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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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mr_eee
on 07/08/2024, 22:53:44 UTC
I'm still running my 1st generation apollo BTC, mostly for the node and solo pool functionality. I'm wondering if I turn the miner off and keep the node on, will the solo pool still work if I connect other miners to it? I have a few bitaxe miners that i've successfully connected to my apollo solo pool, and if i shut off the miner on my apollo BTC, the Solo Mining Page just says "Miner is Offline" and does not show any stats. My Bitaxe miners are still running, and according to their logs, they are receiving work and submitting shares that are getting accepted by the pool.

If the solo pool is still operating even when my apollo btc miner is turned off and node is on, then a helpful update to the apollo OS 2 would be to continue to display the solo pool stats page.

Our futurebit miners may age and become less efficient with their hashpower, but they are still very useful as a full node and solo pool.

Update: from John on X @jstefanop1:
”pool is still running on the backend...this is an issue with our front end stat engine that is tied with the miner, so when you turn it off the front end stats for solo pool disable as well.

Will be fixed in the 2.1 release”
https://x.com/jstefanop1/status/1821248823249007088?s=46&t=yqiPADlCRlmpYPKvZpyfrA
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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mr_eee
on 07/08/2024, 17:44:34 UTC
I'm still running my 1st generation apollo BTC, mostly for the node and solo pool functionality. I'm wondering if I turn the miner off and keep the node on, will the solo pool still work if I connect other miners to it? I have a few bitaxe miners that i've successfully connected to my apollo solo pool, and if i shut off the miner on my apollo BTC, the Solo Mining Page just says "Miner is Offline" and does not show any stats. My Bitaxe miners are still running, and according to their logs, they are receiving work and submitting shares that are getting accepted by the pool.

If this the solo pool is still operating even when my apollo btc miner is turned off, then a helpful update to the apollo OS 2 would be to continue to display the solo pool stats page.

Our futurebit miners may age and become less efficient with their hashpower, but they are still very useful as a full node and solo pool.
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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mr_eee
on 07/08/2024, 17:32:25 UTC
Solo Mining is ON and

What do these numbers mean?

Best share: 964,790,372
Accepted shares: 1,016,905,108

Miner Page shows: 9.40 TH/s
SOLO Mining Page shows: 7.42 TH/s

the screenshot: https://ibb.co/wS8bnpf

PS:I still cannot upload images in my posts Sad

Best Share is the highest difficulty your miners have solved. If the difficulty exceeds the network difficulty, then you have solved a block and could earn the block reward upon successfully broadcasting your result to the network and after another miner adds a block to yours. Accepted shares is how many shares of work your miners have submitted to your solo pool. If you have multiple miners connected to your solo pool, they will display in the Solo Mining users section and their respective shares submitted and best share result will show in that section.
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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mr_eee
on 07/01/2024, 04:01:00 UTC
⭐ Merited by n0nce (1)
Hello,
Just reporting back that I bought a new high endurance microSD card and flashed and installed it on the node/miner and all is well. Back to mining and syncing blockchain. Thanks for the help.

Could it be an issue with SD card needing to be reflashed?
It is very possible that you have a microSD wear issue. I'd even just go get a new microSD after 2 years, to be honest. Look for high endurance models like Samsung Pro Endurance or an equivalent by SanDisk. Normal microSD cards are often made for just a few 100,000 write cycles, which can be exceeded quickly when they're used as a single board computer's main drive, where you might get a lot of writes in some areas of the memory.

Re-flashing can be a good temporary fix, but you'll run into similar issues much sooner than if you were to just get a new card.

You could still use the old / worn microSD for less 'mission-critical' stuff.
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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mr_eee
on 05/01/2024, 03:03:44 UTC
After 2 years of running my Apollo BTC full node, I had my first major issue. Today I noticed it had turned off. So I restarted the PSU. The Apollo will do its usual start up routines, but will not start mining and the dashboard when I try to connect to the IP will not display. Also I cannot get a connection from the monitor using the HMDI connection. Red light on the front flashes and then stays solid. Green status light on the bottom is on. Ethernet lights are on yellow is solid and green is flashing. But I’m unable to connect to the apollo. Tried restarting a couple times with no luck. Any suggestions on how I should proceed? Could it be an issue with SD card needing to be reflashed? Thanks for your help.
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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mr_eee
on 04/01/2022, 04:42:37 UTC
I’ve had a full unit since august and it’s worked great without any issues. Recently I got a standard unit (batch 3) to connect to my full unit. I can get the standard unit mining for about 10 minutes and then it goes to inactive status. Then I have to power it off and on then restart mining to get it to start again. But it only will mine for a few minutes again before going inactive. The full unit continues mining without any issues. The red light on the standard unit has the slow red blinking light like it’s mining but it’s showing inactive in the dashboard. I’m running apollo web v0.3.2

Any ideas what the problem could be?

Hmm, yeah I've been having the same exact problem for a while. I was hoping this most recent update would fix it, but looks like I'm still having the same issue. I have 1 full unit and 2 standard units, for some reason all 3 of them wont stay hashing at the same time and one of them will drop off after a while. It's always just one that drops off and they all keep blinking the slow pattern.

Do the yellow lights on the bottom continue to flash? The mean the board is still hashing but something is up with the USB connection. You can also try connecting the standard units to a USB hub and trying different USB ports. If a power reset/SD card re-flash does not solve it with latest firmware you can alway contact support and well take care of you.

No the yellow lights are not flashing. After my post above I was able to get my standard unit to hash for 48 hours until it stopped again. Had to do a reboot to get it hashing again.
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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mr_eee
on 01/01/2022, 22:30:14 UTC
I’ve had a full unit since august and it’s worked great without any issues. Recently I got a standard unit (batch 3) to connect to my full unit. I can get the standard unit mining for about 10 minutes and then it goes to inactive status. Then I have to power it off and on then restart mining to get it to start again. But it only will mine for a few minutes again before going inactive. The full unit continues mining without any issues. The red light on the standard unit has the slow red blinking light like it’s mining but it’s showing inactive in the dashboard. I’m running apollo web v0.3.2

Any ideas what the problem could be?