Hi I have 2 x Apollo miners and both display the same behaviour.
I have an orange light flashing on the front of the unit and it never changes from that.
I have an ethernet cable direct from the unit to the router (IP Scan can't see the device)
I don't think its booting correctly....
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Posting this here for now until I have time to write up and put up proper instructions on the website and here. Sorry for the quick post but need to make sure my time is dedicated to making sure all pre-order are shipped out in a timely fashion before I can sit down and concentrate on this stuff.
Download image here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/apolloimage/apollo_final.img.zipUnzip it
run a sha256 checksum on it should be (not required but should check it in case of corrupted download if your having issues)
906bbdb9b9a195edea5fd3302b258ae28e6049c04a610698d253132f5dee50eb
Use a clone tool like etcher to clone the unzipped image to your SD card (or use dd) it MUST be a bit copy that overwrites the whole SD card and not just a partition so make sure whatever tool you use can do that
stick the SD card into the Apollo (the slot is underneath where the blue controller is)
plug in your ethernet cable and power her up!
you should see ethernet lights flashing, and after a few seconds the front LED should start flashing yellow...wait a min or two until its fully booted up and connected to your local network...it should start mining right away and you'll see lots of green and red blinky lights.
Go to a web browser on a device thats connected to your local network (both computers and phones/tablets should work) and go to futurebit.local (this might not work for everyone)
If futurebit.local does not work your going to manually have to find the IP address of the device on your network...just use any ip scanner that can display a hostname (futurebit is the devices hostname) otherwise just go down the list and enter the address of the active IPs until you see the Apollo UI load.
Thats it! The rest we hopefully made intuitive and easy enough that I don't need to explain it...set up your pool and save and you should be good to go!
DONT do anything stupid with settings until I have a full writeup, and keep the miner in ECO mode for now.
Please post and issues and bugs here...there will probably be a bunch since this is the first release of a brand new image/software. Also keep in mind we were overly cautious on the hardware controls so fan will probably be louder than it needs to be in eco mode, and miner will shutdown more than it needs too on the slightest error....need to make sure everything is safe and working properly before we relax this stuff on future releases.
Enjoy!