Why does the main wallet balance differ from the on-chain balance shown on the Create Channel Pay form?

I couldn’t send a payment or open a new channel even though the main dashboard was showing that I had balance but when I went to payment/open channel screens my balance was shown as zero.

NOTE: I was using the “next” branch on Testnet. I enabled Testnet by changing network property in default.js to 'testnet'.

Expected Behavior

Balance should be displayed consistently everywhere.

Actual Behavior

Balance is shown correctly on the main screen but shown as zero on payment/open channel screens.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Ran yarn && yarn dev on next branch
2. Requested testnet coins from a faucet
3. Once I received my coins I opened a channel with a node with this id: 0260d9119979caedc570ada883ff614c6efb93f7f7382e25d73ecbeba0b62df2d7
4. While waiting for the funding transaction to confirm I attempted to open another channel with nodes that Zap suggested
5. Couldn’t open any channels because my balance was showing as zero on the “open channel” screen. Same was happening on the “pay” screen
6. Restarted Zap and balance was showing correctly after this restart and now my balance started showing correctly and I could open another channel
7. Once I opened this new channel I encountered the same issue again (balance showing as zero again)
8. I restarted Zap again thinking it would fix the issue like it did last time but it didn’t. I attempted this twice with no luck. I don’t see any errors in the console.

Screenshots

Main screen with correct balance:

Pending channel creation screen:

“Open a channel” screen with incorrect balance:

“Open a channel” screen with correct balance after Zap restart:

Terminal output (nothing special):

Browser console also doesn’t have anything special in it except for an unrelated warning:

Your Environment

• Zap version: 0.6.0-alpha
• Operating System and version: macOS Mojave v10.14.5

[mrfelton]

Sounds about right?

Spot on.

All of the above makes me wonder if there is a UX improvement that can be made here.

There definitely is. You are not the first to be confused by this.

[mrfelton]

Closing this since the footer notes where it says your current balance was updated a while back to clarify that it’s your current confirmed balance in https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/pull/3015