I will try this one last time.

I am not trying to be rude.  BUT this is the worst format for a forum that I have ever encountered.  I can only search once in 90 seconds, I can only post once or twice a day...I tried to offer assistance to a user the other day but could not message anyone, could not reply to his post...then last night I tried to ask a question about these devices and was told I already posted and can not post again for a few hours.  I tried a different browser no change.

Anyway.  Forget all that.  I just had a simple question.  Is there anything on the chips that we can update?  It seems to me that we should be able to knock out certain settings like the LEDs blinking all the time if we could modify firmware, but I cannot find any information on potential firmware.  Perhaps it is all hardwired, if that is not the case can someone point me in the correct direction.  I know I could potentially just unsolder the leds, but did not want to risk it if there was an option to disable in "bios" or firmware somehow.  I know other people were complaining of the bright LEDs flickering all the time, and I know it sounds trivial but these things are in my office and when I am watching TV in the dark it is like I have a sparkler going off beside me...lol.

Thanks.

I had an accident.

Due to some unforeseeable accidents I broke my USB's.  I have several of these and 2 had an accident.  I slipped on the wet floor when walking with these in my hands, and they hit hard on the ground.  I broke one component off of one board and one off the other board.  A little silver chip that has itsy bitsy numbers on it I can't make out and a big black thing with the number R47.  googling for an hour to discover the silver thing is a oscillator and the black thing is a inductor coil.  BUT when I went to a electronics site to order replacement I realized there are far more than just 1 to choose from.

Does anyone know specifically what oscillator and inductor is on the newpac from GekkoScience?  I would love to buy 5 or 10 dollars in parts and attempt a fix instead of trying to buy these again, since most places are either out of stock or jacked way up.

Thanks.

Another newbie here.  Took a look at this forum like 8 different times before realizing it was organized in reverse, i.e. newest last.  Now that I know it is still active I thought I would ask a couple questions.

I have a few gekko newpacs.  Have them connected to a decent powered hub and have them successfully mining on my wallet via ckpool proxy that I set up.  I have it on a spare azure ubuntu server that I have access to for the moment but would really like to be able to have the proxy over on my pi here in my home.  I have fought and fought with getting the pool to install in 3 different OS environments all linux based...finally got it running but I cannot get it to connect.  I suspect it has to do with several files being protected or restricted in the files I download.  Even after using chmod I still hit a wall.  None of that was a problem on the azure server though.  Anyway, I will stick a pin in that part.

The second part is I am having some difficulty creating my own bat file...that is the syntax is apparently wrong and I get random restarts.  I want to run this as slow as possible, I am trying to find out if there is a bare min. to keep a connection to the proxy open or from the proxy to the pool.  Maybe you all know the answer?  I am just wanting to know if there is a low limit...and if so, does anyone know what that is?  I set the thing to run at 25Mhtz with like 5000 difficulty but it still submits every few seconds to a minute.  I am just curious...if I start a proxy for myself if I have to always have something running or does it kick out if no miner is present?  That is essentially the question.  Also in regards to the syntax...this is essentially what I have right now...based on what I see in walkthroughs and documentation.  What I would like to do is know, is there a better way to connect to my proxy?  I am seeing where people are putting something other than wallet id in the -u...which makes me think there is another way...

Thanks in advance and pardon my possibly silly questions and legnth of post.
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@echo off
for /F "tokens=2-8 delims=/:. " %%i in ("%DATE%.%TIME%") do @set TS=%%k%%i%%j_%%l%%m%%n%%o
set LOGFILE=cgminer_%TS%.log
set /p log=Should we log? (y/n)
if %log%==y ( title Logging to : cgminer_%TS%.log ) else ( set LOGFILE=nul )

mode con: cols=120 lines=60
cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://52.179.xxx.xxx:3334 --suggest-diff 5000 -u 1DQKoSArFfhD6tPyDxKHtYnRKiVTMHxxx -p x --usb :1 2>%LOGFILE%

echo. & pause
title Command Prompt
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I am seeking assistance.

I ran both the full repository in every way I could think of...and everyway that was mentioned.  I get to the part where I am doing the ./autogen and it gives me an error that no m4 directory exists even though it very much does...and since I cannot continue without errors when I try running ckpool or ckproxy I get a "command not found" error.

So I dug a little deeper and found a script on his homepage of solo.ckpool.org and ran it and everything seemed to unpack and install fine, but when I try to run the ckproxy command I likewise get the same "command not found" error. 

I am great a windows, sort of new to linux...but a little assistance would be great.  I cannot get it running on debian or ubuntu on the pi 4...but I did have it running on an azure install of unbunut server...I literally followed the same instructions...

Thanks.

Oh I see.  Yeah I suppose I forgot about that.  So if I were to create code that loaded the miner/pool onto their machine of choice, then I could just let them view stats from inside their terminal or command prompts...gotcha.  I think I am wanting to do away with that particular aspect and pass that information to a dashboard of sorts...one that is loaded into something like a smart home application such as Blynk or ESP Home...but perhaps a little more robust.  This is all theory so far though, I am thinking it would be cool to create some "lottery" style usb miners.  Ones that are compatible with virtually anything.  I already know that even though slow and even though they stand less of a chance than a snowball in heck ESPs and other micro controllers are capable of mining...at like 10 kH.  lol.

If I make a miner via usb with 1 or X number of ASICs on it then have code that will join that to our proxy but pass all values to a dashboard viewable anywhere...eh, maybe just spitballing.

Thanks btw.

any thoughts on whether we can lower that difficulty in ckpool.conf lower than 1?  Right now the min is 1, start is 42 and max is 0...all of which is default.  I am still not entirely sure how the difficulty plays into the scope of the entire mining thing...other than if we can lower it shares might happen a little more frequently for the antiquated or slower devices...

Again, I am basically a newbie at the pool aspect, been mining a bit but other than that...just asking questions.

Thank you...I looked for an official thread but must have not seen it. Moving there...see what I see.  TY.

Hey all, not sure if this is the correct spot to post, but I am gonna try.

I am wanting some insight on whether a thing is doable or not. 

<<<THE THING>>>

I have an Azure Ubuntu server(latest) running, and I grabbed CKPOOL and required libraries, and have successfully got it working with a couple remote USB ASIC miners.  Having some difficulty sorting the various proxy/passthrough modes, but that is not terribly relevent.

My question is how would I go about allowing others to join this proxy, and be able to display stats?  It is open and I can join, would just need them to do the same process to get connected right?  Okay, if that is the case, then can I lower the difficulty below 1?  I am obviously a bit of a newbie to this part of the puzzle, but my goal is to allow folks to mine with more "lottery" style/older mining stuff...and I don't want the connection to time out or be rejected because of difficulty.

Thanks.