I actually haven't manually re-balanced a channel in 3 years accept for the initial balance when organizing a Ring of Fire. Instead I just adjust the fee structure to encourage channel balance over time:
Higher Remote Balance -> Raise channel fees
Higher Local Balance -> Lower channel fees
When I was manually re-balancing I also never got the Thunderhub balance feature to work for me, but I did find that Balance of Satoshis was able to do the trick, and yes, it is a pain-in-the-ass command line solution. But it does work, which is a plus.
https://github.com/alexbosworth/balanceofsatoshis
It's available in the Start9 Community Registry and includes instructions within the service on how to use it. But if you can get away with the fee-adjustment strategy instead, in my experience it's far more efficient. And free!
Spencer / Sir Spencer, Wolf of KC 🐺
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