I’ve seen plenty of pages on the forums and personal websites troubleshooting and giving instructions on how to mine bitcoins with the AntMiner u1 on CGMiner and BFGminer, but had little success getting it to work until after plenty of hours of troubleshooting, searching, and head-scratching. Here I’m going to compile a bunch of information on getting your AntMiner to work with BFGminer. I’m not a coder or anything like that so I left this simple so it’s accessible to those who also aren’t familiar (also since I couldn’t have made it more complicated even if I would have wanted to!).
How to create a .bat (Batch) File for Bitcoin mining:
Antminer
Here is the specific .bat command I used to finally get my AntMiner to be recognized and work in BFGminer:
bfgminer.exe –set-device antminer:clock=x0781 -o
http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 -u USERNAME_WORKER -p PASSWORD -S antminer:all
This is the general format you want to have for a .bat file. You want to have the .exe file at the beginning, then the device speed you want, the mining pool (the http) and port you’re using (:8332, or others) which the pool’s website should tell you, the username and worker number (if using multiple workers), the password, and the end command which I’m not sure exactly what it accomplishes but seems to help.
First off, yes, I am a newby, so smack me if I sound way too stupid. I'm running 3 ANTminers at this point, trying to get a "proof of concept" if you will. I just can't get the bat file to work the way You've indicated it should. I've tried setting up the .bat file and if I put everything in it that you've suggested, the command screen pops up and quickly disappears, leaving me with no "visualization". Can't seem to get it to do anything unless I run it directly from a Command prompt window (run as admin), and then it does report the "errors" it's experiencing. It's running on a Windows Vista system with absolutely nothing else on the machine. The reported errors start off with "-S Antminer:all" all is not a number, and then move on to "--set-device antminer:clock=x0781" unrecognized option.
If I delete the "-S Antminer:all" option and the "--set-device antminer:clock=x0781" option, the miner will begin, but does not initially recognize any devices. I can type "M" and then "+" and type in "amu:all", hit "return" and it will then detect and start up all of my ANTminers. So I am operational, up and running, making money like gangbusters (hehehe yeah right) operating at 1.6GH/s on each, but I can't for the life of me figure out how/or if I could "overclock" them to get a little boost in hash rate. I'd just like to know what I'm doing wrong, and why the bat file isn't working for me, and how I might adjust it so that it doesn't require so much extra interaction/keyboarding to get it running. There are times when I'm at my "real" job and may notice that for some reason, my miners have gone on strike, and would like to be able to call home, have my wife just click the bat file and not have to lead her by the hand to get it back up and running. I'd hate to miss out on that $0.22 lost to the other members of the pool.
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