Linux mining distro for the Raspberry PI - MinePeon

[HellDiverUK]

Hubs are a disaster.  My expensive Anker 10-port doesn't work at all on the Pi, and bizarrely also doesn't work on my Celeron NUC.  Yes, it doesn't work on an Intel chipset machine.  It also never worked properly on AsMedia USB3 chips.  Only hub that works reliably on the Pi is the good old DLink 7-port.

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[mcmike313]

Will minepeon be able to recognize  antminer?

[tk1337]

I haven't had any issues with USB hubs and the rPi since I switched to only using RHB-500's

My rPi w/Minepeon running 8x Blue Fury, 2x Red Fury, 6x ASIC Erupters on two hubs has been solid for over 13 days now. Haven't had the need to restart the miner or rPi, actually haven't even thought about it much since it's been running so smoothly.

[HellDiverUK]

Any more word on MinePeon for BeagleBone Black? 

If the image is working off SD card, it's simple to get it copied to the eMMC (you basically hold the boot button when powering up and it copies the contents from the SD card to the eMMC). 

[mogrith]

I already have a RasPi setup with MinePeon and BFG 3.8.0. have a blue fury running on it but want to replace it with a Cube (3 Blade box)

how do I use the proxy in BFGminer with a cube/blade? point the cube at the address of the pi then what on the pi?

[HellDiverUK]

I already have a RasPi setup with MinePeon and BFG 3.8.0. have a blue fury running on it but want to replace it with a Cube (3 Blade box)

how do I use the proxy in BFGminer with a cube/blade? point the cube at the address of the pi then what on the pi?

Just add --http-port 8330 on the end of the command line in the settings page (before the -c blah.config bit), then point your Blade(s) to the Pi's IP address, using a unique but unimportant username for each Blade.

[bomberb17]

My minepeon was working fine for 2 months, but today something strange happened: In the web interface, in the main status screen (the one with the graphs) no devices are shown (I have 5 erupters). It says:
 Devices
no devices running

and in the advanced tab says cgminer is down.
However if I ssh to the pi, screen -r shows cgminer is running normally.
How can I fix this?

[BitMinerN8]

My minepeon was working fine for 2 months, but today something strange happened: In the web interface, in the main status screen (the one with the graphs) no devices are shown (I have 5 erupters). It says:
 Devices
no devices running

and in the advanced tab says cgminer is down.
However if I ssh to the pi, screen -r shows cgminer is running normally.
How can I fix this?

My experience has been when things stop working or not displaying correctly after a few months, it's best to re-flash the image and start fresh. It's easy enough to test if the problems exist on a new SD card, then just backup and copy the configs from the old, done.

[bomberb17]

Id rather not reflash, I have done quite a lot for running some other programs along in arch (no-ip, motion for a web camera etc.)

[nwoolls]

So this is still happening even with the MinePeon bits disabled, just using bfgminer. I have a couple dozen Block Erupters, a Red Fury, a Jalapeno, and a Hashbuster Micro attached.

Everything works great for at least 2+ hours. Then I start to get a bunch of Sick devices. The thing starts to become slow as molasses even just trying to SSH in and type. And then it locks up entirely and I have to hard reset the Raspberry Pi.

Anyone seen similar or have any suggestions? I'm on bfgminer 3.8.0 (compiled myself) and plan on trying 3.8.1 next.

After some trial and error and discussions with Luke it seems like the HashBuster Micro is to "blame". Unlike the other ASICs I have connected to the Pi the HashBuster Micro has no MCU. bfgminer uses libusb to communicate with the chips and, according to Luke, it requires 10x the USB bandwidth of other ASICs.

With the HashBuster Micro removed from the equation (and hashing on a PC) the Rpi works great.

[HellDiverUK]

Well I just received my BBB.  Got one with a case from Phenoptix.  The case disintegrated the first time I put it together, so that's £7.99 down the pan.  Seems to be made out of the world's most brittle perspex.  The case I got with my Pi is indestructible, despite being of almost identical design (both clones of Adafruit's cases).

Got the BBB up and running, and I must say the shipped linux distribution is terrible.  Angstrom junk.  Am going to put Ubuntu on it, but I'm plucking up the courage to drive down to ASDA through the 80mph gales and Christmas shopping traffic to get a uSD card...I'm not sure I could be bothered. 

Oh, and how bright are the lights on the BBB?!?  You guys can probably see the blue flashing coming from the direction of N. Ireland....that'll be my BBB....

[HellDiverUK]

With the HashBuster Micro removed from the equation (and hashing on a PC) the Rpi works great.

Glad to hear you got it sorted.

Glad I didn't bother buying a HashBuster Micro and got an ASICMiner Cube instead...

[ktbken]

Just for info I'm running 6 hashbuster micros with no issue on one pi
But they don't seem to play nice if you have any other aiscs on the same one

[mogrith]

With the HashBuster Micro removed from the equation (and hashing on a PC) the Rpi works great.

Glad to hear you got it sorted.

Glad I didn't bother buying a HashBuster Micro and got an ASICMiner Cube instead...

Got a cube also works fine on mine-proxy in windows

I have this as startup settings

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer  --http-port 8330 -c/opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

When cube is pointing to Pi on port 8330 (2x) I see nothing on Pi and nothing on connected pool.

[DKO]

Hello I've been testing Minepeon out today. I'm using it as a proxy for one of my blades. But I notice the efficiency of the blade has dropped slightly from 99%~ to 96%~. My other blades going through a proxy on my PC are still 99%~.

Is that to be expected or is there some improvement I could be making?

Minepeon 0.2.4.2
bfgminer 3.8.0

BTW great program.

[mogrith]

Well this is working now. I may not have had ports matched up before

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer  -S bigpic:all --http-port 8332 -c/opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

Happily Hashing away at whatever pool In tell minepeon.

[HellDiverUK]

LOL

Doing a opkg upgrade nukes the BBB. 

Way to go, BeagleBone, your supplied OS breaks itself when updated off your own servers.  Fills the 2GB SSD on the board, and that's it stuffed.

Hopefully I can boot it up off SD and copy over a new image...

[tripppn]

Does anyone know if minepeon will run a Klondike K16 board?

[HellDiverUK]

Does anyone know if minepeon will run a Klondike K16 board?

If you're running bfgminer 3.8.0 or newer, then it should do.

[DKO]

Hello everyone how do I upgrade to Minepeon-0.2.4.2 and also BFGminer 3.5.1? Also how do you switch miners from the command line? Thanks in advance.

Type this into minepeon to upgrade both:

cd /opt/minepeon
git pull


I'm not sure what you mean by the second part.