Umbrel 1.4.2 Hybrid Clearnet mode with VPS - not working

Hi all,

I’m trying to set up my Umbrel to use Clearnet.

I set up a VPS (Digital ocean droplet) and successfully have handshake and data going through the tunnel.

Port 9735 is showing open with a port checker when lightning node is running.

My Umbrel Lightning Node is showing a Clearnet address. When I try to open a channel I get this error message:

“Unable to connect to peer
rpc error: code = Unknown desc = dial proxy failed: dial tcp XXXXXXXXXX:9735: connect: connection refused”
It also failed in ThunderHub.

These are my settings – personal IP addresses and keys redacted with Xs.

lnd.conf files settings
[Application Options]
externalip=xxxxxxx:9735
nat=false
listen=0.0.0.0:9735

[tor]
tor.active=true
tor.v3=true
tor.skip-proxy-for-clearnet-targets=1
tor.streamisolation=false

umbrel wireguard node config
wg0.conf

[Interface]
PrivateKey = XXXXXXXXXXX
Address = 10.8.0.2/24
DNS = 67.207.67.2 67.207.67.3

[Peer]
PublicKey = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0 # Route all traffic through VPN
Endpoint = XXXXXXXXXX:51820
PersistentKeepalive = 25

VPS wireguard node config
wg0.conf

[Interface]
Address = 10.8.0.1/24
SaveConfig = true
PostUp = ufw route allow in on wg0 out on eth0
PostUp = iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
PreDown = ufw route delete allow in on wg0 out on eth0
PreDown = iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
ListenPort = 51820
PrivateKey = XXXXXX

[Peer]
PublicKey = XXXXXXXXXXX
AllowedIPs = 10.8.0.2/32
Endpoint = XXXXXXXXX:52035

Thoughts? What else to try? If I give up on the VPS and got the DNS route will it be better?

Thanks!