IOTA Friend - Friendly Peer Manager

IOTA Friend is built on top of IPM. IPM is great but missing many features that causes friction on the usability. One of major headache I have with IPM is users have to update iota.ini every time a peer has been added or removed and IOTA Friend resolved this issue by making the iota-fd config file as the source of the truth; which mean everytime a peer got added or removed, IOTA Friend will automatically mirror that in the config file and it will also re-add those peers back after restarting IRI.

I strongly recommand to remove all neighbours from the iota.ini and re-add them back one by one manually through the UI.

Getting Started

If you want to run IOTA Friend under a different user, then jump to Setup 2.

Setup 1

npm install -g iota-friend
#generate config file
iota-friend -i
#run iota-friend
iota-friend

Setup 2

Remember to replace <user> to a real username

# install iota-fried globally
npm install -g iota-friend

#generate config file
export IOTA_FD=/home/<user> && sudo -Eu <user> bash -c 'iota-friend -i'

Create an iota_friend.service file

Remember to replace <user> to a real username

cat << "EOF" | sudo tee /lib/systemd/system/iota_friend.service
[Unit]
Description=IOTA Friend
After=network.target

[Service]
#change the username 
User=<user>
Group=<user>
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/iota-friend
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

EOF

Enable and start iota_friend.service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload 
sudo systemctl enable iota_friend.service
sudo systemctl start iota_friend.service

IOTA Friend dashboard

You can see the dashboard under http://<ip-address>:<port>

View log

sudo journalctl -u iota_friend -f

Update IOTA Friend

npm install -g iota-friend@latest