Help please? LKTEC usb miners

[Earthcoins]

Hey I bought a few of these LKETC miners pictured below.
https://postimg.org/image/vcytzstot/
I need someone to explain the UI that this miner uses to me pictured below.
https://postimg.org/image/ttzjb7pvz/
I have no clue what any of it means and would really appreciate someone explaining it to me not only will it help me start a very small mining setup but it will teach me a little more about the subject of mining particularly alternative coins. I have not chosen a coin so if you have one to recommend that would be great.

Here is some of the output text it is giving me in the UI as I think it may help with explaining this to me:

(5s):77.89K (avg):184.9Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m           
(5s):318.5K (avg):234.0Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m           
(5s):287.6K (avg):234.0Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m           
(5s):268.0K (avg):234.1Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m           
 [2017-04-28 13:40:33] Failed to resolve (?wrong URL) null:80

(5s):98.37K (avg):208.7Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m           
(5s):326.7K (avg):234.1Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m           
(5s):292.6K (avg):234.0Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m           
(5s):271.1K (avg):234.0Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m           
(5s):257.4K (avg):234.0Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m           
(5s):248.8K (avg):234.0Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m     

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[Earthcoins]

Can anyone just quickly explain what each input means. I am assuming the first one is where I put the pool. But can someone give me a quick run down because there are no tutorials or sources for this.

[chup]

Best advice You can get - give it away.
Seriously, You can collect more waving over horizontal surfaces with duster...

[JaredKaragen]

your pool url is wrong;  the miner is telling you that it could not connect...

I own a few of the mini dragon USB miners;  they have the horrible virtual com port that tends to change every time the pc boots up....  Requires an edit of the batch every time (when more than one device is in the same machine).

They don't earn really anything at all... take forever to earn 0.0001BTC honestly.... lol.  I  keep mine for nostalgia sake.

I dont use their app;  I just made a batch to launch the miner app with the same string they use;  just my pool addy username and pass.

[Earthcoins]

Could you point me to where i could find a modified version of the bfgminer? I heard someone was talking about it relating to LKETC miners. I put my pool address in and my username and password and this is what happens.

[2017-04-29 12:47:05] Unexpected extra commandline arguments

At first the USB miners where connecting and disconnecting themselves repeatedly on their own. So I tried sticking on into the motherboards usb ports and it worked so I deducted that i need a powered usb hub. Would this assumption be correct? I know everyone is telling me to give up but I really would like to play around with them.

The pool I am trying to use is.
stratum+tcp://us.litecoinpool.org:3333   

I really need some help, just filling in the inputs doesn't work with this POS and I will be so bummed if I totally fail because I did pay for these. =(

Anyways thanks for the reply and nice to meet you guys maybe I can make some friends around here because I have some mining farm dreams!

[JaredKaragen]

Don't expect to earn much with them... they are .3 Mh.... 

If you look at zpool's rate:   0.00005264BTC/Mh X 0.3 = 0.000015792BTC/Day.... with the best of luck.

They released different apps with their miners....  and they aren't cross compatible.   I have a 32Mh miner that I can't get any miner to use but the one off it's original raspberry pi.... no way to build a new copy or anything.......  LKETC's company history was way less than stellar and easy to follow.

You must look at how their interface launches the miner app, and copy it.

The miner app is telling you that you are using invalid arguments when launching it.

The answers are on the USB flash drive that's built into the stickminer... everything should be in there.....

[Earthcoins]

Ah so I was supposed to open the cgminer before starting the LKcontroller? Anyways now it looks like its trying to mine but keeps saying failed to resolve. Whats the problem here?

[JaredKaragen]

Look at lkcontrollers configure files.

See how they build the miner app launch string.

Create batch file.  Launch miner via batch file.

Do not use their 3rd party app.  It's garbage.

[Earthcoins]

could you explain how to do this to me i made a .bat file with this command line in it referencing other peoples mistakes and trys so I have no clue if this is right...
cgminer.exe --scrypt -u Brandon1.1 -p 1 -o stratum+tcp:asic.give-me-coins.com:4444 --clock 200 --chips 1 -S //./COM29

I stuck the .bat file in with the cgminer.exe and .dll files that came with the lkcontroller. I dont see any config files or anything so I don't know what you want me to look at so i just tried this and cgminer.exe starts and closes immediately. i press the .bat file the cmd window pops up after asking me if i want to start cgminer.exe and then closes... can you help me i feel like im so close. the lk controller works bedause i am getting shares and accruing rewards but only for like 10 minutes at a time and then it stops working while feeding me the same run logs as it were working....

[JaredKaragen]

I'll pm you and update this post when I get back to my pc.

Should be simple to remedy.

*edit*

Mine.bat

Code:

./cgminer.exe --scrypt -u Brandon1.1 -p 1 -o stratum+tcp:asic.give-me-coins.com:4444 --clock 200 --chips 1 -S //./COM29

Should be:
Mine.bat

Code:

./cgminer.exe --scrypt -u Brandon1.1 -p 1 -o stratum+tcp://asic.give-me-coins.com:4444 --clock 200 --chips 1 -S //./COM29
pause

notice the missing // in your stratum address.


Now it won't also auto-close the batch and you'll read any error messages.


Be sure to check your com port in the device manager (for that device), if necessary zadig the driver (i think zadig comes on the usb as well, so if it does, learn how it works and use it), then update the batch with the edit, as well as the corrected com port.   Be sure upon reboot the com port doesn't change.  I had one that changed back and forth every reboot, annoying.

[Earthcoins]

Okay great and the COMS were wrong thank you for the help because I didnt even know how to check. I will do some research on the zadig thing and for now my question is I have three of these things running on three different ports so how do i make that command line do I do three separate commands? It looks like they are on COM13, COM14, and COM3. And is setting the difficulty in the command line necessary. It looks like the pool I am trying to use is for ASIC miners and has a set difficulty of 4096. How would I reference the diff in command line???

Update: Your command worked and cgminer is feeding me hash rates and work restart requests but in my pool it reads out as 0 kh/s any reason why?

OH AND THANK YOU!

EDIT: After awhile my pool is giving me my hashrates except for the interesting fact that it is almost double to what cgminer is logging...

[JaredKaragen]

Should be:
Mine.bat

Code:

./cgminer.exe --scrypt -u Brandon1.1 -p 1 -o stratum+tcp://asic.give-me-coins.com:4444 --clock 200 --chips 1 -S //./COM29 //./COM4 //./COM6
pause

Should be like that I think;  maybe separated by a comma instead of a space....   can't remember.  Just plug em all in, round up all the com port numbers, add them to the batch, and it should read them all in one instance of cgminer.  try it my way first, then the other way next if no dice.

[Earthcoins]

wow i don't get it when i went to restart it i run it and cgminer opens and closes really fast like it was and then i see cmd is trying to run pause as if its a program in a separate line instead of using it like it was before wtf...

[Earthcoins]

i made a video so you can see its shows how quickly the cgminer cmd window trys to open and shuts down. I tried both with commas and spaces for the coms. The screen goes black because of the recorder what is happening during the black is it is asking permission to open cgminer.exe. I just dont get it. It worked first try last time cgminer stayed open and started to run logs now it just opens and shuts down after a restart. And I did check the ports after restart and they are all correct. FML!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk8mmLHlfJ0&feature=youtu.be

[Earthcoins]

HAHA guess what i figured it out... there is no spaces or commas between the coms the error in the command  line was shutting down the miner instantly.... PRAISE THE LORD!!!!

[JaredKaragen]

Glad you got it sorted.  Knew it would be something simple.

[Earthcoins]

Thanks again for your help its much appreciated.