Connecting your Wallet to a Monero Node on your Local Network

This post was last edited 2 minutes ago. I have spent the past week trying to do a relatively simple thing: connect Cake Wallet on my mobile phone to a full Monero node running on a PC on my local network. I've experimented with Monero before, but this time I wanted to understand what I was doing, rather than just copy and paste terminal commands. I narrowed down my goal to just one thing: connecting my wallet to a node on a local network and understanding how that works. There are different ways to manage a node, and not everyone has time to explain every detail to someone like me, trying to learn the basics. Guides and articles are good, but some have aged, and the information can be overwhelming. So I ended up using a local AI chatbot on LM Studio to learn. That was helpful until it began giving me incorrect information.1 Luckily, by then I had learned enough to spot the hallucination. If you're interested in using the Q&A method to learn the basics about networks, I highly…