# Problems Connecting Sparrow to Electrs (been working for 2 years) **URL:** \ **Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [October 15, 2023, 11:32am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946 "2023-10-15T11:32:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AVGjoe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/avgjoe/32/2970_2.png) [@AVGjoe](https://community.umbrel.com/u/AVGjoe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 11:32am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/1 "2023-10-15T11:32:10Z")
It’s been a few weeks, but I opened up Sparrow today to find that it won’t connect to my Umbrel node (that’s local on the same network). I logged onto my Umbrel and restarted it. The Bitcoin Node wasn’t fully synced… so I waited and it eventually synced up to 100%. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/6/6933de60e614b8a711e088bec268a400d494447e.png) When I opened Electris I got “Waiting for Bitcoin Node to finish Syncing…” for a bit: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/0/00546155214d6f4d650e66fc89a8a34f488d7df2.png) Eventually I got a loading bar and it took the whole day and night to get to 100% (was 100% when I woke up this AM). Sparrow still won’t connect… I refreshed the Electrs and it’s back to “Waiting for Bitcoin Node to finish Syncing…” I’ve changed nothing on the Sparrow config: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/8/86246aa08ad1ebff77c785fd98c84d2e46cff97d.png) Anyone have any ideas? _edit: I’ve also uninstalled and reinstalled Electrs_ ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/2 "2023-10-15T12:09:16Z")
I’ve been having this problem for a couple of months after Electrs/Sparrow working fine for a month or so before that. Running Umbrel on their Umbrel Home device. Cannot seem to solve it. Very frustrating. About to just get a whole new setup to run a node since Umbrel seems pretty useless without an electrum server ---
**Author:** ![AVGjoe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/avgjoe/32/2970_2.png) [@AVGjoe](https://community.umbrel.com/u/AVGjoe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/3 "2023-10-15T14:08:10Z")
Welllll patience may be the answer… I just left i all alone for a few hours came back and the connection tested good: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/d/d8ad2876b319c822091198e4d148eab4ea9def0c.png) ---
**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 8:23am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/4 "2023-10-17T08:23:20Z")
Great to hear @AVGjoe In terms of your persistent issue @therewillbeFUD, can you please [SSH](https://community.umbrel.com/t/official-umbrel-troubleshooting-guide-and-faq/9873) into your Umbrel and run the following command (if this is still an issue): `~/umbrel/scripts/app compose electrs logs --tail 250` You can share the output here, and then we can try isolate the problem. ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 11:45am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/5 "2023-10-17T11:45:54Z")
![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/1/115bc077badb74127b3de49301b051cbddd54bbb.png) I get the following error when trying to run that command ---
**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/6 "2023-10-18T13:13:43Z")
Interesting- that is a strange error to get given electrs is running. It may be that electrs had a problematic start-up, or there is a docker issue. In that case, could you please try the following first > sudo ~/umbrel/scripts/app restart bitcoin after this script completes, again try > sudo ~/umbrel/scripts/app compose electrs logs --tail 250 ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/7 "2023-10-18T15:15:20Z")
Thank you for taking the time to help me with this by the way. The bitcoin app restart command solved that errror. Here is a pastebin of the electrs logs - it’s very long > **[Electrs logs - Pastebin.com](https://pastebin.com/t3vEy2vM)** > > Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time. ---
**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/8 "2023-10-19T11:28:15Z")
Ok I would take the same approach for the electrs app too- it appears it got stuck at block height 812441 > sudo ~/umbrel/scripts/app restart electrs Hopefully this will resolve the issue- it may take electrs 24hrs to resync after this ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/9 "2023-10-19T12:21:06Z")
Thank you, this worked! And I think I’ve discovered the problem - I set up Umbrel through my desktop PC and I had been trying to also access it through a laptop, which is on the same wifi network as the desktop and the node. For some reason every time I try to access Umbrel through the laptop, it disrupts electrs. It’s not critical to fix this - I can just use the desktop - but that’s what was causing electrs to get stuck. ---
**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/10 "2023-10-19T12:31:05Z")
Hmmm interesting, I will raise this with the team as that’s a weird issue to encounter. Did you discover this problem by noticing it only dropped out when you used your laptop, or is there something else that highlighted this? ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/11 "2023-10-19T12:36:48Z")
> [@smolgrrr](#): > > sudo ~/umbrel/scripts/app restart electrs Actually this is not the problem. Restarting electrs with the command you gave me worked very briefly but now electrs is stuck again and restarting it didn’t work this time, even on the desktop. I will retrieve the logs again. > **[Attaching to electrs\_app\_1, electrs\_tor\_1, electrs\_app\_proxy\_1,...](https://pastebin.com/E2QCvxwB)** > > Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time. ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/12 "2023-10-19T12:38:26Z")
I am trying to access Umbrel with Sparrow wallet, not sure if that’s relevant ---
**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/13 "2023-10-19T12:47:40Z")
Ah nice, the logs are giving a clear error now at least. > electrs\_1 | [2023-10-19T12:33:10.368Z WARN electrs::server] 1: failed to shutdown TCP connection Transport endpoint is not connected (os error 107) > electrs\_1 | [2023-10-19T12:35:41.624Z ERROR electrs::server] 2: disconnecting due to failed to send response: “[{"id":504,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"9d1e8c77fc36c3023dbe2e6ec4871a520468edeb1742493cdeee78b0827ec6bc"},{"id":505,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"2d90c16c6becd0adc5f3bbf201c3f66881dee0d6c3a5543877e3d4596999ca6e"},{"id":506,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"381395d02925b3280060a2b4a60bffa03f10616e4433764f471a8c69938c442c"},{"id":507,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"237a8380a7a9c9aa98a228051c376e1161a1dd8c9e03469978232032ebf92102"},{"id":508,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"237a8380a7a9c9aa98a228051c376e1161a1dd8c9e03469978232032ebf92102"},{"id":509,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"a3260c890f0b7883a3d0260b8eb9b1c9972489965fcb032e0549d6aac67e58f5"},{"id":510,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"b2cf494cc98c0bd31dacffc3f157457b3c5778d58d24eacde7a8569168090dc9"},{"id":511,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"5b702df50773a8dd8b61de88b8265ca9f6d1e112007e452a007819e70e404708"},{"id":512,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"69404b30be27c3fa3eca101c0fa68970139c9364db90378c772ec0f98e350b6c"},{"id":513,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"2763cd9ed2fd777bd1c12adc274bae00f774c37dca323a11c6c4d0a283b16641"},{"id":514,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"a1088896a1f659ea8c90f9f199ca1805bdb21f46a701b8acd1ec6f4f7d8e370e"},{"id":515,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"2763cd9ed2fd777bd1c12adc274bae00f774c37dca323a11c6c4d0a283b16641"},{"id":516,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"6420e8d84c5b0a106540636a8d02f2cb60f4f3b9d7586570804d20ca1a9f8296"},{"id":517,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"2de8ff2b1e580424461e6047b91a4d5cf481ac53eadd0397938cd7d947f0f859"},{"id":518,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"b3e1c26ccd424356d769a0acec4bc750e4bdbffde435145af8b5f6857c2827ce"},{"id":519,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":520,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":521,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":522,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":523,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":524,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":525,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":526,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":527,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":528,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":529,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":530,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":531,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":532,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":533,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":534,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":535,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":536,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":537,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":538,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":539,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":540,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":541,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null},{"id":542,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":null}]\n” > electrs\_1 | [2023-10-19T12:35:41.624Z WARN electrs::server] 2: failed to shutdown TCP connection Transport endpoint is not connected (os error 107) > electrs\_1 | [2023-10-19T12:35:41.629Z INFO electrs::index] indexing 1 blocks: [812915…812915] > electrs\_1 | [2023-10-19T12:35:41.692Z INFO electrs::chain] chain updated: tip=0000000000000000000148c918cdc160e41f7306cc8d5ceac8188ad24a413cbc, height=812915 Although this issue appears to be on the Electrs side- I believe rebuilding bitcoin’s peer connections may help to ‘remount’ electrs. Hopefully this can resolve the issue. Then stop Bitcoin: `~/umbrel/scripts/app stop bitcoin` Then you can delete the peers.dat file: `rm /home/umbrel/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin/data/bitcoin/peers.dat` (If the above command works it just sends you to the new line, sometimes this is confusing but that means it was successful otherwise if you run it again you’ll see it now displays “No such file or directory”) Then start Bitcoin again: `~/umbrel/scripts/app start bitcoin` I would also restart Umbrel after this. If this does not work I will raise it further with the dev team to take a look at- thanks for your patience thus far. ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/14 "2023-10-19T13:06:44Z")
Thank you again for this. Trying what you suggested but I’m getting this error when I try to stop the bitcoin app (I tried restarting it then stopping it but same error) ![image.png](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/b/b49b41585d51ba4847e75e53a3bc33bdbc2624d5.png) ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 11:46am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/15 "2023-10-25T11:46:53Z")
Any suggestions? ![image.png](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/b/b49b41585d51ba4847e75e53a3bc33bdbc2624d5.png) ---
**Author:** ![Cryptodc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Cryptodc](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Cryptodc)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/16 "2024-02-04T21:39:39Z")
did you figure out a solution? ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/17 "2024-02-04T22:44:15Z")
Electrs put out an update a month or so ago it seems and since then it’s been working great. Thanks for the followup ---
**Author:** ![Cryptodc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Cryptodc](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Cryptodc)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/18 "2024-02-04T23:13:09Z")
I have been bedeviled by this issue. I cannot connect to Electrs after getting a new raspberry Pi and syncing the Bitcoin node. I do not know what else to do ---
**Author:** ![therewillbeFUD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@therewillbeFUD](https://community.umbrel.com/u/therewillbeFUD)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/problems-connecting-sparrow-to-electrs-been-working-for-2-years/13946/19 "2024-02-04T23:35:17Z")
Oh I thought you were Umbrel support lol. I didn’t do anything other than update Electrs. Now it works great.