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Custom Add-ons for your Sovran Pro

Add-ons are extra features you can have installed before your Sovran Pro is shipped to you or you can install them yourself.

  1. Since Sovran_SystemsOS runs Bitcoin Knots by default as opposed to Bitcion Core, you can customize your Sovran Pro's Bitcoin node to run Bitcoin Core.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

  1. BIP-110 keeps Bitcoin more efficient as Peer to Peer Cash and you can run it along side your Bitocoin node.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0110.mediawiki

  1. The Bitcoin Mempool can be added and can be accessed via Tor or on your local network.

https://github.com/mempool/mempool

  1. The Haven Relay for NOSTR (NOTES AND OTHER STUFF TRANSMITED BY RELAYS) is a Decenterized Social Media/File Sharing.

https://github.com/barrydeen/haven

  1. You can run the new Element Voice and Video calling backend.

https://github.com/element-hq/element-call

  1. You can run the Gnome Remote Desktop to view your desktop from another computer in the nextwork.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop


The code will be installed in the custom.nix file located at /etc/nixos/custom.nix from the initial setup.

If you would like to add in these features yourself, then open the terminal app and type or paste in

ssh root@localhost

Type in the password in the diaolog box if necessary. It is the same password to run the Sovran_Systems_Updater app.

Then press enter.

Next, type or paste in

nano /etc/nixos/custom.nix

Then press enter.

Next type or paste the codes below (Sovran_SystemsOS Features) into the termainl/nano window.

Once done, press ctr s then ctr x to save and exit.

Last, type or paste in

nixos-rebuild switch --impure

Then press enter.

After it is done bulding, reboot your Sovran Pro typeing or pasting in

reboot

Sovran_SystemsOS Feature Set

  1. The code for Bitcoin Core is as follows:
sovran_systemsOS.features.bitcoin-core = lib.mkForce true;
  1. The code for BIP-110 is as follows:
sovran_systemsOS.features.bip110 = lib.mkForce true;
  1. The code for Mempool is as follows:
sovran_systemsOS.features.mempool = lib.mkForce true;
  1. The code for Haven Relay is as follows:
sovran_systemsOS.features.haven = lib.mkForce true;
sovran_systemsOS.nostr_npub = "pasteyournpubhere";
  1. The code for Element Calling is as follows:
sovran_systemsOS.features.element-calling = lib.mkForce true;
  1. The code for Gnome Remote Desktop is as follows:
sovran_systemsOS.features.rdp = lib.mkForce true;

Next, in a open the terminal app and in the new window paste this in:

ssh root@localhost

Press enter

Type in the password if required. It will be the same password to run the Sovran_SystemsOS_Updater app.

Last, paste in this command to see the log in information to log in from any RDP client software (i.e. Remmina) from any computer on your home network

cat /var/lib/gnome-remote-desktop/rdp-credentials