Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread - page 95.

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Quote from: gt_addict on December 24, 2021, 02:53:06 PM

Quote from: AloTheMax on December 24, 2021, 12:44:00 PM

Hello guys, I have a problem... I have set my future bit apollo btc full node correctly, but after about ten minutes that it is connected to the pool it disconnects and I can no longer access it from the ip address; even the ip address disappears from the router, it does not detect it either via wifi or with an ethernet cable and I am forced to reset the router every time. Anyone have a solution? Thanks so much

Have you tried reflashing the SD card with the latest software?

Yes man but nothing to do.... the last is 0.3.2 How can resolve it?

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Quote from: AloTheMax on December 24, 2021, 12:44:00 PM

Hello guys, I have a problem... I have set my future bit apollo btc full node correctly, but after about ten minutes that it is connected to the pool it disconnects and I can no longer access it from the ip address; even the ip address disappears from the router, it does not detect it either via wifi or with an ethernet cable and I am forced to reset the router every time. Anyone have a solution? Thanks so much

Have you tried reflashing the SD card with the latest software?

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Bosiman

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@jstefanop: Thx, you are my hero! It works now perfect, but this fact was in no manual

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This is because both interfaces are left "on" by the linux system when you use both LAN and wifi... the Web UI does not know how to deal with that currently. You need to log into the system via a monitor, and turn off the interface you are not using (drop down on the upper right corner of the desktop).

Gr€€tz Biosman

PS: Another question to you: Is this system working from Slushpool.com with Apollo Futurebit Miners, do give all Master an extra name?

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Quote from: cosmiconion on December 23, 2021, 05:10:33 AM

My BTC NODE : hard drive at 433 GB only 9.65% left ... I am assuming the 500 SSD will run out of space in a year. Did Futurebit get their calculations wrong? I see newer machines are shipping with 1TB SSD. What are we supposed to do?

No purchasing 1TB drives for the first two pre-orders would have cost an extra ~100 at the time, which we couldn't justify passing to users. Once the 500GB drives run out of space in a year or so you'll probably be able to pick up a 1TB drive for 50 bucks

Are we giving up 1% of our hash as donation to Futurebit? Someone has said this is the case. I usually donate 0.25% (1% is a bit high).
Is this confirmed? I know in the LTC version you can make a voluntary donation. With the BTC unit this option is hidden. Views please.

No, and you don't have to believe me sniff your Apollo packets

In the UK the BTC unit is NOT profitable. Rather loss making. Electricity costs are too high: the units are not efficient enough to run at profit.
Has anyone found something that these units can mine profitably? The LTC units are still profitable (thanks mainly to DOGE).

Stop mining fiat. Your mining BTC and 1 BTC=1BTC. Sure you might be DCAing at 10% higher vs exchange temporarily, but your heating your house, securing the network, and who cares when your 2,000 sats a day will be worth 1 cent per sat in the future?

The computer's OS Linux prompts me to update. Should I update or not?
I don't want it to interfere with the FuturebitWebOs (recently updated).

Only update through the web UI, updating through the system will brick it

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gt_addict

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Do NOT update the OS on the SBC. It will end up with you having to reflash the SD card.

The later units did ship with a 1TB version. I just bought my own 1TB SSD and sold the 500GB drive to offset the cost.

I have no idea if there is a donation/dev fee in the background, but my hashrate tallies up with what I'm getting pool side so it leads me to believe that the answer is No.

I'm in the UK too and bought this with the knowledge that it will never be profitable. No mining is profitable in the UK really, well at least not to any great degree. These are hobby miners really and to help the decentralisation.

cosmiconion

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My BTC NODE : hard drive at 433 GB only 9.65% left ... I am assuming the 500 SSD will run out of space in a year. Did Futurebit get their calculations wrong? I see newer machines are shipping with 1TB SSD. What are we supposed to do?

Are we giving up 1% of our hash as donation to Futurebit? Someone has said this is the case. I usually donate 0.25% (1% is a bit high).
Is this confirmed? I know in the LTC version you can make a voluntary donation. With the BTC unit this option is hidden. Views please.

In the UK the BTC unit is NOT profitable. Rather loss making. Electricity costs are too high: the units are not efficient enough to run at profit.
Has anyone found something that these units can mine profitably? The LTC units are still profitable (thanks mainly to DOGE).

The computer's OS Linux prompts me to update. Should I update or not?
I don't want it to interfere with the FuturebitWebOs (recently updated).

[Mod note: merged multiple posts]

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Quote from: bigverm on August 31, 2021, 12:25:07 AM

Quote from: n0nce on August 29, 2021, 09:34:11 AM

Quote from: bigverm on August 29, 2021, 09:23:44 AM

For Question #5 What can we do with our Node?
Can we choose to designate our Node into a Lightning Network Node?
This will help us earn extra BTC and Devs can take a fee from it.

Hey there, LN node operator here! Don't expect to make any significant amount of money from routing LN payments.

I am quite sure you can install lnd or c-lightning on the Apollo (don't have mine yet), and you should definitely do it, it always helps! But payments are meant to be cheap, so users usually pay 1 satoshi per hop, some node operators even run their nodes fee-less.

A payment takes a max. of 10 hops in my experience, so you're looking at 'locking in' millions of satoshis in channels just to gain a few (single-digit amounts we're talking about) satoshis in fees. So you won't really 'earn BTC' - you'd earn more Bitcoin working 1hr as a waiter and buying BTC with the money you got there Grin

(rough calculation: 10$ ~ 20KSat)

Thanks! Was wondering if I get in early and setup a lighting node and then overtime as transaction volume grows for BTC that it would be worth it.

any updates on this? im curious and interested in running a lighting network node, i want to make the most out of my apollo

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Quote from: Bosiman on December 20, 2021, 04:52:38 PM

@jstefanop: This can't be correct:

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Yea internal error usually has to do with no network connection, so your wifi is probably not connecting. Make sure you connecting to 2.4GHz network instead of 5 for better range

Because one of the Miner ist always on LAN, an when i connect to LAN or Wifi IP Adress, there is always this "internal message error"

Gr€€tz Biosman

This is because both interfaces are left "on" by the linux system when you use both LAN and wifi... the Web UI does not know how to deal with that currently. You need to log into the system via a monitor, and turn off the interface you are not using (drop down on the upper right corner of the desktop).

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Quote from: cd1177 on December 21, 2021, 08:43:02 PM

Quote from: slurfius on October 01, 2021, 12:46:33 PM

I seen a standard unit on eBay with a broken usb c port what would it take to get that repaired?

any answer to this? i have one with the same issue. emailed futurebit about it but haven't heard anything yet. i know they are busy getting batch 3 orders out.

You can email and well set up a RMA repair for it, but it will probably be cheaper and faster turnaround to go to a local computer repair shop that can just solder it back on in 5 minutes...(pretty easy to do it yourself as well if you know how to solder).

cd1177

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Quote from: slurfius on October 01, 2021, 12:46:33 PM

I seen a standard unit on eBay with a broken usb c port what would it take to get that repaired?

any answer to this? i have one with the same issue. emailed futurebit about it but haven't heard anything yet. i know they are busy getting batch 3 orders out.

Bosiman

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@jstefanop: This can't be correct:

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Yea internal error usually has to do with no network connection, so your wifi is probably not connecting. Make sure you connecting to 2.4GHz network instead of 5 for better range

Because one of the Miner ist always on LAN, an when i connect to LAN or Wifi IP Adress, there is always this "internal message error"

Gr€€tz Biosman

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Quote from: cd1177 on December 20, 2021, 04:04:26 PM

if i have 4 units, will a 1800w bitmain apw7 power supply be okay to use? I have a couple extra and want to eliminate the individual 200w supplies. just want to make sure nothing gets fried and it's compatible. thanks!

Should be fine. The APW7 has PCIe power leads, two per Apollo and you're good to go.

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if i have 4 units, will a 1800w bitmain apw7 power supply be okay to use? I have a couple extra and want to eliminate the individual 200w supplies. just want to make sure nothing gets fried and it's compatible. thanks!

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Quote from: Bosiman on December 19, 2021, 01:09:18 PM

After Update to v3.2 (all via LAN-cable) there is on every Full-Node Machine, following message:

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There is a problem fetching system stats (Internal error)

I own:

- One single Full-Node
- Two Full-Node with 2 USB-Devices

What does it mean?

The single Full-Node is connected via LAN, everyhing is fine
The other two are connected via Wifi, its seems to work, but i can't reach Miner via Wifi anymore, but Wifi is good. Via LAN no problem.

In System Info it shoes me:

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Active wifi: No active wifi

But the Front lights of machine show me blinking: work is fine
Where is the problem?

I can connect to my Wifi, but after using the "Wifi-IP", nothing works. After reboot in System-Info is always: No active Wifi

Greetz Biosman

PS: Maybe the wifi-antenna is to weak, i put it a little bit out of machine, is there a possibility to make it longer or to change it? The single Fullnode-Miner with LAN is directly to the router, i can connect dashboard with Wifi no problem. The other machines are not fare away. Amazon_Fire_Stick for TV, MobilePhone etc. all works fine, but not Dashboard via Wifi Sad

Yea internal error usually has to do with no network connection, so your wifi is probably not connecting. Make sure you connecting to 2.4GHz network instead of 5 for better range.

Bosiman

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After Update to v3.2 (all via LAN-cable) there is on every Full-Node Machine, following message:

Quote

There is a problem fetching system stats (Internal error)

I own:

- One single Full-Node
- Two Full-Node with 2 USB-Devices

What does it mean?

The single Full-Node is connected via LAN, everyhing is fine
The other two are connected via Wifi, its seems to work, but i can't reach Miner via Wifi anymore, but Wifi is good. Via LAN no problem.

In System Info it shoes me:

Quote

Active wifi: No active wifi

But the Front lights of machine show me blinking: work is fine
Where is the problem?

I can connect to my Wifi, but after using the "Wifi-IP", nothing works. After reboot in System-Info is always: No active Wifi

Greetz Biosman

PS: Maybe the wifi-antenna is to weak, i put it a little bit out of machine, is there a possibility to make it longer or to change it? The single Fullnode-Miner with LAN is directly to the router, i can connect dashboard with Wifi no problem. The other machines are not fare away. Amazon_Fire_Stick for TV, MobilePhone etc. all works fine, but not Dashboard via Wifi Sad

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Latest Image Release added to image folder

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57091051

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Quote from: heslo on December 17, 2021, 07:45:42 AM

Quote from: Biffa on December 17, 2021, 04:40:21 AM

I left mine updating last night, but it wasn't mining this morning, restarted the miner to no avail, in the end it needed a system restart to sort itself out.

I needed to do this as well but was fine after the reset

Yea if you're having any issues after the update, a reboot will fix it. Some system services that run the miner won't restart properly depending on where you initiated the update from.

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Quote from: Biffa on December 17, 2021, 04:40:21 AM

I left mine updating last night, but it wasn't mining this morning, restarted the miner to no avail, in the end it needed a system restart to sort itself out.

I needed to do this as well but was fine after the reset

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I left mine updating last night, but it wasn't mining this morning, restarted the miner to no avail, in the end it needed a system restart to sort itself out.

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