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201  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Sidehack stick solo pool club on: October 10, 2015, 10:08:13 PM
If he could get a hold of next gen chips -- game over for the Big Boys.  That is why I think they don't respond to him about chip requests.
I don't mind though.  He is able to squeeze efficiency out of last gen chips and keep it affordable.  What we all hoped for may finally come true - trading in old hardware for a discount on a new shiny thing.

So on the Pi in linux you can run multiple instances of Cgminer from the terminal?




I think you would need to open up 2 terminal windows and keep them both open all the time?

I found the easiest way (for me so far) is to do both instances of cgminer's in the "/etc/rc.local" file and add just above "exit 0"  2 lines:

cd /home/pi/cgminer-gekko (if thats where you got it and your using cgminer-gekko) (and the next, all 1 line)
screen -dmS sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX._XXXX_k --usb :1 --compac-freq 350 --suggest-diff 19 --widescreen --worktime; screen -dmS sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.Jake36stick --usb :4--compac-freq 350 --suggest-diff 70 --widescreen --worktime;

Using the ";" let's me putty into the Pi from the main computer and use "screen" to check both cgminer-gekko's stats or add backup pools, if you don't use "screen" you can omit ";". Added benefit is if the power goes off, the Pi boots and starts mining as soon as the power is back.
202  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ANTMINER U3 Discussion and Support Thread on: October 10, 2015, 05:52:50 PM
I touched a power brick and U3 start beeeping Shocked And goes to zombie, so i assume after 58 hours test failed. Looks like psu failure, now it much cooler then before, hmmm maybe i think i must solder pci-e connector.


There is a  rumor that they work better off of a pcie to u3 adapter.  I had never tried it but always wondered if it was true.

Maybe it really is.   58 Hours was still pretty dang good.   

I haven't seen them run better powering from pcie (no improvement in hash rate or any fewer zombies), they still zombie when they feel like it and for no reason at all.

Only real advantage I do see using pcie so far, it's less of a fire hazard from not using the cheap bricks.
203  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ANTMINER U3 Discussion and Support Thread on: October 09, 2015, 11:17:11 PM
31 hours, no errors, continue testing, made some adjustment to firmware, and porting antminer s5 interface to it, stay tuned Cheesy
https://i.imgur.com/SoZ04Em.png

You are running it at max freq/voltage, that's very brave of you, especially with the factory power brick.

You should do the widescreen display in cgminer, [D] then , to show the HW error field.

It shows HW errors on the screenshot. 104 in almost two days.   Which is a very very small amount of accepted.

So it's looking like Smit did a amazing job on writing this pretty impressive.

Good enough, that I'm thinking of trying it on 2 U3's, but that would mean buying a TPLink and not sure I want to spend any money on/for U3's.
204  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ANTMINER U3 Discussion and Support Thread on: October 09, 2015, 02:32:40 PM
31 hours, no errors, continue testing, made some adjustment to firmware, and porting antminer s5 interface to it, stay tuned Cheesy


You already had a zombie as it rolled from AU3 0 to AU3 1.

Going from au3 0 to au3 1 over 31 hours is good (it means it kept mining) instead of going zombie and stop's mining altogether.
205  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ANTMINER U3 Discussion and Support Thread on: October 09, 2015, 12:05:57 PM
not sure,  this psu original or not, i got one U3 for free from my friend.
http://imgur.com/Ic8W590

I think that is original, or very close to it.  Dang your firmware is looking more and more impressive.

Wish I would have known the difference in TPlink nanos about 6 months ago.   I needed to extend range temporary and got 2 thinking I could use them after..... but mine is the one without usb.   For others get the one with usb on it that is the one you want.

Yes, that's the one.

And to smit1237: running at 850mV on that brick, keep an eye on the BRICK!!! There's a good chance it might start to melt (theres a few posts about that already)!
206  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Sidehack stick solo pool club on: October 08, 2015, 04:27:02 AM
Bumped 2 sticks up to freq 350 finally and got this so far for only 8 minutes.

Pointed them to the club now and going to let them run overnight to see what they do. If they do OK, I'll let them go until after work tomorrow and start moving the other's over to the modified hub and see how they do.

Code:
cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2015-10-07 22:47:32.773]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):39.31G (1m):37.71G (5m):35.16G (15m):22.35G (avg):36.89Gh/s
 A:6480  R:0  HW:0  WU:515.6/m | ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 2  LW: 44456  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to solo.ckpool.org diff 30 with stratum as user XXXXXtoPziVd6gUkdWgN815hW6wEdJJyD
 Block: e479dfd1...  Diff:60.8G  Started: [22:55:56.586]  Best share: 7.62K
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: COMPAC 10000048: 350MHz                  | 22.47G / 18.47Gh/s WU:258.1/m A:3540 R:0 HW:0
 1: COMPAC 10000080: 350MHz                  | 18.38G / 18.43Gh/s WU:257.5/m A:2940 R:0 HW:0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2015-10-07 22:59:47.563] Accepted 0875411c Diff 30/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 22:59:54.833] Accepted 030e4510 Diff 84/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 22:59:58.231] Accepted 02cd9c57 Diff 91/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:02.090] Accepted 078d430f Diff 34/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:02.915] Accepted 01c39b61 Diff 145/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:10.176] Accepted 032c4f02 Diff 81/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:11.793] Accepted 488af22d Diff 903/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:16.458] Accepted 024ab405 Diff 112/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:17.460] Accepted 50f119cd Diff 810/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:18.452] Accepted 056b43d1 Diff 47/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:23.740] Accepted 084a3df4 Diff 31/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:23.904] Accepted 0175ea3c Diff 175/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:25.125] Accepted 08762c20 Diff 30/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:33.991] Accepted 0808cd94 Diff 32/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:36.059] Accepted 012dc1ef Diff 217/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:41.604] Accepted 023a5bee Diff 115/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:43.870] Accepted 04b9227a Diff 54/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:44.410] Accepted 012f3484 Diff 216/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:45.746] Accepted 071f2e47 Diff 36/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:52.238] Accepted 025aa95b Diff 109/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:52.342] Accepted 0380fccd Diff 73/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:52.355] Accepted 07364099 Diff 35/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:52.662] Accepted 0642a659 Diff 41/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:00:57.960] Accepted a754b85a Diff 392/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:00:58.116] Accepted 085b779e Diff 31/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:01:07.301] Accepted 01081668 Diff 248/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:01:07.746] Accepted 086166df Diff 31/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:01:08.075] Accepted 0134966d Diff 212/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:01:13.240] Accepted 01462ad8 Diff 201/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:01:15.177] Accepted 021c0a73 Diff 121/30 COMPAC 0
 [2015-10-07 23:01:16.299] Accepted 03d3e707 Diff 67/30 COMPAC 1
 [2015-10-07 23:01:18.576] Accepted 088746f1 Diff 30/30 COMPAC 0

EDIT: Overnight went real good, only 2 HW, so added a third stick, adjusted it (did a reboot to clear out the errors) , and going to run until after work.
207  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BM1384 Pod Miner plus trade-in/recycling - an interest and feasibility poll on: October 08, 2015, 04:00:07 AM
I don't have any boards, but I would probably buy 2 for sure.
208  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Sidehack stick solo pool club on: October 08, 2015, 12:00:05 AM
Mine is back up.   Appears electricity was lost on RPI.  It rebooted but sit there with no miners.  So my average is lower today but should be fixed now.

Now need to find a scrypt to do run it automatically so does not happen again.

Easiest way is edit the /etc/rc.local (if your using raspbian) and add (just above the exit 0)

cd /home/pi "or whatever you used"/cgminer-gekko
sudo ./cgminer -o pool -u user --compac-freq xxx  what ever else you want

And it'll start mining as soon as it boot's.
209  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [2900 TH] Kano CKPool (kano.is) from the cgminer devs [0.9% PPLNS] on: October 07, 2015, 11:50:28 PM
Dam, that was some hot chicken  Shocked tried a new habanero sauce in the buffalo mix!
210  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [2900 TH] Kano CKPool (kano.is) from the cgminer devs [0.9% PPLNS] on: October 07, 2015, 12:45:08 AM
Looks like I'm having a chicken salad for lunch.

Does the chicken thing always seems to help? I mean if it does shoot I will be eating chicken every day if I have to!

Usually after someone starts talking about chicken or pool restarts, a block is hit. Does it work??? Who knows, but it's some thing to talk about... LOL

But I know what I'm having tomorrow. Would have had it tonight, but ran out of the hot sauce for the mix! Can't have chicken if it ain't got the tang of hot sauce!  Tongue
211  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Sidehack stick solo pool club on: October 06, 2015, 03:34:18 AM
Thanks to taking waaay toooo long to get the Pi to start mining as soon as it boots-up at 5 diferent pools (actually only 2 pools) with 1 stick each (5 sticks total on the same hub). I ran out of time to finish the setup & testing of the 5V PS and the modified hub's, so I can to start pushing up the freq. Maybe tomorrow evening after work, I can finish and test it out.

Then I still got to figure out to use screen, so I can putty in and check on the 5 instances of cgminer (I could buy about a 25' hdmi cable and run it over to the monitor from the Pi but that would be extra cost, could just move the monitor over to the Pi, but that would get tiresome fast).

Before looking and learning more about screen in Linux (I'm telling that the Pi is working by the led's  Cool (plus the hash rate on the pools).
212  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Sidehack stick solo pool club on: October 05, 2015, 11:33:46 PM
Then again, his sticks could have got a 65 million (and it looks like it may not have reset on the last block?)
But it should have reset when the last solo block was solved.  I wasn't questioning the ability of a stick to get that share, I was wondering why his worker could report a better best share than the parent address. 


I think he was off-line when the last block hit, so I don't know if that has/had something to do with his not resetting or if it's something else?



And THANKS -ck
213  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Sidehack stick solo pool club on: October 05, 2015, 08:03:54 PM
I was thinking it might also be fun to keep track of who currently has the "best share" reported by the club's address.  Chance are it would be from a rental, so maybe that's not quite as fun to track, but seeing who's stick has produced the best "best share" for each solo block period could give someone some bragging rights.

As of this post the best reported share is 51,471,144.  This belongs to philipma1957donation.

Strange, though, because FinksySticks shows a higher best share of 65 million, what gives?

I can't remember if it was him or someone else, that started off/is running stick/s along with a S3/or something (without the .donation).


Then again, his sticks could have got a 65 million (and it looks like it may not have reset on the last block?), I had a 157 million on kano's with the sticks (according to cgminer).
214  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Sidehack stick solo pool club on: October 04, 2015, 08:58:55 PM
I should have summarized this, but I know I can run the single cgminer and a stick from a usb port on the laptop or docking station. Can I also run an externally powered hub with a stick running a separate cgminer, its own settings, etc?

Add --usb :1 to the bat file for each stick.  When you launch cgminer that command tells it to only initialize 1 usb device.  That way you can run two instances of cgminer and each will only control a single stick.

I just did this and now I have 1 stick on a laptop port @ 125 freq (0.5A) and one on a hub at 262.5 freq (1.0A, which is what each port on this hub is rated to support), both sticks pointed to the club.

I think that shares summary would be really cool, it would help facilitate a fair spread of the block reward after this initial period is over.  In which case I would probably just point all my solo miners to the club.



U for Usb, my bad
I didn't use common sense when perusing the readme.
Thanks Mikestang!

Edit:
I probably should have put this in the review thread, but it is here now. IF you guys think it makes any real difference tell me and I will move it.
To explain what I did with this information.
I placed one stick running at 125 in the Laptop USB port to maintain pool presence no matter what. This laptop has an LTE cell connection so if worse came to worse I am online when the bomb drops.
I placed 4 sticks spread out nicely in my 13 port hub.
Stick #2 is in slot 13 right next to the (charge only) port where I connect the arctic breeze blowing on stick #2.
Stick #2 is ran at 275 Mhz for about 12 hours with 0 hardware errors and I just bumped it up to 300.
The other 3, sticks #3, #4, and #5 are running at 250, 175, and 150 beautifully. The only one with a HW error is #3, and that is HW:2 in the same 12 hours. I am calling them all stable.

I run a separate cgminer instance for each one. Why?
I control each one independently. But why?
One reason is I do not have another fan to fit in this area comfortably yet and I want to overclock. So I keep the fan pointed straight on stick #2 while I have it connected to my usb power monitor. I can hold my fingers on it indefinitely at 300. I am pulling 1.36 amps @ 4.92 volts.
I think I am hitting the ceiling of where this hub will reach and be stable.

All of the other sticks stay operational, on the same PC, and I can do whatever I want with this one, or any other individual stick.
I have a Y cable I found on Amazon. IT wasn't an easy find, it was hard work, and cost me ten bucks, but I wanted it sooner than the slow boat from China. This one was prime as well, so no shipping and received it in two (actually three but I'm not arguing with them) business days. IT is supposed to be here tomorrow, and then I can really see whatsup. I will get another fan ready today.

At the moment I have them all set to balanced between ck solo and my main kano account, but this is only temporary fooling around because balanced has never worked as well as it should on my main mining rigs, so I do not expect it to start working now. By not working I mean if I add the hash from the two balanced pools I never reach what I get solo to either one. I plan to go back to a failover setting once I collect enough data to be happy with my theory that sticks suffer the same problem.

Overall, running the separate instance is giving me freedom with one good hub. Klintays hubs are probably better, I think they go to 2 amps per port if you do not populate them all, but again, once I made up my mind, I wanted it yesterday, so I went with this used Anker. Helluva deal, and it is USB3, which I know doesn't matter to most, but in my thinking true USB3 is future proof for other projects, provides 900 ma per port at the minimum. I am running it on a USB2 port on the same laptop stick #1 is running on.

This USB power measuring device has a reading in the bottom right corner and describes it as capacitance. I'm not sure what this is telling me yet. Don't get me wrong, I know what capacitance and a capacitor are, I simply do not know what they are telling me in this context, yet.
Here are some pics. The first is a bit blurry, sorry.

(cut pic's to save space)

I want one of Klintays 19 port hubs and another 15 sticks to play with.
I am so jealous of you guys who were around during the days when this was the way to mine, or GPUs, or CPUs.
This is the kind of stuff that teaches people things, you never reach the end of possibilities due to your cash availability.
This can start someone down the road of dreaming big and eventually doing big, while providing the experience on a small scale.

For the young people out there, look at this as something to add to your arsenal of skill sets. The future is software and electronics engineering. Grab anything you love in either of those two fields and run with it.

Actually planing to try this out on the Pi.

If I got it figured right, the hub that I'm using now, should be able to do 2 sticks (maybe 3) at freq 275 and then the other 3 sticks (or 2 if I do the 3 at 275) at ~freq 175 and still be far enough below maxed out, that it shouldn't burn up and for the balanced reason also. Balanced works, but like you said the numbers never add up just right and 1 pool always seems to lag behind. Right now trying the load-balanced out to see how it does.

One question though, did you use the same worker name on all of them or do you do worker.1, worker.2 (if your using the same pools)?
215  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [2900 TH] Kano CKPool (kano.is) from the cgminer devs [0.9% PPLNS] on: October 03, 2015, 11:44:49 PM
Got some chicken for tonight..... may the block gods be watching and rewarding!

Well, didn't really want chicken tonight, but looks like it's on the menu.
216  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: October 02, 2015, 11:45:37 AM
This is what I got. No HW. 3 HW

15-10-02 01:32:30.158] COMPAC 0: No valid hashes for over 10 secs, attempting to reset
15-10-02 01:32:30.176] COMPAC 0 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS


If it's directly plugged into the computer, sounds like windows 7 is probably set to save energy.

Check under the power options and see if it's set to actively suspend USB and if it is turn it off.

While your in the power settings, set the computer sleep to never.
217  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Sidehack stick solo pool club on: October 01, 2015, 11:15:24 PM
Individual sticks on kano.is can only generate dust which amounts to no pay.  
Incorrect.  With the current size of the Kano ckpool you need about 13-14GH/s or so at the full 5Nd to receive a payment greater than the pool dust threshold (10,000 satoshi).  This is easily achievable with a single stick.  I currently have 2 compacs @ 225 freq pointed at kano.is for about 20-24GH average and I'm seeing almost 30,000 satoshi per block (these two compacs run on a computer that's on all the time and I don't pay electricity, so I look at it as free microearnings).

Yea, had mine pointed there as another worker, so it was added to my other hash.

But this time I mixed the pools up and mined to the club address for ~ 6 or 7 hours (maybe longer?).
218  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: October 01, 2015, 11:00:13 PM
Herbpean - what's your errors look like? Even shares that aren't registered as over diff, if they're not error shares, should clear the reset timer. We have sticks running at diff 512 that don't reset because they're submitting valid shares regardless of the pool vardiff. If a stick submitted no shares to cgminer (not the pool, cgminer), or submitted only error shares, for a period of ten seconds, it would reset. If everything's working properly (chip has good voltage, stays cool etc) that should be a very unlikely condition.

The stick is set to 150 mhz, my guess it's the voltage. (I had to crank it up a bit) I have 0 HW as speak but it's only running since 1 hour. Maybe i'm too close from what my usb can handle in term of amp.

I restarted my cgminer with diff set to 8, no reset yet.

It would looks like this message

[2014-04-10 10:16:01] ANU 8 COMPAC X: No valid hashes for over 53 10 secs, attempting to reset
[2014-04-10 10:16:01] ANU 8 COMPAC X attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS

EDIT: the chip is cold, I have a use fan pointing at him.
EDIT: other then the reset ... it's looks all good, getting 8.29gh pool side (ck solo pool with our group)

Is this on the Pi that you set up the other day and had a little trouble with?

What kind of hub, USB 2.0 or USB 3.0? Pi's don't like 3.0 hub's and are really picky with 2.0 hub's, because some of them will back-feed power to the Pi.
219  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Sidehack stick solo pool club on: October 01, 2015, 01:38:27 PM
LOL, the club might be getting it's first dust payment sometime in the future.

Was playing with the pools and copied  stratum.kano.is over (was only ~ 23-24 gh for ~ 6-7 hours), instead of of solo.ckpool.org (and kano's just got a block about 45 min ago). So a little extra to add to a payout if we get lucky and get a block.  Smiley
220  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Getting a S3 and need a power supply OR what to do... on: October 01, 2015, 12:41:32 AM
Thank you for the advice. Will purchase these 2 Antminer S3's and no more. Will get all I can out of them a month and turn most of the profit to cloud mining as pet projects Keep some for myself, of course.

I will be getting 80 CAD at the end of every month by these two, possibly plus the Antminer U3 I already have tripletted together.

I ought to make in full, slightly over a Ths with all three running. So that ought to bring me 84 CAD a month. For now.  Have the purchases ready and one to pay for in the morning.

So I will have 3 miners on a worker and address, likely at HashnesSt.

If your getting 2 X S3's get at least a 1000 watt and run them both from 1 PS.

Better yet get the EVGA 1300 watt Platinum put both S3 (stock) with the U3 on it or leave the U3 off of it and slightly over-clock the S3's.
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