LIGHTNING-NOTIFICATION-CONNECT(7)

💜 connect — the "omg we're connected" notification 💜

Hey bestie, quick intro before we get into it: this is lightning-notification-connect(7), one of the Core Lightning notification pages. It's short, it's sweet, it's giving "little note that pops up and says hiiii" 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

connect — the notification you get when your node connects to a peer. That's it, that's the whole vibe. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. The connect notification fires off whenever the node gets connected to a peer. No cap, that's literally the whole job — it's the "we linked up" ping, the friendship bracelet of the Lightning Network 💖

Every time a peer connection happens, this notification informs you. Periodt.

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🎀 NOTIFICATION PAYLOAD 🎀

This is the good part, the main character energy, the payload itself. Here's everything it hands you:

• id (pubkey) — the id of the peer which sent the custom message
• direction (string) (one of "in", "out") — which way the connection is going, in or out, iykyk
• address (object) — address info, and lowkey this is mainly useful if direction is out:
  • type (string) (one of "local socket", "ipv4", "ipv6", "torv2", "torv3", "websocket") — the type of connection. Heads up: torv2/torv3 only show up if direction is out 🌈

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🧚 the address object, broken down by type 🧚

Because what's inside address depends on what type you got. Vibe check time:

If type is "local socket":

• socket (string) — the socket filename 📁

If type is "ipv4", "ipv6", "torv2" or "torv3":

• address (string) — the address, in the expected format for that type
• port (u16) — the port number 🔢

ngl, that's all the fields the page gives you — no extra guesses from me, bestie. What you see is what you get 💅

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💫 a cute little sign-off 💫

That's the whole page, fr fr — short and iconic, just like you. This one's from Core Lightning v26.06.9, so keep that in mind when you're out here reading notifications like the Unix icon you are 👑💖 go slay your peer connections, bestie! 🦋✨