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dats real sweet, very nice dude.

Thank you for the tutorial, very useful. I am not an expert and I have a very basic question.

I am having a problem with point 9.
Where am I supposed to "Enter the IP in your web browser (on your PC) and fill in your pool account"? I registered on BTC guild and I can't really understand how is my cgminer going to mine for me?

if I stick the USB erupter it works...donates to minepeon.donate

thank you

It works! Thank you very much!

Did you try to SSH into the Rpi running Minepeon?
If so did you have to configure SSH?
Thanks

I followed your guide and was up and running very quickly. Thanks
If the Pi boots, and you see the green led and yellow network led, you can skip the ifconfig and not bother to connect a monitor. Just log into you router and check you lan connections.
You will see minepeon the mac and the IP.

192.168.1.108   xx:xx:xx:xx:B0:9B   1 day 00:00:00
minepeon   192.168.1.123   xx:xx:xx:xx:2E:2B   1 day 00:00:00
android_e4cfb9c5a6a1e6f2   192.168.1.134   xx:xx:xx:xx:20:4C   1 day 00:00:00
HDHR-10363697   192.168.1.136   xx:xx:xx:xx:63:69   1 day 00:00:00
AMDFX8-PC   192.168.1.127   xx:xx:xx:xx:05:54   1 day 00:00:00

Might be a good idea to reserve that (or one you prefer) IP so it wont change.

SSH is working out of the box.

minepeon/peon

I have something to add to this.

Minepeon, the dirty donation OS!

I got some USBs yesterday, set up my hubs, got everything ready, plugged them all in, I see the pi happily booting, and then suddenly I see they are getting accepted shares.  I get my IP, SSH in, and sure enough he's got it to start mining towards his "donation" accounts by default. 

Fair enough, right?  Why waste any clock cycles?  Give the guy a few cents. 

So I change the pools in cgminer to point at my own pools.  Save, exit screen, and watch the hashrate increase at my own pool.   

I then go to bed.  I wake up in the morning and it's back to donating again.  How could this be?  I scan the system for the word "donate" and I find a file in cron.d/hourly which contains this:


So by default, the system will REMOVE your pool configuration and mine for the minepeon donation pools, and keep checking every hour to reset it back. 

Minepeon took $5 from me, lesson learned.  But I need to post this here to let you guys know. 

I'm fairly certain the command


Will solve this problem. 

If you look on his Wiki Page (http://minepeon.com/index.php/Main_Page) for MinePeon he makes no mention of this behavior or how to disable it.

I'm just realizing now that there is a web interface.  I figured it was just a linux box with cgminer on it, so configuring cgminer and then letting it sit is not the way to do it.  You need to use his web interface..  looking into it, he has it set to take your config down and put his config back up 15 minutes per day by default.  If you have just configured cgminer itself and not his web interface witchery, it will take your config down and put his back up, and then 15 minutes later put his other one back up, again containing donation details but intended to put your web-interface-configured pools. 

So I guess his intention was to only take 15 minutes a day but it just undid what I did by default behavior.

Hi,

I apologize for the issue, its actually one that is well documented here and one that I am working on.  I will give you the long explanation so you don't have to trawl back to find it all.

One of the most common features asked for is to be able to mine using different settings at different times of the day.  There are many reasons to want to do this, my reason is that I want to be able to mine with one account for part of the day and them mine with another account for the rest.  That way I can divvy up the hashrate of a single device over multiple users if there are many people who have shares in a device.

In order to do this the miner needs to switch configuration and this is what is proving to be problematic so fat I have tried;-

1. Switching the configuration using the API

2. Switching the configuration file and the using the API to restart the miner

3. Switching the configuration file and using the API to stop the miner and the OS to restart it (this is where it is now)

4. Switching the configuration file and using the OS to kill and restart the miner (this is what is on my workbench at the moment)

The first 3 methods most of the time, but most of the time is not acceptable to me (or you :P ) so now I am trying the forth method, expect it to come out with a new release in the next few days..

I will offer you the same thing that I offered everyone else that has had this issue, email me your hashrate and hours that it stuffed up (neil@mineforeman.com) and I will pay you back twice the income that the issue cost you.  I honestly don't want to steal your hashes, I just want to get things working right (and you signed up as a tester)

Please remember, this is Beta software and it is under constant, heavy development to get things right.

Neil

P.S.  Id you set donations to 0 you wont have to worry about this errant 'feature', but you will still be able to use it to switch pools once I get it right.

That is indeed the offending code, however it does not do what you say.

What it actually does is;-

Like I said above, it is the restart that is proving unreliable and I am about to try a forth way of doing it (I can never replicate the problem on my system BTW).



Like I said, email me your hashrate and hours and I will give you back $10.  I bet you will never find another person that is willing to pay you to test beta code, but there it is :) .


Yep, that will work, or you can just set your donation to 0.


Want a Wiki account?  I am way behind keeping it updated and I need some help.

Neil

When I turn my RPi on (I have it attached to a monitor, for now) The farthest it gets is [ ok ] Reached Target Graphical interface and then there is the blinkng line prompting to type. But my keyboard I have pluged in does nothing and I can't seem to do anything. Everything I'm useing with my RPi is compatible as I've used the same keyboard and usb hub for several things on it now. All I want to be able to do is ifconfig.

I fixed all of the above, now I'm having problems getting the Wi-Fi to work.

Edit
-I've tried several things. What I found out i'm suppose to do is "wicd-curses" when I do this is always says no networks found. Just like my previous problem I've used the wifi dongle on my RPi before.

-Another problem I keep having is that when I boot it up I constantly see [FAILED] and I have to reboot a few times in order for it to [ ok ] the whole way through. What is causing this? Is it the lack of internet connection because of broken wifi? Data Corruption? Id like to know, because once I get this thing mining I don't want to play Russian Roulette every time I boot it up.

What do I have to do to get this: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1030

To work with MinePeon? It works in Raspbian just fine using the standard wireless config tool. I'm running it off a hub. It doesn't detect it in wicd-curses, doesn't even light up. Switch over to raspbian again, works like a charm.

Edit: The adafruit adapters work using this tutorial: http://blog.lemoneerlabs.com/?tag=/Ada+Fruit+Wifi+Module

It's somewhat lengthy (also takes some trial+error), but I got it working in ~20 minutes.

I seriously can't believe how easy this was... it took me no more than 10 minutes from having a fresh SD card to mining with 5 block erupters.  Thanks for the simple step by step!!!

A question to step 1: where's the best place to buy R-PI? :)

http://www.newark.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?bespokepage=newark/en_US/landing/raspberry-pi/rasp-pi-accessories.jsp&CMP=KNC-G-SUPP-RASPBERRYPI&mckv=s0OfLTWnQ|pcrid|19206009861|plid|

Fantastic, worked perfectly first time

Thanks for the step by step as a utter noob I needed it

working fantastic how ever whe i got all my parts and what not lined up i was using the PIMiner way the only reason i moved to this is it is hot swappable with the miners so i can add more without changing settings on the pi

here is my problem.  I also bought this http://www.adafruit.com/products/1115 cause i works to display most of the cg miner information BUT i can't seem to get it to work in minepeon none of the apt-get commands work and i am unable to create files like the Modules file.  anyone get one of these to work on the PEON?

If you grab the 0.2.3a test image (https://sourceforge.net/projects/minepeon/files/latest/download?source=files) it should work automatically on boot. 

Neil

So worked almost as good as the other one!!!!

I found with the last one (no lcd)  you didn't have to log into the Pi before the miner would start on wifi but this version you need to log in first then everything fires up and the LCD works great!!!

The only Real Problem i can see is the LCD does not display the Hash Rate but that's not to big of a deal as everything else is working perfectly

thanks

Hello can the OS start a VPN as well?  My schools network blocks p2pool access it seems.

Everytime I change my password in the MinePeon web interface, I get locked out of it. The "Authentication Required" box pops up, and it recognizes neither my new password, or the old default of "peon".

Any ideas?

I have two USB-FPGA Modules 1.15y - Quad-Spartan 6 LX150 FPGA Boards and five Usb Eraupters.

MinePeon see all of the devices when I indicate 13 devices, all of devices start to mine except one of the FPGA Modules.

Any advice?

Great tool! I had the minepeon up and running within just a few minutes. Great!

1st problem I face:
I use minepeon to mine with a bitburner board. After a few hours minepeon redetects the board and adds a second board on the miner list. The computation of the Hashrate does not work any more then. It adds the last hashrate of the 1st miner detected to the 2nd miner detected. Since it is the same device, only the last device detected is mining. The older miner detections in the list stay on their last value and the total hashrate gets way off.
After one night I had more than 10 devices listed on the peon but only one is attached to it.

2nd thing:
I there a way to overclock the attached bitburner via the minepeon interface?

anyone know where I can get the 3.5.1 cgminer binary for minepeon?  Looks like the git hasn't been updated..

Thanks,

The minepeon setup for the Pi is so easy, first time, out of the box, 10 mins to mining.
The longest job is the write stage to the sd card.

My question is, how do I run a second Pi?

When I power up the second Pi, it allocates a new IP address, and deletes the original address for the first Pi. then Pi one stops.

It appears to be Reading only the device name at the router, and ignoring the mac address.

We are getting very close to a new release, if you want you can download the PR (Pre Release) here;-

http://minepeon.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=291 (http://minepeon.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=291)

It has all of the latest as well as a lot of bug fix's and new features.

Neil

how many devises have you successfully run with th pi? When I try to run my setup it crashes the pi every time. I have 57 erupters running on 10 d-link 7 hubs. All are connected to a Rosewill 10 port. It runs just fine on my Debian setup on cgminer.  I have been able to get one hub with 6 erupters working but no more then that.

Thanks for the guide, might try after I get all my stuff..

D-link hubs will take 5 erupters, any more and the power is not stable.
I managed 20 erupters on 4 hubs with no problem.

0.2.4 PR2 is looking really slick!  My favorite version to date.  Just installed and set my pools.  So far no issues for me...

Not true. I run 6 on each and the ones with fans have 5. I have run this on several setups between Debian, Wheezy, and MinePeon. No powers issues at all and no excessive errors. MinePeon just crashes with more then 5 hubs attached. I was able to get 32 on 5 hubs running Wheezy on the Raspi but when I added 3 more hubs the Pi crashes every time. So Im now running all 57 my Linux box running Debian with less then 1% errors. Like I said I have found you cant run 6 erupters and a fan or you get weird errors all over the place, you have to run 5 and a fan or 6 and no fan.

I will remove my fans and put in another miner, then add another hub.

Still goes unstable with more than 5 erupters per hub
Edit:- maybe UK wallwarts are weaker than others

I've seen the D-Link 7 port ship with both 3 amp and 2.5 amp wall warts, check your wart to know how many miners it well run.  I like to have a .5 amp head room on each hub, it gives me higher hash rates, fewer rejects and errors, and no system crashes.

I have 8 Rosewill rhb-500's, these are 10 port with a 4 amp psu.  I can get 8 sticks and a fan on each hub, but 7 sticks has more reliability.

The 49 port hubs are the way to go with the stick miners, power from a atx psu seems to be the most reliable to date for me.  YMMV.

sweet as a raspberry pi

1 question do i need to be logged into minepeon on my pc all the time for this to work?

edit now i have the laptop and the raspberry pi running

No, you only need to run the pc to monitor the Pi and also to check on the miner results.

What kind of crash protection dose this have? I have no idea why but I need to unplug Raspberry from time to time(once in 2 days) so it start mining again... From what I can see it looks like eruptor disconnect...

And another question. Even if I disable donation something crashes all my cards every midnight. What else could it be?

EDIT: removing donation from crontab fixed crashing problem at midnight...

This is odd, donations do absolutely nothing at midnight even if you have them enabled.  What version are you running, your going to need to hunt further to find the causes of you crashed.

Neil

Last one... And it always happens at midnight... Even with donation disabled... But now when I removed it it didn't crash for 2 nights...

Mine always crashed at noon.  disabling donations and then removing fixed it here.

on the latest version 0.2.5 pr1 it seems to be ok.( last 2 days)

OK what could kill cgminer(I guess) without a reason? I was looking at the screen and then I saw disconnected from mining screen so I needed to reenter screen -r to get back... After that cgminer couldn't connect to any of the cards(I could see then but were not working). This is the second type of error I'm getting... Midnight problems were solved with removing donation from crontab(3 days without a problem)...

Did a reboot fix the problem?


Once again, donations do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING at midnight (unless your using a 6 month old+ version), if your problem despaired after you deleted the cron entry it is totally unrelated and the problem still exists.

Neil

[Linux minepeon 3.6.11-18-ARCH+ armv6l]

Image 0.2.4.1

Now what else could it be. Since it heaped at the same time every night... There was no problem with computer only pi...
No reboot doesn't help. I need to reboot all cards at that time...

I just got my fresh new rpi-b
Downloaded and installed the latest 0.2.5.pr1 on the 16 Gb superfast SD and all seems to work this far
When i used the rpi plain with only the psu which came with it it powered down when unplug the mini connector
So i took my little 10 port usb hub from the shelf with its 5 amp psu and the minute i connect the hub the rpi powers up on the normal usb 2.0 port.
Looks like the psu which came with it is now overkill or am i wrong and does it still need its own power
I have 8 devices which probably will be connected constant and maybe sometimes the usb wireless keyboard when it fails.
As far as i know the only one pulling some power will be the usb wifi-n dongle.
The other devices should not pull any power from the hub since they have their own psu.

More stable with its own power supply.

The list of potential issues are (in order);-

1. Power: Don't plug it into the hub that is powering your miners.  It should work, but often does not.  I use a apple power adaptor for mine.

2. SD Card: Try a few different ones, Class 10 and good brands (but even good brands through out the occasional dud).  Weird stuff happens when you have a bad SD card making it hard to diagnose, bet trick is to try a few untill you find one that works.

3. Hub:  Strangely enough I have had the best luck with USB 1.1 and USB 2 hubs with big power supplies.  Remember, each miner will suck up at least .5 of an Amp (more if possible).  I like to count on .75 Amp's per working socket.  Easy way to check this is unplug all your miners except 1 and see if your problems disappear.

Work through those 3 to start with, I know it is a bit of a pain in the ass, but your power bill will thank you for it if you can get it stable.

Neil

Also Posted here

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/21399/minepeon-peercoin-asic-miner-not-working

Im new the the game so please correct me if needed.

I have a RasPI running minepeon 0.2.5, a DLINK USB Hub ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008VFAF/?tag=stackoverfl08-20 ) and a Red Fury USB ASIC Bitcoin Miner 2.2-2.7GH/Sec By BITFURY

I've added my pool https://ppcoin.d7.lt/ and things looked good except nothing is mining.

The miner states it's running but the device id is 0 and 0 hashrate.

I've tried to start the miner manually https://ppcoin.d7.lt/getting-started

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.d7.lt:3333 -u miner.1 -p 99999

it starts up but states the USB hub is busy, I see it testing the Red Fury but after that it still is not mining.

Am I missing something?

It should just work.

Can you give a screenshot of the pools screen and the status screen?

Neil

Are you assuming that I'm using USB miners? I'm not... And I tested option 2. But since it is time specific I guess it must be something in software and crontab related since deleting donation helped... The one with USB miners have no problem... Same hub... And it is happily donating... Not much by now but it was more in the past... Anyway I see that there is 2.4.3 and 2.5.1 out... Will test and see. Would love to live donate function working...

MinePeon is a nice piece of work. I see that Hashfast is using MP on it's miners. Did you license it to them, or  is the kitty cat gonna come out. It would be nice to get 15 minutes a day on several hundred terra hashes.

I will have to email and ask, a few people have mentioned that MinePeon is on their miners.  As free and open source software they are fully within their rights to do so (and very welcome do do so as well).

MinePeon is after all based on many MANY other free and open source projects (cgminer... bfgminer... the Linux kernel etc).

I don't know if they left the donation code in (donations are anonymous) and I have no way of checking and there has not been a sudden increase in donations, but yeah, if it is still there I might be able to leave my day job and work 100% on MinePeon :P .

Neil

Thanks, I fixed the issue but now having a hash rate issue as well.

Here is the fix:

This issue helped me solve my issue:

https://github.com/MineForeman/minepeon-base/issues/13#issuecomment-33760864
running the command

sudo lsusb -v
I get this out put, is this correct?

idVendor 0x03eb Atmel Corp.
idProduct 0x204b LUFA USB to Serial Adapter Project
bcdDevice 0.00
iManufacturer 1 BFMG
iProduct 2 Bitfury BF1
add the lines below to this file

/etc/udev/rules.d/01-miner.rules
add these lines

# BF1
ATTRS{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="204b", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0666", GROUP="minepeon"
rebooted the server and now I see my miner!

Here is the hash rate issue:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=305628.msg4857870#msg4857870

OK figure out another thing. Since we are in a middle of one of the worst natural disasters of the county history and power is really intermittent at best I figure out that one of the problem I have is Rosebery doesn't reconnect on wireless.

I was planing to run this script


But I get error


I guess I need to run it as root...

Any other way to do it?

You do indeed.

Regardless, the normal networking code will be monitoring for an ifup event when your router comes back online and will configure the interface.

Neil

P.S. Your code does not have an exit condition, if you are running it from cron you will end up with multiple instances of it.

No I'm not running it from cron but in a shell... Just for tests for now... How do I get root... I can't find password for it anywhere...

Anyway it doesn't reconnect after disconnect... That is my problem

The minepeon user has rights to reboot (it is used in the web interface).  all you need to do in your scripts is;-

sudo reboot

And it should kick it over exactly as the WebUI does it.

Neil

Is there any way to switch pools in MinePeon?

You can add pools to it, but it does not use them.

Click the arrow beside the pool to move it to the top of the list.

With this new 0.2.5 image you can't use Wireless.

And I can't figure out hot to use it with this board. Did I misunderstand that this one had this board enabled in miner already and I need to compile it?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=323175

0.2.5 is my unstable branch that I test stuff with.  I am trying out wifi-menu in that version, to use it do;-

sudo wifi-menu

I am still not convinced it is the best way to go over wicd, see what you think.

Neil

That's a great step by step guide. Everything is clear. Thanks!

I think I like wifi-menu more... It looks like it is reconnecting to wireless...

I am mostly with you.  I plan to put to a vote on the forums;-

http://minepeon.com/forums/

Soon and then pull into the mainline distro.

Neil

I guess this is not the right place but if i would like to integrate this driver in bfgminer.
http://www75.zippyshare.com/v/49421870/file.html
How do I do that?

There is often a lot of discussion about the best way to patch miner software and MinePeon in general on the MinePeon technical forums;-

http://minepeon.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=439cccd31de7c22641068da77eaf6ace

Most recently the patching of cgminer for Techobit HEX2a was discussed but it mostly applies to what your want to do.  If not, start a thread.

Neil

Hi just started mining with brand new red Bi-Fury 5ghs with raspberry pi - minepeon
change cgminer to bfgminer just plug it in & change its pool address using minepeon ssh screen
([p]ool management) url: > username: > and off it goes 5.12 ghs $1.40 in 3 days. Make sure you use a good fan or 2 works fine at 40 °c . 1 today 5 more on there way thanks to cryptostore.io great price.

 Dave 8)

hey i formatted my sd card with raspian a while ago with the same tools, now i want to write minepeon to it but my win8 pc says the drive is empty, and no activity lights flash...

did i break the sd card? help!

Did you try to SSH into the Raspberry PI running Minepeon?

hello there , need some help I installed minepeon from there website 0.2.4.6   its on the sdcard works fine I updated all software on it ex.. f,g,h ect in the device menu , 

I put in my mining pool info from we mine ltc   its default setting is bfminer ... restarted it and im stuck on the console menu


I do not see my pool info OR devices when I log into raspberry via computer

devices says NO Devices running and nothing under pools


is there anything else I have to install on sd card ?  or any commands I have to give the raspberry ?


thanks for your time , can you give me step by step info

The data is really nice! and the instruction is pretty easy but needed time to do everything correctly

Thanks  a lot for this guide! As I am newbie it was difficult for me to set up everything appropriately !

Great guide.
I just got started with RPI's in the last couple days.
MinePeon was easy to setup and use.
The MobileMiner plugin works great with my MultiMiner setups.

I have one of these LCD's is there a way to for it to work with MP?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121004607232?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/121004607232?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649)

I do have one problem.
Every time I add a password through the web console it locks me out unless it is a simple 4 letter PW.
I can still access it through putty and even change the console password there but still cannot get back into the web console.
I do not want to leave it open and help would be great.

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There is often a lot of discussion about the best way to patch miner software and MinePeon in general on the MinePeon technical forums;-

http://minepeon.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=439cccd31de7c22641068da77eaf6ace

Most recently the patching of cgminer for Techobit HEX2a was discussed but it mostly applies to what your want to do.  If not, start a thread.

Neil
[/quote]

is it possible to use minepeon for dual mining wiith gridseed 5chips ?

Can anyone help me with an issue of the commands in miner.conf and miner.user.conf keep getting reset every time i change the pool in the GUI from the browser?

I am trying to add

--api-allow W:127.0.0.1,W:192.168.1.155

 for cgremote
everything works fine after reboot until I decide to change the pool from the GUI then everything gets reset to default again.

Hi

Any ghuide to upgrade minepeon both miners ?

Thanks

Hello follow all the tutorial but when placing the card in raspberry pi 2 it does not happen anything. as if he did not have anything on the card and does not appear in the network also. ??? ???

Will it work on raspberry pi a+?

I already tried 3 different micro sd card, can you tell me a model that is known for working with minepeon ? thank you

I don't see why not. All it's doing is networking with your miners, not cpu mining itself.

By the way, first post, just wanted to say, much respect to all you Bitcoin miners. I missed the Bitcoin train and got left in Nov2013, I jumped off with what I thought was enough and, it wasn't. Here to learn, and here to generate heat, and make the lady angry, that Ubuntu is getting the attention.



All the best,
Norman

guys:

I have a few really, REALLY basic problems.  If this is the wrong place for them, please point me in the right direction. 

I'm putting together a bitcoin rig for fun out of stuff I have around the house (mostly). 

1 RP 3
1 ANKER 7 port powered USB hub
1 gekkoscience 2pac exploder

I have the ANKER plugged into a wall outlet and the Gekko 2pac plugged into that.  The indicator light is glowing a cheery green. 
I downoaded minepeon and sent it over to my microSD.  I checked the directory, and it is shown below.  The PI is getting power, and the indicator LED is red.  I have a cable running from my PI to my (netgear) router. 

I'm at the point where I have to find the IP address of the pi so that I can direct it to my pool (I'm using slushpool).  My first problem is that when I log into the router, I can't see the PI.  So I'm kind of at a standstill.

I had kind of assumed that to run the mining software, I would install it onto my PI from scratch, without an OS, that is was some kind of bianary magic that would run itself when it rfound itself in contact with the magical commands from the 2pac.  Do I need to install rasbian? 

Thanks in advance
http://i63.tinypic.com/k12n2x.jpg

Is Minepeon still alive?

A. Miner software questions should go here Mining Software (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=42.0)
B. Um, ever tried looking at the 2PAC thread? As in the very 1st post where all your setup questions are answered?
GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.msg17624476#msg17624476)

Thank you. I will look into it.