Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 20. (Read 53012 times)

1 Your cable would be the determining factor, you can use either
2 USB controller limitation is 7
3 Your extra unit could be a standard with no computer

3 questions

1) I'd like to connect a second unit to my V1 node using a USB hub. Do I use the USB-C on the side or the USB-A on the back?

2) Is there a limit to the number of units I can connect to a V1?

3) Whats the spec difference of the V1+2, because the V1 is running a on a pi - is the v2 also running on a pi?

Thanks!

To me it doesn't really sound like a web interface issue . . . and I assume you are on at least v2.0.5. That being said, I have noticed a few strange issues on v2.0.5 related to the web interface but nothing like you've described. And even if I lose internet connection the machines just mine away. When they get hot I have even seen them freeze-up and/or shut down. But I've never seen my hashrate jump up and down like you've described unless I'm on a pool and then my pool hashrate has fluctuated wildly before, but not my actual miner hashrate. The only cliché suggestion I can come up with at this point is perhaps a re-flash of the software. It may be worth a try. Wish I could offer you more.

One last thing, does your power usage (wattage) fluctuate wildly at the same time? How about the chip speed and cpu?

Cheers!

Hi, I have been running an Apollo II on solo in ECO mode for many weeks. Recently, I see a strange behavior. The hashrate climbs to about 5TH/s then back to 0Th/s, over an over again. The temperature of the ambient is about 75F, them miner is reporting about 65C.  I have tried Balanced mode as well, doesnt seem to make any difference. Any ideas on how to fix it? or is it a web interface issue and the miner is actually running stable? 

Oh great. This is good news!

UPDATE: 09/17/24
My unit finally arrived yesterday - 10 days lost but was found and delivered. A little beat up but no real damage (except the bottom cover has been knocked loose and falls out). I never got much info from FutureBit after I reported the problem and FedX was nothing more than an irritating Internet bot pretending to be a real company in a three-dimensional space- lol. In any case, patience paid off (I think).

This is great to know! Yes Im at 3 billion total submitted and 7 Billion best share. I've only been live on the new apollo 2 units for a little over a week. Going to be sending more hash from my compass hosted units but they are terrible and taking forever.

Gamifying would be awesome!

Also, another user mentioned this but when do you think we will have visibility of units that aren't part of the apollo units that are contributing to a users solo mining? Just trying to see if I will be able to identify units that go down (hosted by compass)

This is normal operation. Once the controller shuts down the fan goes high speed on default. Its a hardwire pull up on the fan PWM as a safety measure (ie all if controller fails, then onboard temp sensor power kill switch fails, as a backup of the backup the fan would go high speed).

It's also an indicator that the unit is safe to shut off, since when you shutdown in menu it takes a while for the controller and node to safely save the state of the blockchain and shutdown.

Time + luck.

In general your best share should trend towards total shares submitted.

On the top you will see "Accepted Shares" this is the total work submitted to the solo pool. In a perfect world this would match your "Best Share".

Since bitcoin mining is completely random your best share is a totally random number. If you're unlucky it will be lower than total work submitted, and if you are lucky it will be greater.

You can get super lucky and get a 1T share which would take years of submitted work to "catch up" too.

And then you can hit the jackpot of course!

Has anyone hit near 1T on their Apollo II yet? Would be cool for you guys to post your best shares. Think highest we have seen is about 500B.

Also thinking about gamifying the Solo Pool and anonymously submit your best share for ranking on a site (and possibly give out prizes bases on best share as a cool incentive to solo mine without finding blocks).

Of course this would be opt in to collect this data and open source(and it would all be hashed data with no wallets or any personal data other than best share and maybe hashrate collected) but if you guys are interested might start working on it for 2.2 release.

This would also be a cool way to public display the state of the "FutureBit" hashrate network and show the impact all of you are having!

Out of curiosity, right now my 3 apollo 2's have hit a best share 7,632,598,247. Will it ever hit more than that? if so, is it a time thing or a luck thing?

Thanks it's still syncing so should be OK.

One more thing. I notice when I select System - Shutdown from the UI menu on web browser that it shuts down the node and the miner but the fans on the Apollo II are spinning at full speed and for some reason do not spin down. The system doesn't halt so I have to manually switch the box off.
Is this a known bug or any idea how to fix?

Yep, next release has a "Reindex node" option before the formate node drive as away to recover the node database without going to the extreme of wiping the drive in case of hard shutdowns etc

Aha this may work. Lets see, its processing.

screen -dmS node /opt/apolloapi/backend/node/bitcoind -reindex -datadir=/media/nvme/Bitcoin -conf=/opt/apolloapi/backend/node/bitcoin.conf

I see this in debug.log


Maybe I can restart somehow with reindex but can I do from command line. hmmm.

My Apollo II was syncing happily and up to almost 80% synced. After a restart of the machine however the Node now refuses to come online. The UI and miner is working fine but node gives error "warning
Connection refused. Your node is not running."

I tried to manually start and it still refuses to startup

Checking the syslog on console I get this


Any ideas on how I fix this. Is the blockchain database corrupt or something and how do I get this node to start up again? Do I need to clear the bitcoin DB and how can I do this?


I also notice when I do a shutdown from the UI the fans stay on high permanently. Seems the shutdown command on the UI does not spin the fans down, only stops the services. Not sure if its normal.

Thanks in advance!

Is your S19K running on your LAN or is it on an external network vs. your Apollo?

If your S19K is outside the LAN you must setup port forwarding on your router to allow traffic on port 3333 to be directed to the internal IP your Apollo.

If your S19K is inside your LAN then you should be able to use the data that is listed on the solo-mining page of your Apollo GUI.
"SOLO LAN Mining
Point any Bitcoin Miner on your local network to your Solo Pool with the following URL: X.X.X.X:3333 Username: "

Or try:
stratum+tcp://x.x.x.x:3333    And replace the x's with your internal IP address.

I cant seem to point my s19k pro with braiins operating software to my solo mining on my apollo unit.  it says invalid url.

This is a known issue, update to fix is a little late but will def be out next week.

FYI it's just a front end bug and does not affect the miner or node operation.

From this monday i got an error every 24h

[GraphQL error]: Message: Int cannot represent non 32-bit signed integer value: 2262360428

I did change to long btc adres then put i back to short one for solo mining to the node, dint change the errror.
When error happens miner tab in UI shuts down, node continue working.

I did write to support futurebit, they ignore my messange.

Please help.

Hardwired is the way!

I'd be willing to bet now the ping time to the same device cabled should be < or = to 1ms