"watchtower client not active" on Umbrel 0.5.4

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I’m having trouble getting a watchtower client running on my Umbrel’s LND node. Found lots of help in various places online, but most are old and none of them seem to be working for me.

First, here’s the relevant part of my lnd.conf:

umbrel@umbrel:~ $ cat ~/umbrel/app-data/lightning/data/lnd/lnd.conf 
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[wtclient]
wtclient.active=true
wtclient.sweep-fee-rate=10

Here’s how I’m restarting LND:

umbrel@umbrel:~ $ ~/umbrel/scripts/app compose lightning restart lnd
Restarting lightning_lnd_1 ... done

Then wait a minute and check the wtclient stats:

umbrel@umbrel:~ $ ~/umbrel/scripts/app compose lightning exec lnd lncli wtclient stats
[lncli] rpc error: code = Unknown desc = watchtower client not active

Thanks in advance for any advice or troubleshooting tips.

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I think I figured it out on my own, there’s a new “Advanced Settings” menu item in 0.5.4 that has toggles for Watchtower and Watchtower Client, those worked for me so I backed out my changes to lnd.conf and used those options in the UI instead.

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Thanks for sharing, I was just about to mention this. Weird that adding it to lnd.conf didn’t work though