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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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jsawzall
on 12/08/2022, 06:56:57 UTC
Quote from: quickmr2 on August 08, 2022, 12:05:15 AM
Quote from: SpeedForceGN on August 07, 2022, 05:30:54 PM
Has anyone used the NODE Configuration to set up ledger live access?  If so, would you please share how you configured the node from the settings file?
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Have been trying and can't seem to get it working.....asked a question about it on a recent post, got a response from john but it didn't work.
Prior to the new MCU1 image flash, I was able to remotely connect sparrow to the node with and without TOR enabled (per configuration settings in a previous reply). Post-flash I'm unable to connect wallet via RPC or by SSH with puTTY. I've tried every combination of username (futurebit & futurebitbtc) and password (default futurebit123, custom PW created in initial setup and the Bitcoin RPC password as shown in the settings/node config) with no luck. I suspect it may have something to do with a username/password issue during initial setup because when I Log-Out of the dashboard or the OS, I'm immediately unable to log back in using any of the possible password options. Seemingly the only way around this is to power off and restart. I've reflashed image and setup 4x and keep running into these issues. Any thoughts?
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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jsawzall
on 10/08/2022, 05:45:12 UTC
Quote from: Satayasat on August 08, 2022, 02:35:40 PM
Ran the update this morning, which is now stuck at "Hold on, page will reload in a few seconds..." It's been at that stage for over 30 minutes. What should I do if anything? Also I am just now reading about flashing the drive, which I know nothing about. I think my Apollo's are batch 3.

Edit: refreshed page, update seems to be complete. However I'm unable to move forward with the flash process as I cannot get Etcher to run even when setting permission to do so.

Hope to still get the team to help with updating the flash. The Apollo won't open any AppImage files, even if they are set correctly to do so. Double clicking to run the program only results in a spinning wheel for a number of seconds, and then nothing.
Satayasat- while perhaps obvious to most, those of us less technically inclined read the MCU Flash Instructions verbatim and ran into the same problem: Apollo wont run the balena-etcher-electron-1.7.9-linux-ia32 file. Power down the Apollo, remove the microSD card and perfom the flash instructions on a different computer. Re-install, power on, and re-configure passwords and settings as on initial device setup.
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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jsawzall
on 29/07/2022, 16:32:27 UTC
Quote from: quickmr2 on July 28, 2022, 10:15:52 PM
Quote from: jstefanop on July 28, 2022, 04:53:46 PM
Quote from: quickmr2 on July 27, 2022, 02:52:49 AM
trying to connect my node to ledger live....will this work ?
has anyone tried and got it working ?

Yes, with the new update all you have to do is add the line

rpcallowip=youripaddress

in the settings page of your node and save. IP address has to be the local IP address of your computer you have ledger live installed. You then can enable the connect full node settings in ledger live using your nodes ip address and its RPC credentials (username futurebit RPC password displayed in settings). Obviously both the node and your computer have to be on your local network for this to work.

That should do it and allow you to broadcast your Bitcoin txs through your own node via your ledger hardware wallet!



Appreciate the reply but unfortunately it did not work.

rpcallowip=123.456.7.890 in the config box. computer ip where ledger live is installed.

Then on ledger live connect node enter my ip address of the futurebit miner along with the port number example 123.123.1.123:8333

user futurebit password from settings page. Have tried this in TOR mode as well and still nothing.

I was able to reconnect a software wallet by adding the below lines to the settings box and saving, as clipped from econoalchemist's tutorial at https://bitcoinmagazine.com/guides/how-to-use-futurebit-apollo-bitcoin-node-miner
The recent update changed previously modified bitcoin.conf file described therein with TOR enabled. This seemed to worked for me but I have zero clue if this may cause other adverse issues

rpcbind=127.0.0.1
rpcbind=192.168.69.16 (your Apollo local IP address)
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=192.168.69.12 (your desktop local IP address)
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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jsawzall
on 28/07/2022, 14:43:29 UTC
Quote from: heslo on July 27, 2022, 05:13:12 AM
Anyone else using the TOR connection and only reaching a maximum of 16 or 17 nodes? On clearnet I used to get 31/32 no problem but it's been days now and the highest I've seen it go is 17
This has also been my experience using the new TOR connection option