The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC]

[Anonymailer]

As recommended by Ars Technica:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/weve-got-a-butterfly-labs-bitcoin-miner-and-its-pretty-darn-fast/

and the only Mac Mining app with a Softpedia 100% Clean rating
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/MacMiner.shtml

MacMiner contains friendly GUIs for the miners it includes.
cgminer
cpuminer
bfgminer
and
FPGA/ASIC Miner

are available in the View menu.

MacMiner was created and is maintained by John O'Mara/FabulousPanda/Anonymailer/BitBacco (no more new names, I promise!)
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Scott Holben made some very helpful contributions to the api access components
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Check out the website
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/

Get the latest release of MacMiner (requires Mac OS 10.7+)
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/macminer/downloads/

The 1.5 branch updates bfgminer, cgminer and cpuminer to the latest versions and allows it to work regardless of where MacMiner is on your system or what it's called
The GUI has been optimised
A preference for spoken warnings has been added
Bugs have been fixed
Sparkle updater framework has been removed
Now supports MobileMiner
Much more in the change logs of the next post


MacMiner for Snow Leopard (10.6)
BETA: http://downloads.fabulouspanda.co.uk/MacMiner.app-10.6-1.5.18.zip
http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/macminer/downloads/MacMiner.app10.6-1.4.zip


Running at the command line (Requires Mac OS 10.6+)

you can run it the included miners at the command line too e.g. for bfgminer:
cd /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin
./bfgminer [your server etc. here]

You can also download bfgminer and cgminer compiled for Mac OS X here:
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/commandline/

Documentation is available at http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/macminer/docs/

Source is on github https://github.com/fabulouspanda/MacMiner
Please contribute there if you're able to

As always, make sure you know the risks of mining too hard on hardware. I take no responsibility if you burn out your computer (higher risk on iMac, laptops, mini)


Please consider a donation! Even the smallest of donations are appreciated. Total donations to date have been one block erupter usb miner and less than 1 BTC. I have also been hired for support/consultancy so contact me if you have a job in mind. The more donations I receive, the more time I get to spend developing MacMiner!

All the miners are in the View menu:

[Anonymailer]

Changelog:

For changes relating to newer versions, please check
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/

v1.5.22
updates bgminer to 4.10
Updates cgminer to version 4.8
misc small changes I've mostly forgotten (check github!)

v1.5.21b3
Updates bfgminer to version 4.3
bfgminer adds zeusminer support
Adds support for X11/DarkCoin CPU mining
cpuminer for VTC has been recompiled
pooler cpuminer updated to 2.4
please do not enter a blank password for your pool, or MacMiner will crash on relaunch. This will be fixed in the next stable release.

v1.5.21b2
Updates bfgminer to 4.2
Adds support for X11 CPU mining

v1.5.20b1
Updates bfgminer to 3.99.0 from github
Updates cgminer to 4.3.3
Updates MobileMiner to work with changes in the API

v1.5.18
Now feeds the GPU Miner to API Output and MobileMiner
Improves several app behaviours
Allows you to start the miner window you have in focus with command-S
Changes the SHA256d/Scrypt CPU miner back to Pooler's

v1.5.17
Primarily improving recent additions
Improves recent additions
Allows old pool setup to set the new pool preference pane too
Allows you to start the miner window you have in focus with command-S
Adds a preference for update checking
Checks for updates periodically
Bug fixes and improvements

v1.5.16
Adds GPU miner support for Vertcoin and MaxCoin!
Updates curl, jansson and libusb dependencies and adds new backends
Bug fixes and improvements

v1.5.15
Adds CPU miner support for MaxCoin!
Changes pool settings buttons to link to new pool settings preferences.
Bug fixes and improvements

v1.5.14
Adds CPU miner support for VertCoin VTC and QuarkCoin QRK!
New Pool settings panel in Preferences - for the moment in conjunction with legacy pool settings window
Improves update notifications to support 10.6 and links them to the 'Check for updates' menu item
Bug fixes and improvements

v1.5.13
Improves update notifications to state current and available version and link to website
Updates cgminer to 3.12.3
Bug fixes and improvements

v1.5.12
Adds logging as an option in FPGA/ASIC window settings
Now checks for updates on launch and sends a notification through the system on 10.8 and 10.9
Bug fixes and improvements

v1.5.11
Important security fix
Other bug fixes and improvements
Updates cgminer to 3.12

v1.5.10
Important bug fix for API Output window which caused it to stop refreshing
Other bug fixes and improvements
Updates bfgminer to 3.10

v1.5.9
Windows now remember the last position they were in
New auto-start feature in preferences
Fixes MobileMiner Start and Stop buttons
1509b has an important fix for MobileMiner users for whom it just wasn't working

v1.5.8
Updates cgminer to 3.10 and bfgminer to the latest from Github
Allows MobileMiner to control FPGA/ASIC Window

v1.5.7
many useability improvements
Updates bfgminer with nwoolls fixes
bug fixes
1.5.7b allows over clocking of antminers

v1.5.6
bug fixes

v1.5.5
Allows more than one networked miner to be monitored in API Output window
totally reworks the API data fetch with the kind help of Scott Holben
reduces memory usage

v1.5.4
Important bug fix for API Output/MobileMiner users
Upgrade bfgminer and cgminer both to version 3.9
Little Fury driver enabled in bfgminer - this causes a conflict when using -S all with BFL hardware in which case you must use -S bfl:all
Allows connection of asicminer cube/blade with manual flag --http-port 1234

v1.5.3
Primarily a bug fix release
Improves API Output table view
Aims to fix a bug where setting pool quota in the config file manually could cause a crash on launch
Minor improvement to MobileMiner code

v1.5.2
Allows CGMiner window to feed the API Output window
Allows the API Output window to function for your network miner regardless of whether you're mining on the machine running MacMiner
Allows networked miners in API Output window to feed MobileMiner
Removes spell-check lines from log views

v1.5.1
Adds support for MobileMiner

v1.5
The 1.5 branch updates bfgminer, cgminer and cpuminer to the latest version and allows it to work regardless of where MacMiner is on your system or what it's called
The GUI has been optimised
A preference for spoken warnings has been added
Bugs have been fixed
Sparkle updater framework has been removed

v1.4.27
Fixes several bugs, adds spoken warnings of 0 hash rate and pool authorisation failure and prevents quit while miners are running

v1.4.26
Updates cgminer to 3.8.5 and bfgminer to 3.8.1

v1.4.24
Updates cgminer to 3.8.4 and fixes a bug with networked miners in the API Output window

v1.4.22
Allows the addition of a networked miner to the API Output window and squashes a rare bug reported by email

early v1.4.x
updates cpuminer and allows it to work regardless of where MacMiner is on your system or what it's called.
A button for setting recommended values has been added to BFG miner options window
BFG Miner window and FPGA/ASIC Miner window now restart automatically if mining stops unexpectedly
Work to allow MacMiner to run outside the Applications folder has taken place but not yet been thoroughly tested
Also updates programming conventions in line with the current standards and reduces memory usage.

v1.3.17
This is the new stable version with major memory usage fixes.

v1.3.16
This version updates BFGMiner, removes a memory leak and should cause the hash rate to show on the dock icon without first going to the preferences window.

v1.3.13
Fixes an issue where the hash label read Mh when it should have been Gh, increases the font size on the dock label, and should reduce memory usage.

v1.3.12
Fixes FPGA/ASIC miner window, which is best used with such devices as it can show temperature readings

v1.3.11
updates cgminer to the latest version

v1.3.10
Includes significant changes including the addition of cgminer, dock speed readings for cg, bfg and cpu miners, notification of pool setup mining has started with, config that doesn't require setting every update, more scrypt options, more preferences, and hopefully full 10.6 support. Please come back to let me know whether the beta is working properly for you as it approaches a stable label.

v1.3.2
Addresses an issue with cpuminer sometimes failing to retrieve pool user/pass

v1.3.1
Fixes poclbm miner

v1.3
Fix for the crash on start bug
1.3 will be used as a stable version (assuming it is)

v1.2.2
bugfixes

v1.2.1
updates bfgminer to a git fresh version

v1.2
Sorry about this, but due to an unforseen signing problem this update won't install in-app, please download from the website
Adds auto-config and new settings to CPU Miner
Allows manual editing of the bfgminer config files (BTC/LTC) in app
Huge memory usage improvements
Tidied up the included libraries

v1.1.2
This update updates the update mechanism
also contains major bugfix for options panel not working in last 10.7 release

v1.1.1
important bug fixes for bugs introduced in 1.1
support for block erupter usb miners

v1.1
Auto-configuration
GUI improvements
New options config window in BFG Miner
no more installer - all dependencies are within the app
improved log size management

v1.0.2
reduced memory usage, limited the size of the log
interface improvements for bfgminer including a fix for multiple flags (e.g. -w 64 -I 5)
an inappropriately named (in the View menu) 'ASIC' miner which is actually configured for any BFL device whether it be FPGA or ASIC (name change to BFL Miner to follow in 1.0.3)

[Xian01]

Gives me the following certificate error when trying to run the 10.7 package.



Should that be happening with a valid Apple Developer ID Cert ?

[Anonymailer]

Should that be happening with a valid Apple Developer ID Cert ?

No it shouldn't, thanks for letting me know, it seems I used the wrong Cert, can you please redownload the installer and let me know whether it's verified OK for you now?

[kodachrome]

I think your update fixed it as I got that error on the earlier version too but not on the version Ive just downloaded from your site.
Thanks,

[Anonymailer]

Cool, thanks for the feedback it's really good to know where things are and aren't working! Did the update run fine without having to adjust the permissions too unlike the 1.0 release?

I didn't find out about a driver I'd forgotten to package with the 10.8 1.0 version until a reporter at ars technica got in touch with me yesterday to help him get a BFL Jalapeno running  It's really strange getting thousands of downloads without people mentioning when they run in to issues... or perhaps they're special cases.

[kodachrome]

Lol, the updated version ran fine without (EDITed in without!) the permission tweaking.

I havent ran it long enough to be sure, but Im getting some weird IO error in it, lots of these errors:

stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 08/05/2013 11:44:08,  [Errno 60] Operation timed out

                                                                                
stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 08/05/2013 11:44:10, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2

                                                                                
stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 08/05/2013 11:48:56, IO errors - 2, tolerance 2

                                                                                
stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 08/05/2013 11:51:02,  [Errno 60] Operation timed out

                                                                                
stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 08/05/2013 11:51:03, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2

                                                                                
stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 08/05/2013 11:52:10, IO errors - 2, tolerance 2

It says its mining at 64MH/s (Rej: 3/3 100%) however in My Account on Bitcoin.cz I see its rating it at only 7MH/s.

Any idea?

[Anonymailer]

Hmm that speaks of connection difficulties to the pool of course but it's unusual that SOME work goes through but perhaps other does not. Have you left it running since then and if so what's the reject rate and how often are shares being accepted approximately? It can take the pool a while to show your full speed.

It might also be worth getting a ping and bandwidth measurement from speedtest.net or similar to check whether there are any connectivity problems on your line at the moment?

[Anonymailer]

Lol, the updated version ran fine with the permission tweaking.

Sorry does that mean you had to tweak the permissions on the new version too?

[kodachrome]

Sorry does that mean you had to tweak the permissions on the new version too?

Woops, typo, meant to say it ran fine without any tweaking, out of the box.

Hmm that speaks of connection difficulties to the pool of course but it's unusual that SOME work goes through but perhaps other does not. Have you left it running since then and if so what's the reject rate and how often are shares being accepted approximately? It can take the pool a while to show your full speed.

It might also be worth getting a ping and bandwidth measurement from speedtest.net or similar to check whether there are any connectivity problems on your line at the moment?

Just tried a different network available here (routed differently) and its the same! Old GuiMiner still seems to work out, though its not using stratum I guess, Ill have to check at home to be sure.

[Anonymailer]

That's quite peculiar, I have the 10.8 and 10.7 versions running poclbm on stratum.bitcoin.cz without any issues. If you could report back with the accept/reject number of shares and reported speed on bitcoin.cz when you leave where you are as well as how it goes at home I would be grateful!

[kodachrome]

That's quite peculiar, I have the 10.8 and 10.7 versions running poclbm on stratum.bitcoin.cz without any issues. If you could report back with the accept/reject number of shares and reported speed on bitcoin.cz when you leave where you are as well as how it goes at home I would be grateful!

Well the bad news for me is that it seems to work fine at home, so my company must block the stratum ports/interface or something!

[Anonymailer]

Well the bad news for me is that it seems to work fine at home, so my company must block the stratum ports/interface or something!

Yeah I work in IT and it's generally large company policy to block anything they don't need. Maybe you could try a pool with getwork? Either that or set up slush's mining proxy at home and use a static IP or dynamic dns and port forwarding to get something sorted out.

[Anonymailer]

After Ars Technica got in touch with regards to running a BFL ASIC on Mac OS I'm happy to report their report:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/weve-got-a-butterfly-labs-bitcoin-miner-and-its-pretty-darn-fast/

and the setup we used:

After installing the Mac OS 64bit drivers here:
http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

we ran:
./bfgminer -o pool.name.com:port -u username -p password -S bfl:/dev/cu.usbserial-FTWILFLM

I'll be making a specific external device view for MacMiner very soon!

[BenTuras]

Well the bad news for me is that it seems to work fine at home, so my company must block the stratum ports/interface or something!

Yeah I work in IT and it's generally large company policy to block anything they don't need. Maybe you could try a pool with getwork? Either that or set up slush's mining proxy at home and use a static IP or dynamic dns and port forwarding to get something sorted out.

You could try to run a http tunnel to your PC at home. Then connect via this tunnel. Do an internet search, you'll figure it out.

[Xian01]

try to run a http tunnel to your PC at home. Then connect via this tunnel. Do an internet search, you'll figure it out.

>ssh -D <port> user@host
>./cgminer --socks-proxy 127.0.0.1:<port>

 ... also works well.

[Xian01]

I downloaded the latest-and-greatest with the proper cert and CGMiner is working amazingly well under 10.7.5.

Thanks for all your work on this package ! Flipped 0.25 BTC to your address as appreciation (https://blockchain.info/tx/3546cd6c03bf69a068f21c1111744327db4b67ca28656f6482a27f7b3fee3ac8)

Cheers !

[Anonymailer]

I downloaded the latest-and-greatest with the proper cert and CGMiner is working amazingly well under 10.7.5.

Thanks for all your work on this package ! Flipped 0.25 BTC to your address as appreciation (https://blockchain.info/tx/3546cd6c03bf69a068f21c1111744327db4b67ca28656f6482a27f7b3fee3ac8)

Cheers !

Thank you! My first donation I really appreciate it! Let me know if there's anything you'd like worked in to the app.

[MrNoSox]

Hi Anonymailer! Figured I'd check in and see what's been going on. I downloaded the latest pkg and it runs for me now! If I'm looking at this right though it looks like all of my shares are getting rejected. Is there anything I can do differently? Maybe some flags I don't know of?

Oh, this is my LTC pool

https://i.imgur.com/LP8I5VP.png

[MrNoSox]

BTW... it works BEAUTIFULLY with my BTC pool (slush)

https://i.imgur.com/FpYihgr.png