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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Bitmain headhunting TSMC engineers makes no sense. China has no advanced process foundries (under 10nm nodes) and will not for many years. It is impossible for China to produce needed EUV steppers and other critical parts it takes to produce those chips.
Considering that Bitmain and other mining chip vendors already have in-house custom layout designers as part of the 'Secret Sauce' that makes a successful miner chip perform so well vs one that uses standard layout IP libraries I just do not see what knowledge they are trying to gain.
What china does best? Steal/reverse-engineer those critical parts so they CAN make sub 10nm nodes. Bitmain is screwed short term, this next year will change Bitcoin mining quite a bit  |
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I thought that emails would be sent out to let everyone know when more were available?! I missed it again.
Batch 2 is not announced yet, any stock showing up on the site is from people canceling their pre-order. |
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Apologies 100% if this has been asked and answered... I did dig around through quite a few of these pages before posting.
Is there an issue with these units and Nicehash? I've tried unsuccessfully all day today to switch the pool to Nicehash, and it immediately goes to an inactive status. I can put it on any other pool and it immediately begins hashing (Sigmapool, Litecoinpool, etc.) with no issues.
Settings:
Server: stratum+tcp://scrypt.usa-east.nicehash.com:3333
Worker: 3D***********kp.APOLLO
Pass: x
Thanks in advance...
Multipools cause issues based on how they send work data. For nicehash try putting #xnsub at the end of the url, and make sure ALL failover and donation pools are disabled. |
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How's this going guys? Still on target for the shipping window?
Going to send out an update email this week. All components and materials are on order and no major delays currently. Hashboards will probably start production and testing next week. We do have a shortage on the wifi chip for our controller, but trying to resolve ASAP. This might push full node unit shipping into May, but well know better by the end of the month. |
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Hello everyone,
Reaching out here for help. I apologize in advance if this has already been answered, but in all my searching I could not find an answer or instructions or directions addressing this question.
I was wondering if the Apollo LTC miner can mine two or more different pools at the same time? I tried to configure my pools so that one pool is litecoinpool.org (LTC) and the other pool aikapool.com (Dogecoin), and the miner seemed to try to split the hash power evenly between the two, but only accepted shares from one pool. Does the miner have the ability to mine 2 different scrypt pools at the same time? Side note - I do know that litecoinpool.org is merged with Dogecoin already, I am more or less teaching myself about altcoins and crypto as I go and this is my latest project - to mine Dogecoin directly.
Can the Apollo LTC miner can mine two/multiple different scrypt pools at the same time?
stratum+tcp://us2.litecoinpool.org:3333 <--- Active, but No shares accepted, showing hashrate of about 60mhs
stratum+tcp://stratum.aikapool.com:7915 <--- Active and accepting shares, showing hashrate of about 60mhs
stratum+tcp://us.litecoinpool.org:3333 <-- Failover Pool - Inactive
Any help would be appreciated and again I apologize if this has already been answered or provided somewhere else. I searched and could not find anything.
Thanks for your help and knowledge!
No you cant, additional pools are there for backup pools (ie one pool goes down, it will default to your backup pool so it never stops mining). |
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This is on a Mac? Open a terminal and type
ls /dev/cu.SLAB*
You should see the port numbers of the moonlanders you have in your system, then you add each with an -S flag in your start file. What you have in there now won't work.
ie -S MLD:/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART1 -S MLD:/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART2 etc.
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Ok new issue. But this seems to be related to the cp210x. In ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux distro, I have successfully got the moonlander mining Verge coin. The problem I am having is when I connect a Gekkoscience newpac miner to the system. I am not Linux tech savy enough to correct the issue. What happens is that when moonlander is running it'll start erroring out with input/output errors. I can't have both of them running at the same time. Even with Moonlander connected to a USB2.0 port and running the newpac on a USB 3.0 port.
When I run the following command: dmesg | grep ttyUSB it appears the cp210x will disconnect from ttyusb0 (moonlander is on) and connect to ttyusb1 (gekko newpac is on) and alternate between the two causing bfgminer to fail on the moonlander.
Any ideas on how to keep it from alternating like this and have both running together? I tested on my windows machine and both are able to work together without issue. Ubuntu on the other hand no so. When I ran the below command 'before' launching the mining software, it showed correctly moonlander device on usb0 and the gekko on usb1. 'After' running the miner, the below is what happens and I believe is the reason for the issue. Soon I will be attaching an Arduino Uno for some electronic projects I am working on and believe this will possibly create issues with it as well. Help is appreciated. Just don't know how to correct. Thanks
You need to figure out which tty each is attached too, and make sure you specify in bfgminer/cgminer to not auto-scan (ie use the -S /dev/ttyUSB0) flag. My driver is pretty good at filtering out the right ASIC before injecting commands to the chip, but im pretty sure gekkosciences driver starts sending commands as soon as it finds a UART chip, which is why it screws up the moonlanders. Make sure auto-scan is not enabled will keep each driver from trying to send commands to the wrong usb miner. Check out the first page, answers are in the FAQ section. Is this possible to do on Terminal? What is the command to turn off auto-scan? I how do I discover the USB bus address? I know you don't manufacture the device, but it seems that the VCP driver used with the MacOS ML2 install causes cgminer to not be able to detect the NewPacs. Do you think rerouting both devices to their specific corresponding USB address would avoid this error? I'm new to this and have really been enjoying learning through this trouble shooting process. My next step is to crib from the Linux process described in the original response to your above post #1894. ALSO, I ordered the BTC full node and 2 standard units to pair with it. I dig your ethos, man. Thanks. Check out the FAQ section on the first page of this thread...answers are in there. |
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Yes you would just download our software and run it like you would a USB miner.
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Unfortunately you will have to wait for Batch 2. We will probably start that at the end of March after we have verified the first Batch boards. We should be able to quickly ramp up and meet demand then.
You can sign up at the form on futurebit.io and get notified when a new batch is released.
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Just fired up my Moonlanders again for giggles!
Got 4 of 6 running real easy. The other 2 show the green LED but cant see them. Any clues?
Sounds like your hub might not have enough power for those two, do they do the startup LED dance when you start bfgminer? Also little thought experiment for you...you started them up just now because LTC is on a tear again...why didn't you have them running this whole time and collecting a little LTC in the background for years during the bear market, and that LTC would have been worth hundreds now? I always tell people, best time to mine is not now, but during bear markets when difficulty is lowest and you mine the most LTC with your devices. |
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Yes thats at 12v. Our power supply is 94% efficient, so depends if your are using ours or 3rd party and how efficient they are. These are preliminary specs based on our prototypes we are testing with, hopefully well squeeze some more efficiency out of them before shipment.
FYI these ASICs are very sensitive to temps. You can easily get another 10% efficiency out of them if you dont care about noise and max out the fan. We chose to go the super quiet route, but you can override almost any options in custom mode.
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That was meant as a sarcastic dig at your product, since you have done nothing but dig at mine. I obviously know your pool is not going to find a block "faster" this way. Im the lead engineer as well as the founder of futurebit, im not some marketing guy thats selling hardware others designed for me.
FYI I dont hold grudges, if you still want to work together for the common good of Bitcoin my DMs are open.
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How do I reset a Batch 2/3 apollo? I was given one, but my friend left it with his credentials. I want to reset to default settings. Thanks!
if you are able to log into it, you can change all that inside the control panel - you can change the PW, you can change the pool settings, if you get a copy of the fw you could wipe the sd card and reinstall it. I’m in the same situation. Is there a way to reset the password? I am not able to login to access the control panel/dashboard to change anything. Would a new sd card offer an opportunity for reset? There is no way to reset the password without reseting the firmware. You dont need a new SD card, just follow the instructions on the first page here to reflash your existing SD card. |
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