I'd like to suggest to support the new Bitcoin ASIC Miner, FutureBit set up a better forum that supports catagories and better searches. Lumping everything into one huge disjointed forum such as this one is not only frustrating but a waste of time. I've seen so many questions asked with others posting the answers (if their lucky) that were previously posted. For example, just try searching for "Apollo" and you'll get just one result!
Catagories perhaps like Hardware, Software, Installation, etc. would be far more productive to users - current and future.
JMHO
Yea these support threads are a mess, will need to figure something new out. |
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Futurebit Apollo - won't stay connected
So I can't get my apollo to hash, after it connects and disconnects a couple times I get the error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4028
I have an l3+ hashing away with exactly the same settings on litecoinpool but cant seem to make the apollo work.
I reflashed the sd and it boots, I can get into the interface, it will show a connection for a few seconds then it drops eventually giving me the error.
Thats usually because the pool is refusing connection due to wrong credentials (litecoin pool is case sensitive on username/pass). |
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How's the assembly/shipping coming along? No unforeseen issues or dramas? Looking forward to getting this  Nope, remaining parts finally in the US and are sitting in LA waiting for customs clearances. Should have had them a week ago, but we were pushed off the plane due to Labor holiday in Asia and bigger shippers taking all cargo space. As long as there is no customs issues they should be at our cali facility by Wednesday, im flying in then to help the team there and we should hit the ground running with assemblies and shipments. FYI trying to complete binary releases, support thread, instructions etc by end of the weekend/monday for people that are only buying standard units so you guys can get your systems ready to go when they get to you. Were almost there... Shipments will be from LA? Full package orders will be ship the same time? Factory is in bay area thats where orders ship out from. Orders will ship based on order number. |
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How's the assembly/shipping coming along? No unforeseen issues or dramas? Looking forward to getting this Nope, remaining parts finally in the US and are sitting in LA waiting for customs clearances. Should have had them a week ago, but we were pushed off the plane due to Labor holiday in Asia and bigger shippers taking all cargo space. As long as there is no customs issues they should be at our cali facility by Wednesday, im flying in then to help the team there and we should hit the ground running with assemblies and shipments. FYI trying to complete binary releases, support thread, instructions etc by end of the weekend/monday for people that are only buying standard units so you guys can get your systems ready to go when they get to you. Were almost there... |
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Hi jstefanop,
Thanks for the hard work and the updates. I just looked back at my conformation email (#3506) and realized I ordered the full package, but without the power supply. Is there any way to add one now or is it to late? I have several I could use, but thought I would ask in the event others might be wondering the same thing.
Just reply to your order email and well update it. |
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Quick update...finally sorted the fan situation, now we have them sitting at a forwarder in hong kong...due to the blockage with the canal everyone out of asia decided to 10x the shipping costs and fly everything out so there is a massive backlog for stuff to get on planes. Right now were scheduled to get on a plane early next week, and hopefully well have everything at our cali facility by end of next week, and start shipping the week after that.
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Hello jstefanop Do you have already the manual/notice of apollo ? for setup, for newbies .. ? Waiting my first batch and would like to learn about config Thanks  Will open a support thread here next week, and post the getting started guide by end of next week. |
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What are the shipping arrangements? Ship to distributors first or direct to customers? (I’m in the UK)
Shipping out first customer pre-orders in the order they were received(does not matter where you ordered from), then sending out bitshopper euro orders, and finishing with the tail end of the pre-orders. We made up some lost time with our thermal assembly, and that should be at our factory by next week. So barring any delays with ramping up end assembly I think we can get the first orders out the first week of may, and dont see all Batch 1 orders not being in customer hands by end of May. |
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Looking forward to my 1st batch gear in May. I purchased 1 full set. 600 choppers. So 3th = 3 x .37 or 1.11 a day. I will mine it and Hodl the coin. Next diff jump will be very good for mining a negative 20% last I looked So mining with this will be getting a 20% boost. https://diff.cryptothis.com/Latest Block: 679614 (13 minutes ago) Current Pace: 71.6351% (223 / 311.30 expected, 88.3 behind)Previous Difficulty: 23137439666472.05 Current Difficulty: 23581981443663.85 Next Difficulty: between 16902293290020 and 21782860938634 Next Difficulty Change: between -28.3254% and -7.6292% Previous Retarget: last Thursday at 3:40 PM (+1.9213%) Next Retarget (earliest): April 30, 2021 at 7:28 PM (in 12d 23h 55m 19s) Next Retarget (latest): May 5, 2021 at 4:42 AM (in 17d 9h 9m 38s) Projected Epoch Length: between 15d 3h 48m 19s and 19d 13h 2m 38s These are rare numbers. Back to the gear: I have a question about the full kit I ordered. it comes with a 512gb NVMe SSD Can I clone that and swap in a larger ssd? What is the physical location of the nvme SSD . and is it full length size or shorter. I think the swappable nature is part of the plan. From what I've seen I think access to it is underneath and it seems to be a full size NVME Yea its easy to swap out, nothing to open. Just turn it over and there is one screw holding it down. Its a standard 2280, it can also take the smaller 2230s. |
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Wow, congrats guys!
Thanks! Looks like well need to start scaling earlier than planned! |
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Batch 2 goes live tomorrow at 6PM EST FYI for whoever missed Batch 1. This batch will ship in July.
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Looks like the price for the full package is up to $625 is that the price for batch 2?
Yes were adjusting prices based on component costs. Things are insane right now. Our MCU cost for the full package went up ~15 USD alone from our Batch 1 order. Looks like inflation is hitting upstream already. Listed at $649 for batch 2 on the website now. Yep, SSD, wifi module, and DRAM prices are all skyrocketing on weekly basis. Major supply issue in the SBC space. Standard units we have been able to secure enough chipsets that won't effect the price until Batch 3. We are eating some of the costs right now, but there probably will be a 20-25% increase in prices across the board into the later half of the year. We might not even be able to manufacture the Full Node unit after we sell out Batch 2, trying to come up with a temporary solution using an external less powerful controller unit. Does it mean for Batch 1 who ordered full node would not be able to get it in May? No, this is just for future Batches, everyone in Batch 1 is getting their units in May. |
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If we only ordered the Standard package and use a Raspberri Pi can we still run a full node?
Of course, you can run anything you want on your pi...You would just be downloading the miner binary and running that to control the hashboard, its not like you will need to flash your pi with a custom image or anything. The miner software itself takes up very little resources/processing power. |
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Looks like the price for the full package is up to $625 is that the price for batch 2?
Yes were adjusting prices based on component costs. Things are insane right now. Our MCU cost for the full package went up ~15 USD alone from our Batch 1 order. Looks like inflation is hitting upstream already. Listed at $649 for batch 2 on the website now. Yep, SSD, wifi module, and DRAM prices are all skyrocketing on weekly basis. Major supply issue in the SBC space. Standard units we have been able to secure enough chipsets that won't effect the price until Batch 3. We are eating some of the costs right now, but there probably will be a 20-25% increase in prices across the board into the later half of the year. We might not even be able to manufacture the Full Node unit after we sell out Batch 2, trying to come up with a temporary solution using an external less powerful controller unit. |
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Hey I have 2 ltc batch 2 futurebit apollos. I was told to reflash one of my miners because it went off line out of no where. I followed the instructions on the first page of this thread and flashed the latest version onto the sd card. NOTHING! I literally went back and tried all the other/older updates. Nothing still! Now I went back and flashed the newest software on the card and it wont even boot up. HELP!!!
Do you see the ethernet lights flash in the back a few times when you power it on? If not it means you didn't flash correctly. |
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Hello, I've had my FutureBit running consistently for almost a year now with pretty much no issues, but recently I've had some disruptions to my internet which has caused the miner to shut down "red light " showing , since this event I've had unusual HW errors, sometimes really high even in ECO mode, and I am having a very difficult time connecting to the Apollo dashboard on my mobile or laptop computer , on my Net Analyzer app I show the future bit IP address listed, but when I pull up my routers IP address it does not list. Currently my miner is mining but I can not access on dashboard or reconnect the full node , ive seen mention of reimaging the SD card, im not quite sure how to do this . Any suggestions or support would be appreciated. Fyi, I also have an Antminer L3+ that is running with no issues, but I would really like to get this bad boy up and fully functional again.
Have you tried a power cycle, this usually clears any issues. Reflashing the SD card is easy, just download the image on the second post of this thread and use etcher to burn it. |
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Is it possible to enable RPC on a full node? I'm writing a program to monitor my balances and I'm wanting to call the JSON RPC to get the balance for a public address. Since I already have a full node apollo running, I'd like to use that instead of setting up a 2nd node and would definitely be beneficial on the BTC apollo that I have on order so I'm not running 2 BTC nodes as well.
Yes but it might be limited to localhost for security, if you want to edit the conf file for your own stuff its at /opt/litecoin.conf |
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Okay so a question are we there yet?
April 15th date?
April 30th date?
May ?
when do we get gear shipped.
Were about two weeks behind schedule because our fan vendor got hit with the chip shortages going on. This shouldn't push us past first week of May to start shipping. Will send out an email updating all pre-orders of where we are tomorrow. |
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Looks like the price for the full package is up to $625 is that the price for batch 2?
Yes were adjusting prices based on component costs. Things are insane right now. Our MCU cost for the full package went up ~15 USD alone from our Batch 1 order. Looks like inflation is hitting upstream already. |
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Pretty much, all components are ordered and PCBs are being assembled this week/next. Prototypes are already locked down and fully tested, so no issues on that front. Only thing we are waiting for is cases and main fan for the unit which is taking longer than anticipated. I still think we can start shipping end of April but will update everyone next month if that changes.
Right now we are just focusing on the software and OS. Putting together some really cool partnerships and launch day apps that will be available!
I usually post any updates on twitter more often if you want to follow me on there (jstefanop1).
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