Raspi 3 mini mining rig setup?

[gt_addict]

Hi everyone,

Basically im looking at setting up a raspi3 to act as a controller for my two U3's and a gekko compac usb stick. Im doing it to save me using my laptop all the time and having to have it constantly plugged in to run cgminer. Im after any pointers or help with regards to setting it up.

I was thinking about getting a powered hub and running the pi from that, aswell as all the other miners (including an arctic breeze usb fan) as the gekko is quite power hungry from what ive read (well when its OC'd). Would this be a feasible option?

I'd like to run cgminer 4.9.2 (gekko edition) which has been working really well on my laptop. Would it be a simple case of copying the folder over to the pi?

What OS would be good to use on the pi?

As you can tell im a complete novice when it comes to anything more involved than switching it on and writing posts on the forum   

A step by step guide would be great, ive tried searching but cant seem to search for the right thing to get the answers im looking for.

Thanks for your help in advance 

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[cowboy0629]

Here is the setup I used to get a raspberry Pi working took about 20 minutes to setup...

If you follow the steps in my order with the instructions I supplied you should be able to get it up in running in no time... then you can tweak the OS to the way you want it for instance host name, static ip etc then you just ssh to the pi from a computer start up the miner or set the pi to start the miner on its own etc


1. Install 2016-03-18-raspbian-jessie-lite   download free @ https://www.raspberrypi.org
2. Resize Flash Partition  Instructions to do this here: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/499/how-can-i-resize-my-root-partition
3. Follow these instruction on how to install cgiminer @ http://www.instructables.com/id/Bitcoin-Mining-using-Raspberry-Pi/

Mike D

[gt_addict]

Nice on thanks cowboy. Ill give it a go once I get a Pi. Its the more indepth setting up of it im concerned about aswell. Like getting it to restart by itself if it encounters a problem. Plus getting the .bat file information across correctly as its running well at the moment.

This raspi stuff is a bit out of my comfort zone but im willing to learn, just don't want to end up screwing it up and having an expensive paperweight (albeit a good looking cirecuit board) lol

[vm1990]

Just a few notes along the way you cant power the pi off the same hub thats going to be plugged into the usb port it causes a feed back loop on the data and the pi gets confused. if you want to do it that way then either get a bit of electrical tape and cover the middle 2 pins inside the usb cable thats powering the pi or cut the data connections out of the cable (hope that makes sense) and youd have to build cgminer (not hard to do with a good guide) due to it being arm chip and not x86 or 64bit

keep an eye on what power you draw from the usb port on the pi (max of 250ma) or youll get errors and devices going zombie