Ok, trying to figure out if I have a Freak of a USB Miner on my hands here or a dud.
I have a Raspberry Pi up and running using a 10 port "treefrog" powered USB 2.0 hub. (sku #HY-HB-8101)
I started out with the usual tutorial found at:
http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/to-stop-mining-dot-dot-dotIs a great tutorial and gets you up and running with an old cgminer, 3.1.1.
However after a few house I noticed the Hardware errors were climbing. After just a few minutes it showed 14%! Figured I'd just leave it for a bit and see what happened.
The next day, after work I come home and its now showing 49% errors! I also noticed on the LCD Plate that it showed 11.51GH/s... yes 11.51GH/s performance from 10 USB Miners that should be only doing about 334MH/s.
Screen shot evidence:
http://imageshack.com/scaled/medium/824/tmum.jpg Uploaded with
ImageShack.usI'm thinking that this can't be right... Or maybe it is? Dunno
I start searching around and found a thread where someone upgraded their cgminer to a newer version and that seemed to help, so far, except that this one USB Miner is still acting odd according to cgminer. I've seen it show as high as 50GH/s on this one device.
As I said I finally figured out how to fire up cgminer 3.4.3 in Raspberry Pi OS but its not quite right, need it running as a background service I believe before PiMiner.py will be able to connect to it to utilize the LCD-plate.
I'm a novice to Linux based OS' and derivatives so may just not be aware of what I really should be doing to do it right.
Ultimately I would like to be using the latest cgminer in conjunction with the LCD-Plate. Perhaps the Python code needs to be updated to work with newer cgminers? Anyone proficient enough with python to help out?
So after I got cgminer 3.4.3 running this evening I let it run for a good 30 minutes to see if there were any hardware errors. If I'm reading this summary right, its clean?
http://imageshack.com/scaled/medium/849/xhfq.jpg Uploaded with
ImageShack.usI think that's enough for tonight, I'll leave it running over night with 3.4.3, curious how it fairs.
Cheers,
Xwolf