Who likes pod miners?

[rem26]

My two units arrived today!  They are very nicely made.

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[DM2008]

Cool!   

Just pulled the updated version of cgminer and built it on my pi3, so I'll be ready when the time comes.  Also decided to ditch minera and just have it auto-start cgminer in a screen session on boot.

[goose1072]

Thank you sidehack & Laura for make this a smooth and fast transaction.

Loving the new pods!!

My setup  





These are VERY NICE!

[kipper01]

Can't wait till these arrive in my mailbox 

[olseh]

These look great! Great work sidehack!!!

[-EOS-]

Can't wait for my email from Laura to order.

[minerbobbert]

Cool!   

Just pulled the updated version of cgminer and built it on my pi3, so I'll be ready when the time comes.  Also decided to ditch minera and just have it auto-start cgminer in a screen session on boot.

Interesting - can you share how you did that? I usually go crazy trying to figure out the software setups and I'm trying a pi this time around

[avulsionist]

Cool!   

Just pulled the updated version of cgminer and built it on my pi3, so I'll be ready when the time comes.  Also decided to ditch minera and just have it auto-start cgminer in a screen session on boot.

Interesting - can you share how you did that? I usually go crazy trying to figure out the software setups and I'm trying a pi this time around

I have had a pi up and running with the 2pac's as well. It's a little more that what is listed on the support thread but that has most of it.
For the USB stuff
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1845307.msg29774420#msg29774420

[vh]

As I see some of these are starting to get shipped.   I suppose this is a good time as any to start an official terminus support thread.     

[sruyle]

Can't wait for my email from Laura to order.

same here

[DM2008]

Interesting - can you share how you did that? I usually go crazy trying to figure out the software setups and I'm trying a pi this time around

Here is what I did from a fresh install of Raspbian Stretch.  Feel free to comment.

1) Start by enabling ssh. Open a terminal:

Code:

sudo systemctl enable ssh
sudo systemctl start ssh

Ideally you should change the password for the pi user using the passwd command.

From here you can now run the pi headless and do everything remotely via ssh

2) An optional step that can prevent the pi from locking up after a while.

Code:

sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt

add slub_debug=FPUZ to the existing line, do not add a new line.

3) Build cgminer - follow the steps on page 1 of the 2pac thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.0

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev screen libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev

mkdir -p git/vthoang; cd git/vthoang
git clone https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer.git
cd cgminer

CFLAGS="-O2" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko
make -j 2

Copy cgminer to /home/pi/cgminer (the location is up to you, you just need to adjust the path below if you change it)

Create /home/pi/cgminer.conf with your pool information and custom settings, here is an example:

Code:

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://pool.ckpool.org:3333",
      "user" : "1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
],

"gekko-terminus-freq" : "150",
"gekko-start-freq" : "100",
"gekko-step-freq" : "25",
"gekko-step-delay" : "15"
}

4) Setup a screen session to run at startup:

Create this file: /lib/systemd/system/cgminer.service

Code:

[Unit]
Description=cgminer
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=pi

#Start:
# screen -dm creates detached session that forks.
#  use this with Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer /home/pi/cgminer --config /home/pi/cgminer.conf

#Stop:
# tell cgminer to quit (not screen), and screen will exit
ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S cgminer -X stuff 'q'

# or tell screen to quit and clobber cgminer - not best choice
#ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S cgminer -X quit
#Probably need a kill definition in case the miner is hung

#Reload:
# sending the string 'scy' (settings, restart, yes) to cgminer will
#  cause a restart which will re-read config file if using one
ExecReload=/usr/bin/screen -S cgminer -X stuff 'scy'

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then run:

Code:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable cgminer.service
sudo systemctl start cgminer.service

The screen setup  was a modification of instructions from https://techsparx.com/cryptocurrency/mining/setup-usb-miner-cgminer.html

If you want to check on things, you can ssh into the pi and type:
screen -r cgminer

This will reconnect you to the session running cgminer.

To disconnect and leave the screen session running, just type ‘ctrl-a d’ or ‘ctrl-a ctrl-d’

[gvb]

Sorry to be negative but I see some having already 4 pods.

Wasn't the deal to spread it to as much as possible starting with a max of 1 pod to give 'everyone' a chance to get one?

I and several others fished behind the net serveral times on other hardware due to bulk buyers.

Any news for us euro people?

[jekecoin]

Sorry to be negative but I see some having already 4 pods.

Wasn't the deal to spread it to as much as possible starting with a max of 1 pod to give 'everyone' a chance to get one?

I and several others fished behind the net serveral times on other hardware due to bulk buyers.

Any news for us euro people?

The problem I think is the shipping costs, for us the Europeans need to wait for bitshopper, we have hard to get those little babyes and by legalities we get a enclosed pod.

sorry with my very bad English.

[Morguk]

My only annoyance is being involved in this thread for what seems like a very long time, yet missing a few weeks when the Laura email was mentioned and being at the back of the list. I understand there's not much to be done, but still frustrating! Looking forward to being able to place my order.

[ica7000]

My only annoyance is being involved in this thread for what seems like a very long time, yet missing a few weeks when the Laura email was mentioned and being at the back of the list. I understand there's not much to be done, but still frustrating! Looking forward to being able to place my order.

I got a response but no offer yet.  I think Sidehack got swamped with orders.  I too am looking forward to placing an order. 

[avulsionist]

Interesting - can you share how you did that? I usually go crazy trying to figure out the software setups and I'm trying a pi this time around

Here is what I did from a fresh install of Raspbian Stretch.  Feel free to comment.

1) Start by enabling ssh. Open a terminal:

Code:

sudo systemctl enable ssh
sudo systemctl start ssh

Ideally you should change the password for the pi user using the passwd command.

From here you can now run the pi headless and do everything remotely via ssh

2) An optional step that can prevent the pi from locking up after a while.

Code:

sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt

add slub_debug=FPUZ to the existing line, do not add a new line.

3) Build cgminer - follow the steps on page 1 of the 2pac thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.0

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev screen libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev

mkdir -p git/vthoang; cd git/vthoang
git clone https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer.git
cd cgminer

CFLAGS="-O2" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko
make -j 2

Copy cgminer to /home/pi/cgminer (the location is up to you, you just need to adjust the path below if you change it)

Create /home/pi/cgminer.conf with your pool information and custom settings, here is an example:

Code:

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://pool.ckpool.org:3333",
      "user" : "1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
],

"gekko-terminus-freq" : "150",
"gekko-start-freq" : "100",
"gekko-step-freq" : "25",
"gekko-step-delay" : "15"
}

4) Setup a screen session to run at startup:

Create this file: /lib/systemd/system/cgminer.service

Code:

[Unit]
Description=cgminer
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=pi

#Start:
# screen -dm creates detached session that forks.
#  use this with Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer /home/pi/cgminer --config /home/pi/cgminer.conf

#Stop:
# tell cgminer to quit (not screen), and screen will exit
ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S cgminer -X stuff 'q'

# or tell screen to quit and clobber cgminer - not best choice
#ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S cgminer -X quit
#Probably need a kill definition in case the miner is hung

#Reload:
# sending the string 'scy' (settings, restart, yes) to cgminer will
#  cause a restart which will re-read config file if using one
ExecReload=/usr/bin/screen -S cgminer -X stuff 'scy'

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then run:

Code:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable cgminer.service
sudo systemctl start cgminer.service

The screen setup  was a modification of instructions from https://techsparx.com/cryptocurrency/mining/setup-usb-miner-cgminer.html

If you want to check on things, you can ssh into the pi and type:
screen -r cgminer

This will reconnect you to the session running cgminer.

To disconnect and leave the screen session running, just type ‘ctrl-a d’ or ‘ctrl-a ctrl-d’

This is great!
If you want run not as root also set up USB access

Code:

sudo cp ~/git/vthoang/cgminer/01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

sudo usermod -G plugdev -a pi

If your distribution does not have the plugdev group you can create it with:

Code:

groupadd plugdev

And to connect with older hubs add
to /boot/cmdline.txt and reboot

Code:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 dwc_otg.speed=1 dwc_otg.fiq_enable=1 dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_enable=1 dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_mask=0x3

[Spill]

My only annoyance is being involved in this thread for what seems like a very long time, yet missing a few weeks when the Laura email was mentioned and being at the back of the list. I understand there's not much to be done, but still frustrating! Looking forward to being able to place my order.

Don't feel so bad I sent my email to laura on the 5th of feb and i still have no response either, and i'm in the USA.

[sidehack]

No response at all, or no response about placing an order? Because if there's no response at all, she probably didn't get your message.

[sruyle]

No response at all, or no response about placing an order? Because if there's no response at all, she probably didn't get your message.

I did hear back from her at the beginning of Feb saying I was on the list and she would let me know when they were available. So I expect I just wasnt quick enough to be at the top of the list.

[Spill]

No response at all, or no response about placing an order? Because if there's no response at all, she probably didn't get your message.

Oh boy,   No response at all,  I did write I wanted 1,  resending email,  Guess my plan about not being annoying is going to go
out the window.