Baking with Peak GUI

Preparation

For this tutorial, you’ll need to have already followed one of the following tutorials:

• How to Bake
• How to Bake on Ghostnet

The TezPeak GUI is a graphical user interface for TezBake, which is a command-line tool for baking and endorsing Tezos blocks. It’s a great way to get started with baking and endorsing without having to use the command line on a day-to-day basis.

Please note that tezbake version 0.13.0-beta minimum is required to use TezPeak.

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Installation

TezPeak GUI supports using TezBake and TezPay simultaneously or by themselves. To run them at the same time simply combine both configurations in the same file as shown here: https://github.com/tez-capital/tezpeak

Download and install TezPeak via TezBake

tezbake setup --peak

Setup TezPeak configuration

cd /bake-buddy/peak/ && touch config.hjson

Open the config.hjson file with your favorite text editor.

If you’ve used json before but now hjson, you can read more about it here: https://hjson.github.io/

Sample TezPeak configuration with 1 baker

Here’s an example of a config.hjson file with minimal TezBake configuration for one baker:

{
 listen: 0.0.0.0:8733
 app_root: /bake-buddy
 modules: {
     tezbake: {
         bakers: [
             tz1S5WxdZR5f9NzsPXhr7L9L1vrEb5spZFur
         ]
     }
 }
}

You can also make TezPeak GUI only available on the local computer if you have an all-in-one setup (i.e. the baker and the GUI are on the same computer which has a graphical user interface):

{
 listen: 127.0.0.1:8733
 app_root: /bake-buddy
 modules: {
     tezbake: {
         bakers: [
             tz1S5WxdZR5f9NzsPXhr7L9L1vrEb5spZFur
         ]
     }
 }
}

Full TezPeak configuration examples

Here’s the TezPeak configuration with all TezBake available options:

{
 # Id to show in the header
 id: ""
 # Address to listen on
 listen: 127.0.0.1:8733
 app_root: /bake-buddy
 modules: {
     tezbake: {
 		# uncomment bellow to disable tezbake package monitoring
         # applications: null
         bakers: [
 			# list of bakers to monitor for balances and rights
             tz1P6WKJu2rcbxKiKRZHKQKmKrpC9TfW1AwM
         ]
     }
 # List of reference nodes to connect to
 # The reference nodes are used to get the rights and blocks if the baker's node is not available
 nodes: {
     "Tezos Foundation": {
         address: https://rpc.tzbeta.net/
         is_rights_provider: true
         is_block_provider: false
     }
     tzkt: {
         address: https://rpc.tzkt.io/mainnet/
         is_rights_provider: false
         is_block_provider: true
         # reports error if node not available, use for baker's node
         is_essential: false
     }
 }
 # The mode tezpeak should operate in
 # auto - if bound to localhost, it will operate in private mode if not, it will operate in public mode
 # public - assumes public environment, only readonly operations are allowed
 # private - assumes private environment, all operations are allowed
 mode: auto
}

Start TezPeak and connect to it

tezbake start --peak

If you’re connecting to the TezPeak GUI from a different computer, you’ll need to open a web browser and navigate to http://<your-baker-ip>:8733.

If you’re connecting from the same computer, you can use http://127.0.0.1:8733 or http://localhost:8733.

TezPeak example screenshot

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