Re: Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread

I have the Apollo powered up and I am in the dashboard. I am not connecting to the miner or to blocksfactory. I have burned a new Apollo image that was successful, entered the username, password and address in the pool dashboard. I have not added the proxy address. Is this needed? Here is the message I am getting in my dashboard.

It seems there is a problem to communicate with the miner, check error message.

Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4028

That means bfgminer is not connecting to your pool...double check your pool info/username.

I have tried both litecoinpool and blocksfactory using cut and paste to enter usernames and passwords. I can't get either to work. I have logged out of the mining pools and used the same username and passwords (cut and paste that I used on the Apollo dashboard) and had success logging back in. Do I need to enter the proxy address?

Update: I changed the password to something very simple in the both mining pools and I am not getting the Apollo to connect. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I was successful with my Moonlanders but this is not connecting. I am connected via ethernet cable.

The Apollo is working thought because the donation is both active and the status is alive. My main pool is active and the status is dead.

If donation pool is working then your definitely imputing something wrong in the url field probably. Delete the whole pool entry and put in a new one and make sure you are copy and pasting the whole stratum url correctly. Pool worker names/pass are case sensitive as well so youll fail authentication and get a dead pool.

I am using this address. stratum+tcp://us.litecoinpool.org:3333 plus username and password. My moonlanders are working on the same pools with same passwords. I am not sure what else I can do?

Did you do this on the setup wizard? There is a bug that's not saving this info.

Make sure your going to the pool tab on the main side panel. Delete whatever is there and input a new entry using the pool info. You need to press the save button on the top of the screen. If that still does not work try rebooting the MCU.

Yes I did that in the setup wizard. I have deleted all pools and started over several times and then hitting the yellow "save and restart" button which takes about 30 seconds to start over. I have rebooted the Apollo and rebooted the modem separately. Is there something like a factory restore for the Apollo?