In this guide we will show you how to connect and use our public remote full monero node rpc.
This will allow you to not have to download the full monero blockchain locally as you would normally have to use monero-client-cli
First off you will want to download monero for your computer.
https://getmonero.org/downloads/
Once downloaded and extracted either open a command line shell in that directory where the you downloaded and extracted monero-client-cli
For windows you can shift+right click to open a new command prompt in a directory
Once thats done you will want to start monero-client-cli with the below command which specify to use a remote node which in this case is our public one http://monero.whattheserver.me:8081
1.
monero-wallet-cli –daemon-address monero.whattheserver.me:8081
or
2.
monero-wallet-cli –daemon-host monero.whattheserver.me –daemon-port 8081
on one pc the 1. works whereas same command on another did not want to work
after testing found the second one seems more reliable way to specify remote host as the daemon on some pcs tries to hardcode local daemon to look locally unless you specify daemon-host vs daemon-address on some systems for whatever reason leaving up both commands just in case one does not work for your pc other should work
if you have any issues you can add –log-level 2 to end 3 and 4 level would be more verbose if needed
monero-wallet-cli –daemon-host monero.whattheserver.me –daemon-port 8081 –log-level 2
This will allow you to see what errors your having in the monero-wallet-cli text file in that directory
If you do not already have a wallet created you can just enter desired name for the wallet and it will then prompt you for a password and language settings and display your address,viewkey, seed etc.
You will want to ensure you backup both the seed and your 3 wallet files somewhere safe.
Give it some time to sync thankfully its not syncing the whole blockchain so it should be pretty fast.
Once synced you can use the below commands
“balance” to see your current balance
“integrated_address” to get a payment address with integrated payment id to receive monero
You can read more about simplewallet which is now monero-client-cli at below link to learn what all you can do.
https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base...s/simplewallet
The above test wallet has been deleted and was only used for demonstration purposes.
Looking forward to official GUI(Graphical User Interface) this should also work with new GUI if it supports remote nodes.
Were looking into making it work over tor/i2p as well in future.
If your looking for an easy way to get some monero and you have some cryptocurrency like bitcoin/ether etc you can use shapeshift.io
We also accept xmr/monero for all hosting services upon request. We offer vpn/ssh tunnels,shared hosting, virtual private servers etc.