Hello ALL!!!
With the BTC Halving, how are your mining results?
Thank you
I use the SOLO mining feature, as it seems post-halving you'd need pretty near 5cents or less total kWh cost to slightly profit at current prices. My power is 22cents per kWh so I'm not even close really. I don't run my older Apollo BTC (1st model) currently because its even less efficient, but I will maybe in the winter when I could use the extra heat.
I'm getting 5.85 TH/s (32 watts-per-TH/s) on ECO mode, I wouldn't want to run it higher than that because of the noise. I get about a 1/700,000 chance of mining a solo block in a day with just the Apollo 2 in ECO mode.
My only complaints with it at the moment are: software's still pretty early, missing a lot of needed features in the web GUI (like even individual control of the Apollo miners) - had a lot of hurdles in the setup, having trouble getting RDP into the full linux GUI (Ubuntu/Gnome) to work still. Node and miner aren't that stable so far, one or the other seem to hang or crash every other day or so, so far - hope that was mostly during, and due to, the few-day blockchain sync, though it has happened a couple times since then as well.
HDMI output and WiFi on the Apollo 2 are not great so far, really hoping those can be majorly improved compatibility-wise. None of the monitors I have at the moment work, and the wifi is very finnicky and you need a separated 2.4 GHz network for it (basically, the Apollo 2 won't work with a modern wifi setup, at least as most come by default these days, like using a single SSID for all wavelengths, etc)
Have you done a reflash to the latest image 2.0.4 release? This fixes many of these issues (OTA update to 2.0.4 wont bring in some changes we did to the underlying OS so suggest anyone that received a unit with 2.0.2 or 2.0.3 reflash their SD cards to the latest release).
Going forward all updates will be OTA so you should not need to reflash again.
Thanks again for your help! I wasn't aware of the update possibly not being a full upgrade if I was on a pre-2.0.4 release and applied it automatically (OTA). So, I've re-flashed the microSD (it is indeed really hard to not have it fall inside the innards of the unit, even with tweezers, because of the angle!
Yikes, I did have it fall inside and had some trouble getting it back out!)... the reinstall went well, re-setup was easy enough and now I know the changes/troubleshooting I did via SSH to unsuccessfully get RDP access working previously are now undone.
Would you have any tips or steps via SSH to enable RDP to work from Windows devices? Before flashing it back to default 2.0.4 today, I seemed to be able to get it working from a network perspective, but when I logged in (I could see and use the xRDP login screen via RDP for example), the RDP screen just shows a mouse pointer and a sea green background color, and I can't do anything. I would try using the GnomeRDP which I believe I could enable fairly easily via the Ubuntu GUI, but since I don't have a monitor working with the Apollo 2 yet, I can't do it that way - if you know the SSH commands to do so, I'd try those but I haven't found them yet. I know you guys don't support the general Ubuntu OS, but I think sorting our the remote access to the Apollo unit would be a benefit to all, especially with the monitor limitations, and I'd be happy to help test and get that working. I appreciate it!
