Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 15.

jstefanop

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Quote from: Underwaterbasketcoin on July 03, 2024, 12:27:54 PM

Q: I dont see any video on my HDMI monitor
A: Your monitor needs to be powered on and HDMI plugged into your Apollo BEFORE powering on your Apollo. The Apollo will not recognize your monitor if its powered on before the monitor or HDMI cable is plugged in. If this does not work double check your input on the monitor is in the correct HDMI port. Please be aware that not all monitors will work with the Apollo (odd sized monitors, really high resolution tvs etc).

I received my Apollo II. I connect to my monitor (I've tried 2 different ones now) made sure the monitor was on and connected properly. The Apollo II fan comes on and runs at very high speed indefinitely. I've let it run almost 20 minutes. No lights on the front of the Apollo. What next?
@jstefanop any advice?
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We had a bad batch of SD cards go out last month, probably affected a couple hundred units and yours might have been one of them (image was corrupted and not caught by factory).

Just reflash your SD card following the instructions here:

https://www.futurebit.io/flashing-sd-card

FYI keep in mind latest version of etcher has some major issues, please download the earlier version linked in the instructions above.

Underwaterbasketcoin

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Q: I dont see any video on my HDMI monitor
A: Your monitor needs to be powered on and HDMI plugged into your Apollo BEFORE powering on your Apollo. The Apollo will not recognize your monitor if its powered on before the monitor or HDMI cable is plugged in. If this does not work double check your input on the monitor is in the correct HDMI port. Please be aware that not all monitors will work with the Apollo (odd sized monitors, really high resolution tvs etc).
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I received my Apollo II. I connect to my monitor (I've tried 2 different ones now) made sure the monitor was on and connected properly. The Apollo II fan comes on and runs at very high speed indefinitely. I've let it run almost 20 minutes. No lights on the front of the Apollo. What next?
@jstefanop any advice?

nohc

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I have been running for a couple of weeks and get nowhere near 5 on ECO. The average is always 3.9 or so.

jstefanop

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Quote from: nohc on June 29, 2024, 09:33:27 PM

Hey, I am running a full node Apollo II. I am getting around 3.9 TH/S on ECO mode and the UI is showing around 45 watts per TH/s. Any suggestions to improve this? Thanks

That looks low, have you let the miner run for an hour and whats the 1H average? Should be over 5.5 TH/s on the low end.

jstefanop

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Quote from: Joelnolan on June 28, 2024, 03:53:30 PM

Quote from: jstefanop on June 28, 2024, 11:29:41 AM

Quote from: Joelnolan on June 22, 2024, 12:20:59 AM

What info do I need to point my miners that are currently hosted offsite to my Apollo? I’m currently solo mining from the Apollo and want to add some more hash using my other miners.

they would need to open port 3333 on their WAN address to point to your Apollo's internal ip address (or can be any wan port, just needs to point to port 3333 on the apollo).

Thanks John! Do i need to create a stratum something that looks like this stratum+tcp://btc.f2pool.com:1314 for my Apollo though?

You can add that but it wont matter, it takes any incoming miner connection straight via IP:3333 port.

nohc

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Hey, I am running a full node Apollo II. I am getting around 3.9 TH/S on ECO mode and the UI is showing around 45 watts per TH/s. Any suggestions to improve this? Thanks

Joelnolan

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Quote from: jstefanop on June 28, 2024, 11:29:41 AM

Quote from: Joelnolan on June 22, 2024, 12:20:59 AM

What info do I need to point my miners that are currently hosted offsite to my Apollo? I’m currently solo mining from the Apollo and want to add some more hash using my other miners.

they would need to open port 3333 on their WAN address to point to your Apollo's internal ip address (or can be any wan port, just needs to point to port 3333 on the apollo).

Thanks John! Do i need to create a stratum something that looks like this stratum+tcp://btc.f2pool.com:1314 for my Apollo though?

jstefanop

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Quote from: TIRMINE on June 19, 2024, 05:19:13 PM

Quote from: jstefanop on June 19, 2024, 01:59:13 PM

Quote from: Jota_US on June 18, 2024, 10:53:42 PM

Question: When solo mining, it says "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

Any legacy or non script segwit address will work, the newer longer segwit/taproot addresses wont work for solo mining.

Not yet, but someone found a 42 trillion share so far (highest that I know) which is 1/2 network diff...we are also going wide release and will push an email + UI upgrade soon so if a large majority of all apollo users go solo there should be a block pretty fast.

Of course we have no idea what our users are doing, where they are mining or what % is solo vs pool etc so can be difficult to gauge.

Have mid-April orders started shipping?

I think all April orders are out right now...starting to work on May after the July 4th holiday, and should probably clear the whole backorder queue by end of may!

jstefanop

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Quote from: Joelnolan on June 22, 2024, 12:20:59 AM

What info do I need to point my miners that are currently hosted offsite to my Apollo? I’m currently solo mining from the Apollo and want to add some more hash using my other miners.

they would need to open port 3333 on their WAN address to point to your Apollo's internal ip address (or can be any wan port, just needs to point to port 3333 on the apollo).

Joelnolan

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What info do I need to point my miners that are currently hosted offsite to my Apollo? I’m currently solo mining from the Apollo and want to add some more hash using my other miners.

BoostBoss

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Hello,

I have an Apollo 2 that has been running fine for a couple months now. Turbo mode in my garage with on a shelf that has 360 degree air flow. The temps stayed around 74C all the time which, according to the gauge in the software was fine. I upgrade to 2.0.5 and have not been able to to use the Apollo since. It keeps shutting off. I was able to get into for a sec and turn it down to ECO mode but it died again shortly afterwards. I'm not sure what is happening. I can't get it to stay on long enough to troubleshoot. I tried to re-image the SD with 2.0.5 but, I couldn't even get through the start up page. I'm active working on downgrading it back to 2.0.4 right now. Anyone have any ideas??

I reimaged to 2.0.4. It ran for about 3-5 minutes and now it won't stay on for longer then 1 minute.

Jota_US

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Quote from: jstefanop on June 19, 2024, 01:59:13 PM

Quote from: Jota_US on June 18, 2024, 10:53:42 PM

Question: When solo mining, it says "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

Any legacy or non script segwit address will work, the newer longer segwit/taproot addresses wont work for solo mining.

Not yet, but someone found a 42 trillion share so far (highest that I know) which is 1/2 network diff...we are also going wide release and will push an email + UI upgrade soon so if a large majority of all apollo users go solo there should be a block pretty fast.

Of course we have no idea what our users are doing, where they are mining or what % is solo vs pool etc so can be difficult to gauge.

Thanks for the info.

Also, is it possible/doable to upgrade the fan of the Apollo II ? I find it pretty loud, not sure what kind of fan it is. I live in hot weather so the fan spins faster.

TIRMINE

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Quote from: jstefanop on June 19, 2024, 01:59:13 PM

Quote from: Jota_US on June 18, 2024, 10:53:42 PM

Question: When solo mining, it says "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

Any legacy or non script segwit address will work, the newer longer segwit/taproot addresses wont work for solo mining.

Not yet, but someone found a 42 trillion share so far (highest that I know) which is 1/2 network diff...we are also going wide release and will push an email + UI upgrade soon so if a large majority of all apollo users go solo there should be a block pretty fast.

Of course we have no idea what our users are doing, where they are mining or what % is solo vs pool etc so can be difficult to gauge.

Have mid-April orders started shipping?

jstefanop

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Quote from: Jota_US on June 18, 2024, 10:53:42 PM

Question: When solo mining, it says "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

Any legacy or non script segwit address will work, the newer longer segwit/taproot addresses wont work for solo mining.

Not yet, but someone found a 42 trillion share so far (highest that I know) which is 1/2 network diff...we are also going wide release and will push an email + UI upgrade soon so if a large majority of all apollo users go solo there should be a block pretty fast.

Of course we have no idea what our users are doing, where they are mining or what % is solo vs pool etc so can be difficult to gauge.

Sledge0001

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Quote from: Jota_US on June 18, 2024, 10:53:42 PM

Question: When solo mining, it says "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

~~Any btc address will work.~~

Apparently this was incorrect so striking this!

Jota_US

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Question: When solo mining, it says "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

jstefanop

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Quote from: ared4 on June 16, 2024, 03:37:40 PM

Hello all,
I just got my full node apollo 2 preorder, followed the set-up instructions with HDMI connection and after 20 mins the fans don't slow, and it doesn't boot to the log-in screen. I have also tried the ethernet setup with similar results, fans do not slow, and device does not show up on my list of connected devices on my router. Any tips from here?

Sounds like it's not booting, make sure SD card is firmly in slot (click in/out) and try flashing the card with latest image release. Reach out to support if you are still having issues.

https://www.futurebit.io/flashing-sd-card

ared4

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Hello all,
I just got my full node apollo 2 preorder, followed the set-up instructions with HDMI connection and after 20 mins the fans don't slow, and it doesn't boot to the log-in screen. I have also tried the ethernet setup with similar results, fans do not slow, and device does not show up on my list of connected devices on my router. Any tips from here?

jstefanop

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Quote from: slurfius on June 13, 2024, 10:45:55 PM

my internet went down. After the provider got it back online the apollo two needed restarted now the miner connects to the pool but the node has this error -111 ECONNREFUSED I have rebooted it several times

was there a power outage as well? Might have corrupted your node if you keep seeing this. You can either reformat the whole node drive in settings our reach out to support so they can try and debug it for you (might be able to recover with a reindex of chainstate).

slurfius

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my internet went down. After the provider got it back online the apollo two needed restarted now the miner connects to the pool but the node has this error -111 ECONNREFUSED I have rebooted it several times

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