Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 4. (Read 39523 times)

Quote from: johnstewart on April 12, 2024, 02:20:59 PM

received my Apollo 2 founders edition. Excitedly flashed the sd and powered it all up. of all the technical faults or issues I expected to face, what I didn't bank on was not being able to connect it to wifi - just goes round in a perpetual loop of putting in the wifi password, thinks about it and then says not connected and brings up the password pop up again. It recognises my wifi networks fine (and the password I am entering is correct - I double checked!). It just won't connect to wifi. Very frustrating. Any suggestions?

ok, so I just powered up my other unit without flashing it and it works fine, so something happened in reflashing to muck up the wifi connectivity. Question is now how do I fix that?

and now after an hour's use, the other unit has dropped off the wifi and won't reconnect. Brilliant. Never had any issues like this with the Apollo 1 units. Right now I have 2 expensive bricks taking up space in my office Sad

Wifi on our controllers are finicky, needs to be close range to the router and mixed 2.4/5GHz networks dont work well. Best is to seperate SSID for 2.4 and connect to just the 2.4 SSID.

Apollo 1 wifi has been bullet proof so does the Apollo 2 use an inferior interface? I'm using the 2 at the same distance as I've always used the 1. Nothing seems to be working to resolve the wifi conenction issue. Hard wiring seems the only solution which kind of makes the whole concept a bit pointless.

If you have an early Apollo I with MCU1 that tended to be a more reliable wifi controller than MCU2 units that ship on later Apollo 1/2s.

Wifi is also effected by many things, just the cases differences between the two units can cause much difference.

Have you tried it on a 2.4ghz only SSID?

yes, i've done this and it makes no difference unfortunately.

jstefanop

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Hello so I flashed the new os 2 on my Apollo mcu1 seems to work. No hashrate from my dashboard like I said on support by email.

I have a question is that possible to point other miners on my own solo node for the solo mining or it’s exclusive for the Apollo ?

Hi your dashboard is showing 0 hashrate?

Yes you can point any Bitcoin miner to the solo pool. The LAN address is shown in the solo pool page, and you can also port forward 3333 to your LAN address so you can access the solo pool from your WAN address.

johnstewart

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Hello so I flashed the new os 2 on my Apollo mcu1 seems to work. No hashrate from my dashboard like I said on support by email.

I have a question is that possible to point other miners on my own solo node for the solo mining or it’s exclusive for the Apollo ?

jstefanop

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Quote from: potentabit on April 12, 2024, 01:56:09 PM

MCU1 full node with Apollo 2 Standard attached to USB.
Using v2.0.4-beta

Noticed that hash rate to NiceHash is only a fraction of actual mining.
When looking at the stats only shows one of the 2 miners (Apollo2) reporting data at no more than fraction (1.2 TH) of actual rate (5.8TH).
Apollo BTC is showing 1.9 TH and 0TH on NiceHash account.

Is this on nice hash only? Would wait at least an hour for hashrate to settle.

jstefanop

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Quote from: Bamieater on April 12, 2024, 12:55:28 PM

Quote from: jstefanop on April 11, 2024, 11:56:28 PM

Link to download MCU1 Apollo OS 2 below.

Want to get this tested here by a few of you since we dont have a lot of MCU1 devices left to test.

Below feedback would be appreciated:
OS detects internal board and starts up fine
OS detects and starts up external USB Standard units (both Apollo BTC or if any MCU1 owners have an Apollo II standard yet)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j4o3rcwe88emzsuwe4wm7/apollo-2-mcu1_110424.img.xz?rlkey=cu3i66xtl5n4ln8ji7mct3zth&dl=0

This includes latest v2.0.4-beta release

Reminder MCU1 controllers are Batch 1/2 Apollos with the longer GPIO pins on the board (check link below if you are not sure which you have).

https://mega.nz/file/dghWnKJC#J2kkpfH5RVKynf0OvuE5mKojXdUqAFCczHMyv6mDrM4

My miner is crashing, and restarting every 10-20 minutes. To my feeling it's happening the moment new blocks are mined.

The node falls back a couple of hundred blocks after the restart, i.e. the current block was 838879 and the node would start syncing at 838663 again.

MCU1 board. This behaviour was also happening before, and I was hoping the upgrade would fix this.

This sounds like a corrupted SSD drive. You might need to reformat the drive and start syncing again. Can also try a re-indexing the node before you reformat the drive.

potentabit

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MCU1 full node with Apollo 2 Standard attached to USB.
Using v2.0.4-beta

Noticed that hash rate to NiceHash is only a fraction of actual mining.
When looking at the stats only shows one of the 2 miners (Apollo2) reporting data at no more than fraction (1.2 TH) of actual rate (5.8TH).
Apollo BTC is showing 1.9 TH and 0TH on NiceHash account.

Bamieater

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Quote from: jstefanop on April 11, 2024, 11:56:28 PM

Link to download MCU1 Apollo OS 2 below.

Want to get this tested here by a few of you since we dont have a lot of MCU1 devices left to test.

Below feedback would be appreciated:
OS detects internal board and starts up fine
OS detects and starts up external USB Standard units (both Apollo BTC or if any MCU1 owners have an Apollo II standard yet)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j4o3rcwe88emzsuwe4wm7/apollo-2-mcu1_110424.img.xz?rlkey=cu3i66xtl5n4ln8ji7mct3zth&dl=0

This includes latest v2.0.4-beta release

Reminder MCU1 controllers are Batch 1/2 Apollos with the longer GPIO pins on the board (check link below if you are not sure which you have).

https://mega.nz/file/dghWnKJC#J2kkpfH5RVKynf0OvuE5mKojXdUqAFCczHMyv6mDrM4

My miner is crashing, and restarting every 10-20 minutes. To my feeling it's happening the moment new blocks are mined.

The node falls back a couple of hundred blocks after the restart, i.e. the current block was 838879 and the node would start syncing at 838663 again.

MCU1 board. This behaviour was also happening before, and I was hoping the upgrade would fix this.

jstefanop

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Quote from: jb1972 on April 12, 2024, 12:04:22 PM

Quote from: jstefanop on April 12, 2024, 09:29:59 AM

Quote from: jstefanop on April 12, 2024, 09:29:59 AM

received my Apollo 2 founders edition. Excitedly flashed the sd and powered it all up. of all the technical faults or issues I expected to face, what I didn't bank on was not being able to connect it to wifi - just goes round in a perpetual loop of putting in the wifi password, thinks about it and then says not connected and brings up the password pop up again. It recognises my wifi networks fine (and the password I am entering is correct - I double checked!). It just won't connect to wifi. Very frustrating. Any suggestions?

ok, so I just powered up my other unit without flashing it and it works fine, so something happened in reflashing to muck up the wifi connectivity. Question is now how do I fix that?

and now after an hour's use, the other unit has dropped off the wifi and won't reconnect. Brilliant. Never had any issues like this with the Apollo 1 units. Right now I have 2 expensive bricks taking up space in my office Sad

Wifi on our controllers are finicky, needs to be close range to the router and mixed 2.4/5GHz networks dont work well. Best is to seperate SSID for 2.4 and connect to just the 2.4 SSID.

Apollo 1 wifi has been bullet proof so does the Apollo 2 use an inferior interface? I'm using the 2 at the same distance as I've always used the 1. Nothing seems to be working to resolve the wifi conenction issue. Hard wiring seems the only solution which kind of makes the whole concept a bit pointless.

If you have an early Apollo I with MCU1 that tended to be a more reliable wifi controller than MCU2 units that ship on later Apollo 1/2s.

Wifi is also effected by many things, just the cases differences between the two units can cause much difference.

Have you tried it on a 2.4ghz only SSID?

jb1972

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Quote from: jstefanop on April 11, 2024, 11:56:28 PM

received my Apollo 2 founders edition. Excitedly flashed the sd and powered it all up. of all the technical faults or issues I expected to face, what I didn't bank on was not being able to connect it to wifi - just goes round in a perpetual loop of putting in the wifi password, thinks about it and then says not connected and brings up the password pop up again. It recognises my wifi networks fine (and the password I am entering is correct - I double checked!). It just won't connect to wifi. Very frustrating. Any suggestions?

ok, so I just powered up my other unit without flashing it and it works fine, so something happened in reflashing to muck up the wifi connectivity. Question is now how do I fix that?

and now after an hour's use, the other unit has dropped off the wifi and won't reconnect. Brilliant. Never had any issues like this with the Apollo 1 units. Right now I have 2 expensive bricks taking up space in my office Sad

Wifi on our controllers are finicky, needs to be close range to the router and mixed 2.4/5GHz networks dont work well. Best is to seperate SSID for 2.4 and connect to just the 2.4 SSID.

Apollo 1 wifi has been bullet proof so does the Apollo 2 use an inferior interface? I'm using the 2 at the same distance as I've always used the 1. Nothing seems to be working to resolve the wifi conenction issue. Hard wiring seems the only solution which kind of makes the whole concept a bit pointless.

potentabit

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Link to download MCU1 Apollo OS 2 below.

Want to get this tested here by a few of you since we dont have a lot of MCU1 devices left to test.

Below feedback would be appreciated:
OS detects internal board and starts up fine
OS detects and starts up external USB Standard units (both Apollo BTC or if any MCU1 owners have an Apollo II standard yet)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j4o3rcwe88emzsuwe4wm7/apollo-2-mcu1_110424.img.xz?rlkey=cu3i66xtl5n4ln8ji7mct3zth&dl=0

This includes latest v2.0.4-beta release

Reminder MCU1 controllers are Batch 1/2 Apollos with the longer GPIO pins on the board (check link below if you are not sure which you have).

https://mega.nz/file/dghWnKJC#J2kkpfH5RVKynf0OvuE5mKojXdUqAFCczHMyv6mDrM4

Finally found the "Power button" LOL...
Just started MCU1 up. Looks and working well. It recognized Apollo2 S. and mining in ECO mode @ 7.8TH and 307W
GUI is a bit slow and jerky but manageable. I'm assuming it's the MCU1, otherwise working well so far.

jstefanop

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Activity: 2061

Merit: 1388

received my Apollo 2 founders edition. Excitedly flashed the sd and powered it all up. of all the technical faults or issues I expected to face, what I didn't bank on was not being able to connect it to wifi - just goes round in a perpetual loop of putting in the wifi password, thinks about it and then says not connected and brings up the password pop up again. It recognises my wifi networks fine (and the password I am entering is correct - I double checked!). It just won't connect to wifi. Very frustrating. Any suggestions?

ok, so I just powered up my other unit without flashing it and it works fine, so something happened in reflashing to muck up the wifi connectivity. Question is now how do I fix that?

and now after an hour's use, the other unit has dropped off the wifi and won't reconnect. Brilliant. Never had any issues like this with the Apollo 1 units. Right now I have 2 expensive bricks taking up space in my office Sad

Wifi on our controllers are finicky, needs to be close range to the router and mixed 2.4/5GHz networks dont work well. Best is to seperate SSID for 2.4 and connect to just the 2.4 SSID.

Sledge0001

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received my Apollo 2 founders edition. Excitedly flashed the sd and powered it all up. of all the technical faults or issues I expected to face, what I didn't bank on was not being able to connect it to wifi - just goes round in a perpetual loop of putting in the wifi password, thinks about it and then says not connected and brings up the password pop up again. It recognises my wifi networks fine (and the password I am entering is correct - I double checked!). It just won't connect to wifi. Very frustrating. Any suggestions?

ok, so I just powered up my other unit without flashing it and it works fine, so something happened in reflashing to muck up the wifi connectivity. Question is now how do I fix that?

and now after an hour's use, the other unit has dropped off the wifi and won't reconnect. Brilliant. Never had any issues like this with the Apollo 1 units. Right now I have 2 expensive bricks taking up space in my office Sad

In the event you havent yet, there was an update that was pushed out for the Apollo II. Click on the yellow power button and then on the software version number. That should patch the system to the most recent version.

jb1972

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received my Apollo 2 founders edition. Excitedly flashed the sd and powered it all up. of all the technical faults or issues I expected to face, what I didn't bank on was not being able to connect it to wifi - just goes round in a perpetual loop of putting in the wifi password, thinks about it and then says not connected and brings up the password pop up again. It recognises my wifi networks fine (and the password I am entering is correct - I double checked!). It just won't connect to wifi. Very frustrating. Any suggestions?

ok, so I just powered up my other unit without flashing it and it works fine, so something happened in reflashing to muck up the wifi connectivity. Question is now how do I fix that?

and now after an hour's use, the other unit has dropped off the wifi and won't reconnect. Brilliant. Never had any issues like this with the Apollo 1 units. Right now I have 2 expensive bricks taking up space in my office Sad

jb1972

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Activity: 6

Merit: 0