Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
You have to use our custom DTS, the UART port we use is not activated by default on Armbian.
Thanks a lot; in fact, I just tried it and it works. I'd prefer to activate it myself, but had no success with that.If your doing custom stuff you can easily use any active UART port on any board/sbc. All you have to do is change the /dev/ttySx port number the app uses to start the hashboard via internal UART (its in /opt/apolloapi/backend/apollo-miner files).
Do you mean changing the port number in the binary? I believe /opt/apolloapi/backend/apollo-miner is the miner binary, right?FYI below is the board pinout for anyone that wants to tinker with rpi or any other SBC (Pin #1 is towards the bottom of the board). You can ignore the BOOT pin, all you have to do is reset the board using the RES pin (low then high), and start the miner program. The 5v pin can provide up to 15 watts of power so it can power most SBCs boards internally.
Great, that's very helpful thank you!