Gridseed 5 and Raspberry Pi

[EastonCoinz]

Hello all,

I have recently begun mining with an Antminer U2 with a raspberry pi running Minepeon and all is well. However, I have just ordered a Gridseed 5 Chip that can mine both Bitcoin and Litecoin. After looking around I realized that using the Gridseed may not be as simple as plug and play as the Antminer USB sticks are. From this does anyone know of a way I can run my Gridseed 5 with my raspberry pi, and even perhaps mine Litecoin as well as Bitcoin at the same time? (preferably Bitcoin though).

Any help would be greatly appreciated

-Tom

[philipma1957]

Hello all,

I have recently begun mining with an Antminer U2 with a raspberry pi running Minepeon and all is well. However, I have just ordered a Gridseed 5 Chip that can mine both Bitcoin and Litecoin. After looking around I realized that using the Gridseed may not be as simple as plug and play as the Antminer USB sticks are. From this does anyone know of a way I can run my Gridseed 5 with my raspberry pi, and even perhaps mine Litecoin as well as Bitcoin at the same time? (preferably Bitcoin though).

Any help would be greatly appreciated

-Tom

no  I never ran mine on a rasp pi.

Also do not run it on btc

they suck badly at btc  hot and power  hogs.  they will kill your power brick

[EastonCoinz]

Hello there,

I'm not looking for anything to earn me money so 11Gh/s is plenty of power for me

-Tom

[philipma1957]

Hello there,

I'm not looking for anything to earn me money so 11Gh/s is plenty of power for me

-Tom

Lets try again if you mine the Gridseed 5 on BTC you stand a huge chance of burnt gear.

 It is really not able to do well when mining btc it runs really fucking hot and pulls 5x the watts as when you run it on LTC,

[daddyfatsax]

Hello there,

I'm not looking for anything to earn me money so 11Gh/s is plenty of power for me

-Tom

Lets try again if you mine the Gridseed 5 on BTC you stand a huge chance of burnt gear.

 It is really not able to do well when mining btc it runs really fucking hot and pulls 5x the watts as when you run it on LTC,

Phil is correct. I had 20 of them running off a pi for LTC only. You would be better off to solo mine LTC on a pool with them.

[spazzdla]

IMO use the greedseed for LTC

Buy a "new R-box" from rockminer.com.  I have one, bought it from them, live in Canada.  It's been mining no issues for months.

[vm_mpn]

Hello all,

I have recently begun mining with an Antminer U2 with a raspberry pi running Minepeon and all is well. However, I have just ordered a Gridseed 5 Chip that can mine both Bitcoin and Litecoin. After looking around I realized that using the Gridseed may not be as simple as plug and play as the Antminer USB sticks are. From this does anyone know of a way I can run my Gridseed 5 with my raspberry pi, and even perhaps mine Litecoin as well as Bitcoin at the same time? (preferably Bitcoin though).

Any help would be greatly appreciated

-Tom

HASHRA MINI CONTROLA it's the only out of the box dual-miner designed to work with GS5 orbs I know of... Unfortunately hashra.com has been down for a while so you will need to search bitcointalk and litecointalk to see if anybody has links to those ras.pi images. Another problem is HASHRA firmware has outdated hardware support and most likely will not recognize your U2 if you are planning to run everything on the same ras.pi.

May be you want to consider compiling your own cgminer or sgminar on ras.pi which will support all your miners - accept my apology I've done this some time ago and do not remember exactly which one I've tried... Possibly this one: https://github.com/dmaxl/cgminer/

[Amph]

i have those(3 but they caught on fire don't know why....), they are not worth it anymore, too much noise for nothing, also for btc you need the fan to spin instead for litecoin(general scrypt) you can remove it

here a guide anyway https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494625.msg5448813#msg5448813