do that, should I run the following command?
lncli connect <his_node_pubKey>@<Onion_address>:9735

His node is private and not listed on 1ML. I simply want to add him to my peer list. How can I achieve this? Any help would be appreciated!