Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 91. (Read 48658 times)

First of all, wish to welcome back all the folks here from our Thanksgiving holidays and hope you had a good one.  Question for the forum and it is....We all know that the FutureBit Bitcoin miner was specifically designed with the purpose or intention of mining Bitcoin...but being it is a SHA256 ASIC based device can then indeed the Bitcoin miner mine other SHA256 based coins as some have made the argument that it can while others have made the argument it cannot...So which is it if I may ask?...

I ran into this inactive dashboard issue with my second full node unit (did a search on "jstefanop.worker1"). I re-flashed the SD card and that seems to have fixed it. The node picked up from where it left off, resuming the blockchain download.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  Its getting cold here in NA, wondering how far I can safely push -brd_ocp and -osc.  I dont care about efficiency, just want to make some heat + extra hash.  Currently running 85/55.

Edit-  When looking at hash rate should I use by sol, or by jobs?    I got one of them up to 95/65 now and looks like im getting right about 3.8TH/s.  How much further can I go?  

** I am on a 1400W psu for 4 standard units **

Hiya Jstefanop boss....just wanted to shoot out to you and the crew there with FutureBit a Happy and Grateful Thanksgiving.  I can say that my device is something I this year am grateful for it. It has had no issues so far and yes I keep my wife's cat away from it.  It gets curious about it but it is like ...eh eh eh....kitty no go near the device and then I run her off...lol.. ...but yea device has been working flawlessly since September and over this past weekend I took her offline and shut down the miner and the node...and got a can of air for dusting electronics and carefully blew out some dust that had accumulated on it and some dust off the power supply device and then turned her back on and got node and miner back up and running...   ...thank you for having created this device...by the way...I have my hound dogs keeping an eye out for my 2 new miners that I hope I will be getting sometime by January... ...but yea wherever you and your family are on this Thanksgiving may it be a good and safe one, and well the same goes for the FutureBit crew... ...oh yea a holler out to all the fans and bloggers of FutureBit a Happy Thanksgiving to you as well... ...Tempestblack

How's it going? A week (and a bit later)

Will the new firmware enable multiple or rather backup pools in the GUI?

Or is that a limitation of the miner software?

Thanks

Bought 3 units in Batch 1.

Only one of which had a working front LED. I was informed that the contacts to the other two must have been damaged in shipping.

I'd like to be able to spot check them with a glance.

If it is a simple soldering job, could you provide instructions on how to DIY repair this issue??

https://zergpool.com/site/mining?algo=sha256

https://coinminerz.com/litecoincash

https://slushpool.com/en/home/ ( about 25$ / month in eco mode)

Check for SHA256 to see more....

This particular Apollo BTC -model only mines Bitcoin and other SHA-256 algo coins.

So I am NEWBIE and have ordered an Apollo BTC with a Full Node. Does the Apollo only mine BTC or can it mine Doge/Litecoin?  If it can mine DOGE/Litecoin, how do I go by it?  What is the average BTC return monthly?  Anyone have a list of mining pools that are recommended and profitable?

My bad

That going to be an OTA update like before?

Taproot support is actually in 21.1, will be upgrading the node to v22 soon though.

Your bitcoin core instance needs to be v21.1 for taproot

I think the Apollo has v0.21.1

So does Minera have a RestAPI?  I would like to put together a watchdog that notifies me (and possibly restarts the miners?) when a hashboard stops.  I currently am running a full and two standard units at Turbo and I have one or two hashboards that stop every couple of days.

dWiGHT

Apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere in this thread:

How can I tell if my node supports the taproot upgrade?

That's very interesting, I have also been having stability issues with my units. Someone else also mentioned a USB hub is more reliable, I will try disabling the full node and see if that makes things more stable

HI all, question from a non-technical person happily mining from home with this device to try and learn and support the decentralization of the network.  Forgive my question if it is an obvious one to most of you, but with all the talk of Taproot finally coming today, what does that mean for our nodes running with Futurebit?   Is there anything we are supposed to do?  If there is, if you could share the steps I would really appreciate it.  Thank you, much appreciated, I am really just in over my head with the software/programming side, but genuinely want to learn and here for it!

I see many people have the same issue of one or all of their miners stopping when internet connection is lost.
There is nothing worse than looking at all the blocks you have missed.

I have a problem between midnight and 4AM (AEST) when my internet provider rotates/changes my IP; my IP is dynamic not static.
There is a brief loss of internet connection during this period.
I have 2 x Apollo LTC and 3 x Apollo BTC.

For 3 months I swapped the LTC node from one Apollo LTC to another on a weekly basis only to wake up and find only the one unit running the node had stopped mining completely.
These units have not stopped mining for a year since removing the node. I now run a full LTC wallet/node on an old Raspberry PI b+.
 
The same problem was apparent from day one of Apollo BTC running full node too.
I would wake up to find one, two or all three units had failed during the aforementioned hours of the morning. I persisted for a month and a half.
Since stopping the node, the Apollo BTC has been running 3 months without failure.

It never made any sense for me to run the Apollo BTC unit with a full node as I have RASPIBLITZ on an 8gig raspberry PI which has a full BTC/LND nodes.

I can only suggest anyone with a similar internet provider problem do a week long experiment as I did and just stop the node all together to see if this helps until the software matures.

You would need to use Kano's updated cgminer to run the CompacF because you need the driver he wrote for the S17 chip...

Hi,
Is someone try to add a GEKKOSCIENCE Compac F Hot-rod red with 7-Port USB Hub GEKKOSCIENCE to a Futurebit Apollo BTC?
Can it be stable in ECO mode for the Apollo?
Thanks.
laurent