I'm trying to develop a monero application and want to use the testnet. I tried following these instructions monerodocs.org/infrastructure/networks/#testnet to connect to a remote testnet node but I'm getting a "no connection to daemon error"... (full message at libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/r0/do…66da653ed5e23ba28d07c066c28ceeb8fd2)

lookaside[m], remote testnet node is probably dead. which one?

I tried connecting to the one listed in the article, namely `monero-testnet.exan.tech:28081`. Are you aware of another one I can use?

i just opened a restricted rpc port on the one at xmrchain.net

dunno if you need unrestricted. as always with these things, your best bet is to roll your own. testnet shouldn't take that long to sync

How much storage is required to sync it? Best way to minimize it? Thanks for your advice

dunno if the exan.tech one is working, i don't have my port sniffing script handy

* your advice. What do you mean by restricted/unrestricted?

so, the daemon is like the monero blockchain database manager and the network interface. if you have complete rpc access to the daemon, you can execute any of the daemon rpc commands. some of these aren't fun for random internet people to toggle.

so there's a restricted rpc access to the daemon that limits what a remote client can do

monero blockchain database service.. not manager. anyhoo.

lookaside[m], my current testnet blockchain is ~3 Gb on disk

Gotcha. Just looking to send / receive + generate subaddresses. If I run my own testnet, do I need to run miners? or am I connecting to the existing network? Apologies for the noob questions

if you wanna reduce further, you can try to launch with --prune-blockchain , but i dunno how much that will help testnet chain because theres no txs, and afaik, pruning chops off data from txs

u don't need to worry about miners. ure connecting to the existing network

Is that as simple as running `monerod --testnet`?

* `monerod --testnet`? Does the chain save in the folder you run it from?

saves in the same folder as mainnet, in a sub directory

Gotcha, thanks! `2022-01-03 19:53:18.576 I Synced 2501/1888772 (0%, 1886271 left)`

Is there a way to "skip history"? Or am I sorta stuck waiting for this to complete

sorta stuck. You can keep that running and see if u can get the remote node to work

hang on tho, ima put the new version on testnet whynot

Much appreciated!

ok should be updated now

yay bin plop worked

What's the url/port?

uhm, try xmrchain.net:28089

!resolve xmrchain.net

bah

Am I doing something wrong?... (full message at libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/r0/do…0aac5d4d42e536a6d5d61d318dc233bdaa0)

theres no quotes for the address

Hmm still getting same error with `--daemon-address xmrchain.net:28089`

well i dunno maybe quotes are ignored. drop trusted daemon perhaps

Didn't work either :/

lets take this to the monero room, this is getting too much for dev

Sure thing!

gingeropolous: it seems I can't connect to the testnet anymore

lookaside[m]: try the testnet remote node from here melo.tools/nodes.html