FutureBit Apollo III - Next Gen Home Mining

[philipma1957]

It arrived an hour ago.

I will film a YouTube and photo for here.

[heslo]

Mine just landed in my country... should be the next day or two now

EDIT: Looks like it's coming tomorrow!

[philipma1957]

it just started to mine it took 15 hours to load the chain

hmm it booted to load at block 850000 and that is not a full node I think it will turn off  and it did.

it is going back to loading the chain block 857276 is where it is up to.  So it is trying to start mining too soon. It did it again

[heslo]

961147 is the block height at time of writing so yeah, you're not fully synced yet but that's certainly faster than the Apollo II was from memory

[philipma1957]

961147 is the block height at time of writing so yeah, you're not fully synced yet but that's certainly faster than the Apollo II was from memory

I have 1gb internet. so it is fast.

but it seems like it false tried to mine at 850k block a few times and then stopped.

here is where it is at after 17 hours

[R0N1N1]

Got mine a couple days ago.  Took almost exactly 1 full day to download the blockchain.  Super impressed by how quite this thing is at ~13TH/s (Eco mode).  Running Solo now... I ran the Apollo BTC for years without a single issue and it's still running fine.  Well, that is until I tried to update to the latest version anyway.  It bricked during the update but I'm restoring it now and I'm sure it will be fine.

[philipma1957]

Got mine a couple days ago.  Took almost exactly 1 full day to download the blockchain.  Super impressed by how quite this thing is at ~13TH/s (Eco mode).  Running Solo now...  Question about my Apollo BTC... can I point the hash to my Apollo 3?  I will shut that node down since I have the III now. I ran the Apollo BTC for years without a single issue and it's still running fine.  Well, that is until I tried to update to the latest version anyway.  It bricked during the update but I'm restoring it now and I'm sure it will be fine.

I am at block 960,000 so it should mine in a little bit.


the blockchain is a bit over 803gb so far I have a new 2tb ssd in it.

node is good miner won't mine

I will be back later to work on this.

I constantly get 0 asic found I think I need to return the unit.

as I can get pools to see the miner

but I can't get the miner to see the asic chip.

[TheYankeesWin!]

So Phil did you get it to mine?

[jstefanop]

Got mine a couple days ago.  Took almost exactly 1 full day to download the blockchain.  Super impressed by how quite this thing is at ~13TH/s (Eco mode).  Running Solo now...  Question about my Apollo BTC... can I point the hash to my Apollo 3?  I will shut that node down since I have the III now. I ran the Apollo BTC for years without a single issue and it's still running fine.  Well, that is until I tried to update to the latest version anyway.  It bricked during the update but I'm restoring it now and I'm sure it will be fine.

I am at block 960,000 so it should mine in a little bit.


the blockchain is a bit over 803gb so far I have a new 2tb ssd in it.

node is good miner won't mine

I will be back later to work on this.

I constantly get 0 asic found I think I need to return the unit.

as I can get pools to see the miner

but I can't get the miner to see the asic chip.

If your logs are show no asic detected thats a board level issue, have you reached out to support? We have not received many failures yet so want to catch any early.

[philipma1957]

No The node works I get incoming and out going.

But the miner comes back and says no asics found.

Then it shuts off. Worse yet it waits a minute fires up and does it again over and over and over.

With fans at fast speed.

I have to wait for instruction on a return.

I sent a pm and will likely get an answer tomorrow.

I would run the node but with the thing restarting over and over  it is a no go.


I can get a sign from viabtc that it sees the miner on both bch mining and btc mining.


other bugs I should be able to run node only does not let me it restarts the miner over and over.

also it came with 2,1,3 firmware I can not find that on the website if I need to flash the card.

I will wait and see if others are having the mining issue of 0 ASIC detected loop


I will send a note to the website tomorrow.

this is the mining log you can see the missing asic on the board issue

[philipma1957]

Sending rma today off to the post office.

thanks for fast processing of it.

[heslo]

Received mine today! Looks like a great bit of kit just like the Apollo II, I'm liking the slightly darker silver/grey colour too! Currently syncing the chain so it will be a bit before I start mining but two things

1) I received mine with the tamper seals already broken, is this normal? (the box looked otherwise unopened)



2) The chassis at the back where the fan outlet is where "Designed by FutureBit" is written.... there's a big bend in the frame itself (pic doesn't look as bad as IRL). Doesn't look like shipping damage but still something to point out