Linux mining distro for the Raspberry PI - MinePeon

[kano]

Yeah I left justified the Uptime also (which is in your version) due to running out of space when it reaches 100hrs
My suggestion would be a ticker style display of the last line scrolling with the WU: in it also ... but I don't know if that is easy or hard.

[southerngentuk]

I would like a change to the pool details if possible, all I see is stratum+tc if this line could be expanded or could be adjusted in the script to be user defined
e.g. stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 then output = Eligius   
This would be most helpful..
I love the work your putting into this.
I've now received my second PI so can play more once I have spare time. Have sort of been holding back for Neil to release the 0.2.3 though.
 

[Blood Ninja]

I saw on this forum somewhere an image of a mining rig with an LCD display showing its vital stats. Can this be done with MinePeon? Are there instructions anywhere?

As cardcomm mentioned in this thread
https://github.com/cardcomm/cgminerLCDStats/blob/master/MinePeon%20Install.md

I get his error when i run

Make sure we have all the latest MinePeon packages:
cd /opt/minepeon/
git pull


error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
        etc/miner.conf.donate
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.

[kano]

I saw on this forum somewhere an image of a mining rig with an LCD display showing its vital stats. Can this be done with MinePeon? Are there instructions anywhere?

As cardcomm mentioned in this thread
https://github.com/cardcomm/cgminerLCDStats/blob/master/MinePeon%20Install.md

I get his error when i run

Make sure we have all the latest MinePeon packages:
cd /opt/minepeon/
git pull


error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
        etc/miner.conf.donate
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.

git checkout etc/miner.conf.donate
git pull

[cardcomm]

I would like a change to the pool details if possible, all I see is stratum+tc if this line could be expanded or could be adjusted in the script to be user defined
e.g. stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 then output = Eligius   
This would be most helpful..
I love the work your putting into this.
I've now received my second PI so can play more once I have spare time. Have sort of been holding back for Neil to release the 0.2.3 though.
 

Thanks for the positive comments

This issue has been "kind of" addressed in the latest version of the code. I'm attempting to do some "intelligent" truncating of the URL line by removing certain pieces I think are never useful for display. For example, I'm stripping out "stratum.", so with the new code you will probably see something like "mining.el". I'll change the code to also strip out "mining." which should fix the issue in your case.

Without knowing a lot of pool URLs, it's hard to know what to strip out. Any suggestions on URL segments to always remove? I think the current list is "stratum.", "www.", ".com", and now "mining.".

[cardcomm]

I saw on this forum somewhere an image of a mining rig with an LCD display showing its vital stats. Can this be done with MinePeon? Are there instructions anywhere?

As cardcomm mentioned in this thread
https://github.com/cardcomm/cgminerLCDStats/blob/master/MinePeon%20Install.md

I get his error when i run

Make sure we have all the latest MinePeon packages:
cd /opt/minepeon/
git pull


error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
        etc/miner.conf.donate
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.

git checkout etc/miner.conf.donate
git pull

Very cool tip. I'll add that to the tutorial

[southerngentuk]

I would like a change to the pool details if possible, all I see is stratum+tc if this line could be expanded or could be adjusted in the script to be user defined
e.g. stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 then output = Eligius   
This would be most helpful..
I love the work your putting into this.
I've now received my second PI so can play more once I have spare time. Have sort of been holding back for Neil to release the 0.2.3 though.
 

Thanks for the positive comments

This issue has been "kind of" addressed in the latest version of the code. I'm attempting to do some "intelligent" truncating of the URL line by removing certain pieces I think are never useful for display. For example, I'm stripping out "stratum.", so with the new code you will probably see something like "mining.el". I'll change the code to also strip out "mining." which should fix the issue in your case.

Without knowing a lot of pool URLs, it's hard to know what to strip out. Any suggestions on URL segments to always remove? I think the current list is "stratum.", "www.", ".com", and now "mining.".

Ok your one step ahead of me as usual, your list does it for me. Many thanks

[kano]

I saw on this forum somewhere an image of a mining rig with an LCD display showing its vital stats. Can this be done with MinePeon? Are there instructions anywhere?

As cardcomm mentioned in this thread
https://github.com/cardcomm/cgminerLCDStats/blob/master/MinePeon%20Install.md

I get his error when i run

Make sure we have all the latest MinePeon packages:
cd /opt/minepeon/
git pull


error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
        etc/miner.conf.donate
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.

git checkout etc/miner.conf.donate
git pull

Very cool tip. I'll add that to the tutorial

Well it does have a negative side effect that in this case doesn't matter.
Any changes anyone made to etc/miner.conf.donate will be lost.
But for that file, I'm sure Neil will prefer my fix

[cardcomm]

I pushed a few updates for the LCD display code to github. The current version hopefully fixes a bug where the incorrect pool URL was sometimes displayed. (Kano: I didn't code this exactly the way we discussed, but I think it's working.) I also updated the URL display code itself. If anyone notices an incorrect or scrambled URL, let me know Note that the full pool URL will not be displayed.

Updated photo of the current display layout:



Thanks for the support and feedback, y'all.

[ct1aic]

I pushed a few updates for the LCD display code to github. The current version hopefully fixes a bug where the incorrect pool URL was sometimes displayed. (Kano: I didn't code this exactly the way we discussed, but I think it's working.) I also updated the URL display code itself. If anyone notices an incorrect or scrambled URL, let me know Note that the full pool URL will not be displayed.

Updated photo of the current display layout:



Thanks for the support and feedback, y'all.

With last LCD update, I get this info, using pool stratum.50btc.com:

cgminer version 3.3.4 - Started: [2013-08-16 20:57:11]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):3.868G (avg):4.029Gh/s | A:32676  R:19  HW:336  WU:56.2/m
 ST: 3  SS: 3  NB: 82  LW: 70494  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to stratum.50btc.com diff 1 with stratum as user bitcoin.PT@gmail.com_Rasp
 Block: 00484e60f99a48e9...  Diff:50.8M  Started: [06:30:37]  Best share: 37.1K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(P)ool management (S)ettings (D)isplay options (Q)uit
 AMU  0:                | 267.8M/335.9Mh/s | A:2703 R:2 HW:33 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU  1:                | 335.1M/335.8Mh/s | A:2678 R:2 HW:31 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  2:                | 334.9M/335.7Mh/s | A:2692 R:0 HW:20 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  3:                | 352.9M/336.0Mh/s | A:2682 R:2 HW:29 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  4:                | 335.0M/335.6Mh/s | A:2838 R:6 HW:36 WU:  4.9/m
 AMU  5:                | 302.9M/335.9Mh/s | A:2795 R:1 HW:26 WU:  4.8/m
 AMU  6:                | 335.3M/335.7Mh/s | A:2725 R:1 HW:39 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU  7:                | 274.8M/335.8Mh/s | A:2717 R:2 HW:24 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU  8:                | 335.7M/335.6Mh/s | A:2684 R:2 HW:14 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  9:                | 335.4M/335.7Mh/s | A:2708 R:0 HW:24 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU 10:                | 334.3M/336.1Mh/s | A:2636 R:1 HW:33 WU:  4.5/m
 AMU 11:                | 334.3M/335.7Mh/s | A:2818 R:0 HW:27 WU:  4.8/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2013-08-17 06:44:35] Accepted 0d37f645 Diff 19/1 AMU 5 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:36] Accepted 9cb24b57 Diff 1/1 AMU 6 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:36] Accepted 85b1c26b Diff 1/1 AMU 2 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:37] Accepted d8b21edc Diff 1/1 AMU 1 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:39] Accepted a16a3561 Diff 1/1 AMU 7 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:40] Accepted e9a1c42d Diff 1/1 AMU 6 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:43] Accepted bdbea617 Diff 1/1 AMU 11 pool 0

[Polyatomic]

I pushed a few updates for the LCD display code to github. The current version hopefully fixes a bug where the incorrect pool URL was sometimes displayed. (Kano: I didn't code this exactly the way we discussed, but I think it's working.) I also updated the URL display code itself. If anyone notices an incorrect or scrambled URL, let me know Note that the full pool URL will not be displayed.

cgminer version 3.3.4 - Started: [2013-08-16 20:57:11]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):3.868G (avg):4.029Gh/s | A:32676  R:19  HW:336  WU:56.2/m
 ST: 3  SS: 3  NB: 82  LW: 70494  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to stratum.50btc.com diff 1 with stratum as user bitcoin.PT@gmail.com_Rasp
 Block: 00484e60f99a48e9...  Diff:50.8M  Started: [06:30:37]  Best share: 37.1K

Have you tried testing with a higher difficulty ?. 32 should be ok. I can't remember if 50btc lower the fee for using a higher diff ?. Excellent work BTW on your display.

[ct1aic]

I pushed a few updates for the LCD display code to github. The current version hopefully fixes a bug where the incorrect pool URL was sometimes displayed. (Kano: I didn't code this exactly the way we discussed, but I think it's working.) I also updated the URL display code itself. If anyone notices an incorrect or scrambled URL, let me know Note that the full pool URL will not be displayed.

cgminer version 3.3.4 - Started: [2013-08-16 20:57:11]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):3.868G (avg):4.029Gh/s | A:32676  R:19  HW:336  WU:56.2/m
 ST: 3  SS: 3  NB: 82  LW: 70494  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to stratum.50btc.com diff 1 with stratum as user bitcoin.PT@gmail.com_Rasp
 Block: 00484e60f99a48e9...  Diff:50.8M  Started: [06:30:37]  Best share: 37.1K

Have you tried testing with a higher difficulty ?. 32 should be ok. I can't remember if 50btc lower the fee for using a higher diff ?.

It's @ 16 after a restart of cgminer.

[cardcomm]

With last LCD update, I get this info, using pool stratum.50btc.com:

cgminer version 3.3.4 - Started: [2013-08-16 20:57:11]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):3.868G (avg):4.029Gh/s | A:32676  R:19  HW:336  WU:56.2/m
 ST: 3  SS: 3  NB: 82  LW: 70494  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to stratum.50btc.com diff 1 with stratum as user bitcoin.PT@gmail.com_Rasp
 Block: 00484e60f99a48e9...  Diff:50.8M  Started: [06:30:37]  Best share: 37.1K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(P)ool management (S)ettings (D)isplay options (Q)uit
 AMU  0:                | 267.8M/335.9Mh/s | A:2703 R:2 HW:33 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU  1:                | 335.1M/335.8Mh/s | A:2678 R:2 HW:31 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  2:                | 334.9M/335.7Mh/s | A:2692 R:0 HW:20 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  3:                | 352.9M/336.0Mh/s | A:2682 R:2 HW:29 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  4:                | 335.0M/335.6Mh/s | A:2838 R:6 HW:36 WU:  4.9/m
 AMU  5:                | 302.9M/335.9Mh/s | A:2795 R:1 HW:26 WU:  4.8/m
 AMU  6:                | 335.3M/335.7Mh/s | A:2725 R:1 HW:39 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU  7:                | 274.8M/335.8Mh/s | A:2717 R:2 HW:24 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU  8:                | 335.7M/335.6Mh/s | A:2684 R:2 HW:14 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  9:                | 335.4M/335.7Mh/s | A:2708 R:0 HW:24 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU 10:                | 334.3M/336.1Mh/s | A:2636 R:1 HW:33 WU:  4.5/m
 AMU 11:                | 334.3M/335.7Mh/s | A:2818 R:0 HW:27 WU:  4.8/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2013-08-17 06:44:35] Accepted 0d37f645 Diff 19/1 AMU 5 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:36] Accepted 9cb24b57 Diff 1/1 AMU 6 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:36] Accepted 85b1c26b Diff 1/1 AMU 2 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:37] Accepted d8b21edc Diff 1/1 AMU 1 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:39] Accepted a16a3561 Diff 1/1 AMU 7 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:40] Accepted e9a1c42d Diff 1/1 AMU 6 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:43] Accepted bdbea617 Diff 1/1 AMU 11 pool 0

Thanks for the info. I added code to remove "stratum+tcp://" from the URL. I've seen that URL prefix in use in the some of the pool URLs I've been checking. Maybe you specified that prefix when setting up the pool?

Anyway, I'm guessing the API call is returning that as part of the URL, and you're only seeing the "stratum+" part. If my guess is right, the new code I just pushed should fix the problem.

[ct1aic]

Interesting values I get from MinePeon, when cgminer mines @ difficulty 16:


But the mathematics didn't failed. - cgminer:

cgminer version 3.3.4 - Started: [2013-08-17 07:14:03]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):3.763G (avg):4.019Gh/s | A:4872  R:96  HW:58  WU:55.8/m
 ST: 3  SS: 29  NB: 10  LW: 10805  GF: 3  RF: 0
 Connected to stratum.50btc.com diff 16 with stratum as user bitcoin.PT@gmail.com_Ras
 Block: 0053adb1ed5465e3...  Diff:50.8M  Started: [08:40:40]  Best share: 9.47K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (P)ool management (S)ettings (D)isplay options (Q)uit
 AMU  0:                | 335.1M/335.4Mh/s | A:353 R: 0 HW:4 WU:  5.1/m
 AMU  1:                | 335.4M/334.5Mh/s | A:340 R:16 HW:1 WU:  4.5/m
 AMU  2:                | 335.6M/335.2Mh/s | A:356 R: 0 HW:5 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  3:                | 335.6M/336.4Mh/s | A:403 R: 0 HW:6 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  4:                | 335.6M/334.6Mh/s | A:260 R: 0 HW:5 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  5:                | 335.8M/334.7Mh/s | A:516 R: 0 HW:9 WU:  4.8/m
 AMU  6:                | 335.3M/335.3Mh/s | A:484 R: 0 HW:4 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  7:                | 335.6M/335.5Mh/s | A:531 R: 0 HW:5 WU:  4.5/m
 AMU  8:                | 335.7M/335.0Mh/s | A:436 R:32 HW:4 WU:  4.3/m
 AMU  9:                | 335.6M/335.1Mh/s | A:435 R: 0 HW:7 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU 10:                | 335.6M/334.4Mh/s | A:307 R:48 HW:2 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU 11:                | 334.8M/334.6Mh/s | A:451 R: 0 HW:6 WU:  5.0/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2013-08-17 08:42:56] Accepted 098195c3 Diff 26/16 AMU 10 pool 3
 [2013-08-17 08:43:26] Accepted 0750c5ad Diff 34/16 AMU 7 pool 3
 [2013-08-17 08:47:58] Stratum connection to pool 3 interrupted
 [2013-08-17 08:47:58] Lost 18 shares due to stratum disconnect on pool 3
 [2013-08-17 08:48:00] Pool 3 difficulty changed to 16
 [2013-08-17 08:48:15] Accepted 057f9973 Diff 46/16 AMU 9 pool 3
 [2013-08-17 08:48:28] Accepted 05b52035 Diff 44/16 AMU 1 pool 3
 [2013-08-17 08:48:53] Accepted 0d53df0d Diff 19/16 AMU 0 pool 3
 [2013-08-17 08:48:55] Accepted 0903c153 Diff 28/16 AMU 7 pool 3
 [2013-08-17 08:49:05] Accepted 041c8188 Diff 62/16 AMU 5 pool 3
 [2013-08-17 08:49:45] Accepted 0279be74 Diff 103/16 AMU 7 pool 3

[ct1aic]

With last LCD update, I get this info, using pool stratum.50btc.com:

cgminer version 3.3.4 - Started: [2013-08-16 20:57:11]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):3.868G (avg):4.029Gh/s | A:32676  R:19  HW:336  WU:56.2/m
 ST: 3  SS: 3  NB: 82  LW: 70494  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to stratum.50btc.com diff 1 with stratum as user bitcoin.PT@gmail.com_Rasp
 Block: 00484e60f99a48e9...  Diff:50.8M  Started: [06:30:37]  Best share: 37.1K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(P)ool management (S)ettings (D)isplay options (Q)uit
 AMU  0:                | 267.8M/335.9Mh/s | A:2703 R:2 HW:33 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU  1:                | 335.1M/335.8Mh/s | A:2678 R:2 HW:31 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  2:                | 334.9M/335.7Mh/s | A:2692 R:0 HW:20 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  3:                | 352.9M/336.0Mh/s | A:2682 R:2 HW:29 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  4:                | 335.0M/335.6Mh/s | A:2838 R:6 HW:36 WU:  4.9/m
 AMU  5:                | 302.9M/335.9Mh/s | A:2795 R:1 HW:26 WU:  4.8/m
 AMU  6:                | 335.3M/335.7Mh/s | A:2725 R:1 HW:39 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU  7:                | 274.8M/335.8Mh/s | A:2717 R:2 HW:24 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU  8:                | 335.7M/335.6Mh/s | A:2684 R:2 HW:14 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU  9:                | 335.4M/335.7Mh/s | A:2708 R:0 HW:24 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU 10:                | 334.3M/336.1Mh/s | A:2636 R:1 HW:33 WU:  4.5/m
 AMU 11:                | 334.3M/335.7Mh/s | A:2818 R:0 HW:27 WU:  4.8/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2013-08-17 06:44:35] Accepted 0d37f645 Diff 19/1 AMU 5 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:36] Accepted 9cb24b57 Diff 1/1 AMU 6 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:36] Accepted 85b1c26b Diff 1/1 AMU 2 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:37] Accepted d8b21edc Diff 1/1 AMU 1 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:39] Accepted a16a3561 Diff 1/1 AMU 7 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:40] Accepted e9a1c42d Diff 1/1 AMU 6 pool 0
 [2013-08-17 06:44:43] Accepted bdbea617 Diff 1/1 AMU 11 pool 0

Thanks for the info. I added code to remove "stratum+tcp://" from the URL. I've seen that URL prefix in use in the some of the pool URLs I've been checking. Maybe you specified that prefix when setting up the pool?

Anyway, I'm guessing the API call is returning that as part of the URL, and you're only seeing the "stratum+" part. If my guess is right, the new code I just pushed should fix the problem.

The link I put @ the pool is

pool.50btc.com:8332

The pool does the rest  

I'm also getting some errors @ the LCD program's screen:

[root@minepeon cgminerLCDStats]# sudo python2 cgminerLCDStats.py
Welcome to cgminerLCDStats
Copyright 2013 Cardinal Communications
Main Exception Handler:
[Errno 5] Input/output error

API Exception executing command: notify
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Exception AttributeError: "'LCDSysInfo' object has no attribute 'devh'" in <bound method LCDSysInfo.__del__ of <pylcdsysinfo.LCDSysInfo object at 0x18d22f0>> ignored
Main Exception Handler:
API Connection Error

API Exception executing command: notify
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Main Exception Handler:
API Connection Error

Main Exception Handler:
[Errno 5] Input/output error

[ct1aic]

I tried the new LCD program and now it needs to detect the ':' of the end of the pool's name:



Interesting that here, the HW value is the expected, not the one calculated by MinePeon.

[stellan0r]

I'm still running the original minepeon 0.2.2 release and I just got the little LCD display.

Should I follow the tutorial (https://github.com/cardcomm/cgminerLCDStats/blob/master/MinePeon%20Install.md) now (including "sudo pacman -Syu" and all the other updates) or is the next minepeon release imminent and I should wait a day or two?

When I do the minepeon update as in the tutorial, will it keep all my settings (miner, changed passwords, wifi etc.)?

[southerngentuk]

I'm still running the original minepeon 0.2.2 release and I just got the little LCD display.

Should I follow the tutorial (https://github.com/cardcomm/cgminerLCDStats/blob/master/MinePeon%20Install.md) now (including "sudo pacman -Syu" and all the other updates) or is the next minepeon release imminent and I should wait a day or two?

When I do the minepeon update as in the tutorial, will it keep all my settings (miner, changed passwords, wifi etc.)?

If you can wait I would. I just got my second PI as am impatient. So on my B unit I have just 1 miner and am still finding a few issues.

Minepeon will not update anything on the settings page - am stuck in Africa killing kittens

Am not sure what I did wrong but am gonna let it ride as i want to see if i still have my previous issue with the donate period. (new PI and SD Card)

The screen is up and running, looking good though.

[southerngentuk]

Note to Self : Do not do updates with 22 miners running. I believe this is the source of the problems I have had.

Disconnect miners, update, reboot, restart mining.

Seems sooo obvious now lol@me.

This might not be a problem with fewer miners.

Am gonna start again with this n mind tomorrow. 

[yxzq]

Minepeon will not update anything on the settings page - am stuck in Africa killing kittens

Chances are you can solve it with this:
http://minepeon.com/index.php/Troubleshooting#Set_permissions_after_git_pull