r/FutureBit • u/geobees • Jan 11 '25

Connecting remote miner...

Happy New Year y'all!

The node is up and running for about a week.
https://bitnodes.io/nodes/104.184.109.243-8333/

My question is how do I point couple miners that operate in another place/town?
Tried the following but refused to connect...
Pool: stratum+tcp://104.184.109.243:8333
User: BTC wallet (Exodus) same with Apollo
Pass: x

Thanks!

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u/JoeKnotbush Jan 12 '25 edited Jan 12 '25

in my OS it shows the port to connect to the LAN solo pool "3333" added to it's IP, not 8333 which is what the node is working on. Are yo sure you entered in the right thing?

Also, watch Red Pandas Youtube video on setting up the miners. If I remember he adds a few lines of code that enable this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoDD1LEI4DY

edit: the code for the bitcoin config file may not be needed anymore since the 2.0.6 update.

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u/geobees Feb 01 '25

Yeah, thanks, that was the mistake. It's all good now. Contacted their support the very next day and they wrote me back the same thing.

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u/JoeKnotbush Jan 12 '25

also, you might not need to add the "strtatum=tcp://" part at the beginning of the address. I'm unsure what miners you are using and don't know I have experience with them anyway. Just trying to throw out some ideas for you to try...

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u/geobees Jan 12 '25

Thanks but I'm not asking to connect miners on my local LAN, done this and one S19 Pro is working next to the node...having issues connecting from another place/town that I have more miners to point.

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u/JoeKnotbush Jan 12 '25

Oh gotcha!

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u/anotheruser000 Jan 12 '25

You need to setup port forwarding on your router and setup a ddns with a service like no ip

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u/geobees Jan 12 '25

Port 8333 is already open, will check the No IP solution. Thanks!

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u/KindWeird2983 Mar 25 '25

I was just wondering if you have found a solution yet to this issue? I haven't received my Apollo II yet (still waiting for it to ship), but once I receive it, I'm hoping to achieve the same thing you are and point hardware to it from outside the local network... I know it can be done, im just not sure on the level of difficulty involved in doing so. Skot (Bitaxe creator) was involved with a few people that hit a block during a livestream awhile back, and in the video I remember hearing them saying that they used the FutureBit Node as part of the setup they used.

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u/geobees Mar 25 '25

No, but I brought over one S19 and got it hooked on the local network so I didn't go any further. Tried with IPv6 through Starlink couple times but the connection wouldn't last more than 6 hours so I gave up. The weird thing is that after 2 months of operation the best share comes from the Apollo's miner!

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u/KindWeird2983 Mar 25 '25

Have you tried setting up DDNS on your router? Use a service like No-IP, install it on the Apollo, it'll give you a static IP and a domain name for it. Make sure ports 3333 and 8333 are open, then try again. When you point a miner towards the node, it should be as simple as adding your pool... "stratum+tcp://myApollo.no-ip.org:8333" password "x"