Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 124. (Read 52205 times)

You can through a powered USB hub. Remember this is a full desktop computer so you can do anything with it. Check out the support thread for those on how to download and compile the source.

Apollo LTC does not have USB's only wifi and eth.

You could probably put them on the Apollo LTC version. I don't think its worth worrying about it on this BTC unit

Hello
is it possible to put 2 litecoin moonlander2 usb keys on the appolo? how to install the software directly?
regards

Ok so before anyone goes and does something stupid like me, let me give you the benefit of my wasted hour.

I got sick of the noisy fan so support sorted me out with a new one locally. Came today, all good. Went to fit it, it's slightly higher than the original so needed some modifying but made it work. That's not the problem though, the problem was putting it all together. Went together just fine, turned it on and... nothing. No IP address, nothing on the screen, nothing. Pulled it apart again, checked if anything was not plugged in. Nope all good. Few more power cycles, few 10 minute waits, still nothing. Strip it down one more time and look on the floor... oh, there's an SD card there... FUCK! I must have knocked it out while working on the fan for the SBC. Plug the card back in, reassemble and bam, instantly comes to life.

So if anyone has an issue please don't be a dumb ass like me and check if the SD card is actually in and seated properly!

Great Thank you

Use screen: https://raspi.tv/2012/using-screen-with-raspberry-pi-to-avoid-leaving-ssh-sessions-open

I mined a block on the testnet just to confirm it works: https://blockstream.info/testnet/tx/fa17ec34ada175bebb6de3b4cb50135d6931f7240d7886fce9c1bd5f587fa772?expand

Share diff was 256M, so way lower than mainnet, but good enough for 67M testnet difficulty. So far my best share on my futurebit is 17G.

How to start ./apollo-miner on Rpi so it's not timeout?
For example I ssh from mac using  terminal to Rpi and start ./apollo-miner.
But when my mac goes sleep my session terminates.

Tried mine with 3 different cords (one being the one that came with the board) on 3 different machine and it still does not show up.

USB light is red in all combinations

HAHAHAHA i will never do anything besides SOLO ive got profitable miners that pay the bills...

Please anyone... have you found a BLOCK?

i was going to try an alt with lower dif but don't care to swap pools lol might miss that 1 BLOCK

Technically someone with an Apollo should have found a block by now...obviously unless you are solo mining you probably won't know, since most pools dont make it a point to show you found a block.

That might be a fun feature to add though.

HAS ANYONE MINED A BLOCK YET WITH THESE MACHINES?

   

Ive got mine pointed at CK pool SOLO 3th turbo seen over 4million shares....

Yep, second this! Especially with the RPi4, power is VERY important. Make sure it's got a power adapter with enough amps to supply it or you'll run into all sorts of issues

Check your power adapter.   Many times with RPi's there is not enough power to power all of the IO ports.   

I use the Canakit RPi  3.5Amp adapter on mine that is running two USB ports with LTC Moonlanders and Gekko hubs on each. 

Also you should disable with Wifi power management if you are using Wifi - I have seen issues with some mining apps with Wifi that goes into different power states.

I’m assuming it will be in the update thats was due to be released this week.

Rpi4 good luck with that because I never got anything to run on mine. It is picky with sdcards first then overheats. I Like the one that comes with Apollo and will be getting one to replace the rpi4.


My questions is if Apollo BTC will have the ability to add more pools instead of the one line item I have?  Need to add at least a secondary fallback url.

Yeah, cable is fine now.

But another issue I have with Rpi4.

I have Rpi4 Umbrel LN running with BTC ssd full node connected to RPi usb3 port.

When I connect to the second usb3 port BTC miner,

I am getting:ls: cannot access '/dev/ttyACM*': No such file or directory

But when I disconnect BTC ssd usb3 and keep just BTC miner

umbrel@umbrel:~ $ ls /dev/ttyACM*
/dev/ttyACM0

Somehow when I use rpi4  with 2 usb ports. one for ssd full node and another it does not work.

I have another Rpi running LTC moon 2, but its 32 bit. It would be nice if ver for 32 bit will be available.

Thank you

Bet the cable was a charger cable. They lack the wires used for data transfer. The USB cable MUST be one that supports both charging and data transfer.

Ran into this a couple times when running Avalons and using cables I have laying around.

It was Micro usb cable, I used another one and it seems to me OK now.
Thank you


*** POOL STATS:
Pool: host:port: , diff: 5300, reconnects: 1
extraNonce1: 00000a7f, extraNonce2Size: 4, jobs: 1, rollingEnabled: 0, rollingMask: 00000000
INTERVAL   sec  JOBS  clean  SHARES  ok  err  POOL sol           minRespT          avgRespT           maxRespT  loss  INSERVICE       %
  30 sec   10s     0      0       2   2    0     10600  18446744072990457  9223372036136189  18446744072991473  0.0%        10s  100.0%
   5 min  101s     4      2       8   8    0     96816  18446744072990457  2305843008514260  18446744073040168  0.0%       101s  100.0%
  15 min  302s     9      5      11  11    0    246792  18446744072990457  1676976733311556  18446744073199140  0.0%       303s  100.0%
  1 hour  436s    14      6      11  11    0    246792  18446744072990457  1676976733311556  18446744073199140  0.0%       436s   99.9%
   total  436s    14      6      11  11    0    246792  18446744072990457  1676976733311556  18446744073199140  0.0%       436s   99.9%

*** EVENT STATS:
Legend: SE - subbsribe error (initialising issue)
        DIFF - diff changes, REC - reconnects, RECE - reconnects on error
        SHARES - sent to pool, PSS - pwc shares sent, PSD - pwc shares dropped
        DJS - default job shares, SJS - stale job shares, DUP - duplicates, LDS - low diff shares
        BDS - big diff shares, BTS - below target shares, PR - pwc restart, SO - stat overflow
INTERVAL   sec  SE  DIFF  REC  RECE  SHARES  PSS  PSD  DJS  SJS  DUP  LDS  BDS  BTS  PR  SO
  30 sec   10s   0     0    0     0       2    2    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   0   0
   5 min  101s   0     1    0     0       8    8    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   0   0
  15 min  302s   0     2    0     0      11   11    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   0   0
  1 hour  436s   0     3    0     0      11   12    0    0    1    0    0    0    0   0   0
   total  436s   0     3    0     0      11   12    0    0    1    0    0    0    0   0   0

FAN INFO:
Slave   RPM
    0  1865

Temp(C) (min/avr/max): 0 / 27 / 54

*** MASTER-SLAVE SPI BUS STATS:
SLAVE                       UID  B-LEN   B-CRC-C   B-CRC-L         VER  TIME  PING    M=>S    rx  err     %    S=>M    rx  err     %  SS  SD  Rst  LastRstT  Packets  Time msec.  Speed(pack./sec)
    0  23001D000550304235343720      0  00000000  00000000  0x13160100   474   560    1370  1348    0  0.0%    1344  1344    0  0.0%  12   0    0         0

Total packets: 1370 in 430831 ms, speed: 3.18 packets/sec
Exporting stat... [done]