<p>Go into Tools -&gt; Preferences -&gt; Lightning and disable the setting &quot;Use Trampoline Routing (disable gossip)&quot;. If you now try to open a new channel you will see that you can put the full node id there in a generic text field, and the drop down is gone.</p>

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Mikael Lindqvist
<p>Electrum (version 4.1.2) Open Channel dialog only contains a dropdown &quot;Trampoline&quot; with predefined entries. How a new channel can be opened to a specific node?</p>
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How to open lightning network channel to a selected node in Electrum?
czerny
# How to open lightning network channel to a selected node in Electrum?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-04-20)

Electrum (version 4.1.2) Open Channel dialog only contains a dropdown "Trampoline" with predefined entries. How a new channel can be opened to a specific node?

[![Electrum Open Channel Dialog](https://i.sstatic.net/g6899.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/g6899.png)

**Tags:** lightning-network, electrum


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-05-18. Score: 4

Go into Tools -> Preferences -> Lightning and disable the setting "Use Trampoline Routing (disable gossip)". If you now try to open a new channel you will see that you can put the full node id there in a generic text field, and the drop down is gone.


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