lndmanage VS plugins

I keep getting "circular rebalance Error: no_route". I'm looking at https://github.com/bitromortac/lndmanage for a possible solution although it will have to wait for the weekend.

lndmanage can display the flow "flow direction (positive is outwards)" & other useful information. check it out! It can rebalance and automatically set fees for your channels.

https://github.com/bitromortac/lndmanage#channel-opening-strategies

Connected to nodes with few peers in common with you, so you're getting many new neighbors. lndmanage has some CLI tools to help identify good peers.

Check to make sure you have few peers in common with a prospective channel partner. lndmange has some functions to make this easier.

This tool seems to do some of that analysis. https://github.com/bitromortac/lndmanage

And c-lightining's feeadjuster plugin https://github.com/lightningd/plugins/tree/master/feeadjuster 🤗

Here is a C-Lightning plugin that accomplishes much the same objective.

There seems to be a plugin for rebalancing https://github.com/lightningd/plugins

Sure, I'll make a PR, but they're not very responsive to my PRs. So if I do make it you should expect it to appear in my lightning-tools repo's plugins dir.

Absolutely. If you look at the rebalance plugin (https://github.com/lightningd/plugins/blob/master/rebalance/rebalance.py) you'll notice most of the code tries to do some best effort guesses as to how to best balance channels. The actual code to compute the route is relatively simple:

C-lightning has a plugin that'll adjust the fees on channels based on the balances in the channel, i.e., higher fees if an htlc would drain funds from an already low channel and lower fees to encourage rebalancing channels with high outgoing capacity: https://github.com/lightningd/plugins/tree/master/feeadjuster