I’m a new full node user, and umbrel is my first. I’m trying to start learning how to interact with the RPC API using bitcoin-cli (command line interface). I have followed the FAQ entry which relates to SSH and finding the bitcoin-cli, however I can’t get most commands to work. For example uptime s…

You need to reference the path to the executable. For example: ~/umbrel/bin/bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo

What commands did you type exactly?

so after typing “~/umbrel/bin/bitcoin-cli” and entering, I then typed: “uptime” which produced a satisfactory result. I then tried “listtransactions” and also “getblockchaininfo” but they produced “command not found”.

aha! Thank you Lounés. I am still new to command line, but it makes sense that the command will only work when referencing the right directory. Awesome.

@louneskmt I have getblockchaininfo working, but can’t seem to get getwalletinfo or gettransaction to work. I run it and it just skips to the next line without any output. Are there certain bitcoin-cli commands that won’t work with Umbrel?

No, they all should work. Maybe you are forgetting an argument or option?

Part of my problem is I’m not sure which command I need to use. I had a channel get closed recently, so I am trying to send those sats on-chain to a mobile wallet. However, I am only able to see the transaction via mempool.space that’s connected to my Umbrel. If I go to a different block explorer a…

For the onchain wallet, Umbrel uses LND wallet, so it won’t work with bitcoin-cli (which is Bitcoin Core command line interface). If your transaction hasn’t been broadcasted to the network, I would suggest to restart Umbrel, and it should rebroadcast it properly.

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Hi, I am having the same issue when using the command getbalance of Umbrel. The command return nothing (no error no balance). Pls help advise. Thanks,

Since the update to 0.5.0, I cannot use docker exec bitcoin bitcoin-cli getbalances instead I get an error that says, “Error: No such container: bitcoin” How can I use bitcoin-cli?

Using bitcoin-cli on umbrel

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