Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 67. (Read 48695 times)

with 30/30 you have already increased the efficiency with reduced stability compared to ECO.
I think the binaries documentation is outdated? (Apollo UI ranges from 25-60)
So you can step to 30/25 if it's unstable?

In the end brd_ocp reduces the chip voltage and from some point the chip is no longer able to to keep up it's base load I think. Maybe <30 is too far out of specification?
A low power mode is also a nice idea for the apollo UI.

Yes, the official PSU is really interfering with the quiet operation of the apollo.
Maybe futurebit will design a PSU with a bigger and quiet fan in the future?

Been using a couple of these: https://www.parallelminer.com/product/z9-mini-power-supply-460w-110-240v-80-platinum-94/

They are running 1-Full + 3-Standard on balanced, and can be paired/controlled together. The fans do move a little air, but I can't hear them. (only feel it coming out the back)

They appear to be sold out at the moment, but you can pick up the breakout boards / cables from above, and source the PSU used. I use the same ones in my old G8 HP servers, and you can pick them up from old server distributors for cheap. ($10-20) They are dead nuts reliable, and efficient. The Titanium versions are a bit harder to come by, and not worth the extra $$ to me. Standard Gold versions work fine as well, but they are usually almost the same price as Platinum.

4mo uptime here, BTW. Would be longer, but had a power outage during a snow storm a while back.

Thanks @jstefanop for making this nice device. It works and looks great.

I'm trying to make the Apollo run at it's absolutely quietest setting, even below ECO. It would be awesome if you could answer a few questions I have about it.


Based on the documentation, ECO is set to: -brd_ocp 48  -osc 30.


Since I would like to run it even lower, I set brd_ocp to 30 and kept osc at 30(both minimums based on the documentation), this nicely decreases the fan speed (and sound) as expected.

My understanding is that the -osc parameter shouldn't affect the fan speed, and only brd_ocp would affect it. Is that correct?

One thing that I don't understand is why the minimum brd_ocp is 30?, would it be safe to run it at even lower numbers?, I'm aware that the hashrate will be reduced of course, but I'm mainly concerned about the hardware functioning properly at it's absolutely lowest value (for example, would it be possible to run it so low that the fans are not needed?).

Also, I noticed there's another fan in the "official" power supply. Since I'm planning to run it with very low power, I wonder if that fan is even needed as that's now the main contributor of noise. I guess I could buy another PSU without a fan for this "silent miner" project. Any suggestions for one? So far I've found this one, which should run without starting the fan until 220W so it should be absolutely noiseless.

I was able to get lightningd to run on the FutureBit today.  I tried a few different approaches, but I believe these steps will get it running.

From https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:lightningnetwork/ppa
sudo apt-get install lightningd

We need bitcoin-cli since FutureBit doesn't ship with it

wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-22.0/bitcoin-22.0-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
tar -xvf bitcoin-22.0-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
cd bitcoin-22.0/bin
sudo install -m 0755 -o root -g root -t /usr/local/bin ~/bitcoin-22.0/bin/bitcoin-cli
ln -s /opt/apolloapi/backend/node/bitcoin.conf bitcoin.conf

That should be it, running lightningd should come up and at least start running.  I have not connected it any further than that yet.

Thanks! Obviously this thread is full of support issues as that is its purpose, and couple dozen people with issues makes it seem like the product is full of issues but its nice to see posts like this once in a while since obviously there are thousands of happy customers and those thousands of people don't come on here to post they have no issues 

It's been over a month and they still can't figure out the issue.  It's very frustrating, they sent me a new fan and it keeps running at over 5,000 RPMs.  They sent me a new firmware and that hasn't resolved the issue.  I have 4 of these running and the latest run is having all the issues.

Thanks for posting this thread, it got me up and running with a Pi. I had to set this up due to issues with my SSD drive.

The cmd "ls /dev/ttyACM*" shows all 3 units are connected and they start hashing(flashing red light and slowly warming up of the metal underplate).

ONLY thing is I can't see any fan control lines in the scripts. So as I felt the underplate of the miner warming up, I've switched them OFF and maybe somebody can verify IF the fan on the USB miner is controlled via the Raspberry script on the 3 different settings?

Hope somebody can help this script-nitwit, before I screw up my units.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks....Care to share what's in the pipeline?

For a change, since this is also an image thread, I want to chime in with something other than a support request, and instead speak out a big thanks for this nice little machine to jstefanop and his team. I've restarted it a few times to change settings and such, but it never stopped on its own, crashed or anything like that. I did add a PC fan on top and one below, which I run off of 5V from the controller (so roughly half speed on these 12V DC fans - very quiet).



There are few things more pleasing than a system with weeks or months of uptime that just chugs along tirelessly.

Hi Apollo Team

Had the Apollo BTC (Full-Set) running on Eco Mode about 5 Weeks on my desk - only the miner - stopped the node. On this weekend - i was at the office and had some time left and just startet the node and start syncing. After about 2 hours: freeze. No mouse/keyboard input - nothing responds. Had to restart the Apollo. Now, the powersupply just makes heavy "coil whine" noises. Can make a video if needed... When i start the apollo - all LED the front, the one at the back and the one below - are solid red. After 30 seconds the top fan starts spinning for 5 seconds and then it stops. No video output - nothing. I would guess the power supply id dead. But am open to your suggestions...

EDIT: I bought the full set: miner, controller and PSU...
EDIT2: Tried to run the Apollo on another PSU - Same issue... 

I'm still having issues with the node too, went to about 80%, then disappeared.
Posted this earlier, no response.
NVMe works in another system (Linux laptop).

Any one with ideas on the node? 

I am still having issues with this, does anybody have some sources that I can be directed to?
thank you

Awesome news!

Running the Apollo with cgminer instead of a closed source binary would be absolutely fantastic.

It seems that the Apollos are doing very well, Batch 3 is sold out, and it looks like things are going great in general:



How close are we to have Apollo's firmware ported to cgminer? some time in 2022?

Sadly its been a year of most of the team focusing on operations and supply chain issues to get all your orders out. We seem to have that mostly under control for the near future, and focus will definitely shit to building out our front end and features we have in the pipeline!

First, double check that you downloaded the binaries from the official site: https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries

Make sure your power supply can at least provide 200W, and is correctly connected.

Power it up, and connect it to your Windows PC. Does it show up in your device manager?, get the COM number from there and edit the .bat file with that number:


You can then edit the .bat file with your COM number, and your pool details:


After you edit the .bat file with your details you can just double click on it.

You have to open your device manager in windows and find the COM port that associated to your Apollo (it will come up after the light in front goes solid red). You then need to edit the start.bat file with that COM port and your pool info etc. All the instructions are inside the start file.

Hello , i need a quick help here.

I bougth more cheap apollo no controller no psu.

Connect a apollo on normal atx supply , works fine.

But i not have sucess on configuration. First i tried windows, plug apolo micro usb in pc, and run binarie winx86...
The log says, waiting device COM(1)...COM(2).....

I got a orangepi pc, i tried flash stock rom, not work (orangepi not boot)

I tried again, run orangepi on normal OS , and run binarie for ARM , same result of windows.. Aparentelly , OS not found device connected by microusb cable.

Anyone have a tip , or guide setup basic to run ?? Im really trying run, but its hard..

Wow, that Mega site truly sucks. Been fighting for 20 minutes now to find my download. Different browsers, logged in or not. No idea where it is. Made in 2001 or so?