September 4, 2026

RPC on Umbrel via SSH – some bitcoin-cli commands don’t return value

I connected to my Umbrel full node from a terminal via SSH, and found that some of the Bitcoin-cli commands don’t return any value while others work fine. Some examples:

  • Working – help, getinfo, getbestblockhash, getblock
  • Not working – getbalance, listunspent, getnewaddress

When calling the "Not working" commands, there’s no error message shown. I wonder what I’m missing? Here’s what I use:

Umbrel v0.3.13

Windows PowerShell v1.0

RPC Client v0.21.1.0

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