listchannels not seeing own unannounced channels?

[21M4TW]

listchannels returns empty when I query any of my unannounced channels using their scid. How can I fix this?

[vincenzopalazzo]

Looking at the changelog: - JSON-RPC: listchannels listing private channels: use listpeerchannels ([#6869])

The reason your unannounced channels don't show up when querying by SCID is that listchannels only looks at the gossip map, which only contains announced channels. Even if you know the SCID of an unannounced channel, it won't be found because it's not in the gossip map.

let me know if this help!

[21M4TW]

Looking at the changelog: - JSON-RPC: listchannels listing private channels: use listpeerchannels ([#6869])

The reason your unannounced channels don't show up when querying by SCID is that listchannels only looks at the gossip map, which only contains announced channels. Even if you know the SCID of an unannounced channel, it won't be found because it's not in the gossip map.

let me know if this help!

The documentation for listchannel says: "The listchannels RPC command returns data on channels that are known to the node." Some plugins such as rebalance seem to assume that, so they do not work with unannounced local channels. Unless I am mistaken I think even one of the pay commands had issues with this. Was the intent of listchannels to really exclude unannounced local channels as currently done, or was it to include all known channels as documented? I would tend to think that the local announced channels should be added to listchannels to be more usable without having to extract the information using listpeerchannels after a failed attempt with listchannels, but otherwise the documentation should be changed?