Setting up Bitaxe in 5 minutes
First step is to power up your Bitaxe by plugging using power supply unit. For next steps you can use either 📱phone or 💻 computer.
Follow instructions below to connect to WiFi and set your own Bitcoin address.
Alternatively - see this Bitaxe setup video
- Find your Bitaxe through WiFi and go to Network Configuration
- Enter name & password of your WiFi and click save
- Go to Settings and enter your Bitcoin address followed by .bitaxe
- Scroll down to check if Bitaxe has the latest version* and click save
- Lastly restart the device to enact changes
*If the current version is not the same as the latest release then download & add the esp-miner.bin to Update Firmware and www.bin to Update Website.
From now on when plugged in Bitaxe automatically connects to the WiFi and starts solo hashing. There should be an IP address flashing on the device that can be used to access Axe OS from browser on devices that are connected to the same WiFi.
❗️If none of this happens, it is likely that WiFi name or password was entered incorrectly❗️
If the name of the WiFi was entered correctly, but password was not - Bitaxe will try to access it and won't show up as a WiFi network anymore.
There are two things you can do in such case:
- Wait and change location so that Bitaxe doesn't find the WiFi with the wrong password. Then you should be able to access AxeOs and enter WiFI name & password once again.
- Reset the Bitaxe using Web Flasher:
- Connect and specify the right port
- Select device (Gamma)
- Select board version (601)
- Select firmware version (latest)
- Start Flashing
- Wait for successful self test
- Press boot button on Bitaxe for 2 seconds
⚠️ For Apple MacBook → you will need adapter as Bitaxe doesn't connect with MacBook just by USBC-USBC cable