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Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 33. (Read 52205 times)

newbie
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Thanks for letting me know. By chance, speaking of the initial boot up, my router flagged two malware activities (categorized as phishing/deception) as soon as I connect to the network. By chance would you know if these are false negatives? I can’t get any detail out of the ISP router, and my pfsense router won’t be online for a few weeks. See attached.

Many A/V software still flag any crypto mining activity as malware (because some malware install stealth crypto miners), so my first guess at least would be that!
newbie
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I have been running Apollo v1 node since inception and  now with Apollov2 i'm asked what is my wallet address.

Also where is the wallet address of our node? Don't really understand that part thought do understand bitcoin wallets with password in general.

That's for the SOLO mining feature, and points where the mining payout would go if you mined a SOLO block.  I am not sure how it functions in regard to mining to a pool instead, but I assume you need to provide a payout wallet address there too.  As I understand it (and what the guide says), there is no wallet installed on the Apollo 2 node by default due to security issues - you can install one manually, but you have to understand what you're doing and secure it.  I'd recommend you use another wallet instead, like a hardware wallet, and point it to your node if possible (which can also be difficult - Ledger used to support it for example, but its an experimental feature now to use your own node and I was not able to get mine working very well when I was using an Umbrel node in the past)
newbie
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Thanks for letting me know. By chance, speaking of the initial boot up, my router flagged two malware activities (categorized as phishing/deception) as soon as I connect to the network. By chance would you know if these are false negatives? I can’t get any detail out of the ISP router, and my pfsense router won’t be online for a few weeks. See attached.
legendary
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On initial sync you won't get more than 10 connections. Once it's fully synced you'll get your full 32
newbie
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Issue: 10/32 Connections

Sorry for asking about this, but I'm not finding an answer within the forum. I've set up my Apollo II and it is performing the initial sync. I have opened up port 8333, and validated using an external connection the port is open. I am still only showing 10/32 connections on a solid gigabit ISP. Is there anything I can do to increase the connections? I'm connected using wired ethernet.

Thank you for your time.

hero member
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I have been running Apollo v1 node since inception and  now with Apollov2 i'm asked what is my wallet address.

Also where is the wallet address of our node? Don't really understand that part thought do understand bitcoin wallets with password in general.
newbie
Activity: 10
Merit: 0
Hello ALL!!!  Cheesy

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! Cheesy 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!
jr. member
Activity: 95
Merit: 2
well. I should not have mentioned how well my Apollo II was working. I flashed the SD card to the latest version with etcher and the node won't start. Getting "Invalid params, response status code: 401 -32602". any thoughts?

*** resolved, I reflashed the card and reseated the drive ***
member
Activity: 82
Merit: 52
For the standard unit Apollo II - are the values when controlled via USB the same as the v1?

./apollo-miner -host us-east.stratum.slushpool.com -port 3333 -user jstefanop.x -pswd x -comport /dev/ttyACM0 -brd_ocp 48  -osc 30 -ao_mode 1

# Preset Values:
#   ECO:        -brd_ocp 48  -osc 30
#   BALANCED:   -brd_ocp 60  -osc 40
#   TURBO:      -brd_ocp 75  -osc 50
legendary
Activity: 2188
Merit: 1401
Hello ALL!!!  Cheesy

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.
legendary
Activity: 2188
Merit: 1401
Do we know what SBC the new Apollo II full node is running yet? I just got my standard unit today and wanted to get the same or similar SBC and compile the new OS on it vs using the binaries w/ linux mint or ubuntu

unit looks great jstefanop, thanks for dropping this.

It's the same controller as later Batches Apollo BTC (What we call MCU2).

newbie
Activity: 10
Merit: 0
Hopefully will be receiving my Apollo ii soon.  Seeing all the comments about wifi issues.  As someone who isn't too technical.  If I have a wifi extender that allows for input of an ethernet cable, would that fix any potential wifi issues I may have?

Yeah, that should be fine, as the extender is what is making the wifi connection in that case, so the Apollo 2 or whatever device is hooked up to the extender's ethernet port should behave as if hooked up to any real ethernet port.
jr. member
Activity: 95
Merit: 2
Hopefully will be receiving my Apollo ii soon.  Seeing all the comments about wifi issues.  As someone who isn't too technical.  If I have a wifi extender that allows for input of an ethernet cable, would that fix any potential wifi issues I may have?


Thats what I'm using and no issues at all. Mining against my own full node with a second unit as well.  Smiley
I did not mine at all while the node was syncing. I think it took about 3 full days to sync. once it was done I selected solo mining and now running 4 days with no issues at all.
member
Activity: 82
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Do we know what SBC the new Apollo II full node is running yet? I just got my standard unit today and wanted to get the same or similar SBC and compile the new OS on it vs using the binaries w/ linux mint or ubuntu

unit looks great jstefanop, thanks for dropping this.
jr. member
Activity: 123
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Hopefully will be receiving my Apollo ii soon.  Seeing all the comments about wifi issues.  As someone who isn't too technical.  If I have a wifi extender that allows for input of an ethernet cable, would that fix any potential wifi issues I may have?
newbie
Activity: 10
Merit: 0
Hello ALL!!!  Cheesy

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)
jr. member
Activity: 31
Merit: 4
Hello,

Is that possible to create an highdiff port on the solo pool ? ( i lurked on the ckpool github doesn't find it )

We will add options to solo UI for this in future updates, but for now you would need to edit the ckpool.conf file (opt/apolloapi/backend/ckpool/ckpool.conf) and add the following line to change the start diff

 "startdiff": 8000,






So after multiples tries :

It seems that when you modify the ckpool.conf the pool won't start and i saw that the pool set a diff to 1 but it stay to 42 when it works..
It seems that the diff is set by the miner or there is a bug between the two settings ...

So i find the way:

- Stop the miner in the apollo-miner folder with miner_stop.sh
then -go to the ckpool folder stop the pool  with ckpool_stop.sh  modify the ckpool.conf with the "startdiff": disired and then start the pool with ckpool_start.sh
and now it will set the disired  diff !!!!
newbie
Activity: 8
Merit: 0
Hello ALL!!!  Cheesy

With the BTC Halving, how are your mining results?

Thank you
jr. member
Activity: 31
Merit: 4
Hello,

Is that possible to create an highdiff port on the solo pool ? ( i lurked on the ckpool github doesn't find it )

We will add options to solo UI for this in future updates, but for now you would need to edit the ckpool.conf file (opt/apolloapi/backend/ckpool/ckpool.conf) and add the following line to change the start diff

 "startdiff": 8000,






So after multiples tries :

It seems that when you modify the ckpool.conf the pool won't start and i saw that the pool set a diff to 1 but it stay to 42 when it works..
It seems that the diff is set by the miner or there is a bug between the two settings ...
hero member
Activity: 1008
Merit: 960
The Apollo I closed sourced binary requires you to run it as sudo to get access to /dev/ttyACM0.

You can change the permissions of that file to allow your user to access it, which is much better than running a closed source binary 24/7 as sudo. Here's how to do it:

First, check the permissions of that file:

Code:
ls -ltrh /dev/ttyACM0

In most Linux devices like Ubuntu that will be owned by root and belonging to the group dialout. You can add your username to that group, and therefore gain access to that file by executing this:
Code:
sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

That will add your username ($USER will evaluate to your current user, change it accordingly if you need other user) to the dialout group.

Now you need to reboot your machine. After that, you should be able to run the Apollo binary without sudo.

Happy hashing.

By the way, jstefanop, would it be possible to update the Apollo I binaries? that device hasn't received a single update since 2021 (https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries)
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