Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 4. (Read 52508 times)

It happens if you are in the middle of the IBD.  The IBD is CPU intensive and mining can interrupt the bitcoind process causing it to halt.  You need to check the system monitor and see if the bitcoind program is running.  If it is not, just restart the node.  I'd monitor the debug.log in the bitcoin directory that will tell you if you have errors.  I found that if the node keeps quitting restart the  system, shutdown and restart can sometime fix this.   I found mining while this initial download was running in my apollo II caused more bitcoind halts.  A few pages back I mention a way to monitor the debug.log live so you can see the bitcoind running and when it shuts down or stops running.  it give you a window with live updates of the download progress. 

Hello, I noticed that my apollo2 sometimes loses synchronization of the node Connection refused. Your node is not running. With this mine works and I have to manually launch node start? Why does this happen? All ports are open.

jstefanop,

I believe I have a standard miner unit with one of those bad switches that I've been monitoring for a while. This originally happened over the course of 4 weeks when it stopped mining twice and the switch was not lit. When I would flip the switch to off and then back on again it was fine. Two more weeks went by and all was good while I was hoping it miraculously cured itself. Now for the past four days it has happened 4 more times - once a day. I can't be in denial any longer. However, I'd rather avoid the downtime with an RMA and shipping back & forth and simply replace the switch myself. It doesn't appear to be a task outside my skills. How do we go about getting a switch sent out? Thanks in advance.

Thanks!

Yes that is the correct way of naming your workers.

quick question, for workers that are on your same internal network.  will the bitcoin wallet "." + their name work as the proper syntax?
example

3FPnZE7VuXJ9icLsnfe8490kuQP19zhuKAMf8.bitaxe

will this work with payouts?  Thats how I run it on ck pool.

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The full node decentralizes the network.  Solo mining on your own node is more decentralized than mining on a pool.  A pool that you are not in control of means you have a risk of error affecting your ability to mine. You put trust in the pool operator to be fair and honest.  That truly is not always the case.  If you mine on your own pool you are in control of the rewards.   i also don't need to rely on a second computer to maintain the node.  I can, however connect many miners to my solo pool/node.  

Yes, and I am thankful you did. I bought an original Apollo Full Node unit and two standard units shortly after they came out. It was my first experience home mining and I bought them to help myself learn more about the network as well as support the Bitcoin network and have more "skin in the game". I now have four more of the Apollo 2s spread throughout my small home providing my heating, supporting the network, and lottery mining. I love these products and appreciate how much they've helped me learn. Thank you!

They do, they just pair it with their Apollo Full node.

These forums are now an echo chamber of advanced users/early adopters, our user base is now almost entirely new bitcoin users/first time miner/node buyers.

They want a plug and play experience and will pay more for that and thats the market we obviously serve. It's even hard for me to understand sometimes but you have to place yourself in the shoes you were in the first time you heard about bitcoin.

If there was a device like the Apollo Full Node back then I would have jumped on it right away....there wasn't and thats why I built it

I dont understant why more people didnt buy standard unit, its more cheaper then full node unit, I run on my computer with Windows, works OK. Its true that you cant mine solo on your ovn node but you can use solo pool (kano, ck). On the same computer I run BTC full node on Windows, costs me only 2TB SSD disk. If I be more comp freak I can mine with standard unit to ovn node.

We are depreciating desktop support for the USB standard units. Binaries are there for the 1% of users who use them. Unfortunately too much work to maintain support across mutiple architectures and OSes when the vast majority of users pair a standard unit with a Full Node device.

Try Mozilla Firefox browser. Chrome and Edge are bloated and don't play nice in my opinion. You can also try Brave browser. BTW, what kind of error do you see?

Cheers!

I’ve got my Apollo II desktop setup and running but have an odd problem that I was wondering if everyone could put an eye one. 
When I connect via Windows 11 (chrome and edge ) everything shows that it’s working but the miner.  Gives an error and shows no stats.  When I click the all info tab I can see the miners mining and fan speeds etc. I can’t get it to show that’s it’s working on the pc.
When I check pool side I see that it is hashing (ck pool as I’ve not set up my solo side on the Apollo yet)

Out of desperation I connected via my laptop on Mac OS safari and everything works fine.  Miners show all info no errors.  Tried the of again and it doesn’t work.  Refreshed pages, cleared caches, enabled Java scripts on the site, no block up or ad blockers. 
Can’t figured out why everything works but the mining page and works on the Mac??
What gives

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Nope! It isn't a RaspberryPi!

It is listed as "6 ARM Core CPU @ 2GHZ and 4GB of RAM" which I believe is actually an OrangePi 4!

Half year later, still no release. Only unreleased files, which needs to be downloaded separately, that's a bit embarassing.
Any reason why release is not out yet?

The core cpu is a raspberry pi

As I understand it, Futurebit Appolo 2 does not support micro SD higher than 128 GB. It still does not see my 512 GB, no matter what I do with this card. I will have to buy 128 GB.
And also tell me how to connect my devices to futurebit full node when I am not at home via IP address from the Internet. What should I do for this, thank you.

". . . stopping the node and backing up the database to a second 1TB nvme is a good idea."

Yes sir, it's a very good idea! I found out the hard way. And now, I backup the full node drive every 3-4 weeks (actually I clone it). I don't ever want to have to build that full node again! I've seen houses built faster : )

Cheers!

Takes a week to download the node data  It gets slower at the block numbers get higher.  Depends on your internet speed.  I found the node did the IBD better when I wasn't mining.  IBD uses a lot of cpu resources and any additional work by the apollo respberry pi seemed to crash mine causing download restarts.  1 TB nvme minimum for bitcoin database storage.   Probably an upgrade to 2 TB in about a year.  I've got a 128GB microsd that works fine for system files.  I used the legacy balenaetcher to flash the microsd fine. per futurebit support page.   I"m running v2.0.5 because it worked for me and v2.0.6 had bugs that crashed my system. Maybe v2.0.6 will work good for you. I don't have windows open on the apollo keyboard/mouse dashboard as that uses up more RAM memory.  I use it to start up, but once going I close the window and switch.  I monitor it remotely which doesn't impact memory usage.  If you can pay attention to the log file in the bitcoin directory if your system crashes.  You may have to restart the node several times and this process can take time as the bitcoind program rewrites database files.  Any interruption in this part of the process can crash the database causing a reformat and restart.  Once you get to at least half of the blockchain, stopping the node and backing up the database to a second 1TB nvme is a good idea.

Dear Hello. I received my futurebit appolo 2 and I have a question how long does it take to synchronize the BTC database for solo mining? What flash drive capacity and flash drive class does futurebit support? I installed a 512gb sandisc class 3 4k instead of the native flash drive, but futurebit does not start with it. I created an image for it using belendaitcher, I installed the native one and everything started.