Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread - page 53.

whiteogre

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There could be a small issue with the latest release. The added watchdog appears to be a little bit chatty causing the syslog to be filled with

Code:

watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!

messages at a rate of about 12 every minute. Normally that wouldn't be an issue, but the /var/log mountpoint on the Apollo is ram disk sized to 50MB regardless of the used sd card size. It's filled at around 53% after install and there doesn't appear to be any cleanup or logrotate for this mountpoint active. As a result, the mountpoint will be full in around 2 weeks at the current rate. Most likely not all system services will be happy once no more logs can be written.

jstefanop

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Quote from: crypto_curious on February 03, 2019, 05:14:23 AM

Quote from: psycodad on February 01, 2019, 12:29:44 PM

Quote from: crypto_curious on February 01, 2019, 12:18:06 PM

Downloading from link provided, 500 KB/s... (I have 75 Mbps Fibre if you ask)
Is there chance for torrent or something? Torrent could be even hosted in Apollo itself and distributed to people. So no need for AWS.

I could download it just right now with 25MB/s in less than a minute from home.
You must be holding it wrong Grin

(or your providers pipe to amazon is a tad slow).

Just tried the download again, speed is 500-600 KB/s peak.

I live in England, and this 75Mbps Fibre is perfect in everyday use, I don't get any hiccups or slowdowns, and I have server here, which is 24/7 online, registers no downtimes or anything for months. Take a look at trace route:

After 7th hop, I am already in Amazon network. And I stay there until 26th hop. All these IPs 52.95.x.x, 52.240.x.x and 52.93.x.x belongs to Amazon. My ISP handles all traffic to Amazon and there is gets tangled up. I am not sure what "request timed out" mean in this case, though.

It's not that it's a big deal, but someone is paying for services, which don't get delivered

Either my ISP or AWS is not doing their thing.

Its hosted on an east coast AWS server so could be that amazon does not have optimized routes to europe. Ill see about getting a European bucket up.

Globalminingcorp

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Quick download from wetransfer and update process itself took about 10 minutes. The MCU stays a lot cooler than before (about 10 degrees celsius). I tried to lower the fan to 5% but than the miner temperature got into 75+ degress so i went back to my 'old' 10% fanspeed and miner temperature got to 'normal' 62ish.

Thanks for the update, looking forward to more.

crypto_curious

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Quote from: psycodad on February 01, 2019, 12:29:44 PM

Quote from: crypto_curious on February 01, 2019, 12:18:06 PM

Downloading from link provided, 500 KB/s... (I have 75 Mbps Fibre if you ask)
Is there chance for torrent or something? Torrent could be even hosted in Apollo itself and distributed to people. So no need for AWS.

I could download it just right now with 25MB/s in less than a minute from home.
You must be holding it wrong Grin

(or your providers pipe to amazon is a tad slow).

Just tried the download again, speed is 500-600 KB/s peak.

I live in England, and this 75Mbps Fibre is perfect in everyday use, I don't get any hiccups or slowdowns, and I have server here, which is 24/7 online, registers no downtimes or anything for months. Take a look at trace route:

Code:

>tracert s3.amazonaws.com

Tracing route to s3-1.amazonaws.com [52.216.226.123]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  vodafone.broadband [192.168.1.1]
  2    13 ms    13 ms    13 ms  host-212-158-250-33.dslgb.com [212.158.250.33]
  3    15 ms    15 ms    15 ms  63.130.127.221
  4    15 ms    15 ms    15 ms  ae15-xcr1.slo.cw.net [195.2.2.217]
  5    82 ms    83 ms    83 ms  ae2-xcr1.nyh.cw.net [195.2.28.169]
  6    82 ms    82 ms    82 ms  ae13-xcr2.nyk.cw.net [195.2.25.69]
  7    82 ms    82 ms    82 ms  52.95.216.78
  8    95 ms   123 ms    97 ms  52.93.4.75
  9    88 ms    88 ms    90 ms  52.93.4.36
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11    88 ms    88 ms    88 ms  54.240.229.137
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19    89 ms    88 ms    89 ms  52.93.28.140
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 26    89 ms    88 ms    88 ms  s3-1.amazonaws.com [52.216.226.123]

Trace complete.

After 7th hop, I am already in Amazon network. And I stay there until 26th hop. All these IPs 52.95.x.x, 52.240.x.x and 52.93.x.x belongs to Amazon. My ISP handles all traffic to Amazon and there is gets tangled up. I am not sure what "request timed out" mean in this case, though.

It's not that it's a big deal, but someone is paying for services, which don't get delivered

Either my ISP or AWS is not doing their thing.

VictorGT

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Thanks. I know about DHCP/MAC/ROUTER settings. No problem. A little lazy

jstefanop

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Quote from: whiteogre on February 02, 2019, 12:14:37 PM

Quote from: VictorGT on February 02, 2019, 12:03:25 PM

I would like to put static IP adresses to my Apollos. Is this possible with latest software?

That configuration needs to still be done from the command line, like in the previous release, if you want to do it from the Apollo side. Usually it's more practical to configure the dhcp server to provide some specific IP for the matching MAC address of each Apollo. That way, the IP is always the same regardless of software updates and no command line access is needed.

Yea, keep in mind I know most of you here are experienced miners, but the goal of this platform is to onboard every day consumers into crypto with an easy to use interface so I dont want to clutter/overwhelm new users with a large number of options (Will probably move a lot of the more advanced settings into a new "Advanced Section" either way though).

Obviously want to allow advanced options for you guys as well, but stuff like this that is easily done outside the platform is low on priorities (for example MAC addresses are displayed in the system info pane, and almost all routers allow you to assign a specific MAC to an IP address as mentioned above).

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Quote from: jstefanop on February 02, 2019, 01:23:21 PM

Quote from: WaterTower on February 01, 2019, 08:25:47 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Can we run these in turbo mode yet? Has anyone tried?

I tried turbo mode in the initial release to just play around with it, and it seemed to work fine for the short time I tested it. The only issue was that I only felt comfortable with the fan at 100%, and while it will keep the unit cool enough, the sound it makes does not give me a lot of confidence that the fan will last a long time at that speed. I keep mine in balanced mode with fan manually set to 20%.

Yes Turbo mode is safe at this point. This release has additional layers of protection that will prevent any nuclear meltdown scenarios in turbo mode Grin

I would not mess with custom mode until I have the full guide up for this (if you have plenty of GPU/ASIC experience with voltage controls and frequency tuning that's fine as long as you don't do anything crazy)

Mid speed with fans on manual at 25% work well

121 mh and temps are 60c 45c

jstefanop

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Quote from: WaterTower on February 01, 2019, 08:25:47 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Can we run these in turbo mode yet? Has anyone tried?

I tried turbo mode in the initial release to just play around with it, and it seemed to work fine for the short time I tested it. The only issue was that I only felt comfortable with the fan at 100%, and while it will keep the unit cool enough, the sound it makes does not give me a lot of confidence that the fan will last a long time at that speed. I keep mine in balanced mode with fan manually set to 20%.

Yes Turbo mode is safe at this point. This release has additional layers of protection that will prevent any nuclear meltdown scenarios in turbo mode Grin

I would not mess with custom mode until I have the full guide up for this (if you have plenty of GPU/ASIC experience with voltage controls and frequency tuning that's fine as long as you don't do anything crazy)

jstefanop

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Quote from: whiteogre on February 01, 2019, 06:42:27 PM

Quote from: jstefanop on January 31, 2019, 04:53:14 PM

-Download the new Apollo image linked above and make sure you UNZIP it (always a good idea to check MD5 checksum in case download was corrupted...make sure checksum is run on the .img file NOT the downloaded .img.zip)
-Use Etcher to re-image your SD card with the updated image file

Etcher has supported already for few years extracting the image from the zip on the fly as long as the zip contains only one file, like is the case here. Therefore, there shouldn't be any real reason to unzip first. I also think you should take the checksums from the zip file itself since that's essentially the release you are distributing. At least I see it so that the checksum can be used to validate that the release is indeed what it should be and not something that has been replaced with a botnet addon. That's why the checksum should be of the distributed file instead of a file within it. Zip by itself will anyway create an internal checksum of the file and extracting it will fail if the file has been somehow corrupted during transfer. If you'd want to go the pro way then signing the release file with gpg would be the way to go. Wink

Few comments regarding the release itself, less than previously thanks to fixes:

the login screen password input field still doesn't grab keyboard focus automatically on page load
[email protected] is still active and constantly trying to start and failing to do so
/var/log.hdd could use a cleanup before release
documentation for front led blink signals is missing from the first post, I've seen at least slow yellow, fast yellow, slow green and irregular red

Yea this release was a bit rushed since I wanted to get the hardware watchdog implemented ASAP. Everything else is on the list for the next release.

As for documentation I am still working on a really thorough "User Guide" that is taking way longer than I like to write up in between all the software updates, and PSU I'm working on. Im forcing myself to finish that up next week.

As for LEDs here is the basic description:

-Slow Blinking Yellow LED: System Boot/Hardware initialization
-Fast Blinking Yellow LED: Hardware passed all checks/inits, started bfgminer/connecting to pool
-Slow Blinking Green LED: Bfgminer successfully started and connected to pool
-Slow Blinking Green LED + Random Red flashes: Normal miner operation...Red flashes indicate each share returned by ASIC board and show low level miner activity
-Solid Red LED: Hardware fault or system shutdown (Red LED during normal operation means hardware monitor detected a fault with either the voltage regulator, Fan operation, or abnormal PCB temperatures).

whiteogre

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Quote from: VictorGT on February 02, 2019, 12:03:25 PM

I would like to put static IP adresses to my Apollos. Is this possible with latest software?

That configuration needs to still be done from the command line, like in the previous release, if you want to do it from the Apollo side. Usually it's more practical to configure the dhcp server to provide some specific IP for the matching MAC address of each Apollo. That way, the IP is always the same regardless of software updates and no command line access is needed.

VictorGT

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I would like to put static IP adresses to my Apollos. Is this possible with latest software?
Also, can we test BALANCED and TURBO modes now?

Quote from: jstefanop on February 01, 2019, 05:01:59 PM

Ive added it to my list

Great...

michelem

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Quote from: jstefanop on February 01, 2019, 05:04:09 PM

Quote from: crypto_curious on February 01, 2019, 12:18:06 PM

Downloading from link provided, 500 KB/s... (I have 75 Mbps Fibre if you ask)
Is there chance for torrent or something? Torrent could be even hosted in Apollo itself and distributed to people. So no need for AWS.

Did you try the wetransfer link? Ill see if I can put it up on mega or something as well.

jstefanop I just added the image to my server placed in Germany. If someone needs it this is a mirror: http://getminera.com/releases/apollo_image_1-29.img.zip

WaterTower

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Quote from: ?? on ??

Can we run these in turbo mode yet? Has anyone tried?

I tried turbo mode in the initial release to just play around with it, and it seemed to work fine for the short time I tested it. The only issue was that I only felt comfortable with the fan at 100%, and while it will keep the unit cool enough, the sound it makes does not give me a lot of confidence that the fan will last a long time at that speed. I keep mine in balanced mode with fan manually set to 20%.

whiteogre

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Quote from: jstefanop on January 31, 2019, 04:53:14 PM

-Download the new Apollo image linked above and make sure you UNZIP it (always a good idea to check MD5 checksum in case download was corrupted...make sure checksum is run on the .img file NOT the downloaded .img.zip)
-Use Etcher to re-image your SD card with the updated image file

Etcher has supported already for few years extracting the image from the zip on the fly as long as the zip contains only one file, like is the case here. Therefore, there shouldn't be any real reason to unzip first. I also think you should take the checksums from the zip file itself since that's essentially the release you are distributing. At least I see it so that the checksum can be used to validate that the release is indeed what it should be and not something that has been replaced with a botnet addon. That's why the checksum should be of the distributed file instead of a file within it. Zip by itself will anyway create an internal checksum of the file and extracting it will fail if the file has been somehow corrupted during transfer. If you'd want to go the pro way then signing the release file with gpg would be the way to go. Wink

Few comments regarding the release itself, less than previously thanks to fixes:

the login screen password input field still doesn't grab keyboard focus automatically on page load
[email protected] is still active and constantly trying to start and failing to do so
/var/log.hdd could use a cleanup before release
documentation for front led blink signals is missing from the first post, I've seen at least slow yellow, fast yellow, slow green and irregular red

jstefanop

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Quote from: crypto_curious on February 01, 2019, 12:18:06 PM

Downloading from link provided, 500 KB/s... (I have 75 Mbps Fibre if you ask)
Is there chance for torrent or something? Torrent could be even hosted in Apollo itself and distributed to people. So no need for AWS.

Did you try the wetransfer link? Ill see if I can put it up on mega or something as well.

jstefanop

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Quote from: almartins on February 01, 2019, 04:17:12 PM

Quote from: VictorGT on February 01, 2019, 02:16:00 PM

Quote from: drakedave on February 01, 2019, 04:46:29 AM

Quote from: jstefanop on January 31, 2019, 04:53:14 PM

Here we go guys...new image release finally out! ...

Great thank you so much jstefanop for all the work !
Here is a feature request for next update :

For example, I'd like to have the possibility to set the miner on balanced mode from 07:00PM to 07:00 AM and on another mode for another amount of time set in hours.

What do you think ?

This would be very nice... By night (cheaper electricity) FULL MODE, by day ECO mode... Please jstefanop, think about it...

For me too will be a very nice update ... please jstefanop.

Ive added it to my list

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Quote from: VictorGT on February 01, 2019, 02:16:00 PM

Quote from: drakedave on February 01, 2019, 04:46:29 AM

Quote from: jstefanop on January 31, 2019, 04:53:14 PM

Here we go guys...new image release finally out! ...

Great thank you so much jstefanop for all the work !
Here is a feature request for next update :

For example, I'd like to have the possibility to set the miner on balanced mode from 07:00PM to 07:00 AM and on another mode for another amount of time set in hours.

What do you think ?

This would be very nice... By night (cheaper electricity) FULL MODE, by day ECO mode... Please jstefanop, think about it...

For me too will be a very nice update ... please jstefanop.

VictorGT

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Quote from: drakedave on February 01, 2019, 04:46:29 AM

Quote from: jstefanop on January 31, 2019, 04:53:14 PM

Here we go guys...new image release finally out! ...

Great thank you so much jstefanop for all the work !
Here is a feature request for next update :

For example, I'd like to have the possibility to set the miner on balanced mode from 07:00PM to 07:00 AM and on another mode for another amount of time set in hours.

What do you think ?

This would be very nice... By night (cheaper electricity) FULL MODE, by day ECO mode... Please jstefanop, think about it...

whiteogre

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Quote from: crypto_curious on February 01, 2019, 12:18:06 PM

Is there chance for torrent or something? Torrent could be even hosted in Apollo itself and distributed to people. So no need for AWS.

Considering how unstable the wifi link of the Apollo can be, I really wouldn't suggest enabling such feature at least by default.

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精神分析的爸

Quote from: crypto_curious on February 01, 2019, 12:18:06 PM

Downloading from link provided, 500 KB/s... (I have 75 Mbps Fibre if you ask)
Is there chance for torrent or something? Torrent could be even hosted in Apollo itself and distributed to people. So no need for AWS.

I could download it just right now with 25MB/s in less than a minute from home.
You must be holding it wrong Grin

(or your providers pipe to amazon is a tad slow).

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