Innosilicon A4+ setup tutorial

[solarismedic]

I just tried it with one of my A4+ and it bricked the box.  I performed the upgrade through the GUI as one normally would, but upon the automatic restart, it wouldn't come back up.  Couldn't even ping the box.  I walked over to the unit and saw that all lights were off on the hashoard with the fault red light on the controller.  I power cycled (i figured it was safe to since it was about 30 mins since the upgrade ended) all the lights came back on as one would expect.  After about 2 mins of sitting there, all the hasboard lights turned off.  My guess is that the controller upgrade failed and now is corrupted.

Will need to run out and grab a tfcard from the store to see if upgrading via the slot works.  for now, i'll switch all the hasboard cables over to another miner so I don't lose hashrate.  Definitely hold back on the new firmware...let some guinea pigs try it for several weeks first.  Don't get burned like I did.

Before this, had upgraded to 0129 with no issues and running several weeks.

this is embarrassing.  turns out the IP got reset to the static 192.168.1.254.  can confirm the new firmware is hashing now.  i don't notice any difference though.  if i find any difference, I'll report back here.

[wease]

They are sending me a card reader.  The instructions show that it hooks up to a set of pins on the board.  Who knows how long it will take to get it.


I will keep trying to load firmware.  The newest firmware never stops loading.  I let it get to 1000% last night and still nothing.  The other firmwares giv eme invalid hardware detected.  Atleast its still hashing but would love to be able to load firmware.

[bgbaster]

Hello everyone! I have had some issues with my machines, but thanks to this tread I have managed to fix them to work.
Now I have noticed that one of the machines in the status page of the machine says that is working with ~660 MH/s, but in litecoinpool and other pools, only this machine shows 485~500 MH/s. The other machines are fine - above 600 MH/s. I have checked all the boards - everything is green. Updated the firmware several times, but with no success. Could you suggest where the problem could come from? Thank you in advance!

I have the same issue with all of my A4+ ASICs. No one of them actually gets 600 MH/s or higher.

[needed357]

one chain is down

how can i check this in telnet?

i do restart and still 3 chains only on

[notepadgamer]

Hey guys, got some questions(first post, be gentle )

been looking at overclocking my 4 A4+'s but it seems that my miners only have the dropdown for 1044 and 1100.  The Card type is G19 with a FW of 29-12-2017
Is this normal as I see everyone saying 1152 should be avalable. (current hash rate of ~628 , vid 25, Mhz 1044)

furthermore Is there really any reason to overclock as a 10% increase in profit is negligable for possible miner damage??

Im also currently mining verge & gamecredits on miningpoolhub's pool and earning ~£5 gross. Only reason I ask is I swear the ROI was less than 400 days when I got the machines.

[jstefanop]

Hey can one of you guys pull a board from one of these and take some high res pics of the front/backside. Can’t find any pcb pics for the A4+ just the A4.

[needed357]

one chain is down

how can i check this in telnet?

i do restart and still 3 chains only on

lol reboot one day later and all 4 chains on the line

[notepadgamer]

Hey can one of you guys pull a board from one of these and take some high res pics of the front/backside. Can’t find any pcb pics for the A4+ just the A4.

Sorry to say but your going to be dissapointed.  the boards look pretty much identical except a slightly diffrent chip number under the heatsinks.

[jstefanop]

Hey can one of you guys pull a board from one of these and take some high res pics of the front/backside. Can’t find any pcb pics for the A4+ just the A4.

Sorry to say but your going to be dissapointed.  the boards look pretty much identical except a slightly diffrent chip number under the heatsinks.

Highly doubt that...A4 had 80 chips  on 4 boards, A4+ is 288 chips on 4 boards.

[shepardblue]

Hey can one of you guys pull a board from one of these and take some high res pics of the front/backside. Can’t find any pcb pics for the A4+ just the A4.

Here's the best I have on hand, hope this helps:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcointalkphotos/IMG_1462.JPG
https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcointalkphotos/IMG_1461.JPG

[needed357]

whats the CMD line for auto reboot? in crontab?

[Aepko]

I downloaded as much of the firmware as I could and put it on github

https://github.com/aepkolol/innofirmware

If anyone needs it for whatever reason

[tchor66]

Hello, is it possible to buy 1 control panel?
Where can I find it? and how much does it cost?
Thank you

[kilo17]

Here is a script I wrote to make it easy to add the --api extras.  Just change the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to the IP of the miner and make sure to make it s .sh file and give it Permissions to execute as a program.

Cheers...

btw - this was written for linux systems (in case you did not know  )

Code:

#!/bin/sh

HOST='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 8100'
USER='root'
PASSWD='t1t2t3a5'
CMD=''

(
echo open "$HOST"
sleep 2
echo "$USER"
sleep 2
echo "$PASSWD"
sleep 2
echo "cd /home/inno_py/"
sleep 2
echo "mount / -o rw,remount"
sleep 2
echo "vi -c ':%s@--api-listen@--api-listen --api-network --api-allow W:0/0@g' -c wq /home/inno_py/inno_config.py"
sleep 2

) | telnet

[OldYoungy]

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know how to set share difficulty on an A4+? I can set pseudo with <address>+x but I get an Invalid Argument error when I try to use <address>/x or <address>/x+y

Thanks in advance!

[kb8679]

It's something that's actually set by the pool. Most (or quite many of them at least) support manual share difficulty which is usually set in the password field, something like "d=123456" or "x,d=1233456". Check your pools FAQ.

For litecoinpool whole configuration would be like this:

URL: "stratum+tcp://litecoinpool.org:3333"
USER: "username.workername"
PASS: "pass,d=128000"

Hope it helps!

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know how to set share difficulty on an A4+? I can set pseudo with <address>+x but I get an Invalid Argument error when I try to use <address>/x or <address>/x+y

Thanks in advance!

[OldYoungy]

It's something that's actually set by the pool. Most (or quite many of them at least) support manual share difficulty which is usually set in the password field, something like "d=123456" or "x,d=1233456". Check your pools FAQ.

For litecoinpool whole configuration would be like this:

URL: "stratum+tcp://litecoinpool.org:3333"
USER: "username.workername"
PASS: "pass,d=128000"

Hope it helps!

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know how to set share difficulty on an A4+? I can set pseudo with <address>+x but I get an Invalid Argument error when I try to use <address>/x or <address>/x+y

Thanks in advance!

Thanks mate, this is for P2Pool mining where passwords are ignored, I have tried the password arguments but to no avail. My mates L3+ has no problem setting both share and psuedo-share but my A4+ is only accepting the psuedo-share difficulty argument (presumably, the pool only shows worker share difficulty stat but the miner accepts the ± argument).

It's not too big of an issue it just reduces my shares per day but when I get a share the predicted payout is larger when a block is found. Although leaving it set to the node default has its benefits if I get lucky with finding lots of shares and blocks within the share lapse period.

[OldYoungy]

Hello, is it possible to buy 1 control panel?
Where can I find it? and how much does it cost?
Thank you

probably not easy. I have a bunch spare, I can see how much we'd want to sell it for.

Can you please message me with a price for an A4+ control board?

[Aepko]

Here is a script I wrote to make it easy to add the --api extras.  Just change the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to the IP of the miner and make sure to make it s .sh file and give it Permissions to execute as a program.

Cheers...

btw - this was written for linux systems (in case you did not know  )

Code:

#!/bin/sh

HOST='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 8100'
USER='root'
PASSWD='t1t2t3a5'
CMD=''

(
echo open "$HOST"
sleep 2
echo "$USER"
sleep 2
echo "$PASSWD"
sleep 2
echo "cd /home/inno_py/"
sleep 2
echo "mount / -o rw,remount"
sleep 2
echo "vi -c ':%s@--api-listen@--api-listen --api-network --api-allow W:0/0@g' -c wq /home/inno_py/inno_config.py"
sleep 2

) | telnet

Thanks for this! I don't know why I didn't think of doing that. I edited it to do all 60 of our A4+'s. Saving me loads of effort every firmware update.

It would be super easy for awesomeminer to bypass that. If they could just parse the JSON from http://192.168.1.xx/cgi-bin/temper.py instead of accessing the cgminer API directly, you wouldn't need to modify system files and we'd have system temps as well. Plus you could do POST commands to it to change the pool on the ASIC so it doesn't flip back every reboot. Could also see/change OC and fan speeds.. etc..

[tchor66]

Hello AEKPO, how much are you selling the control panel stp?
you have several to sell?
can you contact me by messages?
thank you
(sorry for my english, I'm french lol)