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Welcome to the Builder's Guide to the LND Galaxy!
The Lightning Network
Overview
Payment Channels
The Gossip Network
Pathfinding
Lightning Network Invoices
Making Payments
Liquidity
LSAT
Taro
Lightning Network Tools
LND
Lightning Terminal
What is Lightning Terminal?
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Get litd
Connect to Terminal
Recommended Channels
Health Checks
Opening Lightning Network Channels
Managing Channel Liquidity
Loop and Lightning Terminal
Loop Fees
Pool and Lightning Terminal
Command Line Interface
Troubleshooting
Lightning Node Connect: Under the hood
LNC Node Package
Privacy and Security
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Loop
Pool
Taro
Faraday
LAPPs
Guides
Next Steps
Community Resources
Resource List
Lightning Bulb 💡
Glossary
FAQ
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Command Line Interface
litd can be accessed using the litcli, pool, loop and frcli command line interfaces (CLI).
Starting with version 0.6, litd comes with a command line interface litcli. This interface is primarily used to generate new sessions for Lightning Node Connect, e.g. to connect to the web-based Lightning Terminal at terminal.lightning.engineering.
In addition, litd optionally bundles the Pool, Loop and Faraday clients including their command line interfaces. To include these, install litd with the commands
make go-install-cli make install
Alternatively, Pool, Loop and Faraday can be installed separately, and their CLIs can be used to call the bundled binaries in litd. It is important to specify the correct port, as litd will run poold, loopd and faraday on a separate port, making it possible to run two instances of loop or pool simultaneously. The TLS path also needs to be specified. Alternatively the tls.cert can be copied from .lit/tls.cert to .pool/mainnet, .loop/mainnet and .faraday/mainnet
To make use of these tools as seen in the examples below:

litcli

litcli --lndtlscertpath ~/.lit/tls.cert sessions add --label="My LNC" --type admin
By default, a pairing phrase created with litcli is valid for 3 months and is set to "readonly", meaning invoices cannot be paid or created and channels cannot be opened. You may extend this with the --expiry <seconds> and --type flags.

pool

pool --tlscertpath ~/.lit/tls.cert --rpcserver=localhost:8443 orders

loop

loop --tlscertpath ~/.lit/tls.cert --rpcserver=localhost:8443 terms

frcli

frcli --tlscertpath ~/.lit/tls.cert --rpcserver=localhost:8443 insights
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