I've done the same thing: self-hosted on my laptop.
The thing is, a Lightning node has to be on to send and receive zaps. Laptops aren't the best for that because they're designed to be easily shut off and carried around.
My solution is to have the Alby Hub on my laptop as my personal "bank," and use a separate wallet (Minibits, in my case), to send and receive zaps on Nostr.
So I can refill my Minibits wallet from the Alby Hub, then turn off the hub. Or vice versa I can send sats to the hub, then turn it back off. So most of my sats are in the hub and self-custodied, but I'm not using it as my "daily driver."
All that being said, to get the hub working with Nostr zaps, you'd have to set it up with Nostr Wallet Connect. Without NWC, it should be able to receive sats over your Alby address as long as the hub has a channel open. However, I think you'd have to manually approve zaps on the hub, unless you connect the app from which you're sending zaps with NWC. And then it would work as long as you laptop is online.
I'm still learning this stuff myself, but that's what I've gleaned so far. Happy to chat about it more, if it will help!
buttercat1791 / Michael J
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2024-09-05 01:39:40
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