New GekkoScience product, the Compac A1

[sidehack]

I'm not sure of the specifics of running a solo node, but you should be able to point cgminer at your local for work generation. I tend to solo using a solo pool (like kano's solo) but I know mining entirely to a local node is possible.

Instead of looking specifically for information for this miner, look up information for cgminer in general and go from there.

[Nexus9090]

I'm not sure of the specifics of running a solo node, but you should be able to point cgminer at your local for work generation. I tend to solo using a solo pool (like kano's solo) but I know mining entirely to a local node is possible.

Instead of looking specifically for information for this miner, look up information for cgminer in general and go from there.

There's a good thread here for setting up a solo bitcoin node.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415335.0

Though I don't think Kano has imported the modifications required to his branch of CGMiner to allow it to mine to Bitcoind directly.

I had to mod Kano's CGMiner 4.12.1 with the changes from https://github.com/cmmodtools/cgminer to make it work.

So its not straight forward unfortunately.


Using stock CGMiner from Kano https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/ with a solo pool is far easier for the novice and that would be my preferred route too after finding out the effort required to set-up a local bitcoind node.

[MaxMidnite]

I'm not sure of the specifics of running a solo node, but you should be able to point cgminer at your local for work generation. I tend to solo using a solo pool (like kano's solo) but I know mining entirely to a local node is possible.

Instead of looking specifically for information for this miner, look up information for cgminer in general and go from there.

There's a good thread here for setting up a solo bitcoin node.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415335.0

Though I don't think Kano has imported the modifications required to his branch of CGMiner to allow it to mine to Bitcoind directly.

I had to mod Kano's CGMiner 4.12.1 with the changes from https://github.com/cmmodtools/cgminer to make it work.

So its not straight forward unfortunately.


Using stock CGMiner from Kano https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/ with a solo pool is far easier for the novice and that would be my preferred route too after finding out the effort required to set-up a local bitcoind node.

Fair enough, was told to run umbrel - but have concerns around security and research done on net. Cittadel is another example, as not many people have done this, was up for a challange, if cannot be done then i mine to a pool, not a issue.

[MaxMidnite]

I'm not sure of the specifics of running a solo node, but you should be able to point cgminer at your local for work generation. I tend to solo using a solo pool (like kano's solo) but I know mining entirely to a local node is possible.

Instead of looking specifically for information for this miner, look up information for cgminer in general and go from there.

Thank you, I have a Rasberry Pi5 so wanted to use it instead of spending more on purchasing the SmartHub.
Would you recommend a operating system for the Pi5 to run the cgminer to mine to Kanos pool, plan to purchase 1 compac A1 and then additional as time goes on.
I'm also not sure how many A1s can a Pi power from standard pi powercable

[Nexus9090]

Fair enough, was told to run umbrel - but have concerns around security and research done on net. Cittadel is another example, as not many people have done this, was up for a challange, if cannot be done then i mine to a pool, not a issue.

CGMiner has been the core of bitcoin mining used by thousands of people, these other mining software solutions you mention dont even come up on my radar to be honest and as you say are likely to be full of security issues.

CGMiner from Kano is tried and tested, apart from which it is the only current release source that has driver the for the CompacA1

As for your other comment on Raspberry PI5, CGMiner can be run on a PI5, I've done it myself, but you have to compile the software on an earlier model PI board as the current core software release for PI5 GCC is buggy so won't compile CGMiner correctly.

There's a thread on that issue from Kano here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5476416.msg63287718#msg63287718


If you have a PI3B or PI4, follow the instructions on Kano's github for building under Linux https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/

Once compiled, then you're free to copy the compiled cgminer binary onto your PI5 and it should run fine.

[slurfius]

Ran zadig 2.9 and successfully installed winusb on asic bus the only new device listed. Now cgminer doesn’t recognize a1 only f

[jeyzeus]

Hi all,

Im new to this miner, I was wondering if @sidehack you can help me understand about it,
There really is not proper guides on the net.

My plan is to plug this into a Rasberry 5, running a bitcoin node such as Start9orCitadel.

This way it be my own solo miner.

But Im not sure the software is compatible, if not running on node then maybe just run it of Rasberry Pi 5,

Hope this makes sense?

look into public pool if you'd like to mine to your own node/pool. pretty sure you can compile that locally if you have access to the terminal.

https://github.com/benjamin-wilson/public-pool

as for running the usb stick miner on the raspberry pi 5, while i don't have a Pi 5, i have mynode running on a pi 4/compac F. if you install tmux, you should be able to run the miner "in a separate window" that runs in the background.

[slurfius]

Ran zadig 2.9 and successfully installed winusb on asic bus the only new device listed. Now cgminer doesn’t recognize a1 only f

TEL bus added winusb and I got the a1 mining

[MaxMidnite]

Hi all,

Im new to this miner, I was wondering if @sidehack you can help me understand about it,
There really is not proper guides on the net.

My plan is to plug this into a Rasberry 5, running a bitcoin node such as Start9orCitadel.

This way it be my own solo miner.

But Im not sure the software is compatible, if not running on node then maybe just run it of Rasberry Pi 5,

Hope this makes sense?

look into public pool if you'd like to mine to your own node/pool. pretty sure you can compile that locally if you have access to the terminal.

https://github.com/benjamin-wilson/public-pool

as for running the usb stick miner on the raspberry pi 5, while i don't have a Pi 5, i have mynode running on a pi 4/compac F. if you install tmux, you should be able to run the miner "in a separate window" that runs in the background.

The plan is to install Start9 - when the new version comes out, install the pool you mentioned, but not heard of tmux, do you have a guide?
Its a POC I'm doing, a previous poster mentioned the miner software will not work on pi5 is this something @kano you can get to work?

[MaxMidnite]

Generally guys I have a BitAxe and was curious to by the new Supra version of the Compac A1 which go for about the same price.
Only reason I wanted to check out the A1 as thought it maybe something intresting and not so hyped like the Bitaxe versions to come.
To me it seems more complex :-(

[jeyzeus]

Hi all,

Im new to this miner, I was wondering if @sidehack you can help me understand about it,
There really is not proper guides on the net.

My plan is to plug this into a Rasberry 5, running a bitcoin node such as Start9orCitadel.

This way it be my own solo miner.

But Im not sure the software is compatible, if not running on node then maybe just run it of Rasberry Pi 5,

Hope this makes sense?

look into public pool if you'd like to mine to your own node/pool. pretty sure you can compile that locally if you have access to the terminal.

https://github.com/benjamin-wilson/public-pool

as for running the usb stick miner on the raspberry pi 5, while i don't have a Pi 5, i have mynode running on a pi 4/compac F. if you install tmux, you should be able to run the miner "in a separate window" that runs in the background.

The plan is to install Start9 - when the new version comes out, install the pool you mentioned, but not heard of tmux, do you have a guide?
Its a POC I'm doing, a previous poster mentioned the miner software will not work on pi5 is this something @kano you can get to work?

yep, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFEIp4E2f1M

[kano]

Fair enough, was told to run umbrel - but have concerns around security and research done on net. Cittadel is another example, as not many people have done this, was up for a challange, if cannot be done then i mine to a pool, not a issue.

CGMiner has been the core of bitcoin mining used by thousands of people, these other mining software solutions you mention dont even come up on my radar to be honest and as you say are likely to be full of security issues.

CGMiner from Kano is tried and tested, apart from which it is the only current release source that has driver the for the CompacA1

As for your other comment on Raspberry PI5, CGMiner can be run on a PI5, I've done it myself, but you have to compile the software on an earlier model PI board as the current core software release for PI5 GCC is buggy so won't compile CGMiner correctly.

There's a thread on that issue from Kano here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5476416.msg63287718#msg63287718


If you have a PI3B or PI4, follow the instructions on Kano's github for building under Linux https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/

Once compiled, then you're free to copy the compiled cgminer binary onto your PI5 and it should run fine.

Ubuntu runs on the RPi5, RPi4, RPi3, RPi2zeroW etc
Latest version works fine for RPi5, with a more recent GCC than the buggy old RPi OS by the Raspberry people

As I've said already it is the Raspberry OS GCC that is broken, it says (TMPBUFSIZ/2)-1 is greater than TMPBUFSIZ (8192)
you can't fix that - obviously, you need to fix that GCC, which Raspberry will probably never bother to do, so don't use it, use a more recent Ubuntu

[Nexus9090]

-SNIP-

Ubuntu runs on the RPi5, RPi4, RPi3, RPi2zeroW etc
Latest version works fine for RPi5, with a more recent GCC than the buggy old RPi OS by the Raspberry people

As I've said already it is the Raspberry OS GCC that is broken, it says (TMPBUFSIZ/2)-1 is greater than TMPBUFSIZ (8192)
you can't fix that - obviously, you need to fix that GCC, which Raspberry will probably never bother to do, so don't use it, use a more recent Ubuntu

Thanks Kano,

With PI i've always used the stock images from Raspberry, I think its bullseye that I'm running on most of my boards, for the most part it just works.

Though with one of my set-ups I've seen some weird issues with USB and LIBUSB dissappears up its own behind. I think it might just be that one PI board though, all the rest run fine.

Its only on the PI5 there's ever been an issue with building CGMiner, for exactly the reasons you mention.

I worked around that by copying the binary from a build off an earlier PI, that works fine on the PI5. I've had that running one of my rigs for about 2 months now.

I've not tried running Ubuntu on PI. Now you've mentioned it I'll give it a go at some point.

Cheers

G.