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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Is anyone here familiar with how to set up the apollo on wifi? I tried to connect the miner to the back of my router just so I could access the dashboard but when I put the password in for the wifi, it wouldn't work.
Assuming that you used a Ethernet cable for that: In that case you are not connecting to the WiFi and that password might be wrong.To connect to Wifi you need to have a display going. You could use a computer monitor or a TV and connect the Apollo with a HDMI cable.
Thank you! When I do that, it's still saying "there was a problem connecting to wifi, please double check the password. Internal error" - The password is correct. I double checked.
My wifi has a complex password with spaces and special characters and it wouldn't connect for me either. I ended up changing to a password with no spaces or special characters and it worked. You could try that if it applies to your situation.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Does this also work with Ledger?
I did a little research and it looks like I need Satstacks for Ledger Live to connect to the node?
I don't use Ledger Live, but it seems that such a bridge is required, yes. You could also just use a better Bitcoin wallet software like Electrum or Sparrow and connect your Ledger to that software.I did a little research and it looks like I need Satstacks for Ledger Live to connect to the node?
The main question I have is: Can I connect to the node from my desktop or do I always have to go directly on the miner's OS with screen, keyboard, mouse, ledger etc... to interact with the blockchain? Since the miner is not in the same room as my desktop that would be ideal.
First of all, you have a web GUI; so the miner dashboard that you get when connecting a screen to the Apollo, is also displayed by visiting the miner's IP from any browser in the same network.To 'interact with the blockchain' in terms of querying blocks and stuff like that, indeed installing electrs is what's going to allow you to do that.
I do have another question concerning the Apollo, when I connected via SSH I saw the line [302 security updates available....]. Should I do the updates? I read that you should be careful on which updates you do because it can brick the miner.
If you run the latest Futurebit OS, you can do the updates via:Code:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt upgrade
Just don't do distro-upgrades like sudo apt dist-upgrade. Don't do that!
I run the latest Futurebit OS and when I run those commands to upgrade the miner stops working. I can only get it working again by reflashing the card.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
I did apt update and apt upgrade today and the miner stopped working. It's probably been a couple weeks since I last upgraded. I re-flashed the SD card so that it was working again, but then as soon as I upgraded again the miner wouldn't work. It seems like it won't start even though eventually the status page just shows that it's inactive. Just passing this along so this can be tested an possibly fixed. I'm going to re-flash the SD card again to fix it but I guess I won't upgrade anything for now.
I think running apt update and apt upgrade no longer works. I posted the above a few days ago and didn't see anyone else reference it. Other posts in the forum say that you can run the apt update and apt upgrade on the newest image without problems. I have a batch 4 which is the newest image and while I was able to upgrade with apt for a while it stopped working sometime in the couple weeks before September 28. Not sure if this is similar to what MrKik is saying since it sounds like he clicked something in the graphical interface that maybe updated the whole distro, which has been mentioned not to do.
Can we get any update on this? I'm not particularly wanting to have to test every update to see what it might be and have to keep re-flashing it when it breaks. Is anyone else having trouble updating using apt to upgrade?
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
I did apt update and apt upgrade today and the miner stopped working. It's probably been a couple weeks since I last upgraded. I re-flashed the SD card so that it was working again, but then as soon as I upgraded again the miner wouldn't work. It seems like it won't start even though eventually the status page just shows that it's inactive. Just passing this along so this can be tested an possibly fixed. I'm going to re-flash the SD card again to fix it but I guess I won't upgrade anything for now.