I decided to remove Umbrel from my Raspberry pi 4 8gb since after several months of trying to install Bitcoin Node (I only had 1 opportunity to have the full node after several errors such as getting stuck in “Starting” and having problems with peers) decided that it is not worth using it, since it is a waste of time. It is easier to install Ubuntu and install Bitcoin Core ORIGINAL and the classic. The truth is, my experience was very bad, but very bad, being a novice user, I had to do many difficult things from Putty, the constant errors that made my node ask me to reindex to the constant meaningless shutdowns, the last of the errors I had today was that without having been turned off, the node decided to turn itself off and I knew this by reading the debug.log that was generated (which I had to monitor many times to know what was happening because it was not moving forward and not connecting with the peers) I had an “HTTP” problem DON’T RESPOND" which didn’t make sense, since it had been connected for less than 1 day, why would it fail? Here in the forum I did not receive any answers or help which makes everything more frustrating, on YouTube there are only videos on how to install it and it only says “you leave the node working and it downloads by itself” which is a lie because problems arise that require that one starts to solve them, which is the point of everything being so easy and beautiful in interface if there are many unresolved problems inside? The truth is a disappointment. I was able to recover my bitcoins using the seed words but if someone who manages to install everything and forgets to backup their words is condemned to lose everything due to a simple error that the program occurs to throw. Umbrel is still very green in my opinion, it needs a lot of work from the developers and the community to offer help for common problems. Without further ado, I hope that some mod closes this post since the problem was not resolved and I decided to delete everything and look for another alternative to keep my bitcoins out of exchanges and hot wallets.
In the future, if it is better optimized and so much “cute” software is left aside and it is functional, I will be here again. but I would also like YouTubers to also talk about the problems or possible problems that one faces when installing Umbrel and not just say “just install it and that’s it!”
Maybe you don’t share my opinion but that’s what I faced in these 3 months of trying to install bitcoin node since having a 100mb connection at least 20 attempts to delete everything and reinstall I came to this conclusion. I even had the node at 99.80% until one night I decided to turn it off from the “Shut Down” option and the next day when I turned it on it told me that it was necessary to Reindex since there was a single missing block which was very frustrating because to get there At that 99.80% I had to spend 9 days, and then another 9 days reindexing, which is 18 lost days added to the other previous days. to just enjoy the full node for EXACTLY 1 month, which made me very happy that he was so punctual to release an error.