GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[aarons6]

Trying again by moving from raspberry to (finally!) uefi installed Ubuntu 15.10 on Win 8.1 PC.

However when loading libjannson-dev it says E: unable to locate the package libjannson-dev

Why/ is this really needed?

should I go ahead trying to build cgminer without this package and why it could be unavailable?

EDIT: tried to load the same package in raspbian-no go as well

Can someone independently test if this (libjannson-dev) went missing for some reason?

It's libjansson-dev

Thanks..stupid typo.
However, after everything (including going to gekko file) loaded:

cd cgminer-gekko results in
bash: cd: cgminer-gekko: No such file or directory

Once you do make you should be in the folder already just ./cgminer-gekko

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[Biodom]

Trying again by moving from raspberry to (finally!) uefi installed Ubuntu 15.10 on Win 8.1 PC.

However when loading libjannson-dev it says E: unable to locate the package libjannson-dev

Why/ is this really needed?

should I go ahead trying to build cgminer without this package and why it could be unavailable?

EDIT: tried to load the same package in raspbian-no go as well

Can someone independently test if this (libjannson-dev) went missing for some reason?

It's libjansson-dev

Thanks..stupid typo.
However, after everything (including going to gekko file) loaded:

cd cgminer-gekko results in
bash: cd: cgminer-gekko: No such file or directory

Once you do make you should be in the folder already just ./cgminer-gekko

i did not even get to make....following page 60 (since there is little about building cgminer now on page 1).
I did this:

Code:

wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz

tar xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz

bunch of things happen
then (at the prompt):

Code:

cd cgminer-gekko

which resulted in error message:

bash:cd: cgminer-gekko: No such file or directory

EDIT: i have done it now both on pi and on Ubuntu 15.10/win 8.1 machine (in Ubuntu) with the same error message.
I am wondering, why?

[notlist3d]

Your ambient temp seems to high -> minera shows 143 degree Fahrenheit

That's the temp of the laptop itself though, not the miner sticks.  It runs hot, always has.  I think it's a Sony thing.  The fan is barely going and it will sometimes get up near 200+ degrees and sounds like a jet engine when I'm running a bunch of stuff on it.  Had it for 3+ years though and no problems with CPU or GPU and I use to do windows 7 development on it, and anything microsoft is a resource hog.

Honestly get a RPI and you will be so thankful.  You don't need a ton of power off a machine and could save your laptop some stress of really hot.. that does not sound good.

But you could even use minera on RPI.  For a little investment your power cost vs a laptop will be decent.  And RPI's are pretty cheap.  I highly suggest getting one vs your laptop.

And very cool to see the pod in the works.  Thanks for keeping us in the loop I love watching your dev process.

[zOU]

Setup with 2x TP link UH700

Sticks running @300Mhs

[Searing]

Setup with 2x TP link UH700

Sticks running @300Mhs

er those lcd devices are no more then voltage sticks for the usb draw right? (nothing fancy like mh or some such?)

(hey even dumb questions need answers...I can't keep up with all these 'new fangled' usb gizmos)

Also what hub are you using? and you really need the 2 usb to 1 usb plugs to use it?

last question the red band on the 2 to 1 usb leads...does that mean anything on such? Just noticed yours are all 'nicely' symmetrical

(ok that should catch me up and let me 'man up' on usb gizmos etc)

 

[zOU]

Correct

http://m.ebay.com/itm/USB-Volt-Current-Voltage-Doctor-Charger-Capacity-Tester-Meter-Power-Bank-VE-/161836453062?txnId=1332323356006


The red band is the power only / no data plug.

Hubs are tp-link UH700

Usb3 provides 900mA max, my sticks need more at 300Mhs

[drew_ii]

Could be a code error and the PLL runs 205 instead of 410, which would put you at a hair over 11GH. Dunno.

I have some text grabs for you.  Same stick, same duration ~5 min runtime.
Rums approx same under Win 7 64 or RPI
CGM doesn't seem to like COMPAC @ 410


400MHz @ ~5 min = 21.78G at 1m average (allowing previous 4 mins for ramp)
         400 * 0.055 = 22.00G

Code:

 cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2016-01-04 17:10:33.438]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):18.02G (1m):21.78G (5m):13.76G (15m):6.112G (avg):21.47Gh/s
 A:512  R:0  HW:0  WU:300.0/m
 Connected to stratum.mining.eligius.st diff 512 with stratum as user 1MTeg4gPun
 Block: 508fd330...  Diff:104G  Started: [17:13:33.545]  Best share: 2.33K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [U ]SB management [P ]ool management [S ]ettings [D ]isplay options [Q ]uit
 0: COMPAC 10000762: 400MHz                  | 20.17G / 21.47Gh/s WU:300.0/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>time
The current time is: 17:15:48.39

410MHz @ ~5 min = 11.51G at 1m average (allowing previous 4 mins for ramp)
         410 * 0.055 = 22.55G

Code:

 cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2016-01-04 17:16:18.012]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):11.84G (1m):11.51G (5m):7.083G (15m):3.151G (avg):10.76Gh/s
 A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:150.8/m
 Connected to stratum.mining.eligius.st diff 512 with stratum as user 1MTeg4gPun
 Block: 508fd330...  Diff:104G  Started: [17:16:18.119]  Best share: 275
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: COMPAC 10000762: 410MHz                  | 13.44G / 10.79Gh/s WU:150.8/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>time
The current time is: 17:22:06.93

415MHz @ ~5 min = 23.01G at 1m average (allowing previous 4 mins for ramp)
         415 * 0.055 = 22.82G

Code:

 cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2016-01-04 17:28:09.263]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):22.20G (1m):23.01G (5m):14.90G (15m):6.735G (avg):22.71Gh/s
 A:1536  R:0  HW:0  WU:317.9/m
 Connected to stratum.mining.eligius.st diff 512 with stratum as user 1MTeg4gPun
 Block: 305653a9...  Diff:104G  Started: [17:28:09.370]  Best share: 3.01K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: COMPAC 10000762: 415MHz                  | 24.25G / 22.75Gh/s WU:317.9/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>time
The current time is: 17:29:48.39

[sidehack]

My guess is the 410 is actually setting the chips to 205, which would give you an expected about 11.3GH. Likely we just messed up the hex value - though I think the table is copied straight off the S5.

[Deezil]

Honestly get a RPI and you will be so thankful.  You don't need a ton of power off a machine and could save your laptop some stress of really hot.. that does not sound good.

But you could even use minera on RPI.  For a little investment your power cost vs a laptop will be decent.  And RPI's are pretty cheap.  I highly suggest getting one vs your laptop.

And very cool to see the pod in the works.  Thanks for keeping us in the loop I love watching your dev process.

I have an RPi B+ and I got the minera RPi image from the support page here and had it all setup, but it wouldn't work with my 3.0 hubs.  Before I could get my hands on a 2.0 hub to act as the middle man, my son got a gopro for christmas and I sacrificed my only microsd from the pi so he could use the camera.  I just ordered a new bigger microsd and will set it all up again when it comes in.  I already have a subdomain forwarded to the lightppd server on my laptop so I can just browse to the minera page from anywhere, I'm going to set the RPi up the same way.

I don't think the laptop is really stressed, All it does is run Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and minera. Not nearly as much as when it had windows 7.  It's got an Core i7-2640M / Radeon HD 6630M and 8 GB of Ram.  But all that is crammed into a really flat case.  I don't know how they got a fan in there but it's got a really powerful/loud when it gets real hot.  It sits on its dock all the time and that has some warmth of it's own as well that contributes to the overall temp.  The area near my desk stays relatively warm with the laptop, two desktops, and the 12 miners all going pretty much 24/7 

[aarons6]

ive never tried minera, if i install it on ubuntu 14.04 can i connect to it over web like cryptoglance?

edit never mind.. i installed it..

for anyone else installing to ubuntu 14.04 it tells you to put it in /var/www/minera but you need to put it in /var/www/html/minera


it seems to be working tho, looks good.

[Biodom]

I understand that cgminer works for most, but it is in reverse for me:

bfgminer works beautifully, on all sticks, both on pi zero and pi2 revB, but cgminer-gekko does not work on pi and on linux PC.
maybe once they worked on bfgminer, then sticks have some setting change, but I doubt it. It remains a mystery.

I have cgminer-gekko compiled and built (kudos to aarons6) .
watch for cgminer-gekko-rev2 instead of cgminer-gekko directory that is being built after you untar cgminer-gekko.tar.gz file.
Yes, you can see this (that it is going to cgminer-gekko-rev2) if you keep staring at the screen as it is being done, but I didn't (initially).
once cgminer was done and I can see that it could connect to stratum.mining.eligius.st (and see blocks), the following command was shown:

Gekko detect (1:13) failed to initialize (incorrect device?)

Back to bfgminer and everything works again.
A bummer.

Have to think and try again.

[Deezil]

ive never tried minera, if i install it on ubuntu 14.04 can i connect to it over web like cryptoglance?

Yeah that's what I did.  It installs as it's own user.  I can login from anywhere now.  I just forwarded one of my domain names to my gateway, and from there to the http port on my ubuntu "server".  It has control for network miners as well.  Was a bit tricky to get it all setup adding the custom miner and all, but there's plenty of documentation out there.  Make sure you change the defualt minera admin login and minera site login credentials if you plan to expose it to the web.

[drew_ii]

I understand that cgminer works for most, but it is in reverse for me:

bfgminer works beautifully, on all sticks, both on pi zero and pi2 revB, but cgminer-gekko does not work on pi and on linux PC.
maybe once they worked on bfgminer, then sticks have some setting change, but I doubt it. It remains a mystery.

I have cgminer-gekko compiled and built (kudos to aarons6) .
watch for cgminer-gekko-rev2 instead of cgminer-gekko directory that is being built after you untar cgminer-gekko.tar.gz file.
Yes, you can see this (that it is going to cgminer-gekko-rev2) if you keep staring at the screen as it is being done, but I didn't (initially).
once cgminer was done and I can see that it could connect to stratum.mining.eligius.st (and see blocks), the following command was shown:

Gekko detect (1:13) failed to initialize (incorrect device?)

Back to bfgminer and everything works again.
A bummer.

Have to think and try again.

You have to run in sudo from the root folder containing the build.

Code:

sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u <username> --compac-freq <frq>

It has something to do with permissions to access the USB devices somehow, I just stumbled across it late last night when i was heading to bed so didn't read too much into it.  I just know that if I launch a terminal on RPI and sudo it, it runs beautifully.  If I don't sudo, or su, it gives me the same error.

It might be that Pi has the generic user that logs into desktop at boot, and pi (which has su access) and root... and that the /etc or /dev compac's aren't set with enough x permissions for non-root groups, but now we're getting into file and group and user permissions in *nix, which is 95% alien to me.

[Biodom]

thanks to everybody who helped this stick newb with cgminer.
finally cgminer-gekko is working and I can manipulate the stick at various settings.

quick questions:

1. do you have to do sudo reboot everytime you change something in hardware setup? it looks like this to me.
2. 800mv/433 mhz somehow resulted in stick not initializing, but it initialized OK with wiper at 3pm (750-760mv?) at 350mhz.

Q: which course of action is generally better: keep mv same (750) and see up to which mhz it will initialize OR increase mv to max (800) and then see which mhz will work?

It looks like even at 750/350 stick fluctuates wildly between 16 and 24Gh/s with average ~19 Gh/s (WU 265).
In my crazy setup watts and amperage from hub are not a problem.

[sidehack]

Bitmain's BM1384 chart notes 325MHz at 750mV, so running 350MHz is pretty decent. And 350MHz should average you 19.25GH. Which by my estimates would be about WU 268. So it sounds like you're pretty much right on target. Most people can't get sticks too far past 400MHz at 800mV. Recall the S5 "defaults" to 800mV (from a 12V source, assuming balanced nodes) and its stock clock is 350MHz.

Whether you set voltage and increase clock or set clock and decrease voltage really depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want the most hashrate for a given power output, or just the absolute most hashrate, will have different strategies.

[Biodom]

Bitmain's BM1384 chart notes 325MHz at 750mV, so running 350MHz is pretty decent. And 350MHz should average you 19.25GH. Which by my estimates would be about WU 268. So it sounds like you're pretty much right on target. Most people can't get sticks too far past 400MHz at 800mV. Recall the S5 "defaults" to 800mV (from a 12V source, assuming balanced nodes) and its stock clock is 350MHz.

Whether you set voltage and increase clock or set clock and decrease voltage really depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want the most hashrate for a given power output, or just the absolute most hashrate, will have different strategies.

I want to beat the Gekkoscience stick hashrate (Gh/s on 24hr average) world record, everything else is secondary...
Max does not count  ...cheers

[Deezil]

Bitmain's BM1384 chart notes 325MHz at 750mV, so running 350MHz is pretty decent. And 350MHz should average you 19.25GH. Which by my estimates would be about WU 268. So it sounds like you're pretty much right on target. Most people can't get sticks too far past 400MHz at 800mV. Recall the S5 "defaults" to 800mV (from a 12V source, assuming balanced nodes) and its stock clock is 350MHz.

Whether you set voltage and increase clock or set clock and decrease voltage really depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want the most hashrate for a given power output, or just the absolute most hashrate, will have different strategies.

I want to beat the Gekkoscience stick hashrate (Gh/s on 24hr average) world record, everything else is secondary...
Max does not count  ...cheers

Do I smell a challenge??     I can break out my setup, add my RPi and just run two sticks on a hub, I bet I can get 437 (or maybe 450MHz muahahaha).  What's the current record?

[Jake36]

Bitmain's BM1384 chart notes 325MHz at 750mV, so running 350MHz is pretty decent. And 350MHz should average you 19.25GH. Which by my estimates would be about WU 268. So it sounds like you're pretty much right on target. Most people can't get sticks too far past 400MHz at 800mV. Recall the S5 "defaults" to 800mV (from a 12V source, assuming balanced nodes) and its stock clock is 350MHz.

Whether you set voltage and increase clock or set clock and decrease voltage really depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want the most hashrate for a given power output, or just the absolute most hashrate, will have different strategies.

I want to beat the Gekkoscience stick hashrate (Gh/s on 24hr average) world record, everything else is secondary...
Max does not count  ...cheers

Do I smell a challenge??     I can break out my setup, add my RPi and just run two sticks on a hub, I bet I can get 437 (or maybe 450MHz muahahaha).  What's the current record?

Don't think it's the record, but I did 435MHz in the compac solo pool club's 24 hour stock stick over-clock contest that won (I actually let it run for 60 hours before I shut it down).

As for a challenge, I see where there may be a another contest coming up...

[Mikestang]

I think the record is held by sidehack with a one-off stick he beefed up, or does that not count?

The up-coming "no limit" oc stick contest should prove interesting.

[RichBC]

Don't think it's the record, but I did 435MHz in the compac solo pool club's 24 hour stock stick over-clock contest that won (I actually let it run for 60 hours before I shut it down).

As for a challenge, I see where there may be a another contest coming up...

I would be up for a contest.... Mine is plugged via a Hub into an Antrouter R1. Best reliable speed I have is 375MHz, at 400MHz ir runs but does not give the correct increase in hash rate so some work needed.


Rich