Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 62. (Read 48695 times)

They look great!

Are you running them solo or at a pool?

Okay still a bit of cable management and cleanup needed but here ya go!

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Hey, aparentelly im getting shares, but i got error on prompt.


https://i.imgur.com/g1zoCMt.png
Here in the last lines



https://i.imgur.com/EY2fHXx.png
 

Im running windows.

I just download the folder from releases link, configurate the file, and run as adm.


i Need some help   

Sending you a DM

Hey, aparentelly im getting shares, but i got error on prompt..
 
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The one I sold arrived yesterday.  Is it working correctly? Or does it have the odd usb issue? (note this is my philipma1957 alt account)

Indeed I did

I'm back down to 12 running at the moment as I work through a few what I believe to be USB gremlins.

The USB 3.0 ports seem to work perfectly on a few of my "Full" versions that have been purchased second hand and to be clear when running the "full" versions alone without any other standards connected they work fine.

It appears that on 3-4 of these controllers I'm having the same issue with the single USB (I assume it is a 2.0) port is just not working.

I've reflashed to the stock OS build on several sd cards, moved controllers to different units but just can't see to get more than 2 standards running specifically when introducing any device to that single 2.0 Port (not even a USB keyboard seems to work)

Tonight I am going to throw a USB hub into the mix off of one of those 3.0 ports and see how I make out.



I really need to do a rack cleanup before I snap any images. My shits a mess right now! lol.

Do you got 'lucky' with solo and got some good rewards?

Lets see a pic of that setup!

Finally have all 16 online!  

Each "workername" has a "Full" version with 3 Standards attached!

85% power and 60 Frequency!

   "workername": "x.ApolloBTC1",
   "hashrate1m": "13T",
   "hashrate5m": "13T",
   "hashrate1hr": "13T",
   "hashrate1d": "12.9T",
   "hashrate7d": "6.08T",
   "lastshare": 1655261006,
   "shares": 1150554964,

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I am running a standalone on a RPi 4 and here are the steps that I went thru to get it running.

How to Install 64-Bit OS on RPi 4 (4Gb) and get FutureBit Apollo BTC Standalone miner working


Get 64-Bit Raspberry Pi Image
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/
Image with Pi Imager
Have to use Custom Image option for now as 64-bit version is not listed.
Raspberry Pi Imager Tool (https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ )

Boot RPi with new card
Perform normal settings (SSH, Wifi, password, etc.)
Optionally:  sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to get all updates applied.

Download RPi software from:
https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries/releases/
Get the aarch64 files and download and expand to folder of your choice
These are the Apollo miner executable along with start/stop scripts
Scripts will need editing for the user’s pool information, otherwise your mining power will benefit someone else.   

Install Prerequisites for Apollo Miner
Sudo apt-get install screen
Required for the Start_all script

Update Libstdc++ code
Append a line to file “/etc/apt/sources.list”
Type: Sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list to edit the file.
Add this line:    deb http://deb.debian.org/debian sid main 
Ctrl-w, Ctrl-x to save and exit.
Then run
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade libstdc++6

Confirm your Standalone Apollo-BTC is visible:
ls /dev/ttyACM*
You should see this form of output for each attached standalone miner:  /dev/ttyACM0

Cd into your miner folder and type this to get started:
sudo ./start_apollo.sh
Or this if you have more than one unit:    sudo ./miner_start_all.sh  

I documented this as I was going thru sorting out the issues that I had, but I think it will get you up and running..

Finally have all 16 online! 

Each "workername" has a "Full" version with 3 Standards attached!

85% power and 60 Frequency!

   "workername": "x.ApolloBTC1",
   "hashrate1m": "13T",
   "hashrate5m": "13T",
   "hashrate1hr": "13T",
   "hashrate1d": "12.9T",
   "hashrate7d": "6.08T",
   "lastshare": 1655261006,
   "shares": 1150554964,
   "bestshare": 1067318666.263625,
   "bestever": 1067318666
  },
  {
   "workername": "x.ApolloBTC2",
   "hashrate1m": "13.1T",
   "hashrate5m": "13.8T",
   "hashrate1hr": "13.2T",
   "hashrate1d": "13.1T",
   "hashrate7d": "6.13T",
   "lastshare": 1655261008,
   "shares": 1160196367,
   "bestshare": 5705086819.772847,
   "bestever": 5705086819
  },
  {
   "workername": "x.ApolloBTC3",
   "hashrate1m": "15T",
   "hashrate5m": "13.9T",
   "hashrate1hr": "13.2T",
   "hashrate1d": "13T",
   "hashrate7d": "6.09T",
   "lastshare": 1655261007,
   "shares": 1149377795,
   "bestshare": 1561958236.972086,
   "bestever": 1561958236
  },
  {
   "workername": "x.ApolloBTC4",
   "hashrate1m": "14T",
   "hashrate5m": "13.2T",
   "hashrate1hr": "12.3T",
   "hashrate1d": "6.96T",
   "hashrate7d": "3.09T",
   "lastshare": 1655261008,
   "shares": 581432584,
   "bestshare": 2545683025.957528,
   "bestever": 2545683025

I can only guess they used some special library, that's completely unnecessary.

Unfortunately the GPIOs require kernel level changes to make coms work with the board, so its not an easy change.

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it fixed itself thanks
if i wanted to add some extra cooling to the units where should i place the fans top,bottom or sides?

Have you checked if it's connecting to the pool?

Maybe there's an issue with connectivity and there's no work delivered to the miner.

You would need to give more details for anyone to be able to help.

What's the output of the miner?, is it connected?, mining?, what does the dashboard say, etc.

I currently have 2 btc miners one has stopped working, just a solid red light this is the one with the node and the other one is plugged in via usb and is working....I've tried restarting it many times fan comes on for a few seconds then nothing.

they have been running flawless for months and both are in balance hashrate