Quote from: jstefanop on Today at 03:32:44 PM

Quote from: cipherbreak on April 27, 2024, 10:55:07 PM

Hello!

I just received my Apollo 2 full node, and the basics are working great so far (I also have my Apollo BTC hooked up to it via USB, and they're both hashing away while the blockchain is still doing its initial sync). I hope there are more features to control various things soon, like the power/fan/voltage settings for each miner individually and such!

I'd also like to see an easy way to setup remote access to Ubuntu via the web GUI, thru standard RDP apps like Windows RDP... because I have had no issues getting in via SSH, but the Apollo 2 full node doesn't seem to work with ANY of my standard 4k monitors to access the Ubuntu GUI (no signal), and enabling xRDP or GnomeRDP through SSH terminal, using the usual methods, has not worked for me so far - I get a login screen when I RDP in, which loads and works properly and I can seemingly successfully login to, followed by a blank greenish background screen where I can only see my mouse pointer and not do anything else. This blank/green screen is a common issue with Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 and xRDP, but none of the usual methods of solving it work for me so far, and I've tried every solution I can find a thread about or that Bing Copilot can possibly suggest... editing the xRDP.ini file in various ways (adding an [xrdp1] section with various settings like -1 for the port), and modifying /home/$USER/.xsessionrc with some GNOME/Ubuntu related lines. No luck with that stuff. I can seemingly connect and authenticate just fine, but something about the Apollo 2's standard 22.04 image is causing rendering issues or something over RDP specifically that can't seem to be fixed in the usual ways.

Anyone have any suggestion on a good easy way to get RDP from Windows working into the Apollo 2, from SSH commands only because I can't access the GUI (Ubuntu or Gnome, the full desktop GUI) in any fashion yet?

Thanks!

What kind of monitors are you trying to connect?

Probably easiest solution is to run an VPN so you can easily access the Apollo webUI anywhere, unless you specifically need remote of the whole OS UI?

thanks for your help! I'd like to be able to remote into the whole machine via the Ubuntu GUI (or similar) to manage it and do some things that are difficult over SSH/Terminal, like setup and run some other services, or eventually run a lightning node or similar. Also would be easier in the GUI for me to comb logs and such when needed.

I have 2 different LG 4K OLED 120Hz monitors, different sizes/years. Though they are technically TVs, I use them exclusively as monitors and I've been surprised how compatible they are with all my old devices so far, such as old gaming consoles and as a second monitor for a bunch of different laptops/macbooks of varying ages. They seem to be compatible with any old 720p+ device I've tried so far, except the Apollo 2!