Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread

[devincrypt]

I have 1 Moonlander 2 and it works fine on my Mac running macOS V. 10.14.1, thanks.

I ordered another but not sure how to configure the port assignments on the command line. The current ML2 is on its own USB port and the one coming will be on a separate one as well - until I get a powered USB hub. The current ML2 info from the System Information app is:

USB 3.0 Bus:

  Host Controller Driver:   AppleUSBXHCISPT
  PCI Device ID:   0xa12f
  PCI Revision ID:   0x0031
  PCI Vendor ID:   0x8086

FutureBit Moonlander 2:

  Product ID:   0xea60
  Vendor ID:   0x10c4  (Silicon Laboratories, Inc.)
  Version:   1.00
  Serial Number:   ec72e2ae44cee611bad3a7bc30f55f2b
  Speed:   Up to 12 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer:   FutureBit
  Location ID:   0x14200000 / 4
  Current Available (mA):   500
  Current Required (mA):   100
  Extra Operating Current (mA):   0

So how does that translate into a port # for the "start-moonlander" command line?

[jstefanop]

I have 1 Moonlander 2 and it works fine on my Mac running macOS V. 10.14.1, thanks.

I ordered another but not sure how to configure the port assignments on the command line. The current ML2 is on its own USB port and the one coming will be on a separate one as well - until I get a powered USB hub. The current ML2 info from the System Information app is:

USB 3.0 Bus:

  Host Controller Driver:   AppleUSBXHCISPT
  PCI Device ID:   0xa12f
  PCI Revision ID:   0x0031
  PCI Vendor ID:   0x8086

FutureBit Moonlander 2:

  Product ID:   0xea60
  Vendor ID:   0x10c4  (Silicon Laboratories, Inc.)
  Version:   1.00
  Serial Number:   ec72e2ae44cee611bad3a7bc30f55f2b
  Speed:   Up to 12 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer:   FutureBit
  Location ID:   0x14200000 / 4
  Current Available (mA):   500
  Current Required (mA):   100
  Extra Operating Current (mA):   0

So how does that translate into a port # for the "start-moonlander" command line?

you don't need too, the stock startup scrypt is configured to search for all Moonlanders attached to USB ports, so it will just show up as a second device when you start it up.

For future reference for Macs if you want to specify a certain moonlander it will be under /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART*  where * is the number assigned to the Moonlander.

If you want to search for it system profile unfortunately does not show this, so you have to open terminal and do

ls /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART*

[PsychoShaft]

Can anyone please give an example of running a cron job for BFGminer on RPI to close and reopen every hour.

i have a sh file with this in

#!/bin/bash
./bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20460 -u xxx.miner1 -p miner1,d=128 -S ALL --set MLD:clock=600

Any help for a Linux noob would be great, a lot of people i know with RPI are having issues with the moonlanders randommly just hash at 0 mh/s until the software is restarted.

Kind Regards

Paul

[aarons6]

Can anyone please give an example of running a cron job for BFGminer on RPI to close and reopen every hour.

i have a sh file with this in

#!/bin/bash
./bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20460 -u xxx.miner1 -p miner1,d=128 -S ALL --set MLD:clock=600

Any help for a Linux noob would be great, a lot of people i know with RPI are having issues with the moonlanders randommly just hash at 0 mh/s until the software is restarted.

Kind Regards

Paul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

so something like this could work.
* 1 * * * killall -9 bfgminer

to make your life easier tho just use minera
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596620.0

it has the option to do what you want internally.

one thing tho you have to expand the img to the full size of the sdcard you can do it in the rpi utils really easy.

[CryptoBarry]

Can anyone please give an example of running a cron job for BFGminer on RPI to close and reopen every hour.

i have a sh file with this in

#!/bin/bash
./bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20460 -u xxx.miner1 -p miner1,d=128 -S ALL --set MLD:clock=600

Any help for a Linux noob would be great, a lot of people i know with RPI are having issues with the moonlanders randommly just hash at 0 mh/s until the software is restarted.

Kind Regards

Paul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

so something like this could work.
* 1 * * * killall -9 bfgminer

to make your life easier tho just use minera
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596620.0

it has the option to do what you want internally.

one thing tho you have to expand the img to the full size of the sdcard you can do it in the rpi utils really easy.

I tried minera but I had a lot of problems in the configuration of the moonlanders and they were constantly stuck.
so I tried some configuration for the automatic restart of bfgminer in case of a device with hash 0.  I found these options that can be used in the start command of bfgminer:

Code:

--cmd-idle <arg> Execute a command when a device is allowed to be idle (rest or wait)
--cmd-sick <arg> Execute a command when a device is declared sick
--cmd-dead <arg> Execute a command when a device is declared dead

but I have not found explanations on how to use them. does anyone know how they can be used?

[jbrow8]

Hello,


 Where do I find replacement fans?

thanks
George

LOOK AT THE LABEL--

Run a Google search on the model number on the label.  This is a generic suggestion, it is how I find replacement fans of any type.  Read carefully in the result descriptions so to match amperage, RPMs, bearing type, etc.       --scryptr

I LOOKED AT THE LABEL.  I was hoping someone else had some experience and insight that would help rather than asking me to do a google search.  Anyone can do that.  Crazy thought - create a community of Moonlander users that share ideas and experiences! 

Also, I did a search and didn't find much. 

Thanks

Page 81 of this thread has the last discussion about fans, Like I said you just need to look!

Per my previous post, I did search.  Either my search criteria was bad or I just missed it - Which is why I asked in the first place..... 

gdstime is where I found some brushless fans for replacement. I believe it just might be better to remove all the fans and put the chips under one larger cooling fan that i can get at walmart for 5 dollars.

[thatblackguy823]

I keep getting- futurebit write error: input/output error. I have a lketc miner and a gekko science hooked up to the raspberry pi. not for sure what i did wrong

[jstefanop]

I keep getting- futurebit write error: input/output error. I have a lketc miner and a gekko science hooked up to the raspberry pi. not for sure what i did wrong

Probably one or more of the other device drivers are screwing up the Moonlander. Last I checked the gekkoscience driver does some not so nice things to other USB devices attached to the system.

[sunk818]

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/reviews/ieee-spectrums-2018-holiday-gift-guide

Moonlander 2 made on the 2018 Holiday Gift Guide list.

[Hintsal]

Jstefanop

Not trying to be crazy here but your last message October 23rd said you were sending me a new moonlander back. I haven't heard a reply from you since or received any miner. I've messaged you multiple times. What is up? Cause I could have saved the 20 bucks it cost to ship it to you and just chucked it in the bin thinking I made a silly noob mistake buying a miner. If you're sending it please let me know. If you aren't please let me know so I can close the messages tab I've had open for 2 months refreshing waiting for a response.

[xorxfon]

Side note, one of my miners lights up and doesnt sync with the pool I'm in. I was wondering if there were any schematics or wiring diagrams with measurements I can take at certain points to diagnose and repair that one? It's my main job to do that and i could measure the proper one i was just asking for a time saver for me.

[xorxfon]

Unless it's my scrypt core, in which case what's the market for everything but?

[jstefanop]

Jstefanop

Not trying to be crazy here but your last message October 23rd said you were sending me a new moonlander back. I haven't heard a reply from you since or received any miner. I've messaged you multiple times. What is up? Cause I could have saved the 20 bucks it cost to ship it to you and just chucked it in the bin thinking I made a silly noob mistake buying a miner. If you're sending it please let me know. If you aren't please let me know so I can close the messages tab I've had open for 2 months refreshing waiting for a response.

You just have to keep messaging me...I have a million things to keep track of especially now with the Apollo launch so ill forget unless your remind me. Shoot me a message with details and ill get to it tomorrow.

[xorxfon]

What are the name and part number for the two potentiometers?
The caps of mine flew off from dialing them in.

[digitalcitizen]

HI fellow miners, anyone know how to use bfgminer to solo mine with any scrypt wallet? read all the help from google but to no avail, can't connect to my wallet at all, is it bfgminer problem or something else, did all the conf files and all as per google search, i just wanna know is it possibe or anyone have any luck with scrypt coins.

I second this.  I have a defcoin server set up, and I'd like to verify if I can solo mine, even if I get nothing.

I have tried this: (in my Start_Moonlander2.bat file):

// Port 1335 is defcoin's RPC port

bfgminer.exe --scrypt --url https://1.2.3.4:1335 --no-getwork --no-stratum --userpass james:702af16f58b01369642719c2ffecf13$9ad3087dc33a066c8e23965596d7f3fc7bab82f40d467f856adfeee4e01e3968 -S MLD:all --set MLD:clock=756

I don't put my coinbase there, because it says it's an invalid coinbase address.  It's defcoin not Litecoin.  So I enabled wallet in my daemon, and mining rewards presumably go straight to the default wallet.

I have allowed input from me to RPC and server, and it's no stratum so I put that in there, the daemon doesn't support getwork, so I assume it uses getblocktemplate internally to mine.  I have specified listen, server, rpcuser, rpcpassword, rpcauth, rpcallowip.  I don't know if I have to specify txfee or anything like that.

I'm stuck and nothing seems to work :-/

All I want to do is verify I have set it up correctly and that I can solo mine on it.

This is the output from the console window:

 [2018-12-19 20:02:35] Press any key to exit, or BFGMiner will try again in 15s.
 [2018-12-19 20:02:51] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.
 [2018-12-19 20:02:51] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input
 [2018-12-19 20:02:51] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers
 [2018-12-19 20:02:51] Pool: 0  URL: http://1.2.3.4:1335  User: james  Password: 702af16f58b01369642719c2ffecf13$
9ad3087dc33a066c8e23965596d7f3fc7bab82f40d467f856adfeee4e01e3968
 
Any help please?  Is it hopeless if this doesn't support anything other than getwork?  My defcoin.conf (identical to bitcoin.conf for options to connect, run as server, mine)?  Does anyone have a contrived example if they run a full node and what's in bitcoin.conf or any altcoin.conf to solo mine with?

Or maybe I will try the stratum thing.  But it seems like a lot of work for something which should be fairly simple, like connect to server, send credentials, mine the output from the server, submit and see what happens.  But then I am no expert... just trying to become a competent user at some time, and run my own defcoin pool later down the road.

[digitalcitizen]

Well, I got cpuminer-gw64-avx.exe to work just fine.

The problems seem to be with coinbase address, and getwork not implemented.  Miner has to support non-stratum server and getblocktemplate properly.

Too bad no ASIC mining or GPU mining on my solo mining server just yet.  Have to find a decent updated AMD GPU mining program that I can test with.

If anyone needs to get their solo mine on wants some details of how I got it to work, albeit only with a cpu miner at the moment, please post here. 

[aarons6]

HI fellow miners, anyone know how to use bfgminer to solo mine with any scrypt wallet? read all the help from google but to no avail, can't connect to my wallet at all, is it bfgminer problem or something else, did all the conf files and all as per google search, i just wanna know is it possibe or anyone have any luck with scrypt coins.

I second this.  I have a defcoin server set up, and I'd like to verify if I can solo mine, even if I get nothing.

I have tried this: (in my Start_Moonlander2.bat file):

// Port 1335 is defcoin's RPC port

bfgminer.exe --scrypt --url https://1.2.3.4:1335 --no-getwork --no-stratum --userpass james:702af16f58b01369642719c2ffecf13$9ad3087dc33a066c8e23965596d7f3fc7bab82f40d467f856adfeee4e01e3968 -S MLD:all --set MLD:clock=756

I don't put my coinbase there, because it says it's an invalid coinbase address.  It's defcoin not Litecoin.  So I enabled wallet in my daemon, and mining rewards presumably go straight to the default wallet.

I have allowed input from me to RPC and server, and it's no stratum so I put that in there, the daemon doesn't support getwork, so I assume it uses getblocktemplate internally to mine.  I have specified listen, server, rpcuser, rpcpassword, rpcauth, rpcallowip.  I don't know if I have to specify txfee or anything like that.

I'm stuck and nothing seems to work :-/

All I want to do is verify I have set it up correctly and that I can solo mine on it.

This is the output from the console window:

 [2018-12-19 20:02:35] Press any key to exit, or BFGMiner will try again in 15s.
 [2018-12-19 20:02:51] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.
 [2018-12-19 20:02:51] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input
 [2018-12-19 20:02:51] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers
 [2018-12-19 20:02:51] Pool: 0  URL: http://1.2.3.4:1335  User: james  Password: 702af16f58b01369642719c2ffecf13$
9ad3087dc33a066c8e23965596d7f3fc7bab82f40d467f856adfeee4e01e3968
 
Any help please?  Is it hopeless if this doesn't support anything other than getwork?  My defcoin.conf (identical to bitcoin.conf for options to connect, run as server, mine)?  Does anyone have a contrived example if they run a full node and what's in bitcoin.conf or any altcoin.conf to solo mine with?

Or maybe I will try the stratum thing.  But it seems like a lot of work for something which should be fairly simple, like connect to server, send credentials, mine the output from the server, submit and see what happens.  But then I am no expert... just trying to become a competent user at some time, and run my own defcoin pool later down the road.

i tried it with digibyte scrypt. i couldnt get it working.
its not as easy as you make it tho.. you missed a step.
you need to run the qt and enable rpc and then you have to run bfgminer as a stratum proxy..
then you run another bfgminer for the moonlanders.

bfgminer wont connect directly to the rpc server in mining mode.

[digitalcitizen]

Thanks, so I have to figure out the stratum proxy part.

I think I will give this a go, install the stratum part, try to configure it and see what happens.

Thank you kindly for the response.

[scryptr]

Thanks, so I have to figure out the stratum proxy part.

I think I will give this a go, install the stratum part, try to configure it and see what happens.

Thank you kindly for the response.

SETTING UP A PERSONAL POOL WORKS--

The pool will require setting up Node.js.  The instructions for all the setup work get lengthy, and fitting them in a single post is too much.

Apparently, CGminer can mine on a wallet with little more than a "bitcoin.conf" file for bitcoin-qt and "--btc-address <btcaddr>" in the launch line for CGminer.  I have 2 GekkoScience 2Pac sticks solo-mining on a full BTC-qt node.  It took less than 1/2 hour to set up.

Is there a version of CGminer that will mine with a MoonLander or an Apollo?

My MoonLander2 is mining on a pool that I set up just for solo-mining LTC.  It uses stratum.  My Gekko sticks are mining with "http" on my LAN with better efficiency than they had when mining at a pool with stratum.       --scryptr

[jstefanop]

Thanks, so I have to figure out the stratum proxy part.

I think I will give this a go, install the stratum part, try to configure it and see what happens.

Thank you kindly for the response.

SETTING UP A PERSONAL POOL WORKS--

The pool will require setting up Node.js.  The instructions for all the setup work get lengthy, and fitting them in a single post is too much.

Apparently, CGminer can mine on a wallet with little more than a "bitcoin.conf" file for bitcoin-qt and "--btc-address <btcaddr>" in the launch line for CGminer.  I have 2 GekkoScience 2Pac sticks solo-mining on a full BTC-qt node.  It took less than 1/2 hour to set up.

Is there a version of CGminer that will mine with a MoonLander or an Apollo?

My MoonLander2 is mining on a pool that I set up just for solo-mining LTC.  It uses stratum.  My Gekko sticks are mining with "http" on my LAN with better efficiency than they had when mining at a pool with stratum.       --scryptr

Not currently, but will have this set up for the Apollo, so should be able to merge support for the Moonlander as well.