I'm trying to figure out whats wrong with my stick, it was working yesterday.  {"hashrate1m": "0", "hashrate5m": "0", "hashrate1hr": "0", "hashrate1d": "0", "lastupdate": 1443529090, "bestshare": 1784472.3383183172} Edit: Well i just rebooted the computer and re plugged the stick and now after quite a while i got a share. But weird. I'll definitively blame this one on W8. Not a single share overnight? Wtf. I think everyone has had lot's of trouble with W8 also. Just a thought, is W8 turning the port off in power management? EDIT: forgot, if it turned the port off, the stick would probably show zombie. |
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playing with my stick as we speak, trying higher freq
If you really want to push them you need a Y cable or something to allow power from 2 USB ports. Unless you are getting a ton of power through 1 port somehow. With Y cable I am able to get 16gh out of a stick. I need some time to built something to hold my usb stick nicely in front of a fan to cool it as it get's warm at 16gh.Which ones did you order Herb? I am returning the ones I bought because I neglected to read the fine print and the end which goes to the stickminer is a 'B' connector. Tis what I get for drinking and mining. By the way, does anyone know why my name doesn't have a hash number beside it in Phil's list? It has a U and he said he sees all members are hashing, but no amount listed for me yet. Edit, what are people's best share number? I have 8.9M at the moment after about 24 hours of having two sticks mining without touching them. I touched them too much yesterday morning. Yes, that's what I was looking for, some thing to hold it in place for easier cooling. Came up with this, still got to wait for a couple to show up to see if they will work or not. If they work, it will be a fixed in place setup (with the port) and will still have a short cable for the extra power from a second port. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1152953.msg12544138#msg12544138As for best share, right now cgminer is showing 197M on a Pi running just the compac's. Plus, to top it off, already got about 4 or 5 payouts with the sticks, the payouts are all together with other worker's on kano's pool, and I haven't tried (or thought of trying) to figure out the amount of dust the sticks have got. |
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Thanks for the feedback all! I really appreciate it...
Next, Has anyone gotten this to work on a Raspberry Pi? I tried the novak source, but I keep getting: ./cgminer: cannot execute binary file
Yes, I'm running them on a Pi. Are you trying to click on the .exe from within the desktop? If so theres a bug to where cgminer will not write a config file (just writes a blank file). Or if it will not build, try following the instructions I posted for Pilipma to build and they should work for the Pi (if your using Raspbian): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg12468048#msg12468048That's how I set my Pi up. |
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Hmm.. I might just grab a few to play with it doesn’t look to hard, even to splice in a secondary plug on a cable just for power. Are you trying to just get power from 2 usb's for this or are you hooking the little dongle or to something else for more power? You can get Y splitters very cheap on ebay. I think it was Phil that pointed these out in another thread - http://www.ebay.com/itm/221661361513?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT They are 1.45 each. Only thing is it took a LONG time to get. So do not order them if you need them quick. But order and have 2 weeks or so they are quite a bargain. The 5 I got all seem to work good aswell. So work as advertised. Yes, modify them for power from 2 ports. I got the y-cables coming on the slow row boat from China, but if modifying these work like I think they will, then the whole setup should fit nicely inside an old PC case and won't have to figure out a way to hold the compac's in place for a fan while keeping the y-cables out of the way. If these cheap usb meters work, the cable running to the second port would only need to be about 3-4" long, which keeping wires short should be a plus and another plus is I can use a little heavier gauge wire instead of the smaller usb wire. |
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i dont think you guys are understanding.
its not 1 stick = 1 share.. its 1 user = 1 share.. i dont think he will ever put it 8ghs = 1 share, so if you OC yours to 16ghs you get 2 shares, because that would be extremely complicated..
so if you had 5 8ghs sticks and 1 had 2 8ghs sticks and this pool found a block we would get equal amounts.. if there was 50 users it would be 1/50th of the 25 bitcoins. or .5 btc
this is why it wouldnt matter if you had 5 8ghs sticks and 1 450ghs s3 and i had only 2 8ghs sticks.. if we get a block we would get equal amounts..
what this pool is doing is letting the people that have more hash, or rented hash, help the people that have 8ghs sticks get a chance of a block then if they just went solo, and getting more then they would if they just mined on a pool (if this does find a block)..
this pretty much captures my intentions. i want every person to have at least a stick and an equal share. right now i am pointing two down clocked s7s twenty sticks and part of an s3. It is close to 9th. i get that some will try to game this by running 1 stick for 30 days. i dont mind if people do this as long as they use a compac. a better setup variation of this idea is the home miners future. and it is viable if it is low watt power effiecint gear. I need to show the math and it is a long thread. but think of this pool like playing a three digit number the real odds are 999 to 1 the state pays 500 to 1 . playing this pool club with one stick is like getting 2000 to 1. I think this is the future for a small miner. That's what I thought when you first posted about this: 1 stick = 1 share, 5 sticks = 1 share, 1 stick + 1TH = 1 share. I know right now I'm running 5 stick's in balance mode with 4 pools (actually only 2 pools listed twice), but when the 30 days starts for real (this is still the dry run, right?), it will be just 2 pools listed in balance mode (I PM'd you about this around 10 days ago, figured I might as well keep it up). |
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I did an sudo apt-get Update /fixed !  Well, I forgot about the sudo apt-get update, being done first  As long as you got a good powered hub (2.0 for the Pi's) you should be good to go. Here's 1 week running 5 stick's on a Pi-2 @ 175 freq. in balanced with 4 pools, so I think that's why the GF is 16, + the phone company has been working on the lines, which doesn't help, but still managed to get a best share of 197M (now all I need is ~65B share  ). XXXX@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo screen -x cgminer cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2015-09-21 09:46:46.904] (5s):52.79G (1m):48.72G (5m):48.58G (15m):48.36G (avg):48.06Gh/s A:7095642 R:4888 HW:0 WU:671.5/m | ST: 2 SS: 186 NB: 1106 LW: 44219876 GF: 16 RF: 0 Connected to multiple pools with block change notify Block: b304a89e... Diff:59.3G Started: [18:20:11.018] Best share: 197M [2015-09-28 18:21:15.945] Accepted 020dbee9 Diff 125/42 COMPAC 1 pool 0 Deleted the rest to shorten |
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Nah, the expected payout is better here, when ignoring luck.I'm not including luck in my comment. As I pointed out before: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.msg12409461#msg12409461The orphan rate is way high at Eligius, and even when there's good luck there, they have a ceiling of 100% PPS. Click on their web site and click on the addresses of the block finders (i.e. most are not short term miners there) ... see their payout % ... Not planning on mining there, but did look at the first 1 at the top of their top hasher list (who has 66+BTC unpaid, so over $15,000 at just $230. per coin). And looking at the payout queue, some people have to wait for 13 more found blocks to be paid for a block found a few hours ago? Then there is this, the top of the payout queue list is an 8 almost 9 weeks waiting payout of ~.04BTC), but in that time BTC went down ~$40, so not only have they waited almost 9 weeks, but they also lost ~$1.60 in that wait before even being paid! Why would/does anyone mine there, when you lost before even being paid? |
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The pod board would not be designed for S1 compatibility. They'd be two separate PCBs.
If we get far enough into pod to make it viable, I've been needing to talk to a couple people that shipped me a few cases of Freezer 7 coolers last year for about fifty Technobit Minion boards that never got shipped. The coolers are still sitting in boxes on my hosting shelves, been there over 13 months by now. I could look into buying them off the guys and making that an optional sale alongside a pod PCB.
I think four chip is going to be easiest to wrangle, which leaves a 500GH top-end for the pod. I say top-end but until I get some actual chip data beyond the one operating datapoint Spondoolies has on the SP50 product page I don't really know. Could be higher, could be lower, but I don't want to build more than about 100W into it. A decent air cooler should be good for 100W. That might mean five chips but I don't have enough info yet so we're talking over various configurations of four chips. I've talked to Novak about building it to sell in the $200 range, so a 1BTC price point I'm preliminarily confident is doable.
I'm not too much on package design, but if someone wants to volunteer to help, I can share mechanical specs as they get ironed out.
If I build something bigger than the S1 scale, it'll probably be something along the lines of the rack machine that was being discussed in another thread, using seven or eight of the same boards. I'm not sure my little shop is up to the task of designing and manufacturing a whole product line of electronics quite yet, but a pod and the TypeZero board in various configurations should meet most needs between 50W and about 2500W. I don't feel like competing in the 1200W Jet Turbine or 17KW Shipanchor market sectors.
Sound good to me, i hope more people follow the thread and decide to at least mention their interests in the project. I didn't see the stackable rack you mentioned but basically, if you make a small PCB and then lay a heatsink and then sandwich the heatsink between another PCB and another and another, you could probably just use a quiet but bigger form factor fan to push air between the PCB's, a bit like the S7 design, it could allow interesting scaling and efficient space usage. It would also make directed airflow easier any maybe even use vinyl tubing to take the final exhaust outside or something. And i hope you don't try to compete in the 1200W+ range, a smaller stackable/compact/space-wise unit of any kind that you can easily fit physically and electrically, that is quiet and relatively cost efficient sound like a great niche to work in. I'm ready for a pod or 2 or 3.... Hell even if it comes out around 400GH, think of all the people running U3's that would probably switch over. Just one gekko pod, at 400GH would replace 6+ U3's. |
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Trying to install CGMiner gekko in my Raspi sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev Getting this => Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done autoconf is already the newest version. automake is already the newest version. build-essential is already the newest version. libncurses5-dev is already the newest version. libtool is already the newest version. libudev-dev is already the newest version. pkg-config is already the newest version. The following extra packages will be installed: comerr-dev krb5-multidev libgcrypt11-dev libgnutls-dev libgnutls-openssl27 libgnutlsxx27 libgpg-error-dev libgssrpc4 libidn11-dev libkadm5clnt-mit8 libkadm5srv-mit8 libkdb5-6 libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev libp11-kit-dev librtmp-dev libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev libssl-doc libtasn1-3-dev Suggested packages: doc-base krb5-doc libcurl3-dbg libgcrypt11-doc gnutls26-doc krb5-user The following NEW packages will be installed: comerr-dev krb5-multidev libcurl4-openssl-dev libgcrypt11-dev libgnutls-dev libgnutls-openssl27 libgnutlsxx27 libgpg-error-dev libgssrpc4 libidn11-dev libkadm5clnt-mit8 libkadm5srv-mit8 libkdb5-6 libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev libp11-kit-dev librtmp-dev libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev libssl-doc libtasn1-3-dev 0 upgraded, 21 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2,711 kB/8,018 kB of archives. After this operation, 17.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main libssl-dev armhf 1.0.1e-2+rvt+deb7u16 404 Not Found Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main libssl-doc all 1.0.1e-2+rvt+deb7u16 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl-dev_1.0.1e-2+rvt+deb7u16_armhf.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl-doc_1.0.1e-2+rvt+deb7u16_all.deb 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Yes, the server where the files are, has been having some kind of trouble or they limited traffic. It did it to me the other day, just wait a little while and try again, eventually it will come back up and you can get the files. Or you can search around for another source server and add them to your /etc/apt/sources.list (I think that's it). |
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 just to let you know, these are nasty to modify, has to get the heat-gun and iron to get the plastic potting off. Thanks. That looks like a mess I'll pass on, I'll make up one that I was thinking of and test it out (when all the parts arrive). |
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This is running all four power connections correct. Yes, all 4 power connectors plugged in. |
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Got my 2.0 hub in, sticks are now mining on the Rasp Pi! I still can't minera to see my sticks however....so I'm just running cgminer from the cmd line. Also, i can't seem to access the sidehack pool but i can access regular ckpool? Any ideas what i've done wrong?  From the image, looks like everything is right for the pool (except for maybe change the Unit01 to Stick01 or even just stick, makes it easier to keep track of that they are sticks or if it's donated hash). If your trying to start with both pools in the command line, while you are in the screen in the pic, try using the "a" and just add a second instance of the club pool again; if it works, it narrows down where to start looking. |
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I've updated the CK solo pool notification script with the following changes: - When notified of changes (like a new block found or best share improvements) the hash rate stats of the affected monitored addresses is also reported. So if the club finds a block, the hash rates of all the monitored workers will be reported.
- If the --verbose option is on, the email text will be logged locally. This could be useful if the email can't be sent but an important event like a found block happened. In this situation, the email text could be pulled out of the log.
- Fixed some problems sorting mining addresses.
- Cleaned up the formatting of the email body text.
- Added an testing/developer option that allows the caller to pretend like a specified address found a block. Previously I had to hard code script globals to force block found testing.
Here's the github URL for anyone who's interested in playing with the script: http://edonkeycoin.github.io/ckpoolnotify/I've tested the latest version with the current list of club workers, and it seems to work fine. I was a bit concerned that a large number of workers might make the command line too big, but it seems fine for now (on the Mac at least). If you've followed the read me instructions and gotten your email credentials to work with a test email, then a command line like the following will monitor the list of known workers at this time (substitute your own email credentials, of course): ./ckPoolNotify.py --verbose --server "smtp.gmail.com:587" --user edonkeycoin@gmail.com --users "1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX" --workers "1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.philipma1957sticks,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.edonkeystick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.VirosaGITSdonation,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.notlist3dstick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.larry12stick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.larry12s5donation,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.vapourminerstick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.fullzerostick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.Jake36stick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.TheRealStevestick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.alienesbstick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.Chris_Sabianstick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.Ecnadstick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.bmoscatosticks,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.mikestangstick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.baktegonUnit01,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.slimepuppysticks,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.slimepuppydonation,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.peptostick,1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.kipper01"
At some point I'll support a config file to make it easier to manage a large list of workers. If you're using the script and you want to update to a new version, all you have to do is stop the current script, replace it with the latest, then start it up again. If you're on the Mac and you opted to set up the script as a daemon, then you'll have to unload and reload the daemon. Here's the basic command lines to use (replace the path to the new script before using): # Copy the updated version over the old
sudo cp -rp ~/ckPoolNotify /Library/Application\ Support
# Unload and reload the daemon
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.edonkey.mining.ckpoolnotify.plist
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.edonkey.mining.ckpoolnotify.plist
It might not matter if we rely on the 1 day average, or if we add a mechanism to remember a few days worth of hash rate (which Phil suggested). There's not even a 7 day average listed on the pool, so that would have to be something a script would need to keep track of 1 day and add up, to report on. |
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Definitely the rubber chicken
Rubber chicken does it again ... and beasters - his 3rd block found for the pool  A nice B-day present would be 2 or 3 more blocks (before my rented hash ends today), with me finding 1... |
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baktegon here again! I've got them working! all 4 sticks should be pointed at the sidehack pool. I'm using regular cgminer-gekko on an ubuntu HP desktop from ages ago. All four sticks are showing hashrate in cgminer so this is good! I'm still waiting on my usb hub to run these on the raspberry pi but for the next couple of days I should be good to go. It looks like my stats are showing up at http://solo.ckpool.org/workers/1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.baktegonUnit01thanks for the help all! Are the sticks on a hub or plugged into the ports on the computer? Looks like they are dropping off, so if they are on the ports in the computer, it probably doesn't have enough power on the ports for all 4, same goes if they are in a hub. Try just 1 stick for a while and see what it does. Edit: never mind, looks like they are coming back up. |
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Only thing is, if you use an older computer around the pentium cpu time that does not have PAE, you have to use an older version of linux (some where around Ubuntu 10.04 or similar) with a NON PAE kernel (or is it PEA? one of the 2).
Sorry, I missed this post earlier. Thank you for the info, how would I go about determining if my cpu has PAE? A quick google search (since I didn't know what PAE is) shows me PAE "...allowing these CPUs to access a physical address space larger than 4 gigabytes (232 bytes)." Both my computers are old XP machines, I know XP couldn't see more than 4 gigs of ram, is this the same thing? I found this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAEAnd checking when the "Dothan" Pentium came out, it was around June/July 2004 (dam my laptop is that old ), so unless it's a dinosaur like mine, any of the newer linux should work with the trick on the above page. |
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