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

[Anonymailer]

1.5.24 just released is a minor update to the latest versions of the bfgminer and cgminer backends


Also - shameless plug - please check out something I've got going on now and spread the word if you know anyone who might be interested!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=955704.0

[Anonymailer]

Another minor update for bfgminer 5.1 with another to follow with Antminer U3 support pretty soon.

The forum has also been remodelled finally, at http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/forum/

[Anonymailer]

Antminer U3 owners rejoice - bfgminer/mac support incoming. I don't own one, so feedback on testing of this beta version with support would be doing me (and all the actual U3 owners) a real solid!

http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/blog/index.php?post/2015/03/21/Setting-up-Antminer-U3-for-Mac-OS-X


Also, given that USB miners are increasingly uncommon, would there be any demand for a Mac IP miner monitoring app? The API Output window was added as an afterthought to MacMiner and wasn't implemented perfectly, so if people want it I'm considering writing an app dedicated to monitoring your miners from your Mac, and sending the output to MobileMiner http://mobileminerapp.com

Props to Nate (nwoolls) for making such a project possible

[collins6542]

So I just got my U1 (test miner) up and running today.. I am using OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) I am hashing at 1.89 Gh/s -2.20 Gh/s. I have yet to see my ACCEPTED and REJECTED to change from 0. Is this normal?

Very Respectfully,

Complete n00b running with the snow leopards

[Anonymailer]

So I just got my U1 (test miner) up and running today.. I am using OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) I am hashing at 1.89 Gh/s -2.20 Gh/s. I have yet to see my ACCEPTED and REJECTED to change from 0. Is this normal?

Very Respectfully,

Complete n00b running with the snow leopards

the stock speed is 1.6 and claims overclocked it can reach 2.2 - though bfgminer seems to run faster than stock by default - so that much is normal.

WRT accepted/rejected shares, how long has it been mining and what pool are you connected to? Minimum share difficulty on ALL pools now means it takes quite a long time to even get your first accepted.

I use eligius.st and for laziness I'll repost a section of my response to another user with a similar question at http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/forum/ :

I only have a 7GH/s BFL Jalapeño and a 2GH/s antminer to test with (not usually turned on), the Jalapeño seems to take 2-3 minutes between accepted shares and the antminer had one accepted after 10 minutes ... the minimum payout is way too high for you to ever reach it unless you have something more powerful pointed at the same address on eligius

My advice is to find the pool with the lowest payout threshold and lowest share difficulty - If you find one that suits you I'd appreciate a recommendation as I'm getting asked this more often with the sky high difficulty!

[collins6542]

So I just got my U1 (test miner) up and running today.. I am using OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) I am hashing at 1.89 Gh/s -2.20 Gh/s. I have yet to see my ACCEPTED and REJECTED to change from 0. Is this normal?

Very Respectfully,

Complete n00b running with the snow leopards

the stock speed is 1.6 and claims overclocked it can reach 2.2 - though bfgminer seems to run faster than stock by default - so that much is normal.

WRT accepted/rejected shares, how long has it been mining and what pool are you connected to? Minimum share difficulty on ALL pools now means it takes quite a long time to even get your first accepted.

I use eligius.st and for laziness I'll repost a section of my response to another user with a similar question at http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/forum/ :

I only have a 7GH/s BFL Jalapeño and a 2GH/s antminer to test with (not usually turned on), the Jalapeño seems to take 2-3 minutes between accepted shares and the antminer had one accepted after 10 minutes ... the minimum payout is way too high for you to ever reach it unless you have something more powerful pointed at the same address on eligius

My advice is to find the pool with the lowest payout threshold and lowest share difficulty - If you find one that suits you I'd appreciate a recommendation as I'm getting asked this more often with the sky high difficulty!

Ive been running it for about 1 hour off and on. I am connected to stratum+tcp://geo.bitcoindigger.com:3333 it shows me pool 0

[Anonymailer]

Ive been running it for about 1 hour off and on. I am connected to stratum+tcp://geo.bitcoindigger.com:3333 it shows me pool 0

I've set up an account with the pool and I'll test it with the Jalapeño to see how it does at 7GH (somehow misplaced the antminer in the last week…) - after 7 minutes I got 1 accepted share, but since finding that once I've found 8 more in just a few minutes, so it could be that the first share is 'default' difficulty and it adjusts down based on how long it takes you to find that. It definitely does support auto difficulty adjustment.

when you say off and on, what's the longest time you've left it running for? every time you restart it the work starts over…

The pool help page says "Please note that we only support ASIC miners and do not support CPU or GPU mining." which suggests like most/all pools if you're not hashing fast enough you're not going to have much if any success…

That said, it does seem as though you found the best pool for slow mining, if this is anything to go by:

https://bitcoinsfaq.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/bitcoin-mining-howto-best-paying-pool/

(about 1/4 down the page, and your pool called bitcoin affiliate network rather than bitcoindigger)

[Anonymailer]

N.B. they suggest switching the port from 3333 to 3334 for slower miners, so that could help, but they consider slow anything under 750GH/s

[collins6542]

N.B. they suggest switching the port from 3333 to 3334 for slower miners, so that could help, but they consider slow anything under 750GH/s

Looks like Ill have to do some more buying... once i get the jist of this ofcouse... So with slow miners, i.e. under 500 Gh/s what pools would you guys recommend for best profit.... yeah i know the golden question... the pot o gold at the end of the rainbow... the... you get the.. jist.

-Poor old slow snow leopard n00b

[collins6542]

N.B. they suggest switching the port from 3333 to 3334 for slower miners, so that could help, but they consider slow anything under 750GH/s

Looks like Ill have to do some more buying... once i get the jist of this ofcouse... So with slow miners, i.e. under 500 Gh/s what pools would you guys recommend for best profit.... yeah i know the golden question... the pot o gold at the end of the rainbow... the... you get the.. jist.

-Poor old slow snow leopard n00b

That helped a lot.. As soon as I changed my port from 3333 to 3334, I am up 6 shares already. When I get home I am going to attempt to hook up my Rock Miner New R-Box 100-110 Gh/s Miners.. I have had such a problem installing them.... anyone use Rockminer on MacMiner?

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That helped a lot.. As soon as I changed my port from 3333 to 3334, I am up 6 shares already. When I get home I am going to attempt to hook up my Rock Miner New R-Box 100-110 Gh/s Miners.. I have had such a problem installing them.... anyone use Rockminer on MacMiner?

Awesome, such a shame specs are moving on so fast to make all our original miners redundant!

You can use your Rockminer RBox with Macminer really easily, the most basic method would be adding

-S rkm:all --set rkm:clock=290

to the ASIC window flags - I believe the default frequency is 270 so varying too far from that figure will stop it mining, at the very least efficiently

[Anonymailer]

Oh and which pool for best profit depends whether you can reach the payout threshold, but I'm a strong advocate of eligius.st which has no pool fee and is made by the developer of bfgminer so theoretically if it makes any difference you'd get the best performance using both together

[collins6542]

That helped a lot.. As soon as I changed my port from 3333 to 3334, I am up 6 shares already. When I get home I am going to attempt to hook up my Rock Miner New R-Box 100-110 Gh/s Miners.. I have had such a problem installing them.... anyone use Rockminer on MacMiner?

Awesome, such a shame specs are moving on so fast to make all our original miners redundant!

You can use your Rockminer RBox with Macminer really easily, the most basic method would be adding

-S rkm:all --set rkm:clock=290

to the ASIC window flags - I believe the default frequency is 270 so varying too far from that figure will stop it mining, at the very least efficiently

So i just imputed that information and was given this.  [2015-03-21 23:29:40] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: --set: unrecognized option                   

[Anonymailer]

So i just imputed that information and was given this.  [2015-03-21 23:29:40] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: --set: unrecognized option                   

Please copy paste your FPGA/ASIC window manual flags here for me, it may be formatted incorrectly

[collins6542]

So i just imputed that information and was given this.  [2015-03-21 23:29:40] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: --set: unrecognized option                   

Please copy paste your FPGA/ASIC window manual flags here for me, it may be formatted incorrectly

Ok, total ignorance here.. is that located under FPGA/ASIC Miner Options / Devices Manual Flags: ? ifso I have this pasted: with nothing else.-S rkm:all --set rkm:clock=290

[Anonymailer]

Ok, total ignorance here.. is that located under FPGA/ASIC Miner Options / Devices Manual Flags: ? ifso I have this pasted: with nothing else.-S rkm:all --set rkm:clock=290

Sounds as though you've got it it up right, here's how it should look


If that doesn't work you can either copy the bfgminer folder from the latest non 10.6 version at
MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer

and use it to replace the one in the 10.6 version.

Right click the apps and show package contents to get inside them.

It's probably also worth copying over the jansson folder too, although you can skip that part unless you get a new wrong library version error after replacing your bfgminer in 10.6 MacMiner

[collins6542]

Ok, total ignorance here.. is that located under FPGA/ASIC Miner Options / Devices Manual Flags: ? ifso I have this pasted: with nothing else.-S rkm:all --set rkm:clock=290

Sounds as though you've got it it up right, here's how it should look
http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/rockset.png

If that doesn't work you can either copy the bfgminer folder from the latest non 10.6 version at
MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer

and use it to replace the one in the 10.6 version.

Right click the apps and show package contents to get inside them.

It's probably also worth copying over the jansson folder too, although you can skip that part unless you get a new wrong library version error after replacing your bfgminer in 10.6 MacMiner

Hmm... yeah that is how i have it set up. I am out of state for work. I will be back on Thursday. I will definitely give it a try then.

[collins6542]

So I have my ROCKMINERs up and going... I went ahead and downloaded the BFGMINER 5 and replaed the following Files:
BFGMINER
CURL
JANSSON
LIBEVENT
LIBIDN
LIBSUB
LIBMICROHTTPD
OPENSSL

It is up and running hashing at around 147 Gh/s. I have ran into a new issue though.. it is not showing me updated hash speed at the top of the MacMiner status bar. Any Suggestions?

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm39/collins6542/e57cdeba-9057-4a8f-8a1d-d1a169e97904_zps0xm2djey.png

[Anonymailer]

So I have my ROCKMINERs up and going... I went ahead and downloaded the BFGMINER 5 and replaed the following Files:
BFGMINER,CURL,JANSSON,LIBEVENT,LIBIDN,LIBSUB,LIBMICROHTTPD,OPENSSL

It is up and running hashing at around 147 Gh/s. I have ran into a new issue though.. it is not showing me updated hash speed at the top of the MacMiner status bar. Any Suggestions?

Nice! The issue with the hash speed not displaying is due to changes in bfgminer since the last 10.6 version was released. Is it showing up in the API Output window?

If you don't mind getting hands on, the two branches are here:

https://github.com/fabulouspanda/MacMiner/branches

The relevant code is in /MacMiner/asicMiner.m in each branch that parses the bfgminer output so you could copy the code from the master branch to your clone of the 10.6 support branch

I don't have time to work on it any time soon unfortunately!

[collins6542]

Hey all,

I am diving into mining head first! I have purchased 2 S3 miners from a friend and should get them in tomorrow. How would I go about setting up the BITMAIN ANTMINER S3s and getting it to mine along with my RockMiner New R Box? I looked at Dogies guide and couldnt find a MacMiner miner installation and setup.


Any suggestions?

Thanks,