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0) General information + Hardware Needed
1) The Miner
2) Install
3) Running
4) Conclusion
5) How to purchase

0) General Information + Hardware Needed to buy
The Avalon Nano is a more recent addition to the line of stick miners.   It is advertised as "Avalon Nano is a USB miner containing one A3233 core. With its cute appearance and easy-to-use GUI, Avalon Nano will be your friendly guide to the world of BTC"  And it brags of "The hashrate of Avalon Nano can adjust automatically between 1.0 and 3.6 GHS according to the changes of temperature."  With stick miners there are a lot of options to run it.  Below is some item's you might need:

• Computer or Raspberry Pi to run the stick miner
• Depending on how many possibly a powered usb hub

1) The Miner
The Nano comes in a small box that does a decent job of protecting it.  You will be welcomed with a brightly colored Nano once you open the box.




2) Install
They brag of a Gui, which it has.  But it does take a few steps to set up the Gui Settings.  First download the software and drivers/Quick Start from EHash: http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/software/avalon_nano/doc/tutorial/Avalon%20nano%20QuickStart.7z

It comes with a video that gives you a idea of how to install the software, but video is in Chinese.

• Below is the files within the compressed file.

• Within the lpcopen is the usb driver you will need for the Nano.  Once you plug it in with windows direct it to where this file is extracted
• The folder with AvalonMiner contains the actual GUI and backend of bfgminer extract it to a folder to set up the settings
• Within the folder with with Chinese lettering is the .ini file you will want to configure and replace the .ini file in the folder with the miner program.  You will need to find the com port for the Nano is using and change it within the ini file.

• After doing this you will be ready to run your miner gui from the folder and it is marked as AvalonMiner.

3) Running

• Below is the GUI showing the miner running:

4) Conclusion
The Avalon Nano is a newer addition to the stick miner family of miners.  It exceeds it's advertised speed of 3.6 GHs with a speed normally upwards of 4.3 GHs.  I used the GUI as I wanted to test out the GUI.  There are far more efficient way's to run it such as a Raspberry Pi and a powered USB hub.  With this miner chances are it will not be your pick for your next ROI miner.  But I would say is more in the market for someone who want's to learn how about bitcoin mining and doing it for knowledge or experience of mining with spending a smaller amount.  It is a low powered miner, and put's out little heat that the colorful heatsink does a good job containing.


5) How to purchase
You can go directly to the EHash website: https://ehash.com/

Didn't think there was a market anymore for USB miners.

Isn't GekkoScience trying to launch a similar product?

Blasphemy! ;)


Yep - though as a natural stepping stone (they have to do tests with a single chip anyway) for a larger miner:
GekkoScience BM1384 Project Development Discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=995675)

The usb stick miner field still has some, but since cost of all the parts for 1 chip normally it's not most practical.  It is however a good tool for someone to play with mining without spending a ton of money.

I think GekkoScience's product will be a bigger miner with a higher hash rate miner compared to a single stick.  I do look forward to seeing what they come up with though.

Thanks for the review, notlist3d. It looks very cute! Does it have LED lights when it's hashing?

Thanks it has now been corrected.  Been mostly playing with the 4.1 today the nano I played with yesterday and just did not get time to type up my results.

And your very welcome! I enjoy doing them.  It does have a nice LED that brings back memories of the Asic Miner stick miners from long ago :)

There's even some fancy code that modifies the LED color (it's a small RGB package) based on temperature (well, hash rate, but that's modified according to temperature) ;)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon_nano#LED

what efficiency does it perform?

and about weight, quote: "The products including: Avalon3 Nano * 1，weight:0.5KG" - did someone missed one zero ?

On efficiency it is a single "A3233".  You can read more about them here- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon3#A3233

On weight it is from the EHash site.  You are correct the Nano weights nothing close to it.  I left it as I don't know if that is the shipping weight they use with a little packing. 

Nice!  It's running on Antpool, thought I noticed an increase in hash rate.  Are there any cool leds?  I'm quite fond of the Block erupters.

There is one led running TheRealSteve found this telling it's states: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon_nano#LED

I tested it for 5 hours or so on the PC, and it brought me back to the block erupter day's was fun.  It is a very nice gui making it easy to mine.  Also very stable never had one crash or issue. For it to be efficient I really need to get another Raspberry Pi to run it.

Curious to know how they work with each other? Will the program recognize more than one stick at a time? Will they run on CG or BGminer stock versions?

it is BFGminer working in background of this gui.  I don't have a second one to test multiple, but with the config file it should be as easy as adding the second com port on second usb.   If you take triggers etc yes you could run BFGminer, the Gui was meant to make it easier.

On  a side note there is a second Gui i found on their site that looks even nicer.  But was in Chinese, I could not see if it had a English version.

Still have been playing with it some.  Even with summer heat my room fan seems to do a good job of keeping it cool.  It does get a little hot after hours, but nothing that becomes an issue.

That reminds me, I have a few of these in green, black, gold, purple/lilac. If anyone wants, I can do a photoshoot for some additional pretty pictures?

That would be great if you don't mind.  I would love to have some great pics of more colors in the thread if you have time to do it.

Will add it to the to do list.

Thanks!  I appreciate it.  Will be a nice addition.

Got two of these for $20 each on ebay today (shipped) to play with

I think you will have fun with them.  It had been a long time since I had played with one.  It honestly has been like a throw back.  And it's amazing that the 1 stick does over 10 of what the old block erupters do.

0.08 btc for 1-3 gh/s...

Cheap, but will this thing even mine $16 worth of bitcoins, ever?

It's a hard area on stick miners.  There is just a lot of parts per chip.  It's not near as efficient as making a entire board.

Here is how I put it in my conclusion " With this miner chances are it will not be your pick for your next ROI miner.  But I would say is more in the market for someone who want's to learn how about bitcoin mining and doing it for knowledge or experience of mining with spending a smaller amount. "

Not having much luck with these. My ini file looks quite different from yours and AvalonMiner is not finding the devices

Did you download the file I mentioned? It is like a all in one pack.

With the .ini you get it in the folder with Chinese lettering and then put it in the avalon folder, and make sure to change comport to right number.  In this pack there is a video that shows step by step but it's in Chinese, but it still gives you a good idea of how to do it all.

I did download the folder, but it appears it has been changed. No chinese folder in it.

It's in the main folder now. Think it's working right now, but I see no way to use more than one at a time so might have to sell the second one I have.

You would have to edit the .ini to multiple com ports.  It's been a long time since I have done this (block erupter days).  But you need to select in the .ini and then BFGMiner will see them and the gui will work.

These look fun, and almost twice the speed of the sticks I'm currently playing with.

It is a fun item to play with.  It's like a throwback when I play with it reminds me of the block erupter days.

I need to get another raspberry pi to run it for fun.  But it's on the list of project's i haven't made it to so far :)

You say that like those days are over - au contraire, they're still here!  Check out my contests ;) /shamelessplug

The Avalon Nano is obviously a much nicer miner - it's built a lot better, a lot more capable, has built-in overheating protection (throttles down the hash rate), and it's actively being supported by Avalon people as well as a pretty tight community over on IRC.  Unfortunately Avalon's next chip is apparently not well suited to a StickMiner.  But until GekkoScience's StickMiner is available, these are pretty good :)

I don't mind a shameless plug when it's well earned.  Here is to help with yours check out his thread here if you enjoy stick miners - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=464496.0

It is really fun looking through the history of stick miners, and different designs.   If you have not went to his thread I suggest you do.

Bump for  bobz troubleshooting.  This shows getting one to run with GUI.

That is exactly how I describe them: "With this miner chances are it will not be your pick for your next ROI miner.  But I would say is more in the market for someone who want's to learn how about bitcoin mining and doing it for knowledge or experience of mining with spending a smaller amount."

For those learning it is a great little stick miner.

Pull one out :)
Block Erupter USB Three Days of Mining lottery - 0.1 BTC prize (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1028498)

The fact that they're still available new combined with the built-in thermal throttling does make them quite learning-friendly, even if they're not quite as tweakable.

Okay, I was able to use more than one at a time using the bfgminer included in the Avalon download, without their GUI using these settings:


Change the COM numbers to the ports your sticks are on.

Got two running at 4.5GHs each

Thanks for posting this. MANY folks solve a problem and then don't post the 'how'.
Have 2 coming my way. This will be really helpful as i still don't know what I'm doing! :)

You are most welcome!

Should be fairly easy with the help offered in this thread:

Install driver package
Download Avalon Mining Package
Create a BAT file in the BFGminer folder with the code I supplied.

Hoping to find a deal on a couple more to see how they stack in larger numbers.

9.55GH/s average for the pair after 2 hours

Haven't had to create a batch file since the TRS 80 days! (yea, I'm OLD!)

Thanks Ecnad for adding this to thread! I will link to it in questions and answers.

Thanks! You may want to note that it ONLY worked with the BFGminer included in the Avalon package. The core BFG did not recognize them at all.

Thanks! I added a note saying it to question.

Happy Mining!

Review has been added to the Avalon Nano Wiki - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon_nano#Review

Price works out to 0.08BTC for 3.6GH/S.. Wow.

I think the days of USB miners even possibly pulling ROI is completely out of the picture.
I think these are neat little devices.. don't get me wrong. The design is neat and the speed is ok though.
Maybe for a collector of mining hardware or people first getting into BTC it would be ok.. But it will never mine .08BTC.

This has been discused before in thread a few times:


I still stick with it they will be for learning or fun projects.  If you are wanting ROI, stick miners will most likely never be the best option.  Just a lot of hardware for 1 single chip. 

Why only 1-3.6 GH/s?

I'm aware that these aren't supposed to reach ROI but the number still seems quite low since ASICs have advanced quite a bit since 2013. I have 9 Ice Fury stick miners which I bought used back in 2014 and those are capable of >2 GH/s. An S5 is 6 times more powerful than an S1 from the same era.

Article about a stick miner from 2013 capable of 2.6 GH/s:

http://www.coindesk.com/redfury-2-6gh-usb-miner-now-available/

You get more in area of 4.38 GHs in real world mining, but it does get a tad hot at that.   I cant say much about redfury I never had one personally.

You can get some higher values, the important bit for this one is that it self-throttles really well based on temperature.  The red fury is a relatively large StickMiner with a chunky heat sink that you'd still want to point a fan at.  It does use the BitFury chip, though, and only rev1 (don't think I've seen any around with rev2's on them - the nanofury is a better base design to use for that anyway), which is a pretty efficient little chip.
If you want higher hash rates out of a single chip miner, you'll want to look at GekkoScience's project (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=995675).

Finally got the config set just right so the Avalon Miner program recognizes both of my sticks. They are hashing away at 4.79GH/s each with a Thermaltake A1888 Mobile Fan II keeping them cool

I didn't have active cooling on mine, so thanks for adding this.  Appears activly cooling it gets a even higher hashrate.

I got around 4.38, with active cooling you got 4.79.  So active cooling has added around .41 GH/s.  (unless config is set even better then default this also could have caused it).

Do you mind posting your config Ecnad?  Would love to have it as part of the thread.

Sure! Here's the part that Matters:


Change the COM numbers to the ports your Avalons are on and good to go.

Thanks for the explanation (and the link).

I also did a quick comparison of the prices and it seems the Avalon Nano only costs 0.08 BTC while the RedFury cost 0.49 BTC back when it was launched (and also when the BTC/USD exchange rate was much higher than it is today) so the prices for these things have dropped quite a bit as well. Not saying that either would be profitable though since the difficulty has gone up a lot since late 2013.

Yeah, I've got a bit of a rant on ROI that still applies there :)

The Avalon Nano is fairly consistently priced at ~$18.50 from the manufacturer; the price in Bitcoin with them is updated automatically.  It is definitely one of the cheapest miners as well, as far as new goes.  Pre-owned or old stock miners can go for cheaper, but this is a pretty solid miner to go for, tight package, nice flat heatspreader.  I think only the iMiner is even nicer for the casual miner (no exposed components at all), but it's relatively expensive and not as easily sourced in AU/EU/RU/US.

Great thank you for addition Ecnad! I will add it to questions it is so good :)

I will be honest I don't think it is horrible either.  If you compare buying 10 block erupters your talking 7-10 dollars each.  So this is around 10 if not more of these to equal a Avalon Nano.  It makes it sound pretty good on price.

To get this for it's price is not really bad.  USB miners are just costly to make a lot of parts for one chip.  But people will always compare to bigger miners, which I can understand as ROI is goal.  But really usb sticks and the big miners are very different markets.

Wouldn't the extra power consumption required for active cooling negate the benefits of having an increased hashrate?

Depends on active cooling.  If using a small usb fan and it can do the job it could be justified.  But if were talking about a big full size desk fan then yes it would far outweigh the gain in power.

Using anything to get ROI from mining bitcoin is impossible today. There is someone mining at Bitminter who has a 500TH setup, do you think he/she will ever hit ROI?

At this stage Bitcoin mining is a hobby for some and a long-term investment for others. No one expected the price to climb to $1200 when it did. It will do it again the question is when. Since the writing is on the wall that the US economy (and it's empire) will crash there is no reason not be mining bitcoin. :)

I don't like to delete comments so I won't.  But if we could please keep thread based on the Nano's vs ROI in general.

As ROI in general is a completely different topic unless your talking about Nano ROI.

Nano ROI? - ROI means Return On Investment. Regardless how big or little (Nano) the investment is still ROI, so I am not sure what the big deal is?

The iMiner is indeed very pretty but it only hashes at 0.3 GH/s. I'm not sure if that's high enough to reach any pool's minimum payout threshold. Eligius enforces a limit of 0.04 BTC and Ghash.IO's limit is 0.01 BTC. At 0.3 GH/s, you would probably mine <0.01 BTC per year.

Does anyone know if these Avalon Nanos at 4 GH/s will be able to mine enough BTC to reach any pool's minimum payout threshold or would one be better off just solo mining and hoping to mine a block instead?


Usually in this type of context, the term "ROI" means whether or not it will recoup its costs. Technically speaking, it's not the correct meaning of the term but it's probably the most common.

You can run much the same calculations for the Avalon Nano.  Rather than going forward into unknowns you can use historical data.  E.g. say you got one when it first came out and started hashing with it 24/7 until today; http://retrocalc.net/ -> ~BTC0.0117. (iMiner from its introduction: BTC0.0053)
They're both not particularly weighty miners - no StickMiner is.  For something more powerful but without breaking the bank, I think you'd have to take one step up to PodMiners - like the Antminer U3, Gridseed Orb/Mini/Infinity/Whatsinaname or Avalon Mini.

So instead I judge them on their own merits.  iMiner is very small and contained, NanoFury 1 is open source, and the Avalon Nano is nice and tidy but still provides reasonably easy access to components for tinkering and is easily sourced :)

I have been trying to push this, but some still think they are for ROI.  Fact is no usb stick miner will ever again be ROI.  We will not see a data center full of stick miners.   It's just a different type of device.  I put it originally:


I think most buying these are using for projects or education (learning mining).   I think/hope all that buy have that in mind.   

Nicely explained.

I tend to agree with the idea that different miners have different qualities which may or may not be important depending on what it is you're after.

Didn't know there was a thing called "pod miners". I always wondered what that form factor was called. :D

That being said, if you consider that getting a payout from a pool is part of the experience of mining, then it might be a little bit disappointing if a miner never reached this limit. But it's not a huge deal personally and I'd much rather solo mine with stick miners anyway. ;D

re: PodMiners - tentative.. I can't really come up with a good definition other than "I know one when I see one", which is a crappy definition.. and without a good definition there's miners that should be included that get excluded, and miners that should be excluded that get included.  Maybe "I know one when I see one" will have to do for an eventual list, though ;)

re: payout - true.  I wonder if something couldn't be set up to accommodate low hash rate miners in a sort of split solo pool.. just seems easy to game (my recent lottery.

Anyway, starting to veer off-topic suffice to say that if I had to recommend a StickMiner at this point in time and they didn't want to wait for the Compac, then Avalon Nano it is... given several months time, a BTC0.01 payout threshold is even attainable.

Has anybody got this to run on their Pi2?  If so, how exactly?

I have not used it with Raspberry Pi.  The config should help here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1022764.msg11351267#msg11351267

There are lots of instructions out there on google for Raspberry PI old models.  You might try one of those and see if you can get BFGMiner working on the Raspberry PI 2.

I have been working on getting the Raspberry Pi 2 to do this for a couple of weeks.  I think the powered usb hub is the key.  I got an Amazon Basics 7 port hub and ran the Erupter Safires with no problem.  However, when I put in a couple of Avalon Nano 3's it only runs a few hours then the system hangs.  I have gotten the it to work with 2 Avalon Nano's for extended periods but I can only get constant work when the Avalon Nano's are on my Windows box.  Of course it runs a very reasonable power supply so in addition to the powered hub that has to help.

I have actually gotten the Safires and Nano's to run together for a time using icarus but never for any length of time.

Right now have on worker on my Windows box and it's config is as follows:

bfgminer -S ICA:all ^
-o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u User.Worker -p Password ^
--set-device ICA:baud=115200 ^
--set-device ICA:reopen=timeout ^
--set-device ICA:work_division=1 ^
--set-device ICA:fpga_count=1 ^
--set-device ICA:probe_timeout=100 ^
--set-device ICA:timing=0.22 ^
--api-listen 2>log

I can use this as well:

bfgminer -S ICA:\\.\COM4 -S ICA:\\.\COM5 -S ICA:\\.\COM6 -S ICA:\\.\COM7 ^
-o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u User.Worker -p Password ^
--set-device ICA:baud=115200 ^
--set-device ICA:reopen=timeout ^
--set-device ICA:work_division=1 ^
--set-device ICA:fpga_count=1 ^
--set-device ICA:probe_timeout=100 ^
--set-device ICA:timing=0.22 ^
--api-listen 2>log

The other worker is on my Raspberry PI 2 and it's config is as follows:

./bfgminer -S erupter:all -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u User.Worker -p Password

it also works using -S All.  I usually run it manually like this then save the config.  Then i restart it with the following:

screen -S Mining ./bfgminer

I am going to try picking up a powered USB 3.0 hub to see if that will help.  I would really love to get all 8 miners running on the Raspberry.

Thanks to everyone for posting - your posts have been very helpful

Just a quick update.  I don't think it will be possible to run avalon nano 3's from the Raspberry PI 2.  The usb hubs just don't seem to have enough power.  I had an old dell 4600 that we were not using and I put Fedora Core on it and installed bfgminer.  I was finally able to run 4 avalon nano 3's on an Amazon Basic 7 port usb hub I purchased a few weeks ago.  I could not run them on the ETEKCITY 10 port hub that I had.  In any event it needs a PC with a real power supply to run these.

I was able to run the 4 Safire Erupters on the Raspberry Pi 2 with the ETEKCITY 10 port hub but I am going to replace it.  The quality seems really poor.  I have one final issue on Fedora core to get nailed down.  I have to use sudo to run bfgminer right now.  I think it has something to do with permissions for the /dev/ttyACMx devices.  I think I saw something on that earlier when I was playing with cgminer.

I won't really make any real money but it has been a fun experience.

The Avalon GUI Miner linked in the OP is buggy, the hashrate shown on that GUI Miner (effective/current value) is well off.

Updated Avalon GUI Miner here with fixes: http://build.canaan-creative.com:8080/~wenbin/AvalonMiner/20140827/

I've not been able to get this Avalon Nano stick working with any cgminer builds (certainly not on a raspberry pi 2), the latest bfgminer v5.x builds do not work at all, I tried bfgminer v4.7.x and v4.9.x builds that work, bfgminer v4.10.3 performs best in terms of effective hashrate.

Mining with one Avalon Nano stick without cooling the effective hashrate is around 2GH/s or less, with active cooling it performs at the rated speed of 3.6-3.7GH/s, running bfgminer v4.10.3 on PC (tested on both Windows 7 and Linux).

On the raspberry pi 2 I had a problem with bfgminer detecting the usb stick (running root) even with -S ICA:all switch.  The stick is clearly present via lsusb (NXP usb device).

The "heatsink" on these sticks is truly abysmal  ::)

Have you compared that to the latest software from the main site?
http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/software/avalon_nano/software/


I dunno, you say it's hashing away without any active cooling at all at 2Gh/s - seems to me it's doing a fine job :)  The chunkiest of heat sinks on StickMiners is still going to want active cooling for better performance, while still being chunky.. meaning higher cost, more physical space, etc.

Yeah all down to cost, wish they opted for a proper heatsink for an extra $1 or so, possibly reach 4GH/s~, the BFx2 with large heatsink for example can run (as designed to) passively at the rated 4GH/s stable without extra cooling, the heatsink is around 3x as thick.

IIRC the Avalon GUI Miner all use bfgminer v4.7 or earlier so performance is pretty much the same, I see they have uploaded a firmware for the Nano, anyone know how to flash it?

http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/software/avalon_nano/firmware/latest/

but for the price of 2 of these cant you get an old antminer ? :/

That thing is a beast - my suitcase of StickMiners needed soft layers just to deal with that one ;)
I guess you could try putting your own heat sink on there - but that's effort more easily solved with a fan.  Honestly, I don't mind fans.. they help keep things in check :)

Check if the required info is in the wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon_nano
If not, hop on IRC, freenode, #avalon - ask around there or look for xiangfu in particular ( have 'm give the wiki a poke, too :) )

StickMiners like these aren't for any sort of profit, read the entire thread :)

I would agree it's entirely different market.  Normally someone looking for a USB miner is not same market as a S1.

USB is great for learning mining.  An item such as Avalon Nano is more a learning tool in my eye's vs S1 which is unless "free electricity" chances are not worth running.

Don't get an S1, they're not worth turning on, but an S3 still is.  It uses (just a little) less power than the S1 and is more than twice as fast.

I haven't been mining a long time. I was thinking of buying one of these Avalon USB miners when I first saw it, just because it looks nice. I accepted that it wouldn't ROI. It's the thought of getting back into mining and learning how mining is nowadays that interests me. It's only 0.07btc each, so it's like buying a new toy  :D

It is a fun toy there is no doubt.  There is also a new usb miner coming up thanks to sidehack - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1086011.0 I have not got my review done of it yet.   But it has a lot of ability to adjust freq and made a huge difference in speed.

And also we should see sometime Avalon 4 Mini - https://ehash.com/product/avalon4-mini/ .   We still don't know a ton about it alot.

But those are the two new things to come to market soon on USB.

Avalon Nano has now been removed from product page. - https://ehash.com/

Now they seem to have focused on Avalon Mini - https://ehash.com/product/avalon4-mini/

Also most likely product to hit sale soon is Sidehacks usb miner - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=995675.0

It's like they went to the Apple school of naming stuff.

For my combined birthday and Father's Day gift my son gave me an Avalon Nano (I've got a great son).  The software installation and configuration was, er, not trivial but I got it going http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1NFpUu9D76jRL9m2TAdcKjgwr8axLg4YqN (give it time).  One thing I've notice; a couple of times now it got "stuck" in sleep mode.  It wasn't too tough to get it going again but it requires attention; I want it to run unattended.  Anyone else seen this behavior?

Do you have a fan pushing air on it?  The nano can get pretty hot and it  would effect it's preformance.

And yea there are actually 2 gui's.  One is in English and easier to use for my language.  The second looks nicer but was in Chinese (they could have added English I have not looked recently)

 If a fan does not work you can try to run cgminer without the gui.  The commands are in the thread to do that.

No fan; I was thinking it would cool enough without one to get going by itself without having to be prodded along so often.  Perhaps I will try writing a script to get it going automatically.

Chances are you are going to need a fan it runs pretty hot (at least mine did when I ran it).  When it get's hot it slows down.  So no fan.... good chance problem is there.

And it is very easy you can make a batch file for cgminer if you don't want to use gui.  Takes a few minutes at most.

toggle = 0
#MaxThreadsPerHotkey 2
z::              ;hit z to toggle script on and off.
    Toggle := !Toggle
     While Toggle{
   Click
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {space}
   Send, {backspace}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {enter}
   Sleep, 240000
    }
return

esc::exitapp ;Kills script

I could be having a moment of not remembering something.  But what language did your write the script in?

AutoHotkey http://www.autohotkey.com/

My script could use improvement; as is, it requires the GUI remain the window with focus which is inconvenient.

Thanks for adding another method to make it run.

I suggest going for batch file for most.  With it you dont need any other software on windows and can change arguments with CGMiner.

But definitely thanks for addition!

I received one of these at the beginning of this week, I put it at work and this is what it's giving me atm:


I had a spare cpu cooling fan, I decided to give it a try putting it above the stick heatsink. Without the fan the stick was mining at an average of 3.7Gh/s, with a WU of about 23.0/m - it really gets hot :)

Just to share it, I'm having fun with it - it's my first miner after all  :D

Glad to hear we have a new miner!  Welcome to the club.

And I do highly suggest a fan or something to keep heat down.  Without a fan it just gets to hot and slows down.   It does not have the biggest heat sink on it so the active cooling really helps.

Hello, I'm new to the whole bitcoin process. However, to hopeful get a grasp of things I purchased an Avalon Nano. I am running a full node on my machine, and have installed the avalon nano driver and associated cgminer software as per the directions at the beginning of this thread.

I'm able to bring up the Avalon miner software without issue. My system recognizes the USB device on com3. The light on the USB device is green. I have a avalon.ini sitting in the same folder as my avalon software, and the cgminer software is a subfolder of that.

My .ini has a config line :
[PoolInfo_1]
PoolURL=stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.bitcoin.cz
PoolPort=3333
WorkerName=my_login.worker1
WorkerPassword=1234

[PoolInfo_2]
PoolURL=/
PoolPort=80
WorkerName=/
WorkerPassword=/

[PoolInfo_3]
PoolURL=/
PoolPort=80
WorkerName=/
WorkerPassword=/
[Avalon]
Log=avalon.log
Parameters=-T, -S, ICA:\\\\.\\COM3, --set-device, "ICA:baud=115200", --set-device, "ICA:reopen=timeout", --set-device, "ICA:work_division=1", --set-device, "ICA:fpga_count=1", --set-device, "ICA:probe_timeout=100", --set-device, "ICA:timing=0.22", --api-listen

I've also create a mining account at bitcoin.cz.

When i bring up the Avalon miner application and click "start mining", it shows a completely different configuration.

I've looked in the Avalon log file and it has this :
[2015-12-08 11:31:21] Started bfgminer 4.0.0
 [2015-12-08 11:31:21] Failed to open Device Parameters registry key in lowl-vcom.c _vcom_devinfo_scan_windows__hubport():440: The system cannot find the file specified.

Any help would be appreciated. As I said, I'm just starting out, so all of this is a bit overwhelming to take in.

Thanks !
J.

So are you trying to use the GUI or are you using a cgminer you mention in folder?   If using the GUI which one is it the one on first page? There are 2 that I know of of top of head they had at one time for it.

On "my_login.worker1" you dont have a"_" and a "." in your login do you?  i'm guessing not but wanted to make sure.

No, there are no special characters in the real login.
And yes, the second screen with the Tabs is the one that shows at the beginning of this thread.

Well, the whole thing is very confusing to me.
When I plug the miner into the USB Port the first thing that Pops up is a screen written in Chinese listing what I think is a list of connections.
Then a pretty big ICON shows up on my desktop looking somewhat like a key with a USB symbol the number 1 and then some chinese and the number 0.

Then when I click on the actual Avalon Miner shortcut : "E:\Bitcoin\bootstrap\nano\Avalon nano QuickStart\AvalonMiner.Qt4MSVC\AvalonMiner.Qt4MSVC\AvalonMiner.exe"

Up comes another box labeled as Avalon Miner with two tabs. One for Settins and one for Status. My pool connection shows up in the Settings Tab. But when I click on "Start Mining" the Title bar switches to green and says it's "Mining" but a look at the Avalon Log file shows this :

[2015-12-09 19:53:04] Failed to open Device Parameters registry key in lowl-vcom.c _vcom_devinfo_scan_windows__hubport():440: The system cannot find the file specified.
 [2015-12-09 19:53:04] Do not have user privileges required to open \\.\COM3

I'm pretty much totally lost at this point.

REVISED : Problem was POWER
I had plugged the Stick into a USB Port that was underpowered. I moved the stick to plug directly into my powered hub and everything fired up as expected.

Thanks for update glad to hear you got it working.    Best of luck to you with your mining on it!

Just wanted to give a little update for those that are just starting out and "playing" with stick miners. With a small fan blowing on the heatsink it appears to run between 4.75 and 3.75Ghz. I stuck it on bitcoincz to mine for 24 hours..and managed to gather up 0.00000229 BTC. That's a pretty small number, but it was gratifying to just learn how things work and interact with eachother.

Many thanks to this forum as it was an invaluable guide to getting "online"...

Link dead :/

Ok so i just got mine to work  ;D ;D ;D it says its mining at .001 Gh/s while its a 3.6 gh/s chip, the light is still green on it too, shouldnt it change if its mining, im also using slush's pool and the avalon gui

My website is down unfortunately, so the guide isn't working. But you should definitely be getting more than .001Gh/s. Where are you getting that number from? If it is from Slush it may not be accurate.

I wonder the same thing.  Ehash has some drivers and GUI on their site.  It should work/detect and get the 3.6ish.

I would check Ehash out on downloads if your are not familiar with command line with mining.

im getting the number from the gui that was in this thread

I honestly did not like the GUI very much at all. Have you tried using BFGMiner? I had it up and running pretty quick with that and was getting really good speeds.

i dont know how  to set it up with bfgminer

Look at this part - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1022764.msg11068189#msg11068189

It links to bfgminer commands.  The GUI they use also uses bfgminer as the backend of it.

I don't think the pictures will work. My site is down as mentioned before, doing some work, but I copied this from the SQL database where the posts are...

Open up the box and get out your Avalon Nano.

Install the device into a free USB port. Note that these get hot! So an external USB rail like this: <a href="http://amzn.to/1ZAIvnI" target="_blank">13 Port Powered USB</a> would be best.

download the USB drivers for your nano

Extract the rar file using winrar to your current directory


If you extract it somewhere else make note of the location as you will need it later


Now go to your device manager by right clicking on the Windows start button and choosing Device Manager.


Look for the device labeled "VCOM" and right click on it. Then choose "Update driver software..."


Next choose "Browse my computer for driver software"

Now you need to point to the location where you extracted the USB drivers you downloaded above.

Take note of the COM port noted in the above screen. As you can see mine was installed on COM3.

Now go to the BFGMiner website and download the latest version: <a href="http://bfgminer.org/" target="_blank">BFGMiner</a> (Note: You will probably want the 64bit version)

Once the download finishes, move to the folder and extract it to a known location. I use the base folder of the C drive where Windows is installed.

Now move to the folder and create a new text file, name it something you will remember.

Note: Not pictured - You need to go under the 'View' option in the File Explorer and make sure "File name extensions" is clicked.

Now rename the extension of your text file to yourname.bat

Right click on the file and choose "Edit" to edit the file. Add the lines shown below (all one line) and make sure to insert the correct information for your COM port and Mining Pool info.

bfgminer.exe -o YOUR POOL URL -u YOUR WORKER -p YOUR PASSWORD -S ICA:\\.\COMYOUR COM NUMBER --set-device ICA:baud=115200 --set-device ICA:reopen=timeout --set-device ICA:work_division=1 --set-device ICA:fpga_count=1 --set-device ICA:probe_timeout=100 --set-device ICA:timing=0.22 --api-listen

Now save the file and right-click and choose "Run as Administrator"

You should be greeted with BFGMiner and your device should work. If not, verify your Pool settings, the syntax for your text file, and your COM port

Remember these get really hot. If you want to lower the temp a bit you can buy some little heatsinks on Amazon here: <a href="http://amzn.to/1SlLAGk" target="_blank">Heatsinks</a>

These are great because they already have the adhesive on them. You can fit up to 6 of these on one Nano if you really want.

Also small USB fans work really well too since you can plug them into the port. This is the one I use and recommend: <a href="http://amzn.to/1SlLCOl" target="_blank">USB Fan</a>

Welp, i just tried the one the baazju suggested and it didnt work, then i looked at notlist3d's but i only have one avalon nano, do you think i can get the bfgminer command for 1 avalon? thanks

I gave you the command for BFGMiner and 1 Avalon...

bfgminer.exe -o YOUR POOL URL -u YOUR WORKER -p YOUR PASSWORD -S ICA:\\.\COMYOUR COM NUMBER --set-device ICA:baud=115200 --set-device ICA:reopen=timeout --set-device ICA:work_division=1 --set-device ICA:fpga_count=1 --set-device ICA:probe_timeout=100 --set-device ICA:timing=0.22 --api-listen

Make sure your setting the right com port on it.   It should work as long as that is set.  You might look in devices to make sure it's being detected right.

But if all is good just setting 1 proper com port there should work if miner is there.

i have the right com port, put the command into the .bat file ive called mine!.bat, run it, and bfgminer starts, but it gives me the hit m + then add, all, or from a com port, to which i type in avalonmm:\\.\COM16, but it says, no device found

COM16 is high... are you sure you are using the right one?

don't use avalonmm when you try and add.. use:  ICA:\\.\COM16

what version of bfgminer are you using? Make sure it is the latest version.

i tried ICA:\\.\COM16 but that didnt work either, wtf, also i have 5.4.1

That's really weird man, I'm out of ideas.

I know some don't like it but you might try the GUI.  Just to see if it works doing that.  Seems like your hitting a wall with bfgminer.   Try the gui and see if you have any luck with it.  Even if you just do it to prove stick works.

My tutorial is back up.. I suggest you uninstall and revert anything you have done and start over following this tutorial. I think you might have some really odd things going on to be honest.

http://hakedev.com/wp/2015/12/30/avalon-nano-3-setup-on-windows-8-1-with-bfgminer/