Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread - page 63.

jstefanop

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Quote from: crypto_curious on December 26, 2018, 09:50:37 AM

Hello jstefanop, quick question:

I just had situation with one pool, where I was temp-banned because I generated lots of rejected shares (it was MiningRentals, rental order gave me wrong settings). My Apollo was disconnected, and it started mining on backup pool. But after some time, it did not returned to main pool, despite temp-ban being lifted and I could just mine there easily.

So, question is, At default settings, will bfgminer continuously try to reconnect to main pool? If not, how I can change that in bfgminer.conf?

That should be the default behavior. Could be something with the ban, since a new authorization would require a bfgminer restart.

johnstewart

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When will we have a new bêta release ?

Please fix the wifi first !! ^^

Thanks for all jfstefanop Wink

roudaille

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Hiya,

mine arrived today in France. Argh 85$ for FedEx Express! Huh

By the way, SD card inserted:

]/56urWcRQqjFaf5bbA]https://photos.app.[Suspicious link removed]]/56urWcRQqjFaf5bbA

Quick short for my PSU ATX:

https://photos.app.[Suspicious link removed]/ANWWNLc8SUMJjteLA

Booted quickly:

https://photos.app.[Suspicious link removed]/BpTaJd1WDHaRzn6C8

131W at the wall:

https://photos.app.[Suspicious link removed]/qDkBrU8v6qjpVqD27

Nice work!

Underwaterbasketcoin

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Quote from: stef942 on December 26, 2018, 12:51:00 AM

your router should be able to assign different ip for both, check it is in dhcp mode

Thanks, it's in dhcp mode. I did get it to work after multiple reboots of all hardware involved but oddly my network map is only showing one. I can see they are both online and working at the moment I'll continue to monitor.

crypto_curious

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Hello jstefanop, quick question:

I just had situation with one pool, where I was temp-banned because I generated lots of rejected shares (it was MiningRentals, rental order gave me wrong settings). My Apollo was disconnected, and it started mining on backup pool. But after some time, it did not returned to main pool, despite temp-ban being lifted and I could just mine there easily.

So, question is, At default settings, will bfgminer continuously try to reconnect to main pool? If not, how I can change that in bfgminer.conf?

roudaille

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Hiya,

mine arrived this morning (France). 85$ for FedEx Express! Huh

By the way, SD card (SanDisk Extreme 64 Gb) inserted:

https://i.imgur.com/QqQMIiN.jpg

Short for the ATX PSU:

https://i.imgur.com/w5YR0zJ.jpg

Quickly booted:

https://i.imgur.com/DNLZXrQ.jpg

131W at the wall:

https://i.imgur.com/8Youwcs.jpg

Nice work @jstefanop!

jstefanop

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Wired/Wireless have different MACs, they currently wont both work together though...if you have ethernet plugged in wireless wont work(so after wireless setup you should reboot then remove ethernet).

stef942

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your router should be able to assign different ip for both, check it is in dhcp mode

Underwaterbasketcoin

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Quote from: dwood443 on December 25, 2018, 07:11:27 PM

Quote from: Underwaterbasketcoin on December 25, 2018, 03:23:51 PM

Thanks all for the help, here's an update....

After hours of trying and failing I gave up. Miners sat turned off for over 48 hours as I was out of town. Came home and powered one up and it worked. No idea why. Got the second one working too. I did nothing different. I'm stumped but happy they are working. At the moment I can only get one to run at a time as they're interfering with each other on the network. I'll work on that next.

As was mentioned a few times the wireless is still buggy from the driver if you are using wireless. I had one wired and one wireless but they were still stepping on each other. Now I have them both hard wired to ethernet and so far working great.

Is there any way to disable the wireless all together? It appears to me part of the issue with wireless is it has the same MAC address as the hard wired. I'm not positive but I thought these considered different as far as MAC addressees go?

I'm using a wired connection only. I haven't tried wireless yet. I haven't been able to get both working at the same time though.

dwood443

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Quote from: Underwaterbasketcoin on December 25, 2018, 03:23:51 PM

Thanks all for the help, here's an update....

After hours of trying and failing I gave up. Miners sat turned off for over 48 hours as I was out of town. Came home and powered one up and it worked. No idea why. Got the second one working too. I did nothing different. I'm stumped but happy they are working. At the moment I can only get one to run at a time as they're interfering with each other on the network. I'll work on that next.

As was mentioned a few times the wireless is still buggy from the driver if you are using wireless. I had one wired and one wireless but they were still stepping on each other. Now I have them both hard wired to ethernet and so far working great.

Is there any way to disable the wireless all together? It appears to me part of the issue with wireless is it has the same MAC address as the hard wired. I'm not positive but I thought these considered different as far as MAC addressees go?

Underwaterbasketcoin

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Thanks all for the help, here's an update....

After hours of trying and failing I gave up. Miners sat turned off for over 48 hours as I was out of town. Came home and powered one up and it worked. No idea why. Got the second one working too. I did nothing different. I'm stumped but happy they are working. At the moment I can only get one to run at a time as they're interfering with each other on the network. I'll work on that next.

jstefanop

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Quote from: monkeyrocker on December 25, 2018, 12:53:27 PM

Quote from: jstefanop on December 24, 2018, 05:53:04 PM

Quote from: monkeyrocker on December 24, 2018, 02:58:42 PM

Tried a be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 600W PSU but so far no luck getting the Apollo going.
Connected pins so it can start and PSU fan starts spinning. LAN-port leds turn on (orange, green) and the Apollo fan starts with a few spins but stops immediately, no front led light.
It will do this every time when PSU turns on so seems like some kind of protection from the PSU that shut its off. Maybe somebody has a better idea or experience?
With the Apollo attached and pins connected should normally be enough?
If nothing works I might just get one of the PSUs that seemed to work for others.

Do the LAN port LEDs flash a few times? If they come on and stay on that means its not booting from SD card (when it boots properly the LAN LEDs will flash a few times).

If they don't flash that means either your using an incompatible SD card, or something went wrong with your SD card image download/flash.

Ok, leds do stay on but don't blink. I'll try writing sd cards again without using dd. Tried both a 32 Gb and 64 Gb sandisk extreme plus, but both created in the same way with dd so makes sense to try different way or even using cheaper different card. Thanks, I'll report back.

Yea just use etcher it’s easy and gets the job done. You might be writing to a partition with dd and not the whole disk.

HereToday

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Quote from: jstefanop on December 25, 2018, 01:37:49 PM

Quote from: HereToday on December 25, 2018, 01:09:01 PM

Quick check-in from a mining newbie.

From SD card flash to mining steadily took me about 25 minutes.

Running smoothly and averaging the expected 101 Mh/s for about 15 hours now on litecoinpool.

Lights flashing a nice Christmas-y red and green.

Set the fan to 15% which seems to cool it a lot better than the variable speed, and keeps it at a tolerable noise level for the den.

Only issue so far has been getting the HDMI cable to clip into the Apollo.

Happy to be a part of the home mining community!! Grin

There is no hdmi port on the Apollo...

derp; ethernet Tongue

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: crypto_curious on December 25, 2018, 06:02:54 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on December 24, 2018, 09:46:28 PM

Okay

Yeah cut and paste does not work a real P.I.T.A.

I did a youtube video shows 1 L3+ and 1 Apollo running nice and quiet hooked up to a high end cosair

loading really slow sorry for delay.

at: https://youtu.be/x6EjibK9Ot8

You have 10% HW errors there? Shocked

(I did not watch whole video, but seen it throughout the clip)

I clearly explained why the hw was at 10% and that it drops over time.

But you did not bother to watch the video.

here it is right now errors are down to 0.5% from the initial 10% which was said clearly in the video.
that is after first 8 minutes when errors were about 10% see video

at: https://youtu.be/x6EjibK9Ot8

After 14 hours time errors = 0.5% see screenshot photo taken right now

jstefanop

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Quote from: HereToday on December 25, 2018, 01:09:01 PM

Quick check-in from a mining newbie.

From SD card flash to mining steadily took me about 25 minutes.

Running smoothly and averaging the expected 101 Mh/s for about 15 hours now on litecoinpool.

Lights flashing a nice Christmas-y red and green.

Set the fan to 15% which seems to cool it a lot better than the variable speed, and keeps it at a tolerable noise level for the den.

Only issue so far has been getting the HDMI cable to clip into the Apollo.

Happy to be a part of the home mining community!! Grin

There is no hdmi port on the Apollo...

HereToday

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Quick check-in from a mining newbie.

From SD card flash to mining steadily took me about 25 minutes.

Running smoothly and averaging the expected 101 Mh/s for about 15 hours now on litecoinpool.

Lights flashing a nice Christmas-y red and green.

Set the fan to 15% which seems to cool it a lot better than the variable speed, and keeps it at a tolerable noise level for the den.

Only issue so far has been getting the HDMI cable to clip into the Apollo.

Happy to be a part of the home mining community!! Grin

monkeyrocker

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Quote from: jstefanop on December 24, 2018, 05:53:04 PM

Quote from: monkeyrocker on December 24, 2018, 02:58:42 PM

Tried a be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 600W PSU but so far no luck getting the Apollo going.
Connected pins so it can start and PSU fan starts spinning. LAN-port leds turn on (orange, green) and the Apollo fan starts with a few spins but stops immediately, no front led light.
It will do this every time when PSU turns on so seems like some kind of protection from the PSU that shut its off. Maybe somebody has a better idea or experience?
With the Apollo attached and pins connected should normally be enough?
If nothing works I might just get one of the PSUs that seemed to work for others.

Do the LAN port LEDs flash a few times? If they come on and stay on that means its not booting from SD card (when it boots properly the LAN LEDs will flash a few times).

If they don't flash that means either your using an incompatible SD card, or something went wrong with your SD card image download/flash.

Ok, leds do stay on but don't blink. I'll try writing sd cards again without using dd. Tried both a 32 Gb and 64 Gb sandisk extreme plus, but both created in the same way with dd so makes sense to try different way or even using cheaper different card. Thanks, I'll report back.

crypto_curious

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Quote from: philipma1957 on December 24, 2018, 09:46:28 PM

Okay

Yeah cut and paste does not work a real P.I.T.A.

I did a youtube video shows 1 L3+ and 1 Apollo running nice and quiet hooked up to a high end cosair

loading really slow sorry for delay.

at: https://youtu.be/x6EjibK9Ot8

You have 10% HW errors there? Shocked

(I did not watch whole video, but seen it throughout the clip)

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Okay

Yeah cut and paste does not work a real P.I.T.A.

I did a youtube video shows 1 L3+ and 1 Apollo running nice and quiet hooked up to a high end cosair

loading really slow sorry for delay.

at: https://youtu.be/x6EjibK9Ot8

crypto_curious

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Quote from: jstefanop on December 24, 2018, 05:58:15 PM

Yea most of this stuff is on my bug list / to-do.

Wifi is very hit or miss with the current driver for the wifi chip...were trying to get a stable driver going from the vendor.

My test units work fine in a simple b/g network at home...but in my office with dozens of networks/mixed mode stations etc the wifi driver chokes and crashes all the time.

I've managed to have Apollo on WiFi on mixed 2.4/5 GHz (g+n / ac) network, same SSID for both of frequencies. I am not sure which frequency was Apollo using at that time, but it was stable. Now I switched to ethernet though.
It's a matter of polishing driver I am sure this hardware could work for months without any interruption on any WiFi providing signal is strong enough, fingers crossed for its development

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