BUG: the "devs" command returns invalid JSON if no shares have been accepted yet:


It'd be *really* nice to be able to file these in Github so they can be related to the code, and we can track when they are fixed.

I'd really like to change my username to "hashware". Is this possible?

API Documentation Bug:


The reply for the "check" command is actually "CHECK", not "COMMAND".

There's a bug with the "restart" JSON API command. It returns this data on success:


Of course, this is not valid JSON, so it has to be parsed differently and handled as a special case in my API: https://github.com/hashware/node-cgminer-api.

Thanks for the reply.


For most of my projects I let people use the Github issues for support and it works out fine. I can understand, though, if you want to contain that knowledge in bitcointalk. That said, it's difficult to find what the outstanding bugs/issues actually are, and so I imagine you have lots of repeat questions about things. It's also hard to find stuff when all knowledge about the project is lumped into a single, linear forum thread. I'm sure you have your share of opinions about bfgminer, but an open and thriving issue tracker is a definite advantage of that project: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/issues.

Hey @ckolivas:

1. Is it possible to add a feature to the "addpool" API command to return the id of the pool? All pool commands rely on this id, but it is not known unless you first issue the "pools" command and deduce the id of the pool that was just added. Even this is vulnerable to race conditions, for example if I write logic that quickly adds two pools; this has to be managed carefully. I think returning an id is a sensible feature.

2. Maybe this has been asked before, but would you consider opening up the github issues? This is typically how developers communicate and collaborate on github; while your project is open-source, the lack of code-oriented discussion makes it quite a bit more opaque than it otherwise could be.

Thanks for your hard work, and I look forward to your response.

I just switched from eligius to ghash.io and set the difficulty to 4096, and I'm getting 1.85TH/s pool-side. Closest I've gotten yet.

Possibly. An hour later, I'm only getting about 1.25TH/s

Well, I figured out at least one problem: my S4 was configured totally wrong from the factory. It looks like the firmware was re-used from an S2 machine or something:

in /config/asic-freq.config:


This is not even remotely correct. 0781 isn't a valid value for anything according to the S4 manual, and the timeout is way too high. The manual says for 200MHz, timeout should be 20ms. So I changed it to:


Then rebooted the S4, and now my Diff1 on Eligius climbed from 256 to 512, to 1.02k, and my hashrate is climbing as well. After 2 minutes, it's now above 1.2TH/s when it used to show only like 50Gh/s. I'll update in a few hours on the status, but things are looking much better.

I don't see anywhere in eligius where to set this. Can I set it on cgminer?

My antminer s4 is also not working on eligius or ghash, but it's reporting in its own control panel that it's mining at 2000+ gh/s. What is the deal?

I am having the same issue; mining on eligius, but eligius does not seem to accept any of its work for some reason. I started a separate thread on this here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=808196.msg9059046#msg9059046

It only gets worse the longer I run it: now 1032 discard, with 41 accepted. But it's reported all ASICs online and its showing that it's running at 2000-ish GH/s.

More of my s4 shares are discarded than accepted. As a result, my pool is recording only a couple hundred GH/s of work from my 2TH/s rated S4. Any insight is appreciated.

Yea, don't worry about bitmaintech, they are legit and won't take your money. I have 12 Antminers humming along right now that I ordered all directly from the site, and I couldn't be happier with them. It sucks that the site is down right now, I want to order 3 more.

Put me down for 10. Let me know where to pay; I'll send BTC tomorrow evening.

I have one up there. I didn't see any others.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=151222230989

Same here, to be delivered on Thursday. I ordered 6 of them, looking forward to testing them out.

I've got some of the 5x gc3355 (the goofy round ones) on their way too. Next week will be interesting.

That's fine, I'm happy to mine at the lower difficulty while you wait

I ordered 3 yesterday, but I see that they are now sold out. I also bought ten of the 5x gc3355 round miners (300kh/s ea.) and I am looking for larger quantities of basically anything with the gc3355 chip in it.