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so it's been a while and a lot of us are wondering what is the Apollo X1 Miner and we have it here so
we're gonna go through it and figure out exactly what this is but before we get in this video a
bunch of things we do have to point out product packaging so this what you see right here I just
put this stuff in there just because they're right off the start here but the box and everything this
is subject to change waiting on mass production of the final product so what you see here isn't
exactly what's going to be released at release time here but pre-orders are currently active
I do have a link down description of anything you see throughout this video maybe piques your
interest but this thing is looking like a GPU right there which we will look at we open that
but other than the product packaging the box and stuff could definitely change the Raspberry
Pi or I guess orange pie in this case so I'm not really supposed to be showing this right now they
said but I also want to point out that this is not going to come this is not a free gift or anything
that's going to come with these so depending on how the market reacts to it and so on it may end
up in like a special box Edition or it may end up as free gifts in the future but right now don't
order this and expect yourself to be getting the orange pie it's only for select groups I guess
suppose you that's what they told me now I kind of have a little brightness days you can't really see
it but that is the orange pie so we will look at this later on in a bit here but regardless when
you order this thing expect that not to be with it this is what you're ordering right here and
this is the Apollo X1 Etc ethash Miner which runs on anything ethash as well as ethereum Classic on
Etc hash I'm guessing it can dual mine zil as well we'll be trying that out we'll be setting this up
showing you how to do that we'll go through Power consumptions profitability and all sorts of fun
stuff so stay tuned let's unbox it okay guys so I did take it out of the static free packaging
and this thing is pretty cool looking so if you're unfamiliar what this might look like
I'm sure you know this looks like a freaking GPU but it does I think this is actually like
an fpga looking at that chip in there it's fairly large underneath that heat sink but you know again
I'm not 100 sure but look at this how it mounts so this thing can mount like so now I don't see
any ethernet port I see two power plugs both look like eight pins and then uh the plug right there
but no ethernet anywhere on this thing which means you're probably going to need that orange pie in
order to get internet to this thing so it's very interesting that the orange pie won't be in here
so maybe everything is going to change across this and this is a very early model but we'll see what
happens so you can see there's legs on the bottom here you can just stand it up like so or obviously
you can bolt this thing into a mining frame look at that would be sweet stacking these up side by
side these will literally be inside of your mining frames I think that's how I'm going to run this
operation because my GPS are shut off anyway and this thing will actually be profitable it's pretty
sweet so this is what you'll see in the top so if we were to bolt this thing in like so that's like
that you know let's just run on over here kinda there's a box some garbage laying on the floor
but let's let's just have a look here how would that thing look inside here so I got that kind oh
yeah look at that look at that that is sweet nice that look at you can totally stack those together
but depending on heat and stuff so yeah that's definitely cool I'll have to do some adjustments
with our uh base there to hold the back end of the GPU up but that's pretty cool I already messed up
and called it a GPU but it's not a GPU this is I'm assuming this is an fpga but uh let's see how we
can get this thing going so I did pull out this orange pie we have an SD card down here it's very
very tiny we do have our Ethernet plug right here and then our USB so it's looking like we do need
this thing and we're probably going to use this to boot it or something run the OS on this so I don't
understand I did message it I'm trying to see what's all going to be changing here because it
doesn't make sense that you receive this but don't get this if this is needed to run this so maybe
everything here is going to be changing very very early prototype or something and all this will
eventually just be built into this so you know a lot of unknowns still at play but right now it's
looking like we do need this to set this up so I'm going to kind of hook this together and see what
happens so let's run through the power supply here so come in in we do have two eight pins coming off
this end as for the specs of this power supply we can see 100 to 240 volt and a maximum of 360 Watts
I do have that pie and everything over there on the rapidmining mouse pad coming in it was sliding
off so I was hoping that would hold it so now I'm pretty much gonna plug the power in and see what
happens at this point actually there's another thing here I do have uh this little plug switch
so it looks like this might be the on off switch we'll see what happens once I plug it in I got to
find another spot for this which I haven't found yet but we'll figure it out okay so I did find the
micro USB slot it's on the other side of the pie beside the micro SD so I'm assuming and it goes to
a USB here so this might be the power switch to turn on the pi I'm probably going to need power
so I gotta find USB power here I'm probably just gonna turn on my little node box here and then
plug it into that and see what happens hopefully it'll power this up but from that point on I think
other than that we're good to go go just plug this guy into our watt meter and set this bad boy up
this thing is actually this thing's cool hopefully it's profitable if it's not profitable it's a
giant waste of time but hopefully it's going to do good okay so I do have this plugged in we got
a green light happening down there it's looking like we are pulling a boat 20 19.9 20 watts in
its idle State now I'm going to hit this button and see if we get some power that's not focusing
but we can see the ethernet lights are turning on so our pie is now on I'm going to jump into the
dashboard and see if anything is detected at the workstation okay so I do see a new connection on
my router right here and if I put that IP in it brings me to here it looks like it's in Chinese
so this must be the latest one so I'm going to go default username password is both root uh
I'm going to hit OK here obviously we can't read anything so we're gonna have to come to the top
right corner and Swap this over into English there we go we're in English so what does this say SN
x1sn uh sure FIP information X1 so this is our X1 here now we're gonna configure this let's see what
kind of settings we've got minor configuration okay running log just doing a slog thing running
status fan configuration do we have any type of house rate modes that would probably be in fire
let's see hash rate mode so we have energy mode and a hash rate mode for this thing so interesting
we're going to pump up hash rate mode here uh we can pick ethash or Etc I'm going to go with
the ethash here we're going to try octo Miner on I know I have K1 pool that's being used with another
one my GTA pool or whatever is being used so I'm gonna rock with crazy pool on OCTA Zill mining for
this test here so we're going to do that so we're going to set this thing up right quick let me just
figure out where everything is all right so I'm on the crazy pool how to start guide and here is
the stratum we're gonna use for crazy pulls we're going to copy this go back into our Miner now make
sure you're on ethos because this all is on the ethash algorithm if you're on Etc hash and then
you do everything it'll just switch as you can see everything just swapped on me and then you
have to start from over it's not a major upset but you know it can be a pain sometimes if it
happens to you over and over it's happened to me a few times so just remember to always have your
algorithm set first so now we're going to paste in our pool here pool address so we're going
to need our wallet address now for OCTA space so now I gotta find where my address is bring it up
crypto addresses here I got OCTA copy this address right click copy close that out minus
that and now we're going to put in our worker address followed by period and this is what I
was looking for remember with crazy pool if you're using any type of Apollo product or A6 you need to
add this as your worker name so your name has to equal I Apollo underscore and then your actual rig
name so I'm assuming it's going to be the same thing for this X1 but you know I don't know for
sure so I'm just gonna have to adjust this like so so I'm just going to take that copy this in I'm
gonna bring that in my Apollo so we got our period here after our worker name so or after our worker
address now we're going to put Apollo now I'm just going to go X1 so we got X1 there password
I'm going to go with X because it seems like we do have to put something in there for the other
eye polos I obviously we'll have to do the same thing so now we're just gonna I think it's all
good yeah we're on hash rate mode save and apply so we're just gonna apply these changes and wait
to see how long it takes till we finally see some hash rate so I'm going to go into the information
here and then once it starts doing its thing hit refresh hit refresh it should start getting our
stratum and stuff fairly soon here or it's broken oh I messed it up it's not working I broke it what
is happening it might take a while to load we'll see what happens all right so it's been it says
about 11 minutes here and I got a fan speed error and it's not doing anything so I'm gonna Tinker
around a little bit and see if I can figure out where the issue may be all right so I may have
gotten somewhere but I don't know yet this is you know work in progress I'm learning as I go with
this thing but right now it doesn't look like it's very user friendly but you know like again things
could change but if we go to the Apollo website go to support and we can see oh I guess they have an
instructions I could have went to that but there's a firmware update here under the downloads we can
see x-series firmware and tools so I went into here looks like there is some Pi firmware as well
as an X1 tool now I do have this thing plugged into my node box now which is what I am on here
for viewing and I downloaded this X1 tool I opened that up and now we have a tool to run within
Windows itself now it's all in Chinese so we got to put this into English now we can see things so
there you go I'm one step closer so now I'm going to begin setting this up again pretty much how I
did before but with those parameters within this tool and hopefully this begins to work alright
so I I have my stratum here us crazypool.org we got our address again for Zill mining to
get the Boost I'm assuming it'll work on this is Apollo underscore and then your worker name X1 and
then password x uh to swap your ethash and coin around you can see right here ethash Etc hash I
am on Etc Hash Hash rate mode as well as energy mode is here now I'm going to hit save and apply
and see if we now begin getting our hash rate if this was the fix for this so we're going to go to
running overview there's nothing so I guess we're just gonna wait a few minutes now and see if this
begins to work alright so I did finally get this working as you can see here so it is actually very
easy to set up if it works on the system you're plugging it into so I did have this on the Node
box and it does say on their website that anything with Windows but I went through everything
different drivers and so on and it did not work so now I moved it over over to my other kind of
server PC and as soon as I plugged it in I heard it detect it and it fired right up I installed the
driver put in the X1 tool and we're good to go so it does not work with everything that it does say
for Windows here it only works on specific things which should still be the majority it should work
on your normal PCS uh your laptops but it didn't work with that b-link node box that I kind of use
so keep that in mind it's not everything windows but probably most things windows so I do currently
have this on crazy pool for OCTA space as well as Zill mining azil round hasn't hit yet so I don't
know if this actually did move to Ziller not yet once that happens I will update but right now if
I go into our octo Miner octo space crazy pool thingamajigger here we can see we have hash rate
but it's reporting 350 Mega hash so far it hasn't been online for very long we're averaging about
292 and our current is 326. and we're not going to see the max of them hashed right here due to
the fact that we do have Zill again I gotta wait and confirm that this does swap over to Zill if
I go over to the Zill mining rounds we have one coming up in eight minutes so we're gonna see if
we get any hash rate when that comes in but if it does swap the Zeal we won't hit maximum hash rate
here on ethos or Etc has whatever your main coin you're mining because it does move away to zil and
you do lose a decent amount of hash rate by doing that okay so that Zillow round just went through
and we were detected mining's ill so we are mining OCTA space as well as zil on this Apollo X1 as for
average hash rates and stuff we still don't know for sure power consumptions when mining normally
is about 250 Watts when it swapped over the Zillow it was about 247 watts and in between the leg uh
the dag size loading between each round and after it drops to about 59 Watts for a couple minutes
which does give you that reduction of the hash on your main coin going there every x amount of hours
so the next time we're actually going to have a new Zeal round is it's saying two minutes ago
it's you know anywhere from every couple hours every four hours but that is like kind of like
mining a Dev fee per se but it does help boost the profitability depending on the coin you're mining
now if you are mining something that might be new and just came out or hash rate dumps off a pool
for a little while and profitability spikes you might want to disable Zill mining so you can get
as much as possible but that's just an option and depends how you mine and keeping track of networks
and so on all right so I'm going to go through now that we got everything pretty much figured out in
this case how to set this thing up and it's quite simple once you're actually on a system where it
is detected so here we're going to go onto the Apollo website come into support here and go to
Firmware download x-series firmware and Tool once you click on that just download the X1 tool you
think it would come with it it didn't so you're gonna have to do this manually it's on their
website anyway so I guess I make sense that they don't really have to send it but just download the
X1 tool once you do that that'll bring you here once it's downloaded extract the X1 tool then
you'll come under this folder then you're going to want to extract this file right here which is
within that the ch341 par and inside of this is the actual driver to install so just go to setup
here there's one for x86 here as well as driver setup 64-bit I just went with the x86 and it
seemed to work even though this is a 64-bit system this is what they say to go through on their
manual anyway on their website so I just use this one this installs your driver simply by double
clicking on it go to yes hit the install it'll complete all done I don't want to do anything
because it's working right now and mess it up from that point just go back and pretty much load
your X1 tool now if it is detected by your virus obviously you can go into your security settings
here we'll jump into here we'll go to actually that doesn't want to work because I have too
many things running right now so we're just going to go into settings here go into your security
where we have here I'll just type it in up top I'm going to go to security window security settings
and then we're going to click virus and threat protection it'll open that up scroll down we're
going to manage our settings scroll all the way down and then we're gonna add or remove exclusion
so we're going to click on that yes this is like you do with anything else then you're gonna add
an exclusion you're going to want to add that entire folder of the X1 so you simply add that
click on folder find out where it is here you can see X1 tool click on that and you're good to go
so that's it that's all you got to do for that is install that right there and then make sure
windows won't block it if you run into any issues you might not a lot of times you will and then you
just simply set up the dashboard like so and it'll begin running so it is a very simple thing as long
as it works here but again it did not work on my node box so it will work sounds like on a laptop
on your normal computer but it doesn't work on something so if you're having issues just try a
different PC or something okay guys so there we have it so it looks like this pie is not needed
at all to run this and it didn't really want to work right for me in the first place maybe
there's an update for it and we'll get it working I'll play with that some other time but we do have
this working now I am glad I ran into the issue with it not working here because it does not work
on every Windows device and some of you guys if you purchase this thing you may have ended
up with some type of issues and maybe this helped fix them for you but it does work on this PC here
I've seen pictures where it does run on laptops so you know just change it out if you're running into
any type of issues but we are doing about 330 Mega hash about 250 Watts here I'll do an updated video
on the full setup process now that we got it all figured out because some people they don't just
want to say oh X1 they want to say X1 setup so you know out for a YouTube algorithm reasons I'll
do a full setup video guide on this Miner in the future here once I do get average hash rates after
24 to 48 hours because we can't tell exactly it's reporting 350 Mega hash we're currently at about
330 average but we haven't had it on for very long a couple hours at this point so we really need one
two days of solid hashing to see where we stand in hash rate so I will do an update video here
but here we do have a first look of the Apollo X1 Miner it's pretty sweet here I wonder if we could
stack this thing if it'll fit into an OCTA Miner maybe this thing will make OCTA miners profitable
again you know imagine throwing 12 of these things across your octo Miner I do want to point out one
thing it still comes with so it does have this plastic thing here to replicate a PCI Express slot
plug for your GPU now obviously it's plastic if you put it in I don't know if it'll melt or what
but it does have that to put that into the bottom so that's what I mean maybe you can slap these
into OCTA Miners and throw 12 of these across if they fit that would look kind of cool obviously
that'd be fairly expensive to do but it's still probably more profitable than what a GPU is
pulling at this point regardless you know it does look pretty sweet it is mimikina GPU and remember
the Raspberry Pi or the orange pie here does not come with every model the website is showing that
but right now they want me to tell you guys that this is probably not going to ship with them so
keep that in mind it might be a special edition later later on they're waiting to see what the
feedback from the community and all that stuff is so uh just keep in mind you know you might
not get this thing but if you are look for this I do have a link to Apollo down in the description
below thank you for checking out this video I'll see you on the next one Rabid Out [Music] foreign
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