Install Chrysalis Hornet

You can use this one line command to get a routine that will perform the installation of Hornet for IOTA 1.5 testnet. Login to your VPS and run the command bellow. This shell script has been tested in Ubuntu 20.04.

Install Golang and Hornet

The following commands will download and run an install.sh script with all steps needed to install Hornet according to the guide by Svenger87 (https://github.com/svenger87/hornet-alphanet-tutorial).

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/demichele/install-hornet-1.5/main/install.sh && chmod 0777 install.sh && ./install.sh

Config Hornet

After the installation is done, you will need to generate a hash and salt for the Dashboard password. This is done with Hornet tools. Head to the /opt/hornet-testnet directory and run

./hornet tool pwdhash

The program will ask for a password (this will be your Dashboard password) and return both Salt and Hash.

Next, edit the config_chrysalis_testnet.json file to add your hash and salt to the Dashboard section. IMPORTANT: if you are running the node on a VPS you might need to change references to localhost to 0.0.0.0 in the dashboard section. See following block.

  "dashboard": {
    "bindAddress": "0.0.0.0:8081",
    "dev": false,
    "auth": {
      "sessionTimeout": "72h",
      "username": "admin",
      "passwordHash": "YOUR_HASH",
      "passwordSalt": "YOUR_SALT"
    }
  },

Once you add your salt and hash to the config file, restart the node and access it at the port 8081

Restart

systemctl start hornet-testnet

Your Dashboard

http://YOUR_VPS_IP:8081

Add Neighbors

You can add new neighbors from the Dashboard visiting https://nodesharing.wisewolf.de/ or asking guys at the chrysalis-testnet Discord channel. Keep in mind that neighbors are handled following this structure.

# IF the neighbor is reachable through a domain:
/dns/NEIGHBOR_DOMAIN/tcp/15600/p2p/12D3KooWS7nyRgFjzgkethzi6SDdjmuAGooxDmnoLzyex7Lu4hKo

# IF the neighbor is reachable through an IP:
/ip4/NEIGHBOR_IP/tcp/15600/p2p/12D3KooWS7nyRgFjzgkethzi6SDdjmuAGooxDmnoLzyex7Lu4hKo

Update Hornet

systemctl stop hornet-testnet && cd /opt/hornet && git pull && scripts/build_hornet.sh && cp hornet /opt/hornet-testnet && systemctl start hornet-testnet

If the version contains breaking changes:

systemctl stop hornet-testnet && cd /opt/hornet-testnet && rm -rf testnetdb && rm -rf snapshots && cd /opt/hornet && git pull && scripts/build_hornet.sh && cp hornet /opt/hornet-testnet && systemctl start hornet-testnet