DeactivateTower

DeactivateTower sets the given tower's status to inactive so that it is not considered for session negotiation. Its sessions will also not be used while the tower is inactive.

Source: wtclientrpc/wtclient.proto

gRPC

rpc DeactivateTower (DeactivateTowerRequest) returns (DeactivateTowerResponse);

REST

HTTP Method	Path
POST	/v2/watchtower/client/tower/deactivate/{pubkey}

Code Samples

gRPC

Javascript

const fs = require('fs');
const grpc = require('@grpc/grpc-js');
const protoLoader = require('@grpc/proto-loader');

const GRPC_HOST = 'localhost:10009'
const MACAROON_PATH = 'LND_DIR/data/chain/bitcoin/regtest/admin.macaroon'
const TLS_PATH = 'LND_DIR/tls.cert'

const loaderOptions = {
  keepCase: true,
  longs: String,
  enums: String,
  defaults: true,
  oneofs: true,
};
const packageDefinition = protoLoader.loadSync(['lightning.proto', 'wtclientrpc/wtclient.proto'], loaderOptions);
const wtclientrpc = grpc.loadPackageDefinition(packageDefinition).wtclientrpc;
process.env.GRPC_SSL_CIPHER_SUITES = 'HIGH+ECDSA';
const tlsCert = fs.readFileSync(TLS_PATH);
const sslCreds = grpc.credentials.createSsl(tlsCert);
const macaroon = fs.readFileSync(MACAROON_PATH).toString('hex');
const macaroonCreds = grpc.credentials.createFromMetadataGenerator(function(args, callback) {
  let metadata = new grpc.Metadata();
  metadata.add('macaroon', macaroon);
  callback(null, metadata);
});
let creds = grpc.credentials.combineChannelCredentials(sslCreds, macaroonCreds);
let client = new wtclientrpc.WatchtowerClient(GRPC_HOST, creds);
let request = {
  pubkey: <bytes>,
};
client.deactivateTower(request, function(err, response) {
  console.log(response);
});
// Console output:
//  {
//    "status": <string>,
//  }

Python

import codecs, grpc, os
# Generate the following 2 modules by compiling the wtclientrpc/wtclient.proto with the grpcio-tools.
# See https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/grpc/python.md for instructions.
import wtclient_pb2 as wtclientrpc, wtclient_pb2_grpc as wtclientstub

GRPC_HOST = 'localhost:10009'
MACAROON_PATH = 'LND_DIR/data/chain/bitcoin/regtest/admin.macaroon'
TLS_PATH = 'LND_DIR/tls.cert'

# create macaroon credentials
macaroon = codecs.encode(open(MACAROON_PATH, 'rb').read(), 'hex')
def metadata_callback(context, callback):
  callback([('macaroon', macaroon)], None)
auth_creds = grpc.metadata_call_credentials(metadata_callback)
# create SSL credentials
os.environ['GRPC_SSL_CIPHER_SUITES'] = 'HIGH+ECDSA'
cert = open(TLS_PATH, 'rb').read()
ssl_creds = grpc.ssl_channel_credentials(cert)
# combine macaroon and SSL credentials
combined_creds = grpc.composite_channel_credentials(ssl_creds, auth_creds)
# make the request
channel = grpc.secure_channel(GRPC_HOST, combined_creds)
stub = wtclientstub.WatchtowerClientStub(channel)
request = wtclientrpc.DeactivateTowerRequest(
  pubkey=<bytes>,
)
response = stub.DeactivateTower(request)
print(response)
# {
#    "status": <string>,
# }

REST

Javascript

const fs = require('fs');
const request = require('request');

const REST_HOST = 'localhost:8080'
const MACAROON_PATH = 'LND_DIR/data/chain/bitcoin/regtest/admin.macaroon'

let requestBody = {
  pubkey: <string>, // <bytes> 
};
let options = {
  url: `https://${REST_HOST}/v2/watchtower/client/tower/deactivate/{pubkey}`,
  // Work-around for self-signed certificates.
  rejectUnauthorized: false,
  json: true,
  headers: {
    'Grpc-Metadata-macaroon': fs.readFileSync(MACAROON_PATH).toString('hex'),
  },
  form: JSON.stringify(requestBody),
}
request.post(options, function(error, response, body) {
  console.log(body);
});
// Console output:
//  {
//    "status": <string>, // <string> 
//  }

Python

import base64, codecs, json, requests

REST_HOST = 'localhost:8080'
MACAROON_PATH = 'LND_DIR/data/chain/bitcoin/regtest/admin.macaroon'
TLS_PATH = 'LND_DIR/tls.cert'

url = f'https://{REST_HOST}/v2/watchtower/client/tower/deactivate/{pubkey}'
macaroon = codecs.encode(open(MACAROON_PATH, 'rb').read(), 'hex')
headers = {'Grpc-Metadata-macaroon': macaroon}
data = {
  'pubkey': <bytes>,
}
r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data), verify=TLS_PATH)
print(r.json())
# {
#    "status": <string>,
# }

Shell

$ lncli wtclient deactivate --help

NAME:
   lncli wtclient deactivate - Deactivate a watchtower to temporarily prevent its use for sessions/backups.

USAGE:
   lncli wtclient deactivate pubkey

Messages

wtclientrpc.DeactivateTowerRequest

Source: wtclientrpc/wtclient.proto

Field	gRPC Type	REST Type	REST Placement
pubkey The identifying public key of the watchtower to deactivate.	bytes	string	path

wtclientrpc.DeactivateTowerResponse

Source: wtclientrpc/wtclient.proto

Field	gRPC Type	REST Type
status A string describing the action that took place.	string	string