Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread

[Joelnolan]

I have miners about to be pointed from offsite locations to my apollo 2 node. Is there are way for me to see each offsite miner on the dashboard so I know if and when a minter is offline?

Right now I have 5 miners working but Only see 4 in the total pools and hashboards section.

Cheers

I know this was requested by me to be fixed in the next release. Hopefully we will see this soon!

Awesome!! Did you ever get a rough estimate on release?

[Sledge0001]

I have miners about to be pointed from offsite locations to my apollo 2 node. Is there are way for me to see each offsite miner on the dashboard so I know if and when a minter is offline?

Right now I have 5 miners working but Only see 4 in the total pools and hashboards section.

Cheers

I know this was requested by me to be fixed in the next release. Hopefully we will see this soon!

Awesome!! Did you ever get a rough estimate on release?

Unfortunately not but I do know its a work in progress.

[Joelnolan]

I have miners about to be pointed from offsite locations to my apollo 2 node. Is there are way for me to see each offsite miner on the dashboard so I know if and when a minter is offline?

Right now I have 5 miners working but Only see 4 in the total pools and hashboards section.

Cheers

I know this was requested by me to be fixed in the next release. Hopefully we will see this soon!

Awesome!! Did you ever get a rough estimate on release?

Unfortunately not but I do know its a work in progress.

Exciting! I'm so pumped to be sending some more hashrate to my own node.

[Joelnolan]

Just set up the apollo 2 node. Fully synced and it seems to keep disconnecting. My apollo 1 node never had any issues and I just disconnected today. The Apollo 2 node has port 3333 open.

Also on the dashboard whenever it says i'm disconnected from the CKpool the power button at the top right flashes a yellow/orange and when I click it I see at the button under version a red exclamation point next to V2.0.5. Any ideas why I keep randomly getting disconnected even though my internet is still up?

[Sledge0001]

Just set up the apollo 2 node. Fully synced and it seems to keep disconnecting. My apollo 1 node never had any issues and I just disconnected today. The Apollo 2 node has port 3333 open.

Also on the dashboard whenever it says i'm disconnected from the CKpool the power button at the top right flashes a yellow/orange and when I click it I see at the button under version a red exclamation point next to V2.0.5. Any ideas why I keep randomly getting disconnected even though my internet is still up?

What is disconnecting the network (are you hardwired or running on wireless?) , is it the internal node, internal miner, external miner (connected via USB) or network connected miner (on the LAN or coming through the WAN) ??

Are you seeing more than 12 connections to the node?

I have several PH remotely and locally mining through to my Apollo II full node with no issues at all. My node is hardwired though.

I highly recommend going hardwired if you are solomining to reduce network latency.

Also you may just want to actually shut the Apollo II down fully for a few minutes and restart and let the services come up gracefully without clicking on things. If that doesn't work I would reflash to play it safe.

[iomon]

Hi All,

Do we need the bellow two options in the ckpool.conf or used as defaults?

 "nonce1length": 4,
 "nonce2length": 8,

BTW, Synch finished few hours ago and solo is up and running. Nvme is 71% Used  

[yasirabs]

Hi, thanks for sharing the config! Regarding the two options:

"nonce1length": Usually set to 4 by default for solo mining.
"nonce2length": Typically set to 8 as a default.
Unless you're customizing your setup, leaving these as default values should be fine. Glad to hear your sync is complete and running smoothly! Keep an eye on that NVMe usage, though—71% seems like it's getting up there!

[Joelnolan]

Just set up the apollo 2 node. Fully synced and it seems to keep disconnecting. My apollo 1 node never had any issues and I just disconnected today. The Apollo 2 node has port 3333 open.

Also on the dashboard whenever it says i'm disconnected from the CKpool the power button at the top right flashes a yellow/orange and when I click it I see at the button under version a red exclamation point next to V2.0.5. Any ideas why I keep randomly getting disconnected even though my internet is still up?

What is disconnecting the network (are you hardwired or running on wireless?) , is it the internal node, internal miner, external miner (connected via USB) or network connected miner (on the LAN or coming through the WAN) ??

Are you seeing more than 12 connections to the node?

I have several PH remotely and locally mining through to my Apollo II full node with no issues at all. My node is hardwired though.

I highly recommend going hardwired if you are solomining to reduce network latency.

Also you may just want to actually shut the Apollo II down fully for a few minutes and restart and let the services come up gracefully without clicking on things. If that doesn't work I would reflash to play it safe.

I was on wifi. I put it in the exact spot my old node was in and man its rough. I had 31 connections then it would just disconnect. I ended up moving and hardwiring.  It the internal node and all external miners disconnecting.

I check latency on wifi and im at 18ms-23ms

[PennyBit]

Just set up the apollo 2 node. Fully synced and it seems to keep disconnecting. My apollo 1 node never had any issues and I just disconnected today. The Apollo 2 node has port 3333 open.

Also on the dashboard whenever it says i'm disconnected from the CKpool the power button at the top right flashes a yellow/orange and when I click it I see at the button under version a red exclamation point next to V2.0.5. Any ideas why I keep randomly getting disconnected even though my internet is still up?

What is disconnecting the network (are you hardwired or running on wireless?) , is it the internal node, internal miner, external miner (connected via USB) or network connected miner (on the LAN or coming through the WAN) ??

Are you seeing more than 12 connections to the node?

I have several PH remotely and locally mining through to my Apollo II full node with no issues at all. My node is hardwired though.

I highly recommend going hardwired if you are solomining to reduce network latency.

Also you may just want to actually shut the Apollo II down fully for a few minutes and restart and let the services come up gracefully without clicking on things. If that doesn't work I would reflash to play it safe.

I was on wifi. I put it in the exact spot my old node was in and man its rough. I had 31 connections then it would just disconnect. I ended up moving and hardwiring.  It the internal node and all external miners disconnecting.

I check latency on wifi and im at 18ms-23ms

Maybe this helps or maybe not . . . but I had some early wifi issues and I turned my unit on it's side and it seemed to help directionally - but I eventually hardwired it and that was much better. Also, something I found in Futurebit's guide mentioned the following . . .

"Please note our wi controller only works reliably on 2.4GHz wifi networks. 5GHz/Mixed 2.4/5GHz network
might not connect. Most routers have options to separate the networks on two separate SSIDs. Use the 2.4GHz
network to connect your Apollo if using wifi."

Cheers!

[Sledge0001]

Just set up the apollo 2 node. Fully synced and it seems to keep disconnecting. My apollo 1 node never had any issues and I just disconnected today. The Apollo 2 node has port 3333 open.

Also on the dashboard whenever it says i'm disconnected from the CKpool the power button at the top right flashes a yellow/orange and when I click it I see at the button under version a red exclamation point next to V2.0.5. Any ideas why I keep randomly getting disconnected even though my internet is still up?

What is disconnecting the network (are you hardwired or running on wireless?) , is it the internal node, internal miner, external miner (connected via USB) or network connected miner (on the LAN or coming through the WAN) ??

Are you seeing more than 12 connections to the node?

I have several PH remotely and locally mining through to my Apollo II full node with no issues at all. My node is hardwired though.

I highly recommend going hardwired if you are solomining to reduce network latency.

Also you may just want to actually shut the Apollo II down fully for a few minutes and restart and let the services come up gracefully without clicking on things. If that doesn't work I would reflash to play it safe.

I was on wifi. I put it in the exact spot my old node was in and man its rough. I had 31 connections then it would just disconnect. I ended up moving and hardwiring.  It the internal node and all external miners disconnecting.

I check latency on wifi and im at 18ms-23ms

Hardwired is the way!

I'd be willing to bet now the ping time to the same device cabled should be < or = to 1ms

[Elanv]

From this monday i got an error every 24h

[GraphQL error]: Message: Int cannot represent non 32-bit signed integer value: 2262360428

I did change to long btc adres then put i back to short one for solo mining to the node, dint change the errror.
When error happens miner tab in UI shuts down, node continue working.

I did write to support futurebit, they ignore my messange.

Please help.

[jstefanop]

From this monday i got an error every 24h

[GraphQL error]: Message: Int cannot represent non 32-bit signed integer value: 2262360428

I did change to long btc adres then put i back to short one for solo mining to the node, dint change the errror.
When error happens miner tab in UI shuts down, node continue working.

I did write to support futurebit, they ignore my messange.

Please help.

This is a known issue, update to fix is a little late but will def be out next week.

FYI it's just a front end bug and does not affect the miner or node operation.

[quickmr2]

I cant seem to point my s19k pro with braiins operating software to my solo mining on my apollo unit.  it says invalid url.

[Sledge0001]

I cant seem to point my s19k pro with braiins operating software to my solo mining on my apollo unit.  it says invalid url.

Is your S19K running on your LAN or is it on an external network vs. your Apollo?

If your S19K is outside the LAN you must setup port forwarding on your router to allow traffic on port 3333 to be directed to the internal IP your Apollo.

If your S19K is inside your LAN then you should be able to use the data that is listed on the solo-mining page of your Apollo GUI.
"SOLO LAN Mining
Point any Bitcoin Miner on your local network to your Solo Pool with the following URL: X.X.X.X:3333 Username: <bitcoin address>"

Or try:
stratum+tcp://x.x.x.x:3333    And replace the x's with your internal IP address.

[cryptocrow]

My Apollo II was syncing happily and up to almost 80% synced. After a restart of the machine however the Node now refuses to come online. The UI and miner is working fine but node gives error "warning
Connection refused. Your node is not running."

I tried to manually start and it still refuses to startup

Checking the syslog on console I get this

Code:

Sep 16 05:37:05 futurebit-apollo-2 node_stop.sh[21331]: No screen session found.
Sep 16 05:37:05 futurebit-apollo-2 systemd[1]: node.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 16 05:37:05 futurebit-apollo-2 systemd[1]: node.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 16 05:37:05 futurebit-apollo-2 systemd[1]: node.service: Consumed 16.034s CPU time.

Any ideas on how I fix this. Is the blockchain database corrupt or something and how do I get this node to start up again? Do I need to clear the bitcoin DB and how can I do this?


I also notice when I do a shutdown from the UI the fans stay on high permanently. Seems the shutdown command on the UI does not spin the fans down, only stops the services. Not sure if its normal.

Thanks in advance!

[cryptocrow]

I see this in debug.log

Code:

2024-09-16T09:39:42Z Verification error: found bad undo data at 722855, hash=000000000000000000011ce102895343402ba76a411739da20634a7797c22456
2024-09-16T09:39:42Z : Corrupted block database detected.
Please restart with -reindex or -reindex-chainstate to recover.
2024-09-16T09:39:42Z Aborted block database rebuild. Exiting.

Maybe I can restart somehow with reindex but can I do from command line. hmmm.

[cryptocrow]

Aha this may work. Lets see, its processing.

screen -dmS node /opt/apolloapi/backend/node/bitcoind -reindex -datadir=/media/nvme/Bitcoin -conf=/opt/apolloapi/backend/node/bitcoin.conf

[jstefanop]

Aha this may work. Lets see, its processing.

screen -dmS node /opt/apolloapi/backend/node/bitcoind -reindex -datadir=/media/nvme/Bitcoin -conf=/opt/apolloapi/backend/node/bitcoin.conf

Yep, next release has a "Reindex node" option before the formate node drive as away to recover the node database without going to the extreme of wiping the drive in case of hard shutdowns etc

[cryptocrow]

Thanks it's still syncing so should be OK.

One more thing. I notice when I select System - Shutdown from the UI menu on web browser that it shuts down the node and the miner but the fans on the Apollo II are spinning at full speed and for some reason do not spin down. The system doesn't halt so I have to manually switch the box off.
Is this a known bug or any idea how to fix?

[Joelnolan]

Out of curiosity, right now my 3 apollo 2's have hit a best share 7,632,598,247. Will it ever hit more than that? if so, is it a time thing or a luck thing?