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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
⭐ Merited by xandry (1)
Sadly that didn't work. I powered off the 2 add on units, and rebooted the full node, it came up but didn't enable the miner, I tried to start the miner, it flipped to the dashboard but then went back to miner offline.
Can't seem to start that as a miner just on it's own...
At a bit of a loss right now, any help most appreciated
Can't seem to start that as a miner just on it's own...
At a bit of a loss right now, any help most appreciated
I just went through that myself. I redid the flash drive, either let the node sync or shut the node off, then power it down, start both standards, then power on the full node miner, and make sure the node is either fully synced or shut down. You should be able to punch in the IP of it to get to the UI start up or shut down the node, and start the miner, with all three showing up. My issue was either it would mine, or the other two would mine, not all three at once, reflashed, did the methodology stated and they all work again.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
NVM, I got it like the last guy, lol. I got the tiny fan down to a bee buzz now. It was filthy. At least the temps dropped, too, while mining. Not sure why, but I initially took it apart because it dropped out of service while still running the other two satellites, and no matter what I did, it wouldn't get back online unless I unplugged the other two, the other two kept working though. So I formatted a new flash drive and installed it too. That fricken ribbon cable for the NVME drive, what a pita.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Anyone got a picture of the GPIO connector? I took mine off to attempt to change the heatsink (didn't push my luck so left it) but I didn't take note of how the black connector was orientated and what pins it was plugged into 
EDIT: Took a gamble and thankfully it paid off. All running again no problems
EDIT: Took a gamble and thankfully it paid off. All running again no problems
FYI you would have completely fried both boards if you plugged that in the wrong way...your a lucky dude
So do you have a picture of how it should be? I took mine apart to clean it and the filthy grinding fan. I took pictures of everything, but that. Thanks
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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FYI this has already been fixed in the next firmware image that should be released in the next few weeks.
Its a large update that fixes all remaining security and image issues and lays the foundation for big feature updates now that we finally have both unit production and image software at a mature state. We'll finally be able to launch our app ecosystem and we have been listening to all the feature requests and will start rolling these out in the next few months!
Being able to use this as a 'desktop computer' has been one of its main selling points from day one, to be honest, so there are customers waiting for this update for literally years now.
And will it have the latest version of Armbian and nodeJS? Because the web dashboard as of now doesn't run on latest node..
There is nothing preventing you from installing any linux app on the desktop right now, but yes updating normally will no longer brick the system as long as you dont do anything crazy like a dist upgrade. Both the Armbian subsystem and linux kernel have been updated to 5.15.x
Are the new ones coming with the updated firmware already?
Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
A couple of things--How many standards can you attach to a full via a splitter?--
Or are you better off looking at something different going that route?
Are they upgradeable via Ubuntu, or do you have your update ppas installed to supersede them?
If Ubuntu updates, will it break the system?
Since the hash power is so low, will these be hardware upgradeable when a future version release becomes available, instead of just throwing them out?
You can run the node and mine at the same time, right?
Never dealt with asic, which is why I ask.
Or are you better off looking at something different going that route?
Are they upgradeable via Ubuntu, or do you have your update ppas installed to supersede them?
If Ubuntu updates, will it break the system?
Since the hash power is so low, will these be hardware upgradeable when a future version release becomes available, instead of just throwing them out?
You can run the node and mine at the same time, right?
Never dealt with asic, which is why I ask.