Guide: Manually adding nodes (atmos qt)

Novusphere
1 min readJan 29, 2018

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Run the atmos qt client once if you haven’t already, if it does not find peers on its own you may need to manually add guides. Close the running atmos qt client process if open and follow the rest of this guide.

Windows

  • Right click Start → Run → %appdata%
  • Open the “atmos” folder
  • Create a file called atmos.conf, note: to do this you may need to enable viewing file extensions under Start → Search → File Explorer Options → View → Hide extensions for known file types (uncheck) and then renaming atmos.conf.txt → atmos.conf
  • Right click the file and press Edit to open in Notepad
  • Paste the node list from CryptoID’s explorer → click “node list”
  • Save file
  • Restart atmos qt

Linux / Unix / OSX

  • Open terminal
  • Run the command:
    touch ~/atmos/atmos.conf
  • If no atmos directory exists, run atmos qt
  • Open atmos.conf with a text editor, or use command:
    echo “addnode x.x.x.x” >> ~/atmos/atmos.conf
  • Paste the node list from CryptoID’s explorer → click “node list”
  • Save file
  • Restart atmos qt

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