thanks, I figured it out now and setup custom pool.
I am going to open up the case and see if there is any chance to figure out how to water cool these using a computer 360 AIO.
the device is fantastic BUT ... even in ECO mode and fan at 2200rpm its LOUD to sit on your desk in office or bedroom. on Balanced mode and fan at 3300rpm its VERY loud and unless you you have a house and can keep it in garage away from you, its just not practical to have in an apartment. The Turbo mode is ridiculously loud, like a jet taking off.
frankly even in Balanced mode, I dont see the longevity of the fan spinning at such high RPMs for months and years and the amount of dust it will collect with so much air being sucked in will require regular maintenance / cleaning as it will otherwise overheat.
its a great device but the cooling just doesnt work above ECO mode and needs watercooling solution.
the device cost me $2000 Australian dollars after shipping and taxes. A 360 AIO costs $100 so Im surprised they have not offered it as an option with an external box attached to the Apollo II with the fan and radiator. I would be very happy with that as who cares about aesthetics.
We already have a custom water block and radiator solution, I didn't like how loud the device was as well in balance/turbo but 90% of customer feedback from the Apollo BTC was maximum utilization of the ASICs which meant higher noise levels in balance/turbo. Was worth it for us since almost everyone runs the devices in eco so noise levels were comparable there, and the 10% that want max performance run them in garages etc where slightly higher noise does not matter. Waterblock we have is crazy overkill, we are talking about 500+ watts at under 2k RPM speeds. Cost alone of the water block/radiator is over 200 so adding that much more to the cost was not worth it. Next gen asics might get interesting since those can burn up to 20 watts each which requires either crazy high fan speeds or some kind of water/immersion solution. If we can 2-3x hashrate again and keep prices close to where they are water block might make sense. @jstefanop the people are looking for something like this! I would love to see a "do it yourself" upgrade or option from the factory that would leverage this type of cooling! Personally I have 3 Apollo II units. I would buy a multi-unit cooler unit with a larger radiator / fan combo. That would be bad ass!  |
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There certainly doesn't seem to be any noticeable drop in network hashrate no matter the case  |
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thanks, I figured it out now and setup custom pool.
I am going to open up the case and see if there is any chance to figure out how to water cool these using a computer 360 AIO.
the device is fantastic BUT ... even in ECO mode and fan at 2200rpm its LOUD to sit on your desk in office or bedroom. on Balanced mode and fan at 3300rpm its VERY loud and unless you you have a house and can keep it in garage away from you, its just not practical to have in an apartment. The Turbo mode is ridiculously loud, like a jet taking off.
frankly even in Balanced mode, I dont see the longevity of the fan spinning at such high RPMs for months and years and the amount of dust it will collect with so much air being sucked in will require regular maintenance / cleaning as it will otherwise overheat.
its a great device but the cooling just doesnt work above ECO mode and needs watercooling solution.
the device cost me $2000 Australian dollars after shipping and taxes. A 360 AIO costs $100 so Im surprised they have not offered it as an option with an external box attached to the Apollo II with the fan and radiator. I would be very happy with that as who cares about aesthetics.
I'd be curious to see how you make out with this and how much it really helps with the cooling! They do run hot but no hotter than a S19 would. Balanced is where I am running mine currently and using the solo mining pool aspect heavily with just over 9PH pointed to it. |
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FWIW this bug only affected the best difficulty being stored to the non-volatile memory. Nothing to do with shares
The display didn't match up with the pool data on best share which is what I was referring to. If you only look at the display for best share or the UI then you really wouldn't have accurate best share info. I am glad to see this fixed! we could use your good luck to test this fix out! Fingers are crossed and all systems are a go!  BTW... The "LuckyMiner" LV06 which is a complete rip off of the Bitaxe Ultra can also make use of the newest firmware version. https://github.com/skot/ESP-Miner/releases/tag/v2.1.4I found that the OTA update works fine. Just make good and sure that you do the esp-miner.bin first. Wait at least 20 seconds after the "working" disappears. Restart and then do the www.bin and also wait for 20 seconds and then restart again and you should be up to date. DO NOT RESTART WHILE YOU SEE WORKING ON THE SCREEN OR 100% YOU WILL BRICK THE LUCKYMINERS... |
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FWIW this bug only affected the best difficulty being stored to the non-volatile memory. Nothing to do with shares
The display didn't match up with the pool data on best share which is what I was referring to. If you only look at the display for best share or the UI then you really wouldn't have accurate best share info. I am glad to see this fixed! |
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It's been a while i'm not following Bitcoin and i was looking for the best ASICs. Is whattomine.com still the best comparison website?
Check out https://www.asicminervalue.com/ however its debatable as to the accuracy. |
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You will need to have the node fully sync before the solo mining option becomes available. Additionally, when using a custom pool you need to select one of the existing pool options first then you can select custom and make your desired entry.
Once logged in click on settings on the lower left side. The first page that pops up there is Pools which allows you to select from a pre-populated pool or choose a custom one so that you can enter in the pool info and mine to whatever pool you choose.
hi, I got my Apollo II but when I go to pools section in settings and select Setup custom pool I can not edit the URL or username or anything, its greyed out. is this normal or do I need to do anything else? (note - my node is still synchronising but that shouldnt affect me being able to setup a custom pool right?) |
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It is a knock off of the Bitaxe. It has no USB connection and is just an overclocked Bitaxe on a mass produced PCB. I bought a few of these for gifts and out of 15 I had to return 3 of them. Point being the QC is garbage on the LuckyMiners. If you are going to consider buying one of these I suggest you look for a proper Bitaxe seller. I wouldn't compare the Nano 3 to the Apollo II given its solo mining capabilities. Price per th however is impressive on the Nano 3. |
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I just got my Apollo II home miner and have a question. I know it can solo mine, but is it possible to have it be part of a pool mine instead? If so, I haven't found any articles or information in how to set that up. If anyone has any insight or any pooled mining recommendations, please share.
Yes you absolutely can mine to a pool if you prefer and not take advantage of the built in solomining function. Once logged in click on settings on the lower left side. The first page that pops up there is Pools which allows you to select from a pre-populated pool or choose a custom one so that you can enter in the pool info and mine to whatever pool you choose. |
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Great thread Sledge0001. What's been your best 24 hour SATS so far?
Is anyone out there leveraging the node piece of this device to drive traffic, running lightning node, etc? Cheers.
Glad you enjoyed the write up. This really is a great piece of hardware for the home miner or small farm. I am only solomining directly to the Apollo II so I can't really give you a number of how many sats per day. Based on the calculator here: https://miningpoolstats.stream/bitcoin (You'll have to look for it on the page) 9 TH/s Daily est. coins 0.0000064 BTC Daily est. earnings 0.41 USD However, I see no place to calculate power consumption so this may not be accurate. |
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My miner is crashing, and restarting every 10-20 minutes. To my feeling it's happening the moment new blocks are mined. The node falls back a couple of hundred blocks after the restart, i.e. the current block was 838879 and the node would start syncing at 838663 again. MCU1 board. This behaviour was also happening before, and I was hoping the upgrade would fix this. This sounds like a corrupted SSD drive. You might need to reformat the drive and start syncing again. Can also try a re-indexing the node before you reformat the drive. I've reformatted the SSD drive, and started syncing again. Once the node was synced, I enabled mining again on ECO mode. I could observe on the miner uptime that restarts were still happening. After a bit more than a day of mining, the whole web interface became unreachable. Anything else I can troubleshoot? Check to make sure the CPU fan is still working on the MCU unit. It may be gunked up or dead. That would cause the MCU to overheat and crap out on you. |
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Excellent!!! To be honest I must say that I am truly impressed! The pool / miner hasn't had any issues when sending a good share of hashrate to it. @heslo Make sure you do your update! To check all you need to do is click the power button on the top left (seen in yellow on your screen) and then click on the software version to check for new updates!! |
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With the halving / halfening or whatever you want to call it upon us and the pool code I have been working on is just not there yet so.... I decided to throw the house at the Apollo II's solomining pool just to see how it would hold up. I have to say this things a beast in a box. Here is the performance at 4.55PH  And a look under the hood to see how the entire system is doing while mining and acting as a solo mining pool.  Impressive right?? Okay so I decided to throw all I had at it and I mean everything in my private mining and pro arsenal... About 7.5PH. Why you may ask? My answer is simple... Because I had to take the Apollo II where it had never gone before!  What kinda odds does the Apollo II predict??  What's the true load on the unit after 4 days online and tinkering?  And how have I done so far?? NOT ENOUGH BUT DAMN!!!!  I standby my earlier opinion that this may be a great turnkey solution for a small farm if they want to take a shot at the big prize. The Apollo II can take it! |
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Hello so I flashed the new os 2 on my Apollo mcu1 seems to work. No hashrate from my dashboard like I said on support by email.
I have a question is that possible to point other miners on my own solo node for the solo mining or it’s exclusive for the Apollo ?
Hi your dashboard is showing 0 hashrate? Yes you can point any Bitcoin miner to the solo pool. The LAN address is shown in the solo pool page, and you can also port forward 3333 to your LAN address so you can access the solo pool from your WAN address. Yes I opened a ticket support they asked me to open the ssh port to check the hashboard im waiting for a response but I’m shure you’re all in the rush to bring us the new Apollo 2 I tried to point my 2pacs and my compacsf but doesn’t seems to work… put the stratum that is shown and my bitcoin adress I will try to port forward to perhaps it will work like this ! The solo mining part works both locally and externally if you port forward correctly! Make sure that your using the following in your cgminer code stratum+tcp://YOURLOCALIPADDRESS:3333 -u YOURBITCOINADDRESS -p x |
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received my Apollo 2 founders edition. Excitedly flashed the sd and powered it all up. of all the technical faults or issues I expected to face, what I didn't bank on was not being able to connect it to wifi - just goes round in a perpetual loop of putting in the wifi password, thinks about it and then says not connected and brings up the password pop up again. It recognises my wifi networks fine (and the password I am entering is correct - I double checked!). It just won't connect to wifi. Very frustrating. Any suggestions?
ok, so I just powered up my other unit without flashing it and it works fine, so something happened in reflashing to muck up the wifi connectivity. Question is now how do I fix that? and now after an hour's use, the other unit has dropped off the wifi and won't reconnect. Brilliant. Never had any issues like this with the Apollo 1 units. Right now I have 2 expensive bricks taking up space in my office  In the event you havent yet, there was an update that was pushed out for the Apollo II. Click on the yellow power button and then on the software version number. That should patch the system to the most recent version. |
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Went back and forth a bit with jstefanop for a bit to figure out why my Apollo II could sync & solo mine, but wouldn't stay connected to a pool. Wanted to share what we found in case others encounter the same issue: Asus routers (and presumably others) have a feature called AiProtection with a a Two Way Intrusion Protection setting that will specifically block bitcoin mining.  https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1008719/#a3You'll have to disable this if you plan on mining behind any router with a similar protection. Worth noting that it can sometimes be automatically re-enabled during a firmware update. Yes Trend Micro deems bitcoin mining as malicious and Asus will not work with them to remove this. I mentioned this exact thing happening here to someone else with an Asus router: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5480954.msg63493197#msg63493197 |
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Thanks for the cool writeup!
Solo page is still a WIP, but lots more functionality will be incoming in the months ahead.
Good to see lots of workers attached since we didn't really test more than 3-4, need to work on the UI for that.
Regarding your questions:
Yes, you can add more "users" via a different payout address, workers can be broken out with a .xxx at the end of the address as you have done.
Adding explainers on the whole UI is on our to-do list
We set diff really low so users can connect ANY device (even nerd miners ) easily. If diff is too high they will never find a share and it wont show up in the UI. Our stratum implementation quickly corrects to higher diff, but as you can see there are lots of rejected shares on startup.
The max connection node setting works, but the UI is hard configured to show xx/32...as you can see you are at 39 connections so its working...will probably add this option in the node settings so the UI is updated properly.
@jstefanop Really appreciate the work you put in on this as well as your response here on the forum. I did notice that when adding a 2nd user the user does show up under the solo-mining page as connected however there were no stats being displayed for that 2nd user. It may be helpful to have a pool page so that you can view the mining stats for every user individually that is mining to the Apollo II. Just a thought! But I'll say again well done on bringing this to market. |
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Great news! Can't wait to get mine. I ordered as soon as orders went live so I'd imagine I'd be one of the first to get the non FE units
I'm still waiting on 2 standard units as well that were purchased in close proximity to when I ordered the FE. |
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