Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread

[MoparMiningLLC]

The pictures on your site are of the second batch do you have any of batch 3?... and I was always curious if I could run a moon lander,2 in the back of the Apollo, possible??
Ty

if I recall, he said the 3rd batch are looking the same as 2nd batch

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[jstefanop]

The pictures on your site are of the second batch do you have any of batch 3?... and I was always curious if I could run a moon lander,2 in the back of the Apollo, possible??
Ty

if I recall, he said the 3rd batch are looking the same as 2nd batch

Yes there is no visual differences. The major difference hardware wise is that Batch 3 comes with our revised power supply, that has two connectors on the end instead of one.

[MoparMiningLLC]

The pictures on your site are of the second batch do you have any of batch 3?... and I was always curious if I could run a moon lander,2 in the back of the Apollo, possible??
Ty

if I recall, he said the 3rd batch are looking the same as 2nd batch

Yes there is no visual differences. The major difference hardware wise is that Batch 3 comes with our revised power supply, that has two connectors on the end instead of one.

both connectors are for the one unit right? or is it so the psu can power two units?

[jstefanop]

The pictures on your site are of the second batch do you have any of batch 3?... and I was always curious if I could run a moon lander,2 in the back of the Apollo, possible??
Ty

if I recall, he said the 3rd batch are looking the same as 2nd batch

Yes there is no visual differences. The major difference hardware wise is that Batch 3 comes with our revised power supply, that has two connectors on the end instead of one.

both connectors are for the one unit right? or is it so the psu can power two units?

Correct, but you could technically run two Apollos off one if you ran both in eco mode.

[jstefanop]

FYI Have been getting a lot of questions for customers that have more than one Apollo. If you have a single accessible internet connection, you only really need to upgrade one Apollo. You can only port forward connections from the outside world to one node on your internal network.

So if your only want to run a node for just strengthening the network and adding more visible nodes to the world you only need to update one (unless you have more locations you can host, for example another home or work etc).

If your going to take advantage of upcoming features like wallet support and solo mining then you will need the full node running on all Apollos, but thats for the future so right now that simple answer is that you dont need to upgrade all, but at the very least you should update one of them.


As a side note we have already made it to page one...hope we see us at the very least be the #2 or #3 most popular node on the litecoin network in the coming weeks!

https://blockchair.com/litecoin/nodes

[MoparMiningLLC]

The pictures on your site are of the second batch do you have any of batch 3?... and I was always curious if I could run a moon lander,2 in the back of the Apollo, possible??
Ty

if I recall, he said the 3rd batch are looking the same as 2nd batch

Yes there is no visual differences. The major difference hardware wise is that Batch 3 comes with our revised power supply, that has two connectors on the end instead of one.

both connectors are for the one unit right? or is it so the psu can power two units?

Correct, but you could technically run two Apollos off one if you ran both in eco mode.

yea, I run mine on eco mode as its on my desk - the other two modes make too much noise.

[mickeykool]

As of port forwarding, depending on which router you have you can config it to allow more than one.  I have an edgerouter and i was able to manually set both of my apollos via port 9333 via NAT rule. 

update:

and success, the dashboard loaded! but I had no connections - I think the issue is that I have port 9333 forwarded for the node that runs on my PC - I had to remove that port forward from the pc's ip address and set it for the Apollo's ip address. Rebooting node and will see if that resolves it.

update:

after I shut down node, it gave me an error about displaying stats. I should have taken a screenshot and will if I see it again. I simply restarted the Apollo and once in hit start on the node - while waiting, the apollo has shut down twice - each time I have to restart the node. putty cannot get in to the miner while this is happening either. I am tired and going to bed - I get up in 4 hours for work. After I get going at work, I will revisit this again.

final update:

as you would have it, I was walking away and the Apollo shut down. So, of course I turned around and sat back down. This time the node restarted itself upon booting up - maybe that was the issue? the last two times it restarted, I was hitting start on the node instead of letting it do itself.

I have 12 connections however, my full node/wallet has only 8 (the standard outbound) due to the port forwarding issue - anyone know of a solution so I can run both nodes?

https://i.ibb.co/sgcSQv6/Capture.jpg

Yea I should have mentioned in the instructions that on first boot with the node USB plugged in it does a bunch of system level changes to initialize the node. You pressing start when it has already started probably cause the issues you were seeing.

Best way to start it up the first time is to shut down the Apollo, plug in the USB drive, power it up and leave it alone for an hour. When you go to the dashboard everything should be up and running.

As for port forwarding multiple nodes you can usually only port forward to one device in your network, so im not sure about a solution where you can have both nodes open to the outside world, I think you just have to chose one of them as a read only node. It does not matter either way, your doing your part as long as one node is open.

BTW what USB drive are you using?

[psycodad]

FYI Have been getting a lot of questions for customers that have more than one Apollo. If you have a single accessible internet connection, you only really need to upgrade one Apollo. You can only port forward connections from the outside world to one node on your internal network.

So if your only want to run a node for just strengthening the network and adding more visible nodes to the world you only need to update one (unless you have more locations you can host, for example another home or work etc).

If your going to take advantage of upcoming features like wallet support and solo mining then you will need the full node running on all Apollos, but thats for the future so right now that simple answer is that you dont need to upgrade all, but at the very least you should update one of them.


As a side note we have already made it to page one...hope we see us at the very least be the #2 or #3 most popular node on the litecoin network in the coming weeks!

https://blockchair.com/litecoin/nodes

While it certainly doesn't make a lot of sense to run two or more nodes at the same location, it should be easily possible by i.e. forwarding port 9333 to the first node, having the second one listen on for example 19333 and forwarding that port to the 2nd node, etc.

AFAIK when a node connects to other nodes it not only tells its IP but also it's listening port. On the other hand I remember that most wallets do only connect to one node in a given C-class network, so other nodes would possibly only connect to either one of your nodes.

Again though jstefanop is totally right, it's not really meaningful to run two nodes at the same IP.

[mickeykool]

ahh ok  thanks for the explanation.  Will adjust it to just one node instead.  

[iDisturbia]

As a side note we have already made it to page one...hope we see us at the very least be the #2 or #3 most popular node on the litecoin network in the coming weeks!

https://blockchair.com/litecoin/nodes

Newbie here ... so what is it I’m looking at:

FutureBit-ApolloCore:0.17.1/          13

Meaning, there are 13 Apollo owners running node?

[MoparMiningLLC]

Newbie here ... so what is it I’m looking at:

FutureBit-ApolloCore:0.17.1/          13

Meaning, there are 13 Apollo owners running node?

I think so - btw, it says 14 now

[iDisturbia]

Newbie here ... so what is it I’m looking at:

FutureBit-ApolloCore:0.17.1/          13

Meaning, there are 13 Apollo owners running node?

I think so - btw, it says 14 now

1 is mine for sure!! 

[MoparMiningLLC]

Newbie here ... so what is it I’m looking at:

FutureBit-ApolloCore:0.17.1/          13

Meaning, there are 13 Apollo owners running node?

I think so - btw, it says 14 now

1 is mine for sure!! 

and mine too now that I figured out why I could never get mine to work lol

[Merck007]

First time miner.  Just received my Apollo Batch 2.  I have two issues. 1.  On the dashboard my first url says Main ..  Inactive..Dead
My second line says Donation...Active...Alive.  I have them going to the same url of 3333.        #2 My Litecoin pool account is showing no activity which I assume is related to issue #1. 

Also on the url line do i put my username and password and proxy which is optional in those fields.

Thank you

[MoparMiningLLC]

First time miner.  Just received my Apollo Batch 2.  I have two issues. 1.  On the dashboard my first url says Main ..  Inactive..Dead
My second line says Donation...Active...Alive.  I have them going to the same url of 3333.        #2 My Litecoin pool account is showing no activity which I assume is related to issue #1. 

Also on the url line do i put my username and password and proxy which is optional in those fields.

Thank you

the url is not 3333

depending on the pool you are trying to use, you may need to set up an account - for example litecoinpool.org you have to create the workers on the pools site first or they will not connect.

for example:

url: stratum+tcp://us.litecoinpool.org:3333
username: accountname.worker name (again how it is on the pools site)
password: whatever you set it to on the pools site.

[Merck007]

That's not very helpful.  I thought I did the instructions.  I'm a first timer.  I don't know what to do.

[rayday11]

Looks like I am number 16. What a fun project.

[iDisturbia]

That's not very helpful.  I thought I did the instructions.  I'm a first timer.  I don't know what to do.

It’s because you didn’t say which pool you use.

Check this pool and stick with them. Their instruction is easy to follow:

https://www.litecoinpool.org/help

As for that 1% donation fee, it’s not mandatory but it’s a nice gesture to assist with future development of device we paid for. You can easily disable it, if you don’t like.

[iDisturbia]

Looks like I am number 16. What a fun project.

Welcome!

But seems like 2 Apollo owners can’t keep theirs up and running.

Mine has been rock solid since day 1 - no interruption - in eco mode though.

[MoparMiningLLC]

That's not very helpful.  I thought I did the instructions.  I'm a first timer.  I don't know what to do.

sorry if that is not helpful - I put exactly what you have to enter - though it can vary by pool - we could help more if we know what pool you are trying to use.