Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread - page 58.

stef942

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it's correct
log with ip

A_Renaissance_Man

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Another noob question: I managed to set the jumper and started the Futurebit yesterday. It is flashing red/green quite frantically.

Should this turn to green only or this correct? I am asking becuase I can't log in with http://futurebit.local.

dwood443

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Quote from: jstefanop on January 10, 2019, 12:54:05 PM

Yes we have internal builds with full node running, but we still have a lot of work to do before its stable. There are a lot of system level changes that need to be done to keep the full node + webui + miner backend stable, plus tweaks on the node itself to run on this hardware efficiently.

Plan is still on to have full node + LN + wallet functionality done before Q1 this year.

FYI also hope to have an update to the image complete by end of next week with lots of bug fixes/improvements. Just got back from holiday break and some serious downtime I needed so getting back into he swing of things.

Forgive my naivete but would running a full node make it possible to solo mine? I've been mining on TBDice but lack of responses from the pool owner and many complaining about lost blocks I'd rather work on my own if I could.

jstefanop

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Quote from: HereToday on January 10, 2019, 10:27:09 PM

Quote from: jstefanop on January 10, 2019, 12:45:30 PM

Quote from: HereToday on January 10, 2019, 01:26:18 AM

Latest reports and observations after a couple weeks of tinkering:

Got the wifi working, but I couldn't get a hashrate above 65 Mh/S no matter what mode I tried.

Might be something on the provider end, wifi generally sucks in our house anyway...

Also had the dashboard freeze up with the wifi running and couldn't adjust controls which got a little terrifying.

Plugged the cable back in and mined litecoinpool for 6 days with no issues in eco mode and fan at 15%

Currently mining litecoinpool in balanced mode for the last day with no issues. Avg 120 Mh/S

Fan set at 30%, miner temp 68.15, mcu temp 55.05, have the unit sitting on a $5 laptop fan plugged into the USB port

Tried some other coins and pools, but keep returning to litecoinpool 'cos I like their dashboard layout

Verdict: having a blast with my new cool toy! Thanks!

Yea, if your wifi is bad it was most likely dropping packets so shares were not reaching the pool, hence the lower hash rate.

Thanks for the rest of the feedback! What do you mean by the laptop fan plugged into the USB port?

Bought this cheap 'laptop cooling fan' off ebay. Link below. 5 volts powered by a USB plug. Doesn't push much air but every little bit helps.
Miner temp is currently 66.44 and the mcu is 51.84 in a heated den so that fan's doing something!
2 days in balanced mode, Apollo fan at 30% still hashing 120 Mh/S

https://www.ebay.com/itm/14-1-15-4-Laptop-Notebook-USB-LED-Light-Air-Cooling-Big-Fan-Cooler-Pad/332938425099?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D7c10238888274c6f986469674c60d4bb%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D351932237156%26itm%3D332938425099&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A3bf85246-154f-11e9-ab94-74dbd180054b%7Cparentrq%3A3ae8de601680aadb34652179fff7968e%7Ciid%3A1

Got ya...yea thats obviously keeping the MCU nice and cool.

jstefanop

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Quote from: A_Renaissance_Man on January 10, 2019, 05:17:18 PM

Can something bad happen if I connect the wrong pins with the paper clip?

If your worried about it just buy one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/CRJ-24-Pin-Supply-Jumper-Bridge/dp/B01N8Q0TOE/

AltScope

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Quote from: crypto_curious on January 11, 2019, 09:32:35 AM

Quote from: A_Renaissance_Man on January 10, 2019, 05:17:18 PM

Can something bad happen if I connect the wrong pins with the paper clip?

Why would you do that?

Just watch closely pinout of your PSU and connect two wires. You can't be wrong about it. Just pay attention and you will be fine.

make sure you've got the connector oriented the same way as the diagram your looking at, that's about the only way I can imagine cocking it up.

crypto_curious

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Quote from: A_Renaissance_Man on January 10, 2019, 05:17:18 PM

Can something bad happen if I connect the wrong pins with the paper clip?

Why would you do that?

Just watch closely pinout of your PSU and connect two wires. You can't be wrong about it. Just pay attention and you will be fine.

HereToday

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Quote from: jstefanop on January 10, 2019, 12:45:30 PM

Quote from: HereToday on January 10, 2019, 01:26:18 AM

Latest reports and observations after a couple weeks of tinkering:

Got the wifi working, but I couldn't get a hashrate above 65 Mh/S no matter what mode I tried.

Might be something on the provider end, wifi generally sucks in our house anyway...

Also had the dashboard freeze up with the wifi running and couldn't adjust controls which got a little terrifying.

Plugged the cable back in and mined litecoinpool for 6 days with no issues in eco mode and fan at 15%

Currently mining litecoinpool in balanced mode for the last day with no issues. Avg 120 Mh/S

Fan set at 30%, miner temp 68.15, mcu temp 55.05, have the unit sitting on a $5 laptop fan plugged into the USB port

Tried some other coins and pools, but keep returning to litecoinpool 'cos I like their dashboard layout

Verdict: having a blast with my new cool toy! Thanks!

Yea, if your wifi is bad it was most likely dropping packets so shares were not reaching the pool, hence the lower hash rate.

Thanks for the rest of the feedback! What do you mean by the laptop fan plugged into the USB port?

Bought this cheap 'laptop cooling fan' off ebay. Link below. 5 volts powered by a USB plug. Doesn't push much air but every little bit helps.
Miner temp is currently 66.44 and the mcu is 51.84 in a heated den so that fan's doing something!
2 days in balanced mode, Apollo fan at 30% still hashing 120 Mh/S

https://www.ebay.com/itm/14-1-15-4-Laptop-Notebook-USB-LED-Light-Air-Cooling-Big-Fan-Cooler-Pad/332938425099?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D7c10238888274c6f986469674c60d4bb%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D351932237156%26itm%3D332938425099&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A3bf85246-154f-11e9-ab94-74dbd180054b%7Cparentrq%3A3ae8de601680aadb34652179fff7968e%7Ciid%3A1

A_Renaissance_Man

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Can something bad happen if I connect the wrong pins with the paper clip?

jstefanop

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Quote from: A_Renaissance_Man on January 10, 2019, 05:01:50 PM

Thanks. The powersupply does not start. I read somewhere that I have to jump some pins of an adapter. Any ideas?

Yes just search online for ATX PSU Pin jumper. Easiest way is to just paper clip the green wire to any black wire (if its color coded, if not use the pinout pics that are online),

A_Renaissance_Man

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Thanks. The powersupply does not start. I read somewhere that I have to jump some pins of an adapter. Any ideas?

philipma1957

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Quote from: A_Renaissance_Man on January 10, 2019, 03:27:31 PM

Noob question (first attempt at mining):

Hi everybody -

I purchased a FutureBit Apollo and Corsair RM1000x power supply. What cable do I use to connect the two:

Is the PCIe 8 pin (6+2) cable the right one? What do I do with the two times two surplus connecting pins?

Thanks for helping.

Fold them back and Tie them off. With a zip tie or Velcro wrap.

A_Renaissance_Man

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Noob question (first attempt at mining):

Hi everybody -

I purchased a FutureBit Apollo and Corsair RM1000x power supply. What cable do I use to connect the two:

Is the PCIe 8 pin (6+2) cable the right one? What do I do with the two times two surplus connecting pins?

Thanks for helping.

jstefanop

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Quote from: whiteogre on January 10, 2019, 12:47:12 PM

Quote from: mrwendal on January 09, 2019, 10:45:07 PM

Is it possible in the current software version to run a full node with an SD card of sufficient capacity?

The binary needed for a full node isn't provided by default. With the right tools, it's still possible to compile it yourself and get it running but I haven't checked how much memory would also be required if every setting is minimized. The default settings appear to have caches of 450 MB + 300 MB. The MCU has only 256 MB ram and about half of that is already being used. As for storing the blockchain, most likely using a separate USB stick would be the better approach as that way any updates of the SD card image wouldn't require fetching the blockchain again.

Yes we have internal builds with full node running, but we still have a lot of work to do before its stable. There are a lot of system level changes that need to be done to keep the full node + webui + miner backend stable, plus tweaks on the node itself to run on this hardware efficiently.

Plan is still on to have full node + LN + wallet functionality done before Q1 this year.

FYI also hope to have an update to the image complete by end of next week with lots of bug fixes/improvements. Just got back from holiday break and some serious downtime I needed so getting back into he swing of things.

whiteogre

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Quote from: mrwendal on January 09, 2019, 10:45:07 PM

Just to add to the miner going offline reports: My Apollo went offline after what may have been exactly 6 days of hashing. I had connected it to wifi about 2 or 3 days ago and removed the ethernet cable. The wireless interface appears to have lost its IP address, and reconnected the ethernet cable did not lead to a DHCP lease. Power cycling the Apollo brought everything back online. How would I go about connecting to the shell to get a log file? I am using the pre-loaded 4gb card at the moment.

You can open a ssh connection to get a shell using "futurebit" as both username and password. The only logfile that may provide some answers is /var/log/syslog as the bfgminer process has no file based logging. However, depending on how that syslog file is being rotated, it may no longer contain any relevant information.

Quote from: mrwendal on January 09, 2019, 10:45:07 PM

Is it possible in the current software version to run a full node with an SD card of sufficient capacity?

The binary needed for a full node isn't provided by default. With the right tools, it's still possible to compile it yourself and get it running but I haven't checked how much memory would also be required if every setting is minimized. The default settings appear to have caches of 450 MB + 300 MB. The MCU has only 256 MB ram and about half of that is already being used. As for storing the blockchain, most likely using a separate USB stick would be the better approach as that way any updates of the SD card image wouldn't require fetching the blockchain again.

jstefanop

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Quote from: HereToday on January 10, 2019, 01:26:18 AM

Latest reports and observations after a couple weeks of tinkering:

Got the wifi working, but I couldn't get a hashrate above 65 Mh/S no matter what mode I tried.

Might be something on the provider end, wifi generally sucks in our house anyway...

Also had the dashboard freeze up with the wifi running and couldn't adjust controls which got a little terrifying.

Plugged the cable back in and mined litecoinpool for 6 days with no issues in eco mode and fan at 15%

Currently mining litecoinpool in balanced mode for the last day with no issues. Avg 120 Mh/S

Fan set at 30%, miner temp 68.15, mcu temp 55.05, have the unit sitting on a $5 laptop fan plugged into the USB port

Tried some other coins and pools, but keep returning to litecoinpool 'cos I like their dashboard layout

Verdict: having a blast with my new cool toy! Thanks!

Yea, if your wifi is bad it was most likely dropping packets so shares were not reaching the pool, hence the lower hash rate.

Thanks for the rest of the feedback! What do you mean by the laptop fan plugged into the USB port?

jstefanop

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Quote from: mrwendal on January 09, 2019, 10:45:07 PM

Just to add to the miner going offline reports: My Apollo went offline after what may have been exactly 6 days of hashing. I had connected it to wifi about 2 or 3 days ago and removed the ethernet cable. The wireless interface appears to have lost its IP address, and reconnected the ethernet cable did not lead to a DHCP lease. Power cycling the Apollo brought everything back online. How would I go about connecting to the shell to get a log file? I am using the pre-loaded 4gb card at the moment.

Is it possible in the current software version to run a full node with an SD card of sufficient capacity?

Yea this is a known issue, most likely the wifi driver crashed and when that happens only a reboot recovers it. Next version will most likely have some sort of reboot script to check for basic internet outages and stuff like this will happen auto.

HereToday

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Latest reports and observations after a couple weeks of tinkering:

Got the wifi working, but I couldn't get a hashrate above 65 Mh/S no matter what mode I tried.

Might be something on the provider end, wifi generally sucks in our house anyway...

Also had the dashboard freeze up with the wifi running and couldn't adjust controls which got a little terrifying.

Plugged the cable back in and mined litecoinpool for 6 days with no issues in eco mode and fan at 15%

Currently mining litecoinpool in balanced mode for the last day with no issues. Avg 120 Mh/S

Fan set at 30%, miner temp 68.15, mcu temp 55.05, have the unit sitting on a $5 laptop fan plugged into the USB port

Tried some other coins and pools, but keep returning to litecoinpool 'cos I like their dashboard layout

Verdict: having a blast with my new cool toy! Thanks!

mrwendal

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Just to add to the miner going offline reports: My Apollo went offline after what may have been exactly 6 days of hashing. I had connected it to wifi about 2 or 3 days ago and removed the ethernet cable. The wireless interface appears to have lost its IP address, and reconnected the ethernet cable did not lead to a DHCP lease. Power cycling the Apollo brought everything back online. How would I go about connecting to the shell to get a log file? I am using the pre-loaded 4gb card at the moment.

Is it possible in the current software version to run a full node with an SD card of sufficient capacity?

JohnnyCucuzza

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Quote from: johnstewart on January 07, 2019, 01:02:39 PM

Hello Everyone,

So today one of my two apollos was down on litecoinpool.org but still "online" ( Green on the workers username ) but no hashing.

I just get home the miner seemed to still hashing ( green and red light like always ) doesn't seem to don't have any problems...

So i opened the dashboard and it says miner offline... **

I don't really know what happened today ....

I had the exact issue today with Litecoinpool. It showed a red “SICK” in BFGminer (below screenshot). Tried rebooting remotely from work when I got the alert, but wouldn’t work. Had to do a hard power down/up after I got home. The fan was not on.

https://ibb.co/37WnJXd

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