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legendary
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I need about 10 people to test out full node image. Finally got it where its running stable but want to make sure it is before I do a general release. Shoot me a PM with your email address. Make sure you have the ability to open port 9333 on your local network/router so the node is visible to the rest of the network.

pm sent
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
Quick FutureBit Apollo question:

What's the status of WiFi support as of November 2019?

Searching the forums, all I could find was a post from December 2018 stating that WiFi was buggy. Has it improved since then?

I'm considering purchasing a batch 2 Apollo, but the plan would be to have it located in room other than where my router is. I can (obviously) do Ethernet for the setup, but I'd like to move it to the other room where it would be permanently located and would be using WiFi.

Thanks in advance!

Its still buggy, the chipset hasn't received a linux firmware update and our efforts to have them fix the issues have not gone anywhere. It still works fine, you just need to make sure your router has an SSID thats in plain a/b/g mode and WPA2 for password. It starts acting buggy when its trying to connected to mix mode APs

Plain as in set to solely one radio mode (2.4GHz or 5GHz - as opposed to dual band supporting both)?

I'm using a mesh network with simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz/5 GHz) supporting 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (with WPA2).

Yes, most modern routers let you separate 2.4 and 5Ghz with different SSIDs

Sadly, mine does not (Google WiFi 1st gen). But... I'll just move one of the mesh nodes next to the Apollo and plug in an Ethernet cable. Problem solved  Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 2174
Merit: 1401
I need about 10 people to test out full node image. Finally got it where its running stable but want to make sure it is before I do a general release. Shoot me a PM with your email address. Make sure you have the ability to open port 9333 on your local network/router so the node is visible to the rest of the network.
legendary
Activity: 2174
Merit: 1401
Quick FutureBit Apollo question:

What's the status of WiFi support as of November 2019?

Searching the forums, all I could find was a post from December 2018 stating that WiFi was buggy. Has it improved since then?

I'm considering purchasing a batch 2 Apollo, but the plan would be to have it located in room other than where my router is. I can (obviously) do Ethernet for the setup, but I'd like to move it to the other room where it would be permanently located and would be using WiFi.

Thanks in advance!

Its still buggy, the chipset hasn't received a linux firmware update and our efforts to have them fix the issues have not gone anywhere. It still works fine, you just need to make sure your router has an SSID thats in plain a/b/g mode and WPA2 for password. It starts acting buggy when its trying to connected to mix mode APs

Plain as in set to solely one radio mode (2.4GHz or 5GHz - as opposed to dual band supporting both)?

I'm using a mesh network with simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz/5 GHz) supporting 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (with WPA2).

Yes, most modern routers let you separate 2.4 and 5Ghz with different SSIDs
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
Quick FutureBit Apollo question:

What's the status of WiFi support as of November 2019?

Searching the forums, all I could find was a post from December 2018 stating that WiFi was buggy. Has it improved since then?

I'm considering purchasing a batch 2 Apollo, but the plan would be to have it located in room other than where my router is. I can (obviously) do Ethernet for the setup, but I'd like to move it to the other room where it would be permanently located and would be using WiFi.

Thanks in advance!

Its still buggy, the chipset hasn't received a linux firmware update and our efforts to have them fix the issues have not gone anywhere. It still works fine, you just need to make sure your router has an SSID thats in plain a/b/g mode and WPA2 for password. It starts acting buggy when its trying to connected to mix mode APs

Plain as in set to solely one radio mode (2.4GHz or 5GHz - as opposed to dual band supporting both)?

I'm using a mesh network with simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz/5 GHz) supporting 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (with WPA2).
legendary
Activity: 2174
Merit: 1401
Quick FutureBit Apollo question:

What's the status of WiFi support as of November 2019?

Searching the forums, all I could find was a post from December 2018 stating that WiFi was buggy. Has it improved since then?

I'm considering purchasing a batch 2 Apollo, but the plan would be to have it located in room other than where my router is. I can (obviously) do Ethernet for the setup, but I'd like to move it to the other room where it would be permanently located and would be using WiFi.

Thanks in advance!

Its still buggy, the chipset hasn't received a linux firmware update and our efforts to have them fix the issues have not gone anywhere. It still works fine, you just need to make sure your router has an SSID thats in plain a/b/g mode and WPA2 for password. It starts acting buggy when its trying to connected to mix mode APs
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
Quick FutureBit Apollo question:

What's the status of WiFi support as of November 2019?

Searching the forums, all I could find was a post from December 2018 stating that WiFi was buggy. Has it improved since then?

I'm considering purchasing a batch 2 Apollo, but the plan would be to have it located in room other than where my router is. I can (obviously) do Ethernet for the setup, but I'd like to move it to the other room where it would be permanently located and would be using WiFi.

Thanks in advance!
newbie
Activity: 15
Merit: 0
Hi

I have 2 FB Apollos which i have just re-directed to Litepool (EU pool litecoinpool.org:3333). Hashrate and HW errors seem fine but discard rates are very high - 1228 accepted 53k discarded. I am using #skipcbcheck in the stratum URL.

The other FB is running at 1.2k accpeted to 9.8k discarded.

Both units are in balanced mode. Is this a hardware or possible pool/latency issue?

any help appreciated.

Buddy.

Thats fine, discarded shares are on the pool side, only thing that matters is your rejected shares, those need to be low.

Thanks
legendary
Activity: 2174
Merit: 1401
Hi

I have 2 FB Apollos which i have just re-directed to Litepool (EU pool litecoinpool.org:3333). Hashrate and HW errors seem fine but discard rates are very high - 1228 accepted 53k discarded. I am using #skipcbcheck in the stratum URL.

The other FB is running at 1.2k accpeted to 9.8k discarded.

Both units are in balanced mode. Is this a hardware or possible pool/latency issue?

any help appreciated.

Buddy.

Thats fine, discarded shares are on the pool side, only thing that matters is your rejected shares, those need to be low.
newbie
Activity: 15
Merit: 0
Hi

I have 2 FB Apollos which i have just re-directed to Litepool (EU pool litecoinpool.org:3333). Hashrate and HW errors seem fine but discard rates are very high - 1228 accepted 53k discarded. I am using #skipcbcheck in the stratum URL.

The other FB is running at 1.2k accpeted to 9.8k discarded.

Both units are in balanced mode. Is this a hardware or possible pool/latency issue?

any help appreciated.

Buddy.
legendary
Activity: 2210
Merit: 1109
Thanks for your advice ...
I've tried two pools, litecoinpool and nicehash ...
It seems that with nicehash it holds the connection better, error 127.0.0.1:4028 does not appear, but I am not able to undermine.
At no time does the green light appear, it stays blinking in orange / yellow.
On the dashboard it appears active for a few seconds and is deactivated ... so constantly. Until the miner goes out of line
I have reviewed the credentials and passwords in the pool a thousand times and they are fine, I don't know where to go.



Yea, your putting in the wrong pool info/credentials, as you can see on the top it says "All pools are dead". To rule out any internet issues try deleting all pools from the pool config so it only mines on donation pool, if that also does not work then the issue is with your router/settings.

thanks jstefanop

I have left only the donation in the pool, connect but immediately the miner goes out of line and the connect econnrefused message 127.0.0.1:4428 appears again
I don't know what problem the router can have, I have access to the internet with a fiber connection, and I have no problem connecting to any device ...
What can be?


I can't mine with him, I've reviewed everything and I don't know what it can be ...
Is there any special configuration I have to put on my router? Open any port, or something unknown?
As long as it doesn't work soon, Apollo is going back to Germany


Check your pool, I mine at litecoinpool.org , just register an account there and setup a work.
setup the pool on the Apollo: stratum+tcp://litecoinpool.org:3333

as you see I use port 3333 you can double check your router if the port isn't blocked, I use the website:
https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

if port is open then you're fine and the apollo should be mining!



sr. member
Activity: 262
Merit: 250
Thanks for your advice ...
I've tried two pools, litecoinpool and nicehash ...
It seems that with nicehash it holds the connection better, error 127.0.0.1:4028 does not appear, but I am not able to undermine.
At no time does the green light appear, it stays blinking in orange / yellow.
On the dashboard it appears active for a few seconds and is deactivated ... so constantly. Until the miner goes out of line
I have reviewed the credentials and passwords in the pool a thousand times and they are fine, I don't know where to go.



Yea, your putting in the wrong pool info/credentials, as you can see on the top it says "All pools are dead". To rule out any internet issues try deleting all pools from the pool config so it only mines on donation pool, if that also does not work then the issue is with your router/settings.

thanks jstefanop

I have left only the donation in the pool, connect but immediately the miner goes out of line and the connect econnrefused message 127.0.0.1:4428 appears again
I don't know what problem the router can have, I have access to the internet with a fiber connection, and I have no problem connecting to any device ...
What can be?


I can't mine with him, I've reviewed everything and I don't know what it can be ...
Is there any special configuration I have to put on my router? Open any port, or something unknown?
As long as it doesn't work soon, Apollo is going back to Germany
sr. member
Activity: 262
Merit: 250
Thanks for your advice ...
I've tried two pools, litecoinpool and nicehash ...
It seems that with nicehash it holds the connection better, error 127.0.0.1:4028 does not appear, but I am not able to undermine.
At no time does the green light appear, it stays blinking in orange / yellow.
On the dashboard it appears active for a few seconds and is deactivated ... so constantly. Until the miner goes out of line
I have reviewed the credentials and passwords in the pool a thousand times and they are fine, I don't know where to go.



Yea, your putting in the wrong pool info/credentials, as you can see on the top it says "All pools are dead". To rule out any internet issues try deleting all pools from the pool config so it only mines on donation pool, if that also does not work then the issue is with your router/settings.

thanks jstefanop

I have left only the donation in the pool, connect but immediately the miner goes out of line and the connect econnrefused message 127.0.0.1:4428 appears again
I don't know what problem the router can have, I have access to the internet with a fiber connection, and I have no problem connecting to any device ...
What can be?
legendary
Activity: 2174
Merit: 1401
Thanks for your advice ...
I've tried two pools, litecoinpool and nicehash ...
It seems that with nicehash it holds the connection better, error 127.0.0.1:4028 does not appear, but I am not able to undermine.
At no time does the green light appear, it stays blinking in orange / yellow.
On the dashboard it appears active for a few seconds and is deactivated ... so constantly. Until the miner goes out of line
I have reviewed the credentials and passwords in the pool a thousand times and they are fine, I don't know where to go.



Yea, your putting in the wrong pool info/credentials, as you can see on the top it says "All pools are dead". To rule out any internet issues try deleting all pools from the pool config so it only mines on donation pool, if that also does not work then the issue is with your router/settings.
sr. member
Activity: 262
Merit: 250
Thanks for your advice ...
I've tried two pools, litecoinpool and nicehash ...
It seems that with nicehash it holds the connection better, error 127.0.0.1:4028 does not appear, but I am not able to undermine.
At no time does the green light appear, it stays blinking in orange / yellow.
On the dashboard it appears active for a few seconds and is deactivated ... so constantly. Until the miner goes out of line
I have reviewed the credentials and passwords in the pool a thousand times and they are fine, I don't know where to go.







legendary
Activity: 2174
Merit: 1401
Hello,
I just received my Apollo LTC, 2 days ago ... but I can't get it to work. I have read almost all the thread and I see there are cases similar to mine, but I do not find the solution.
I followed the instructions to the letter but nothing, I still get the error: connect econnrefused 127.0.0.1:4028
I have tried the image on 2 different SD cards, the 2 of 32 GB. I have checked the password and the workers several times in the pool, reviewed their writing in case there were spaces between letters ... and nothing.
From the first moment the front orange light has not stopped blinking, I have never seen the green light shine. It connects through its IP to the dashboard, the futurebits website appears, but immediately loses the connection "Miner offline; try to start".  ... and so again and again, it connects and leaves. I have configured the pools and raised the fan to 25% ... I can access settings perfectly.
I don't know what it can be, I'm quite lost the truth.
I don't know if it could be a port problem ...
I am somewhat blocked, I have read that same problem to several people in this same thread, but for now they have not served me the possible solutions that arise.
I would appreciate if you could guide me where the problem might be

thank you very much, and sorry for my bad english

Your either putting in your pool URL/credentials wrong, or your device is not getting a proper connection through your router. Username/password are usually case sensitive.

If you know how to SSH into device (futurebit/futurebit) run "sudo screen -dr miner" this will bring up bfgminer output and you can better see why its not connecting.
full member
Activity: 181
Merit: 100
- try with only one pool
- try another pool

orange light blinking means network/pool issue
sr. member
Activity: 262
Merit: 250
Hello,
I just received my Apollo LTC, 2 days ago ... but I can't get it to work. I have read almost all the thread and I see there are cases similar to mine, but I do not find the solution.
I followed the instructions to the letter but nothing, I still get the error: connect econnrefused 127.0.0.1:4028
I have tried the image on 2 different SD cards, the 2 of 32 GB. I have checked the password and the workers several times in the pool, reviewed their writing in case there were spaces between letters ... and nothing.
From the first moment the front orange light has not stopped blinking, I have never seen the green light shine. It connects through its IP to the dashboard, the futurebits website appears, but immediately loses the connection "Miner offline; try to start".  ... and so again and again, it connects and leaves. I have configured the pools and raised the fan to 25% ... I can access settings perfectly.
I don't know what it can be, I'm quite lost the truth.
I don't know if it could be a port problem ...
I am somewhat blocked, I have read that same problem to several people in this same thread, but for now they have not served me the possible solutions that arise.
I would appreciate if you could guide me where the problem might be

thank you very much, and sorry for my bad english
jr. member
Activity: 55
Merit: 2
Did u swap SD cards , like previous person said. And did u get the same error after swapping cards?
Sometimes SD cards get corrupted and will not flash correctly.
legendary
Activity: 2254
Merit: 2419
EIN: 82-3893490
they only roi with free power. or hit a block.



mine are actually profitable with .05 cent electric, with free they would be better lol the diff has been dropping lately so that is good
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