Avalon Nano - Stick Mining Fun!

[notlist3d]

For my combined birthday and Father's Day gift my son gave me an Avalon Nano (I've got a great son).  The software installation and configuration was, er, not trivial but I got it going http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1NFpUu9D76jRL9m2TAdcKjgwr8axLg4YqN (give it time).  One thing I've notice; a couple of times now it got "stuck" in sleep mode.  It wasn't too tough to get it going again but it requires attention; I want it to run unattended.  Anyone else seen this behavior?

Do you have a fan pushing air on it?  The nano can get pretty hot and it  would effect it's preformance.

And yea there are actually 2 gui's.  One is in English and easier to use for my language.  The second looks nicer but was in Chinese (they could have added English I have not looked recently)

 If a fan does not work you can try to run cgminer without the gui.  The commands are in the thread to do that.

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[David Rabahy]

Do you have a fan pushing air on it?  The nano can get pretty hot and it  would effect it's preformance.

And yea there are actually 2 gui's.  One is in English and easier to use for my language.  The second looks nicer but was in Chinese (they could have added English I have not looked recently)

 If a fan does not work you can try to run cgminer without the gui.  The commands are in the thread to do that.

No fan; I was thinking it would cool enough without one to get going by itself without having to be prodded along so often.  Perhaps I will try writing a script to get it going automatically.

[notlist3d]

Do you have a fan pushing air on it?  The nano can get pretty hot and it  would effect it's preformance.

And yea there are actually 2 gui's.  One is in English and easier to use for my language.  The second looks nicer but was in Chinese (they could have added English I have not looked recently)

 If a fan does not work you can try to run cgminer without the gui.  The commands are in the thread to do that.

No fan; I was thinking it would cool enough without one to get going by itself without having to be prodded along so often.  Perhaps I will try writing a script to get it going automatically.

Chances are you are going to need a fan it runs pretty hot (at least mine did when I ran it).  When it get's hot it slows down.  So no fan.... good chance problem is there.

And it is very easy you can make a batch file for cgminer if you don't want to use gui.  Takes a few minutes at most.

[David Rabahy]

toggle = 0
#MaxThreadsPerHotkey 2
z::              ;hit z to toggle script on and off.
    Toggle := !Toggle
     While Toggle{
   Click
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {space}
   Send, {backspace}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {enter}
   Sleep, 240000
    }
return

esc::exitapp ;Kills script

[notlist3d]

toggle = 0
#MaxThreadsPerHotkey 2
z::              ;hit z to toggle script on and off.
    Toggle := !Toggle
     While Toggle{
   Click
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {space}
   Send, {backspace}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {enter}
   Sleep, 240000
    }
return

esc::exitapp ;Kills script

I could be having a moment of not remembering something.  But what language did your write the script in?

[David Rabahy]

I could be having a moment of not remembering something.  But what language did your write the script in?

AutoHotkey http://www.autohotkey.com/

[David Rabahy]

My script could use improvement; as is, it requires the GUI remain the window with focus which is inconvenient.

[notlist3d]

I could be having a moment of not remembering something.  But what language did your write the script in?

AutoHotkey http://www.autohotkey.com/

Thanks for adding another method to make it run.

I suggest going for batch file for most.  With it you dont need any other software on windows and can change arguments with CGMiner.

But definitely thanks for addition!

[nby]

I received one of these at the beginning of this week, I put it at work and this is what it's giving me atm:

cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2015-07-22 19:47:54.802]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):5.029G (1m):4.865G (5m):4.818G (15m):4.811G (avg):4.800Gh/s
 A:9624  R:0  HW:663  WU:52.0/m

I had a spare cpu cooling fan, I decided to give it a try putting it above the stick heatsink. Without the fan the stick was mining at an average of 3.7Gh/s, with a WU of about 23.0/m - it really gets hot

Just to share it, I'm having fun with it - it's my first miner after all 

[notlist3d]

I received one of these at the beginning of this week, I put it at work and this is what it's giving me atm:

cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2015-07-22 19:47:54.802]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):5.029G (1m):4.865G (5m):4.818G (15m):4.811G (avg):4.800Gh/s
 A:9624  R:0  HW:663  WU:52.0/m

I had a spare cpu cooling fan, I decided to give it a try putting it above the stick heatsink. Without the fan the stick was mining at an average of 3.7Gh/s, with a WU of about 23.0/m - it really gets hot

Just to share it, I'm having fun with it - it's my first miner after all 

Glad to hear we have a new miner!  Welcome to the club.

And I do highly suggest a fan or something to keep heat down.  Without a fan it just gets to hot and slows down.   It does not have the biggest heat sink on it so the active cooling really helps.

[jmashore]

Hello, I'm new to the whole bitcoin process. However, to hopeful get a grasp of things I purchased an Avalon Nano. I am running a full node on my machine, and have installed the avalon nano driver and associated cgminer software as per the directions at the beginning of this thread.

I'm able to bring up the Avalon miner software without issue. My system recognizes the USB device on com3. The light on the USB device is green. I have a avalon.ini sitting in the same folder as my avalon software, and the cgminer software is a subfolder of that.

My .ini has a config line :
[PoolInfo_1]
PoolURL=stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.bitcoin.cz
PoolPort=3333
WorkerName=my_login.worker1
WorkerPassword=1234

[PoolInfo_2]
PoolURL=/
PoolPort=80
WorkerName=/
WorkerPassword=/

[PoolInfo_3]
PoolURL=/
PoolPort=80
WorkerName=/
WorkerPassword=/
[Avalon]
Log=avalon.log
Parameters=-T, -S, ICA:\\\\.\\COM3, --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

I've also create a mining account at bitcoin.cz.

When i bring up the Avalon miner application and click "start mining", it shows a completely different configuration.

I've looked in the Avalon log file and it has this :
[2015-12-08 11:31:21] Started bfgminer 4.0.0
 [2015-12-08 11:31:21] Failed to open Device Parameters registry key in lowl-vcom.c _vcom_devinfo_scan_windows__hubport():440: The system cannot find the file specified.

Any help would be appreciated. As I said, I'm just starting out, so all of this is a bit overwhelming to take in.

Thanks !
J.

[notlist3d]

So are you trying to use the GUI or are you using a cgminer you mention in folder?   If using the GUI which one is it the one on first page? There are 2 that I know of of top of head they had at one time for it.

On "my_login.worker1" you dont have a"_" and a "." in your login do you?  i'm guessing not but wanted to make sure.

[jmashore]

No, there are no special characters in the real login.
And yes, the second screen with the Tabs is the one that shows at the beginning of this thread.

Well, the whole thing is very confusing to me.
When I plug the miner into the USB Port the first thing that Pops up is a screen written in Chinese listing what I think is a list of connections.
Then a pretty big ICON shows up on my desktop looking somewhat like a key with a USB symbol the number 1 and then some chinese and the number 0.

Then when I click on the actual Avalon Miner shortcut : "E:\Bitcoin\bootstrap\nano\Avalon nano QuickStart\AvalonMiner.Qt4MSVC\AvalonMiner.Qt4MSVC\AvalonMiner.exe"

Up comes another box labeled as Avalon Miner with two tabs. One for Settins and one for Status. My pool connection shows up in the Settings Tab. But when I click on "Start Mining" the Title bar switches to green and says it's "Mining" but a look at the Avalon Log file shows this :

[2015-12-09 19:53:04] Failed to open Device Parameters registry key in lowl-vcom.c _vcom_devinfo_scan_windows__hubport():440: The system cannot find the file specified.
 [2015-12-09 19:53:04] Do not have user privileges required to open \\.\COM3

I'm pretty much totally lost at this point.

REVISED : Problem was POWER
I had plugged the Stick into a USB Port that was underpowered. I moved the stick to plug directly into my powered hub and everything fired up as expected.

[notlist3d]

No, there are no special characters in the real login.
And yes, the second screen with the Tabs is the one that shows at the beginning of this thread.

Well, the whole thing is very confusing to me.
When I plug the miner into the USB Port the first thing that Pops up is a screen written in Chinese listing what I think is a list of connections.
Then a pretty big ICON shows up on my desktop looking somewhat like a key with a USB symbol the number 1 and then some chinese and the number 0.

Then when I click on the actual Avalon Miner shortcut : "E:\Bitcoin\bootstrap\nano\Avalon nano QuickStart\AvalonMiner.Qt4MSVC\AvalonMiner.Qt4MSVC\AvalonMiner.exe"

Up comes another box labeled as Avalon Miner with two tabs. One for Settins and one for Status. My pool connection shows up in the Settings Tab. But when I click on "Start Mining" the Title bar switches to green and says it's "Mining" but a look at the Avalon Log file shows this :

[2015-12-09 19:53:04] Failed to open Device Parameters registry key in lowl-vcom.c _vcom_devinfo_scan_windows__hubport():440: The system cannot find the file specified.
 [2015-12-09 19:53:04] Do not have user privileges required to open \\.\COM3

I'm pretty much totally lost at this point.

REVISED : Problem was POWER
I had plugged the Stick into a USB Port that was underpowered. I moved the stick to plug directly into my powered hub and everything fired up as expected.

Thanks for update glad to hear you got it working.    Best of luck to you with your mining on it!

[jmashore]

Just wanted to give a little update for those that are just starting out and "playing" with stick miners. With a small fan blowing on the heatsink it appears to run between 4.75 and 3.75Ghz. I stuck it on bitcoincz to mine for 24 hours..and managed to gather up 0.00000229 BTC. That's a pretty small number, but it was gratifying to just learn how things work and interact with eachother.

Many thanks to this forum as it was an invaluable guide to getting "online"...

[baazju]

Link dead :/

[jphelps]

Ok so i just got mine to work  it says its mining at .001 Gh/s while its a 3.6 gh/s chip, the light is still green on it too, shouldnt it change if its mining, im also using slush's pool and the avalon gui

[baazju]

Ok so i just got mine to work  it says its mining at .001 Gh/s while its a 3.6 gh/s chip, the light is still green on it too, shouldnt it change if its mining, im also using slush's pool and the avalon gui

My website is down unfortunately, so the guide isn't working. But you should definitely be getting more than .001Gh/s. Where are you getting that number from? If it is from Slush it may not be accurate.

[notlist3d]

Ok so i just got mine to work  it says its mining at .001 Gh/s while its a 3.6 gh/s chip, the light is still green on it too, shouldnt it change if its mining, im also using slush's pool and the avalon gui

My website is down unfortunately, so the guide isn't working. But you should definitely be getting more than .001Gh/s. Where are you getting that number from? If it is from Slush it may not be accurate.

I wonder the same thing.  Ehash has some drivers and GUI on their site.  It should work/detect and get the 3.6ish.

I would check Ehash out on downloads if your are not familiar with command line with mining.

[jphelps]

Ok so i just got mine to work  it says its mining at .001 Gh/s while its a 3.6 gh/s chip, the light is still green on it too, shouldnt it change if its mining, im also using slush's pool and the avalon gui

My website is down unfortunately, so the guide isn't working. But you should definitely be getting more than .001Gh/s. Where are you getting that number from? If it is from Slush it may not be accurate.

I wonder the same thing.  Ehash has some drivers and GUI on their site.  It should work/detect and get the 3.6ish.

I would check Ehash out on downloads if your are not familiar with command line with mining.

im getting the number from the gui that was in this thread