Can timelockrecovery-specter be made available out of the box in Specter?

[petre-c]

Hello, @oren-z0, I watched your video and saw your website; I am excited to try out the current plugin.
Well done, by the way, since this seems to be an emerging area that is not widely explored and talked about.

I don't see the plugin being available in Specter out of the box. Can it be made available?

Thanks!
Petre

[petre-c]

I have two Specter installations - one on Windows and the other on Umbrel.

I installed the timelockrecovery extension by running

pip install specterext-timelockrecovery

then restarted Specter but it's still not showing up.

I should note that on Windows I installed Specter by downloading the software from the official website, not via pip.

[oren-z0]

Hi @petre-c , thanks for the support!
You can try downloading the install-specterext-timelockrecovery branch from: https://github.com/oren-z0/specter-desktop/tree/install-specterext-timelockrecovery which is waiting for review (cryptoadvance/specter-desktop#2489), then start Specter with:

SERVICES_DEVSTATUS_THRESHOLD=alpha python -m cryptoadvance.specter server

Or

SERVICES_DEVSTATUS_THRESHOLD=alpha python -m cryptoadvance.specter server --config DevelopmentConfig

The SERVICES_DEVSTATUS_THRESHOLD=alpha environment variable is necessary to show the extensions that are still alpha.

Unfortunately the Specter team said that the review will take a long time, possibly months, because most of the team has moved to work on other stuff.
Maybe you want to nag them on https://t.me/spectersupport ?

Meanwhile I've started working on a similar extension for Electrum, which is much more popular and has a more active development: https://github.com/oren-z0/electrum/tree/timelockrecovery
(Writing UI in Python is pretty annoying...)

[petre-c]

Hi @petre-c , thanks for the support!

Of course, we're all in this together 🙂 Besides, I'm acting in my own self-interest..

So, I need to build Specter from source to be able to use the timelockrecovery extension, is that correct?

I was hoping I could avoid doing that, but okay, I'll give it a try.

[petre-c]

Do you plan to also add an extension / plugin for Sparrow sparrowwallet/sparrow#1573 ?

As you said

giving non-technical users a simple solution is more important at the moment

[oren-z0]

@petre-c Yes, you need to download the repo, install the dependencies (I recommend using virtual-env) and run the python script.
I found Specter really useful as an Umbrel app because it has a web interface. I wish the Specter team would review the code and add it to the Umbrel app store.

I tried working on the Sparrow code but it's all Java with libraries that I'm not familiar with. Sparrow is also very popular and has a beautiful UI, but the entire project is maintained by a single genius developer (decentralization much?). I'm sure that if the TimelockRecovery feature will be popular in other wallets, he'll implement it in Sparrow too.

[petre-c]

You can add Community App Stores to Umbrel, are you aware of this? It would be great if timelockrecovery for Specter was available through this.

[oren-z0]

@petre-c Yes, the Specter team suggested that I will publish the feature as a fork of Specter, but this will be very confusing for users. I also don't want to take any responsibility for unrelated bugs that Specter might have.

[petre-c]

You want to make this publicly available for the largest number of people, don't you?

I'll test it out.

[petre-c]

I was able to get the extension working by building the Dockerfile from https://github.com/oren-z0/specter-desktop/tree/install-specterext-timelockrecovery then starting by setting the environment variable, as you pointed out.

docker build -t specter-desktop .
docker run -p 25441:25441 -e SERVICES_DEVSTATUS_THRESHOLD=alpha specter-desktop