Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 93. (Read 48799 times)

  Full mining without internet. Yes this is a pain.

I got done by this the other day too, luckily I noticed it pretty quickly and stopped the miner but yeah, it definitely needs addressing

Please dont forget IDLE mode when internet conection is lost. A few days ago, another 20 hours "full mining" without internet. 4 Apollo LTC + 1 Apollo BTC. Came on... this is not difficult to add. Both Apollo NEED this. Its a "must have" for small miners.

Great to hear! I need a space heater or an Apollo quickly; it's getting cold here!

Yes! Production first!

Thanks, I appreciate your work, as always. Can't wait!

Looks like power issues. What PSU you have?

Lots of work going on in the background. Unfortunately were still focused on scaling production, but that will shift to software once we start shipping Batch 3 in the next few months.

That being said 0.3.2 will be released in the next few weeks with updated miner binaries, lots of GUI fixes, 32 and 64bit RPi binaries etc.

Id wait a little longer than a few minutes for all hashboards to come online. It sometimes takes them a bit to show up on the dashboard. Are you running them on the FutureBit PSUs or do you have your own?

Hi there,

I use version: 0.3.1
3 devices.
1 x master and 2 slave

The problem is the following.
In TURBO mode, I can not get all 3 devices online

Does anyone still have such problems?
How can I solve them?

https://i.ibb.co/cwXsmzP/Screenshot-2021-11-01-Apollo-miner-web-dashboard.png
So it looks when I start normally.
Hasboard#1 + #2 are the slaves.


https://i.ibb.co/zfvrDN1/Screenshot-2021-11-01-Apollo-miner-web-dashboard-1.png
When I click "Miner => Restart" both slaves and Hasboard # 0 (Master) does not work anymore.

Can you ever run 3 devices at the same time?
When will the next update come? 0.3.1 is already over 1/2 year old.
Does anything happen?

ECO-Modus => runs longer than one day stable
https://i.ibb.co/NFRg4v3/Screenshot-2021-11-01-Apollo-miner-web-dashboard-2.png

BALANCED  => Mostly no 24h. Then one falls out. Restart of all 3 devices => then it runs again for 1/2 - 3/4 day
https://i.ibb.co/HPBKRS8/Screenshot-2021-11-01-Apollo-miner-web-dashboard-3.png

P.s. Has someone gave TeamViewer to install?

P.p.s. Per LAN directly to the Fritzbox via 500MBIT/s connection

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!

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Great idea. I'd try some LN solutions too, but no time to experiment lately. But if you succeed I will be happy to follow

I'm seriously thinking of just installing Umbrel myself and giving it a shot. Sure it won't be fully integrated into the Apollo GUI but at least I can fiddle with LN in the meantime. If I fuck it up, I can always just reflash the SD and away I go again

There wasn't even a single update to miner binary software since initial release in May 2021, and you are talking about LN?!  miner binary crashes almost everyday, no Raspberry Pi releases as promised... I wouldn't count on LN this year. I understand jstefanop and team are busy, so I wait - but just replying realistically to you - leave it running for a few months, maybe something (hopefully) will be released then.

Back to my earlier question, which got lost in the shuffle:

Any updated to when LN will be available?

Thanks for the reply! Hmm, so I do have them connected via ethernet. I suppose it might be possible my ISP could be dropping my connection temporarily while I'm asleep, I'll give them a call and see if I can get any more info.

Another reason I came by to post on here for help is very recently, within the past couple days or so, I've become unable to get into the miner dashboard via IP. I've confirmed I have the right IP, see it on advanced IP scanner, but the dashboard doesn't load when I try to get into it via my desktop. It's a windows machine, and I tried chrome, brave, firefox, edge, IE and none of them loaded. My laptop has linux on it with chrome and the same IP loaded up the dashboard there, but it doesn't have complete info/it doesn't show any hashing info and how many boards are attached even if they're currently hashing.

I'm not too sure on why the dashboard suddenly stopped working on my windows desktop, it had been working fine for me for the past few months. Is there possibly some setting I might have flipped or some config that I need to change on my desktop? I'm having difficulty getting all 3 units to come online stably these past few days as well, the broken dashboard seems like it can send miner restart or reboot requests but I'm not too sure if they're working right. Power cycling seems to work temporarily until one or two of the units goes offline again. Do you think I should just try resetting all 3 units to factory config/I saw mention of reflashing the SD to do something like that, would you recommend trying that or waiting for a potential update?

EDIT:
Apparently it was just waiting for me to finally make an account and ask this question, suddenly able to get back into the dashboard on my main computer

Thanks! Yea any 1-4TB NVMe drive should work fine on these.

FYI to anyone that Pre-Ordered a Batch 3 full unit order your in for a treat! We were able to score 1TB drives for a good price so we will be upgrading everyones order to a 1TB version for free!



This is a known issue on the standard units, if you have an unstable internet connection they will drop if your internet does not come back online fast enough. There will be a fix pushed soon, but in the meantime id either check your wifi connection and bring it closer to your router and/or switch to ethernet, or check your ISP on why its dropping its internet connection.

Hello, I got a full node unit a while ago and it was working well for me so I picked up 2 standard units as well. For the most part things run smoothly, though on occasion I'll notice my hashrate loses 3 TH/it seems like one of the units stops hashing randomly but the other two keep going fine. This has happened pretty consistently for a while and generally I have to reboot the unit from the interface to get things working again. Does anyone know if there's a reason this might be happening or any way to increase the reliability of the units when they're linked together?

Also, it's awesome to see such active support in here. Excited about future updates!

Hiya @jstefanop...good to see you posting here on the forum...wanted to let you know that I upgraded the NVMe SSD to a 1TB and reflashed the sd card and restarted the node and let it resync and both node and miner are doing just fine...looking forward to the two additional miners I ordered arriving towards the end of the year...I hope you and the staff are doing great and well Happy Halloween...

Its actually pretty loud @5v. That fan runs ~ 12k RPM at that voltage, and its way louder than the main fan in ECO mode. You have to remember most of our customers run our devices on their desks/small rooms in ECO mode. Near silent operation is top design decision.