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Can anyone tell me how to set up a watch-only address using bcoin?

while using the command:

bcoin wallet create myNewWallet

this will always be a "watchOnly": false wallet by default. Is there any documentation for these commands?

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The commands are listed on the bcoin GitHub wiki

The command you are looking for is bcoin wallet watch [address]

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  • This only returns me an Error which I couldn´t resolve till now: Error: socket hang up at createHangUpError (_http_client.js:345:15) at Socket.socketOnEnd (_http_client.js:437:23) at emitNone (events.js:110:20) at Socket.emit (events.js:207:7) at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1045:12) at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)
    – Michael
    Aug 2, 2017 at 8:34
  • regarding the debug.log I can find the following extra information AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: Network mismatch for address. but the address is a vaild testnet address and the system is running on testnet too.
    – Michael
    Aug 2, 2017 at 10:27
  • Are you starting your node with the option --network=testnet on (or alternatively you export the global BCOIN_NETWORK='testnet') I tried with the above command and a testnet address and it worked.
    – Bucko
    Aug 28, 2017 at 19:04
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There is a way to pass in the option --watch when creating the wallet or, in node, you can use bcoin.http.Client.createWallet({ id: 'myNewWallet', watchOnly: true})

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