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Just a quick update. I don't think it will be possible to run avalon nano 3's from the Raspberry PI 2. The usb hubs just don't seem to have enough power. I had an old dell 4600 that we were not using and I put Fedora Core on it and installed bfgminer. I was finally able to run 4 avalon nano 3's on an Amazon Basic 7 port usb hub I purchased a few weeks ago. I could not run them on the ETEKCITY 10 port hub that I had. In any event it needs a PC with a real power supply to run these.
I was able to run the 4 Safire Erupters on the Raspberry Pi 2 with the ETEKCITY 10 port hub but I am going to replace it. The quality seems really poor. I have one final issue on Fedora core to get nailed down. I have to use sudo to run bfgminer right now. I think it has something to do with permissions for the /dev/ttyACMx devices. I think I saw something on that earlier when I was playing with cgminer.
I won't really make any real money but it has been a fun experience.
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I have been working on getting the Raspberry Pi 2 to do this for a couple of weeks. I think the powered usb hub is the key. I got an Amazon Basics 7 port hub and ran the Erupter Safires with no problem. However, when I put in a couple of Avalon Nano 3's it only runs a few hours then the system hangs. I have gotten the it to work with 2 Avalon Nano's for extended periods but I can only get constant work when the Avalon Nano's are on my Windows box. Of course it runs a very reasonable power supply so in addition to the powered hub that has to help.
I have actually gotten the Safires and Nano's to run together for a time using icarus but never for any length of time.
Right now have on worker on my Windows box and it's config is as follows:
bfgminer -S ICA:all ^ -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u User.Worker -p Password ^ --set-device ICA:baud=115200 ^ --set-device ICA:reopen=timeout ^ --set-device ICA:work_division=1 ^ --set-device ICA:fpga_count=1 ^ --set-device ICA:probe_timeout=100 ^ --set-device ICA:timing=0.22 ^ --api-listen 2>log
I can use this as well:
bfgminer -S ICA:\\.\COM4 -S ICA:\\.\COM5 -S ICA:\\.\COM6 -S ICA:\\.\COM7 ^ -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u User.Worker -p Password ^ --set-device ICA:baud=115200 ^ --set-device ICA:reopen=timeout ^ --set-device ICA:work_division=1 ^ --set-device ICA:fpga_count=1 ^ --set-device ICA:probe_timeout=100 ^ --set-device ICA:timing=0.22 ^ --api-listen 2>log
The other worker is on my Raspberry PI 2 and it's config is as follows:
./bfgminer -S erupter:all -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u User.Worker -p Password
it also works using -S All. I usually run it manually like this then save the config. Then i restart it with the following:
screen -S Mining ./bfgminer
I am going to try picking up a powered USB 3.0 hub to see if that will help. I would really love to get all 8 miners running on the Raspberry.
Thanks to everyone for posting - your posts have been very helpful
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I was able to get the Avalon Nano 3 to work on my Windows 7 system with bfgminer. The driver was the key and of course getting the correct commands to configure it. It did quite well but I really wanted to do this on my Raspberry PI 2 since I did not really want to tie up my Windows box with these.
I had initially purchased some ASICMiner Block Erupter USB 330MH Saphire Miners. I was able to get those running fine with bfgminer.
screen –S Mining ./bfgminer –o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -S All –u UserName -p Password
But when I added the Avalon Nano 3's I can't seem get a config that works with both. It runs for awhile but finally dies after a few hours. The following was the config I tried that worked for awhile. It shows the Safire Miners as BES and the Avalon Nano 3's as ICA.
screeen -S Mining ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -S /dev/ttyUSB0,/dev/ttyUSB1,/dev/ttyUSB2,/dev/ttyUSB3,/dev/ttyACM0,/dev/ttyACM1 -u UserName -p Password --set-device ICA:baud111520 --set-device ICA:timing=0.22 --set-device ICA:reopen=timeout --set-device ICA:work_division=1 --set-device ICA:probe_timeout=100 --set-device ICA:fpga_count=1
The Raspberry PI 2 runs one or the other. I am guessing that it might be power related but I am not sure. I have a new USB hub arriving and will try that.
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