Jcli says: "invalid account-id, isn't an account address" when I use a yoroi address on scripts

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Can someone explain, Why I cannot use yoroi address (extended?) on jcli ?
What the difference between short and long addresses?

I only can send funds via script from a created (via script) address, and I would like to send them to a yoroi wallet.

Thanks.
Stefano.

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Hello @stefanosu. It’s not clear to me what you are trying to do, so this is more a generic answer. Basically jcli supports every address type but some address types have special rules.

For example (and I think this is what you are tying to do?) you must not send funds to a reward address. That is simply not possible because it’s not an utxo address.

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Yoroi (just like Daedalus) uses group addresses only. We don’t use account addresses in the wallets.

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Sorry I’ll try to explain better,
I try to send funds from an address(short) created with jcli,
to a yoroi wallet address(long)
with the script send-money.sh downloaded from https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036415054-How-to-send-funds-using-a-script-Linux-macOS-

Even if I try to get balance from an address(long) with command
./jcli rest v0 account get $ADDR -h http://127.0.0.1:3100/api
I receive the same error, it work only with short addresses.
Probably I miss the difference between the two type of address,
can you suggest me where to learn about it.
Thanks.
Stefano.

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My guess is: you are trying to query an account address but you are providing a group address.

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Yes you guess right,
now I know the difference between the two type addresses, and that jcli doesn’t use group address.

So now if I want to send money to a yoroi wallet with jcli,
how can I get the single-address from a group-address?
Thanks.
Stefano.

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Take your addresses in Yoroi and get the payload from the bech32 addresses. All group addresses for a Yoroi wallet using the same account key so you should see a set of bytes that are the exact same for all addresses in your wallet. Take this public key and use it to create an account address.

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Hi, at the end I did it in this way:
I used cardano-wallet to get the secret key from mnemonic
and then I used jcli to get the public key
and then jcli to get the address
and I sent money to that address still using jcli.

I found some information on Step2, Option A, of this guide: