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February 23, 2018, 06:26:52 AM |
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My two units arrived today! They are very nicely made.
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DM2008
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February 23, 2018, 08:45:06 PM |
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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.
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goose1072
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February 23, 2018, 10:30:18 PM |
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Thank you sidehack & Laura for make this a smooth and fast transaction. Loving the new pods!! My setup These are VERY NICE!
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February 23, 2018, 10:43:41 PM |
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Can't wait till these arrive in my mailbox
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olseh
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February 23, 2018, 11:01:31 PM |
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These look great! Great work sidehack!!!
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February 23, 2018, 11:02:25 PM |
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Can't wait for my email from Laura to order.
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minerbobbert
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February 23, 2018, 11:19:47 PM |
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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
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avulsionist
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February 23, 2018, 11:30:56 PM |
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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
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sruyle
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February 24, 2018, 02:31:26 AM |
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Can't wait for my email from Laura to order. same here
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DM2008
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February 24, 2018, 04:10:51 AM Last edit: February 24, 2018, 06:16:03 PM by DM2008 |
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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: 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. 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=1764803.0sudo 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: { "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 [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: 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.htmlIf 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’
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gvb
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February 24, 2018, 10:11:07 AM Last edit: February 24, 2018, 10:42:33 AM by gvb |
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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?
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jekecoin
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February 24, 2018, 01:37:45 PM |
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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.
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Morguk
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February 24, 2018, 05:06:24 PM |
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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.
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February 24, 2018, 09:06:34 PM |
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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.
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avulsionist
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February 25, 2018, 12:39:29 AM |
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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: 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. 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=1764803.0sudo 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: { "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 [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: 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.htmlIf 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 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: And to connect with older hubs add to /boot/cmdline.txt and reboot 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
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February 25, 2018, 03:00:45 AM |
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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.
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sidehack (OP)
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February 25, 2018, 03:09:06 AM |
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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.
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sruyle
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February 25, 2018, 03:05:15 PM |
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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.
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Spill
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February 25, 2018, 05:16:33 PM |
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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.
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