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A question to Neil:
As I can't get my Bitfury to work with MinePeon (via GPIO/SPI) using MinePeon's distro, but I have it working with cgminer in a Debian distro sent by the seller, how can I install MinePeon (from the scratch) into that Debian SD, to try to see if MinePeon can "control" that cgminer?
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The VRM is 3A capable. Enough for 1 chip.
ct1aic, entendemos que el starter kit con todo configurado si que es para principiantes. En cambio las placas sueltas no.
Hi. I understand that. I only ask some help with the location of the values to modify, before I can recompile cgminer 3.1.1 and get more than 1,9 GH/s from my Bitfury. I'm using the original image sent by you, that doesn't have the same locations and values as the example given by vitruvio at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279112.msg3140491#msg3140491. Also, as already commented earlier, you sent me a power unit of 5V/1Amp, instead of the one stated at your site. I'm still waiting for a contact from nekonos, promised 1 week ago. I tried the version 2 of your image, but the "screen -r" of that version is full of debugging info and I reverted to the version you sent me in the SD card included in the kit. Hello ct1ac The problem you have with raspebrry is to load the driver. I write this from memory try: cd spic1 sudo sh drivers.sh cd .. cd cgminer-bitfury sudo ./cgminer -o "pool" -u "user -p "pass" You can try another image version for rapsberry pi if you have other sd card 4gb. This - ver. 2: 2013-Sep-27_BFSB_GM2 have a http interface more frendly, you can connect directly with ip of raspberry. We don't test with 1 chip board but should work. You will need win32diskimager to write the img file to sdcard. GuideI will contact latter for other thinksRegards |
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En cuanto a la tensión es correcta, y efectivamente no supera los 0.9V. Por otro lado aunque chainminer te marque que detecta 4 chips, deberías conseguir que funcione, ya que al ejecutar el spitest se comprueba que funciona correctamente y por tanto está bien conectado. No sé que versión de cgminer habrás descargado. Nosotros venimos utilizando un fork del original que únicamente incluye lo necesario para minar con bitfury. Los párametros que introduces no son los relativos al chip de bitfury sino a dispositivos de USB. Pongo un link con nuestra versión del programa compilado para raspberry pi (con debian). Si has conseguido instalar la versión normal, tendrás ya todas las dependencias correctamente instaladas. http://www.minerfactory.com/downloads/cgminer-bitfury.rarTodos los productos que fabricamos son probados exhaustivamente antes de ser enviados. Finalmente subrayar que el producto no está concebido para usuarios sin experiencia. Tanto en la pagina web como en este post hemos repetido esto varias veces. Miner Factory site (perhaps some problems with translations?): PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Bitfury ASIC 1 chip Starter Kit. Ready to use. Specifications 1 Bitfury ASIC chip. Up to 3 Ghps Less than 1W per Ghash Includes Raspberry B Model with operating system and configured cgminer. So just plug the power cord and start mining! Includes a 8GB SD card. Includes a Variable power supply module to get the maximum performance. Up to 3A. Includes a AC-DC adapter (EU plug) to 12V @ 2A Includes connection wires to raspberry pi. Tested and demonstrated performance here The board includes a side connector so you can connect multiple boards. For orders of more than 1 board: On all the orders there is one of the boards with the logic level converter. This board (master) must be connected to rapsperry pi. The other boards do not include this logic level converter, so they can only be connected to a master board or to another board. By default on all the orders with 2 or more boards, there is 1 master board and the other boards must be connected in chain to this master board. All the required information, setup and connection. Shipping 24-48 h. We can sell multiple units so you can have a 10 Ghash or 20 Ghash miner. Suitable for begginers.Cscape based design https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=190731Specific conditions Because the main clock and core voltage is not locked, an incorrect setup or an overclock may result in a chip or board damage. That is why this product comes with absolute no warranty. All products are tested before shipment. Refunds or order cancel once the the payment is placed is not available. All the support and troubleshooting on the forum. |
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As it seems that there is no aftermarket support from Miner Factory, I can't get any help regarding "overclocking" the Bitfury (what files and values to modify), or even know what to install in Arch Linux, to put it working with cgminer or bfgminer, via GPIO.
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I can't seem to remember what the commands were to update bfgminer, any care to enlighten me? I would like to update to 3.4.0 because I have OCD  If you want to compile it yourself... git clone https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
cd bfgminer
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure
make
mv bfgminer /opt/minepeon/bin
* on the mv bfgminer, make sure you're just moving the executable, not the folder, (ie: make sure you're still in the bfgminer folder). Edit: (Or listen to Neil and do a git pull...  he was 3sec faster at me in response, lol ) Ok, I tried your method, compiling bfgminer in my RPI's and it worked! Thanks. I'm using now bfgminer 3.4.0 without a git pull...  Now, the only problem to solve is how to use the Bitfury miner via SPI/GPIO... |
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Neil:
When can we have BFGMiner 3.4.0 for git pull it to 0.2.4 pr2?
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ct1aic 1.8gh / s? is defective?
No, it goes to 1.96 GH/s, without modifications... I'm waiting for help from nekonos, to overclock it a little. |
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I received yesterday a bitfury, from Spain, and it connects to the RPI via SPI and not via USB. The drivers are present and working in PR2. I don't have any bitfury's though so I have not been able to set so I suppose you should just wire them up and see what happens. Neil Hi Neil and thanks for your answer. I tried the bitfury and bfgminer 3.3.0 doesn't detect any device: Devices
No devices running Then I tried with cgminer 3.6.4 also included in PR2 of MinePeon 0.2.4... Same "No devices running" message. I think you did not notice in my statement that the Bitfury is connected via SPI controller (available on the 26 pin GPIO header of the Raspberry Pi) and not via USB. |
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Hello ct1ac The problem you have with raspebrry is to load the driver. I write this from memory try: cd spic1 sudo sh drivers.sh cd .. cd cgminer-bitfury sudo ./cgminer -o "pool" -u "user -p "pass" You can try another image version for rapsberry pi if you have other sd card 4gb. This - ver. 2: 2013-Sep-27_BFSB_GM2 have a http interface more frendly, you can connect directly with ip of raspberry. We don't test with 1 chip board but should work. You will need win32diskimager to write the img file to sdcard. GuideI will contact latter for other thinks Regards I tried the new image, but I went back to the old image I received with the kit, as I saw 2 cgminer's running and i was getting plenty of "trash" from each cgminer screen. Waiting for more help, regarding overclock, I put the RPI inside a box and fixed the Bitfury:   |
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Hello ct1ac
The problem you have with raspebrry is to load the driver.
I write this from memory try:
cd spic1
sudo sh drivers.sh
cd ..
cd cgminer-bitfury
sudo ./cgminer -o "pool" -u "user -p "pass"
Yes, with that sh drivers.sh, the bitfurystarts being detected. You can try another image version for rapsberry pi if you have other sd card 4gb. This - ver. 2: 2013-Sep-27_BFSB_GM2 have a http interface more frendly, you can connect directly with ip of raspberry. We don't test with 1 chip board but should work. You will need win32diskimager to write the img file to sdcard. GuideI will contact latter for other thinks Regards I'm downloading it... I'll return later (5 hours left )- Best regards. Rui |
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Ok, I think I could start mining, with: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd spitest
pi@raspberrypi ~/spitest $ sudo sh drivers.sh
pi@raspberrypi ~/spitest $ sudo ./spitest
pi@raspberrypi ~/spitest $ cd
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd cgminer-bitfury
pi@raspberrypi ~/cgminer-bitfury $ sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u ct1aic_RPI4 -p xxxxxxxx &
[1] 2195
pi@raspberrypi ~/cgminer-bitfury $ [2013-10-23 14:21:34] Started cgminer 3.3.1
[2013-10-23 14:21:35] BITFURY chip #1 detected
[2013-10-23 14:21:38] BITFURY: 1 chips detected!
[2013-10-23 14:21:38] Probing for an alive pool
[2013-10-23 14:21:48] Network diff set to 268M
[2013-10-23 14:21:52] Accepted c6a37cde Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:21:57] Accepted b620fc90 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:00] Accepted 090beaac Diff 28/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:03] Accepted 97987bf0 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:03] Accepted a961a9a3 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:07] Accepted 585076bc Diff 2/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:08] Accepted 3d6e2ed0 Diff 4/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:08] Accepted ffee852d Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:11] Accepted f74c93b4 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:16] Accepted 68955048 Diff 2/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:16] Accepted d78defdd Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:19] Accepted 58c9e704 Diff 2/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:19] Accepted 97158e9c Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:21] Accepted 1dca4d5e Diff 8/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:21] Accepted 1cc463cd Diff 8/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:23] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-23 14:22:23] Accepted 561d48e3 Diff 2/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:26] Accepted 7d45623b Diff 2/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:29] Accepted cf2e3ee2 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:30] Accepted 7a2f94ac Diff 2/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:33] Accepted effe4b00 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:33] Accepted 879b5d57 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:40] Accepted 4fe17103 Diff 3/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:41] Accepted e91d5017 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:46] Accepted e83a0ecc Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:49] Accepted 39b6c293 Diff 4/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:51] Accepted 3e7c4540 Diff 4/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:54] Accepted c2f73069 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0
[2013-10-23 14:22:56] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2013-10-23 14:22:57] Pool 0 stale share detected, submitting as user requested
[2013-10-23 14:22:57] Rejected 4b8c4a2a Diff 3/1 BITFURY 0 (Stale work)
[2013-10-23 14:22:58] Pool 0 stale share detected, submitting as user requested
[2013-10-23 14:22:58] Rejected e0b916f0 Diff 1/1 BITFURY 0 (Stale work) Each time I restart the RPI, I need to do again pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd spitest
pi@raspberrypi ~/spitest $ sudo sh drivers.sh
pi@raspberrypi ~/spitest $ sudo ./spitest before starting cgminer Now, I need to automate the miner, when restarting the RPI... HELP... please... |
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Hi sorry for delay,
We had many problems with the supply of raspberry pi. Now we have stock to control this problems with delays.
Regards
Albert
Hi Albert. I already received the Bitfury kit, with a RPI 512 MBytes, a SD, a Bitfury, a 5V 0.5A PU and the cables needed to connect them all. El kit consta de una placa con 1 chip Bitfury, Raspberry PI B con tarjeta de 8GB todo configurado, adaptador de corriente 12V 2A, y todos los cables necesarios. Many thanks. But didn't you spoke (and later deleted) about a gift? I hope you like the gift that we have added in your parcel.
Regards
Albert I connected a 5V 3A PU to the red/black connectors and started RPI with image you sent. I connected via SSH with pi/raspberry tried: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd cgminer
pi@raspberrypi ~/cgminer $ sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u ct1aic_RPI4 -p xxxxxxxx &
[1] 2183
pi@raspberrypi ~/cgminer $ [2013-10-23 13:24:56] Started cgminer 3.4.0
[2013-10-23 13:24:56] No devices detected!
[2013-10-23 13:24:56] Waiting for USB hotplug devices or press q to quit
[2013-10-23 13:24:56] Probing for an alive pool
[2013-10-23 13:25:14] Network diff set to 268M
(5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
No fury detected. I verified the 5 connectors and they are correctly connected, comparing with the schema in this thread. Then I went to a more logic folder... pi@raspberrypi ~ $ dir
Desktop cgminer-master spic1 spitest.tgz
cgminer chainminer spic1.tgz stratum-mining-proxy
cgminer-bitfury ocr_pi.png spitest
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd cgminer-bitfury
pi@raspberrypi ~/cgminer-bitfury $ sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u ct1aic_RPI4 -p xxxxxxxx &
[1] 2249
pi@raspberrypi ~/cgminer-bitfury $ [2013-10-23 13:40:50] Started cgminer 3.3.1
Unable to open SPI device: No such file or directory What do I do next? P.S.: Suitable for begginers. Beginners don't usually have Linux skills... Beginners usually configure cgminer via a software like MinePeon, with a web interface...    |
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Hey guys, it's Jason and I just produced a video explaining difficulty and how it works inside the Bitcoin protocol. I would love if you go watch it and tell me what you think  Video: http://youtu.be/kGf-E8ShrBIThanks for your explanation and great videos. |
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What could be wrong, Neil?
Can you log in via ssh and do;- chmod +x /opt/minepeon/etc/init.d/miner-start.sh I may have inadvertently introduced a but in updating . Neil It worked, Neil. I'm back to 0.2.4 PR2. Many thanks. |
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Something very strange happened half hour ago...
I got 2 new USB Block Erupters and inserted them in 2 HUB's that already were being using to mine. Both stayed lighted. I did a reboot to the RPI affected. The bfgminer didn't started. I removed the 60 seconds sleep time... nothing... Transferred both Gizmos to the second RPI. The same. No bfgminer again after a reboot. Without the 2 new Gizmos, the first RPI didn't restarted bfgminer. Tried cgminer default and reboot. Nothing. Finally I did a reboot to the third RPI. bfgminer didn't started. Several restarts and the 3 RPI's have the same problem. No miner starts.
The 3 RPI had the last version of Arch and MinePeon, from 2 or 3 hours earlier.
I had to go back to MinePeon 0.2.4 PR1. With this old version, bfgminer started at the 3 RPI's and all 46 Gizmos are working again (with the 1970-01-01 problem).
What could be wrong, Neil?
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