Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread

[butary]

Ah, ok ... now I'm little bit confused.

So what exactly means (copy from LitecoinPool Help) ?
"If your mining software supports Stratum over SSL/TLS, you can connect to port 3443 (instead of 3333) to obtain a secure encrypted connection."

"stratum+tcp" on port 3443 is secure and on port 3333 not?

On google I found a lot of info about "stratum+ssl" and "stratum+tls". But if it is not supported, how can to do it?

I can connect the Apollo miners to the company network but it is firewalled and has ssl inspection. So not recommended.
I can connect the Apollo miners to the open campus wlan. So even not recommended.

Any hints to do it with Apollo and bfgminer ?

[jstefanop]

Ah, ok ... now I'm little bit confused.

So what exactly means (copy from LitecoinPool Help) ?
"If your mining software supports Stratum over SSL/TLS, you can connect to port 3443 (instead of 3333) to obtain a secure encrypted connection."

"stratum+tcp" on port 3443 is secure and on port 3333 not?

On google I found a lot of info about "stratum+ssl" and "stratum+tls". But if it is not supported, how can to do it?

I can connect the Apollo miners to the company network but it is firewalled and has ssl inspection. So not recommended.
I can connect the Apollo miners to the open campus wlan. So even not recommended.

Any hints to do it with Apollo and bfgminer ?

bfgminer does not support any type of secure stratum that I am aware off. Why do you need the security for? There is nothing compromising transmitted by the miner to the pools other than share and work packets. If you want to "hide" that your are mining then you can do it via a secure VPN proxy, which is why that option is there.

[yarivh]

where can I get the node version of the the apollo miner ?

[jstefanop]

where can I get the node version of the the apollo miner ?

It has not been released publicly yet, everyone will get an email and ill post here when the final image is released.

[MoparMiningLLC]

question - is this supposed to mine only LTC? anytime I try a pool that does other scrypt coins, it never works.

An example, is coinfoundry.org has two scrypt coins, LTC and DGB - I can mine LTC there fine but not DGB at all. I have tried to mine DGB there with my L3+ and have no issues, only the Apollo will not mine anything but LTC it seems.

[Bez]

I just tried my apollo on the coinfoundry DGB pool and it wouldn't connect either.  Maybe there is some kind of incompatibility with that pool and the apollo?

It will mine other coins besides LTC though.  Mine works fine on zergpool and this DGB solo pool.

[MoparMiningLLC]

I just tried my apollo on the coinfoundry DGB pool and it wouldn't connect either.  Maybe there is some kind of incompatibility with that pool and the apollo?

It will mine other coins besides LTC though.  Mine works fine on zergpool and this DGB solo pool.

ok yea i tried tossing a few L3+ at it and they work for a bit then report it dead and fail over as well. I also notice that the pool is reporting the wrong value for dgb - its nearly double the actual value so maybe something is wrong with the pool itself as well.

edit: after looking around coin foundry, it is reporting wrong values for a lot of the coins. I also notice that when you look at pool stats - for example on dgb it says pool hash rate is 8 gh/s yet they also show their top miner as having 34 gh on the pool at the same time.

their stats and reporting are way off. wouldnt trust them for anything right about now. I will look at the pools you suggested - thanks.

[digibob00]

Hi,

i'm mining on more than one pool whitout any issue.

Update on 3 June: Avoid this pool. If you lucky  you are paid, if there's one issue noone give you answer and you don't receive payments.

Try in this way:

url: scrypt.mine.zergpool.com:3433/#xnsub#skipcbcheck
username: yourcoinaddress
pass: c=LTC,sd=4096,m=party.Apollo <<----- change according to your preference

Disable all the other pool, enable only this one and leave it alone.

Start the miner (in my case more than once ) and it work.

Regards

I just tried my apollo on the coinfoundry DGB pool and it wouldn't connect either.  Maybe there is some kind of incompatibility with that pool and the apollo?

It will mine other coins besides LTC though.  Mine works fine on zergpool and this DGB solo pool.

ok yea i tried tossing a few L3+ at it and they work for a bit then report it dead and fail over as well. I also notice that the pool is reporting the wrong value for dgb - its nearly double the actual value so maybe something is wrong with the pool itself as well.

edit: after looking around coin foundry, it is reporting wrong values for a lot of the coins. I also notice that when you look at pool stats - for example on dgb it says pool hash rate is 8 gh/s yet they also show their top miner as having 34 gh on the pool at the same time.

their stats and reporting are way off. wouldnt trust them for anything right about now. I will look at the pools you suggested - thanks.

[slax0r]

My new Apollo just arrived today.  It literally took me 10 minutes to put it together and have it mining.  Insane!!!

Update:  Some time in the night, the miner just stopped working and now the apollo appears to be dead.


Update 1:  After a little bit of a panic session, I reflashed the SD card and all appears to be well.  Apparently the power went off sometime in the night here and fragged the filesystem enough to forget about the GPIO pins, so the hardware monitor wasn't starting.  Also added it to the UPS.

[jstefanop]

My new Apollo just arrived today.  It literally took me 10 minutes to put it together and have it mining.  Insane!!!

Update:  Some time in the night, the miner just stopped working and now the apollo appears to be dead.


Update 1:  After a little bit of a panic session, I reflashed the SD card and all appears to be well.  Apparently the power went off sometime in the night here and fragged the filesystem enough to forget about the GPIO pins, so the hardware monitor wasn't starting.  Also added it to the UPS.

Yea SD cards dont like hard shutdowns. Always turn off the miner through the shutdown interface. This will be especially important with the Full Node update coming out soon.

[estacionsj]

My new Apollo just arrived today.  It literally took me 10 minutes to put it together and have it mining.  Insane!!!

Update:  Some time in the night, the miner just stopped working and now the apollo appears to be dead.


Update 1:  After a little bit of a panic session, I reflashed the SD card and all appears to be well.  Apparently the power went off sometime in the night here and fragged the filesystem enough to forget about the GPIO pins, so the hardware monitor wasn't starting.  Also added it to the UPS.

Yea SD cards dont like hard shutdowns. Always turn off the miner through the shutdown interface. This will be especially important with the Full Node update coming out soon.

            Jstefanop.......When do  U figure the Full Node update is coming out...

[jstefanop]

My new Apollo just arrived today.  It literally took me 10 minutes to put it together and have it mining.  Insane!!!

Update:  Some time in the night, the miner just stopped working and now the apollo appears to be dead.


Update 1:  After a little bit of a panic session, I reflashed the SD card and all appears to be well.  Apparently the power went off sometime in the night here and fragged the filesystem enough to forget about the GPIO pins, so the hardware monitor wasn't starting.  Also added it to the UPS.

Yea SD cards dont like hard shutdowns. Always turn off the miner through the shutdown interface. This will be especially important with the Full Node update coming out soon.

            Jstefanop.......When do  U figure the Full Node update is coming out...

Hopefully by end of the week! This whole virus thing in NYC has been insane past month...had to move half my office remote 

[nformant]

Yea SD cards dont like hard shutdowns. Always turn off the miner through the shutdown interface. This will be especially important with the Full Node update coming out soon.

Do you plan to have an API for this? I'd love to schedule a python or anything alike to do the "turn off" and combine it with an electricity timer for my power supply.

[smith200584]

hello COMMUNITY,

I am the owner of your futurebit appollo lot 2 unusable for the moment I hope ..... that's why I contact you.

I bought from the supplier bitshopper.de in Germany 350 euros with food delivery at home very good service on paper ... finally received I was very happy and quickly disappointed after opening the package without food: - \ ... ..

Finally it is not serious it is the trade ..... I have order a food which will arrive soon §§§

I then bent over to get ahead of the start-up preparations for the sd card and one more pbl
I used the links to give the Apollo image each time I end up with a corrupt file ... bad luck makes me feel bad ...
I noticed when checking the file that the letters appear in capital letters I always get this:
 
PS C:apollo_image_1-29.img> Get-FileHash .\apollo_image_1-29.img -Algorithm SHA256 | Format-List


Algorithm : SHA256
Hash      : 937CCB99B2B58C8C3EA113B5391CA7D8DBA7F10AAFC4261BFA707F51A6DA6918
Path      : C:apollo_image_1-29.img\apollo_image_1-29.img
\apollo_image_1-29.img> "HASH1" -eq "HASH2"
False

What is the solution to be able to have this famous uncorrupted file

[TheRipler]

hello COMMUNITY,

I am the owner of your futurebit appollo lot 2 unusable for the moment I hope ..... that's why I contact you.

I bought from the supplier bitshopper.de in Germany 350 euros with food delivery at home very good service on paper ... finally received I was very happy and quickly disappointed after opening the package without food: - \ ... ..

Finally it is not serious it is the trade ..... I have order a food which will arrive soon §§§

I then bent over to get ahead of the start-up preparations for the sd card and one more pbl
I used the links to give the Apollo image each time I end up with a corrupt file ... bad luck makes me feel bad ...
I noticed when checking the file that the letters appear in capital letters I always get this:
 
PS C:apollo_image_1-29.img> Get-FileHash .\apollo_image_1-29.img -Algorithm SHA256 | Format-List


Algorithm : SHA256
Hash      : 937CCB99B2B58C8C3EA113B5391CA7D8DBA7F10AAFC4261BFA707F51A6DA6918
Path      : C:apollo_image_1-29.img\apollo_image_1-29.img
\apollo_image_1-29.img> "HASH1" -eq "HASH2"
False

What is the solution to be able to have this famous uncorrupted file

The hash output is a hexadecimal number (the letters are digits), and capitalization can be ignored. Just taking a quick glance at the start and end, it probably matches. Convert one of the strings to match the case of the other, or do a comparison that ignores case. 

[miningcoins]

Any changes to improve efficiency with the full node update?
Lower power usage and lower hashrate is welcome with the Summer coming as loft and garages get hot even with the powerful fan.

Having a failover pool caused me issues before, so I have removed it as advised some time ago.
Will this be fixed, so failover pool can be used?

Thanks

[VictorGT]

Any changes to improve efficiency with the full node update?

No.

Lower power usage and lower hashrate is welcome with the Summer coming as loft and garages get hot even with the powerful fan.

Easy. Use CUSTOM mode. I have post info about this a few pages ago.

Having a failover pool caused me issues before, so I have removed it as advised some time ago.
Will this be fixed, so failover pool can be used?

Not easy. Bfgminer doesn´t manage properly more that one blockchain. You can use two/several pools if they mine the same blockchain.

If you use multipools, it is a must to configure ONLY ONE pool at the Apollo.

[digibob00]

The hash is good.

hello COMMUNITY,

I am the owner of your futurebit appollo lot 2 unusable for the moment I hope ..... that's why I contact you.

I bought from the supplier bitshopper.de in Germany 350 euros with food delivery at home very good service on paper ... finally received I was very happy and quickly disappointed after opening the package without food: - \ ... ..

Finally it is not serious it is the trade ..... I have order a food which will arrive soon §§§

I then bent over to get ahead of the start-up preparations for the sd card and one more pbl
I used the links to give the Apollo image each time I end up with a corrupt file ... bad luck makes me feel bad ...
I noticed when checking the file that the letters appear in capital letters I always get this:
 
PS C:apollo_image_1-29.img> Get-FileHash .\apollo_image_1-29.img -Algorithm SHA256 | Format-List


Algorithm : SHA256
Hash      : 937CCB99B2B58C8C3EA113B5391CA7D8DBA7F10AAFC4261BFA707F51A6DA6918
Path      : C:apollo_image_1-29.img\apollo_image_1-29.img
\apollo_image_1-29.img> "HASH1" -eq "HASH2"
False

What is the solution to be able to have this famous uncorrupted file

[jstefanop]

Yea SD cards dont like hard shutdowns. Always turn off the miner through the shutdown interface. This will be especially important with the Full Node update coming out soon.

Do you plan to have an API for this? I'd love to schedule a python or anything alike to do the "turn off" and combine it with an electricity timer for my power supply.

You can just remote ssh and shut it down via a script

[iDisturbia]

Hi,

i'm mining on more than one pool whitout any issue.

Try in this way:

url: scrypt.mine.zergpool.com:3433/#xnsub#skipcbcheck
username: yourcoinaddress
pass: c=LTC,sd=4096,m=party.Apollo <<----- change according to your preference

Disable all the other pool, enable only this one and leave it alone.

Start the miner (in my case more than once ) and it work.

Regards

Followed your instruction and worked 100%. Thank you!

But question is why not any fans there?!! I joined Apollo party and there are like 3 or 4 people only!

Is it better to mine at usual place, litecoinpool?

I’ve been mining for almost 2 months at litecoinpool but my stats compare to giant suckers are so low my eyes burn!