The Ledger plugin is currently broken for old Ledgers HW1 (can get account addresses, but Electrum hanging when signing a Tx)
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Description
The Ledger plugin is currently broken for old Ledgers HW1 (the type of ledger hardware wallets that have no display). Electrum displays a "read error" pop-up when attempting to send (i.e. to sign a Tx). Electrum is capable of getting the account addresses and display the balances, so communication with the WD1 ledger is working, but not possible to sign the Tx and send BTC (using Electrum 4.0.9).
I could maybe try to find the problem myself. What would you recommend to debug an Electrum Plugin?
I.e. if I need to print things from within the ledger.py plugin, should I use the regular Python print() or is there a way to print in the Electrum console? (I'll be using Linux)
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Research direction
Start in the Ledger plugin's ledger.py and reproduce the signing failure on Linux with Electrum 4.0.9, using the Electrum console or Python output to inspect the read error. Done means an old Ledger HW1 can sign and send a transaction without the read-error pop-up.
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- python
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- security
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- Bug
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