Integration Introduction
The Voltage platform is more than just nodes. Voltage includes the most used tools for managing and interacting with your Lightning Network node(s) built directly into your Node dashboard.
In brief, these integrations include:
Thunderhub: A complete GUI for interacting with your node infrastructure on an administrative level. This is where you can send funds on and off your node, build out your node liquidity and channels, generate accounting reports, and more.
Lightning Terminal: Lightning Terminal is an interface for accessing all of the Lightning Labs products. Lightning Labs is the primary contributor to the open source LND Lightning Node implementation, which is what Voltage nodes use. Lightning Terminal has some overlap with Thunderhub, but also provides an interface for the Loop liquidity swap service, autofee settings, batch-open channels, and more.
LNBits: LNBits is an API and webhook system that allows your node to be used for very specific use cases. For example, you can use LNBits to set up a plug in to require a paywall for your site's content. Or, you can use LNBits to help trigger microcontrollers when a Lightning invoice is paid. IMPORTANT: You must bookmark your LNBits wallet URLs as they are not saved by Voltage and are unrecoverable if lost.
BTCPayServer: BTCPayServer is the most robust and well known open source Bitcoin commerce platform and it is included with every paid plan on Voltage. The Voltage hosted BTCPayServer seemlessly connects to your Lightning Node, and provides the ability to turn your node into the backbone of a commerce platform. Whether it is a brick and mortor store, or a multi million dollar web business, BTCPay can integrate directly and all of the commerce will go through your Lightning Node with Voltage.
Nostr and LNaddress: All nodes on Voltage can claim a Lightning Address and connect it to Nostr clients. Nostr is a message protocol based on relays and public/private key pairs. To learn more check out: INSERT NOSTR LINK
LNCLI: Sometimes you may want direct access to the RPC commands on your Lightning Node. For this, you can use LNCLI by installing LND externally (such as on your own server), and use it to interact with your Voltage node via the traditional LND CLI. Check out our guide for this here.
