Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 69.

heslo

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Quote from: gigahashes on April 12, 2022, 11:52:31 AM

Quote from: Saitoh2319 on March 17, 2022, 07:38:59 PM

My batch 3 standard unit's fan is making grinding noises while it is running and this was recently received in January. Is there anyway to replace this fan? If I place the unit on the side, the grinding noise is minimal.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6puf5oaygpaebf/Video%20Mar%2017%2C%208%2027%2016%20PM.mov?dl=0

Hi, yes it is easy to replace the fan, I used a Sunon Miniature Fan 5VDC Square 25 x 25 x 6mm 2.2 CFM 2 Wire Leads, I cut the wires from the connector, leaving plenty of wire to reattach and then soldered the new fan to the wires and connector.

Not sure where you are but there is a company on ebay uk that has these at a good price.

£3.99 each inc shipping, I am sure you will be able to find one and they are a fantastic replacement.

This is what I used too; can't go wrong with Sunon

gigahashes

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Quote from: Saitoh2319 on March 17, 2022, 07:38:59 PM

My batch 3 standard unit's fan is making grinding noises while it is running and this was recently received in January. Is there anyway to replace this fan? If I place the unit on the side, the grinding noise is minimal.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6puf5oaygpaebf/Video%20Mar%2017%2C%208%2027%2016%20PM.mov?dl=0

Hi, yes it is easy to replace the fan, I used a Sunon Miniature Fan 5VDC Square 25 x 25 x 6mm 2.2 CFM 2 Wire Leads, I cut the wires from the connector, leaving plenty of wire to reattach and then soldered the new fan to the wires and connector.

Not sure where you are but there is a company on ebay uk that has these at a good price.

£3.99 each inc shipping, I am sure you will be able to find one and they are a fantastic replacement.

mistersplice

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Quote from: heslo on March 18, 2022, 12:46:01 AM

Quote from: Saitoh2319 on March 17, 2022, 07:38:59 PM

My batch 3 standard unit's fan is making grinding noises while it is running and this was recently received in January. Is there anyway to replace this fan? If I place the unit on the side, the grinding noise is minimal.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6puf5oaygpaebf/Video%20Mar%2017%2C%208%2027%2016%20PM.mov?dl=0

Well known issue; the small fan on the SBC is pretty shitty. Contact customer support and they'll send you out another

I've contacted support three different times now about the same issue, and have not gotten a single reply back

Guyta

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Quote from: WLColsher on April 09, 2022, 03:51:07 PM

I'm running a Batch 3 Full and 1 standard for about 6 weeks now and haven't noticed any drop off. So a couple questions just to get some focus:

1) Is the reported hashrate from the Apollo web dashboard or your pool?
2) Are all 44 ASICS running on all 3 hashboards?
3) How do your hash board temps look? Mine have been right around 65°C since day 1 in Turbo mode.

The "designed" hashrate is an average and can vary by around 5% so dips down to 5.7ish Th/s on the dashboard should be expected.

Someone here will certainly have more information for you than I do.

1. Yest the hash rate Is on the futurebit dashboard
2.all 3 boards are running 44
3. Temps are around 60C running in balance mode now.

WLColsher

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I'm running a Batch 3 Full and 1 standard for about 6 weeks now and haven't noticed any drop off. So a couple questions just to get some focus:

1) Is the reported hashrate from the Apollo web dashboard or your pool?
2) Are all 44 ASICS running on all 3 hashboards?
3) How do your hash board temps look? Mine have been right around 65°C since day 1 in Turbo mode.

The "designed" hashrate is an average and can vary by around 5% so dips down to 5.7ish Th/s on the dashboard should be expected.

Someone here will certainly have more information for you than I do.

Guyta

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So I purchased a desktop and 2 standard units.

When I started mining I was doing anywhere from 6Th/s to 7Th/s in eco mode
A week later and the package is doing between 5Th/s to 5.8Th/s.

Anyone else experience a hash rate drop?

WLColsher

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Quote from: V3XED on April 08, 2022, 10:34:08 AM

Quote from: gigahashes on April 08, 2022, 09:11:51 AM

Just so you all know, have just found this info.

https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may?variant=33404796928099

Good luck to all Grin

Curious to hear people's opinions on the 'value proposition' of these units right now.
And to be clear, I am not trying to flame, but I am running two units from batch 2 that don't seem like they will ever achieve ROI.

To anyone purchasing now, what is your gameplan? What are your priorities and goals?
Just curious to get other perspectives, cheers.

If by "ROI" you mean "pay for itself" the answer is unknowable without knowing one's cost of electricity AND the price of Bitcoin at some future date. You should know your price of electricity so you can easily compute your monthly cost of operations, then project BTC however you care to.

As far as the machines themselves I have 2 Batch 3 machines mining Slushpool. They generate about 0.00021 Bitcoin a week, or 0.01092 annually. At today's price that's about $467.50 per year. If you buy ARK Investment's call of $1,000,000 by 2030 you're looking at about $87000 over that period. That doesn't take into account the expected 2024 "halving", BTW.

After all that, as an investor first, I look at these home or hobby miners as foreign currency bonds. So the $1400 I have in my two machines (a full and a standard) yield about 33% annually in USD.

BlazeB

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Quote from: V3XED on April 08, 2022, 10:34:08 AM

Quote from: gigahashes on April 08, 2022, 09:11:51 AM

Just so you all know, have just found this info.

https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may?variant=33404796928099

Good luck to all Grin

Curious to hear people's opinions on the 'value proposition' of these units right now.
And to be clear, I am not trying to flame, but I am running two units from batch 2 that don't seem like they will ever achieve ROI.

To anyone purchasing now, what is your gameplan? What are your priorities and goals?
Just curious to get other perspectives, cheers.

I use my full node so I don't have to rely on a third party monitor and use my wallet. Sure I could have setup a full node on a Raspberry Pi but the Apollo is a very slick package. It would be awesome if FutureBit came out with a quiet BTC miner that consumed around 1500 watts, similar to the Goldshell Lite series miners. I know that's not their target market, but I can dream. For now, I'll have to settle for my Apollo BTC and a few S9s running Braiins to keep the fan speeds at an acceptable level for home mining.

nullama

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Quote from: V3XED on April 08, 2022, 10:34:08 AM

Quote from: gigahashes on April 08, 2022, 09:11:51 AM

Just so you all know, have just found this info.

https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may?variant=33404796928099

Good luck to all Grin

Curious to hear people's opinions on the 'value proposition' of these units right now.
And to be clear, I am not trying to flame, but I am running two units from batch 2 that don't seem like they will ever achieve ROI.

To anyone purchasing now, what is your gameplan? What are your priorities and goals?
Just curious to get other perspectives, cheers.

A quiet home miner really.

That will change always. The original was Generate Coins in a CPU program in 2009, but I missed it. Now I'm eager to run low powered efficient miners at home. The Apollo seems to be the best one, along with the Compac F.

V3XED

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Quote from: gigahashes on April 08, 2022, 09:11:51 AM

Just so you all know, have just found this info.

https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may?variant=33404796928099

Good luck to all Grin

Curious to hear people's opinions on the 'value proposition' of these units right now.
And to be clear, I am not trying to flame, but I am running two units from batch 2 that don't seem like they will ever achieve ROI.

To anyone purchasing now, what is your gameplan? What are your priorities and goals?
Just curious to get other perspectives, cheers.

gigahashes

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Just so you all know, have just found this info.

https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may?variant=33404796928099

Good luck to all Grin

n0nce

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not your keys, not your coins!

Quote from: nullama on April 07, 2022, 11:46:38 PM

Quote from: SpeedForceGN on April 07, 2022, 10:37:26 PM

~snip~
Can you explain how

Since this is the Apollo BTC thread, the official answer would be to wait for a bit:

Quote from: jstefanop

(solo mining, block explorer, Lightning network all planned in the short term)

Having said that, if you're capable of managing your own device, install and configure things on your own, then you could use any lightning setup on top of the Apollo.

I personally prefer open source above anything else, so here is a fully open source stack to run a lightning node through REST with a great web based interface, which gives you a lot of flexibility:

Bitcoin Core: The Bitcoin node, already in your Apollo Computer. This is your private Bitcoin node that you will connect to. Setup a RPC user and password for it.
c-lightning: a lightweight C implementation of the Lightning Network. This will connect to the Bitcoin node in the same device using that user/pass.
C-Lightning-REST: A rest API interface for c-lightning.
Ride-The-Lightning: RTL is an awesome web based interface for managing your node. It communicates through the REST API to your node.

And now you should be able to manage your node through a great web interface. All powered by open source.

Keep in mind installing all that on top of the Apollo image might not be a great idea, since it has a few outdated packages and JStefanop has advised not to udpate the OS repeatedly.
I'm working on a guide that explains how to install stock Linux on the SBC, the whole stack from my OpenSUSE guide, as well as the miner binary and the open-source frontend, which is really handy to be honest.

It will require a short USB-A to micro-USB cable from the hashboard to the SBC, but I think that that it will be worth it.

nullama

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Quote from: SpeedForceGN on April 07, 2022, 10:37:26 PM

~snip~
Can you explain how

Since this is the Apollo BTC thread, the official answer would be to wait for a bit:

Quote from: jstefanop

(solo mining, block explorer, Lightning network all planned in the short term)

Having said that, if you're capable of managing your own device, install and configure things on your own, then you could use any lightning setup on top of the Apollo.

I personally prefer open source above anything else, so here is a fully open source stack to run a lightning node through REST with a great web based interface, which gives you a lot of flexibility:

Bitcoin Core: The Bitcoin node, already in your Apollo Computer. This is your private Bitcoin node that you will connect to. Setup a RPC user and password for it.
c-lightning: a lightweight C implementation of the Lightning Network. This will connect to the Bitcoin node in the same device using that user/pass.
C-Lightning-REST: A rest API interface for c-lightning.
Ride-The-Lightning: RTL is an awesome web based interface for managing your node. It communicates through the REST API to your node.

And now you should be able to manage your node through a great web interface. All powered by open source.

SpeedForceGN

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Quote from: nullama on April 07, 2022, 09:23:30 PM

Quote from: SpeedForceGN on April 07, 2022, 09:02:50 PM

Quote from: nullama on April 07, 2022, 06:37:34 PM

Quote from: SpeedForceGN on April 07, 2022, 03:35:35 PM

Anyone know or have an update for software update and or lightning network addon?

For the Apollo miner binary itself, you can find all the updates here: https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries/releases

For the Single Board Computer (Bitcoin node, etc), you can find all the updates here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57091052

Does any of this allow us to set up lightning node

The Single Board Computer is running a full Bitcoin node, so you can run a lightning node there on top of it.

I don't know if the official SD card image comes with a lightning node pre-installed, but you can definitely install it and set it up yourself as it's basically just a computer.

Can you explain how

nullama

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Quote from: SpeedForceGN on April 07, 2022, 09:02:50 PM

Quote from: nullama on April 07, 2022, 06:37:34 PM

Quote from: SpeedForceGN on April 07, 2022, 03:35:35 PM

Anyone know or have an update for software update and or lightning network addon?

For the Apollo miner binary itself, you can find all the updates here: https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries/releases

For the Single Board Computer (Bitcoin node, etc), you can find all the updates here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57091052

Does any of this allow us to set up lightning node

The Single Board Computer is running a full Bitcoin node, so you can run a lightning node there on top of it.

I don't know if the official SD card image comes with a lightning node pre-installed, but you can definitely install it and set it up yourself as it's basically just a computer.

SpeedForceGN

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Quote from: nullama on April 07, 2022, 06:37:34 PM

Quote from: SpeedForceGN on April 07, 2022, 03:35:35 PM

Anyone know or have an update for software update and or lightning network addon?

For the Apollo miner binary itself, you can find all the updates here: https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries/releases

For the Single Board Computer (Bitcoin node, etc), you can find all the updates here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57091052

Does any of this allow us to set up lightning node

nullama

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Quote from: SpeedForceGN on April 07, 2022, 03:35:35 PM

Anyone know or have an update for software update and or lightning network addon?

For the Apollo miner binary itself, you can find all the updates here: https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries/releases

For the Single Board Computer (Bitcoin node, etc), you can find all the updates here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57091052

SpeedForceGN

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Anyone know or have an update for software update and or lightning network addon?

apurgert

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Quote from: Aldin1978 on January 13, 2022, 08:33:19 AM

Quote from: MLOMBANA on October 31, 2021, 06:09:32 PM

With so many of us now using an Apollo for mining BTC and the fact that the box has its own node, has anyone taken the time to do a write up for us "slower" old guys that might want to take full advantage of the functions of the box as in use the node and the box together to solo mine?

Is it even possible to set up the Apollo BTC and Node to mine into itself in solo mode?

I'm mining to CKPool but wondering if I have the ability to use the Apollo to mine in my old world and not have to go to a pool.

A write-up or cheat sheet would be really welcome!

ml

I know this post is a couple months old, but in case the OP is still needing this (or others who might be looking to do the same), I was able to get my full-node unit mining my own node. I didn't do a 'write-up' of this, and it does require some basic / intermediate Linux knowledge, but in a nutshell:

I installed ckpool - source package found here (they don't supply pre-built binaries): (https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool/get/b8f668524835.zip) and set up a simple pool in standalone mode (without ckdb support), with my local full node (127.0.0.1:8332) as the btcd, and 127.0.0.1:3333 as the address for miners to connect. Once I got bitcoin.conf (from the node) and ckpool.conf (from ckpool) set up so that everything was working as expected, I modified the script that starts up the node, to also start up the ckpool process.

Someone else may know a solution to this problem, but I had to replace the bitcoind binary with an earlier version 0.19.1 - this is because version 0.20.0 and later which removed the coinbaseaux flag from the GBT response, and ckpool doesn't play nice without it there (even though it isn't a required flag ...).

Then in the ApolloUI, I set up my pool as: stratum+tcp://127.0.0.1:3333 - User and pass: .

Everything comes up on its own when I (re)start the device -- and if you don't change the RPC username / pass from the defaults, it also remains fully integrated with the UI, though obviously you don't see anything about ckpool (since the node_start script modification I made launches ckpool in a screen session (screen -dmS ckpool), like the node and miner services do, I can pull up the running ckpool output via (as root): screen -x ckpool). If you do change the rpcuser and rpcpassword from default, it breaks the UI - but at some point I'll probably take the time to figure out how to change the values the UI uses to connect so that I can change the RPC credentials.

Screenshots of results:

https://www.filehosting.org/file/details/976274/miner.jpg

https://www.filehosting.org/file/details/976275/node.jpg

@jstefanop : this unit has always had ~40% hardware errors since I first started it up 12/27, regardless which mining pool I used (tried ckpool, nicehash, slush, etc). The hashrate is as advertised, so I haven't been too worried about it - but is this a cause for concern?

To fix the UI, the password needs to be updated in /opt/apolloapi/src/store/api/node/nodeStats.js as well

OsoOkun

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Thanks, I was hoping that wasn't the answer. I just got my first pay .79 mining BCH yay!!

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