[ANN] Technobit HEX16B(Bitfury based) 16 chip board design

[Zich]

By the rules yes. Mine cables are in various colors depending of the wire color sold to me:)

In my HEXA boards i am using 1.5mm wires in various colors because the stores always did not have yellow in stock
What i can tell you that from Zich photo i see he knows whta to do and how tick wires to use
I miss the ripped off  PSU part in his photo only
What i do is to chose a single rail psu. Then all the connectors eps and pci and whatever is useful yellow and black are cut and so on Zich knows the story.  Before doing that i was always having melted wires and shit. So i do not care about PSU anymore....It will be always in my possession for ever

  NOooooooo
It's too embarrassing to show you the ripped off PSU part  

Do your homework Zich  
My noname Multimeter shows 4.8A/12V at 900/54. 0.75mm wire may be little bit thin it will not melt for sure but i feel you are same like me

Ps:
The only reason i am using 1.5mm for HEX16A (9A+/12V) but not 2+ mm as i should is because i can not stick 2 mm in the connectors

Actually that 0.75 mm2 is for HEX16A which use 9.2 A 
It's not even warm but the PSU cable is little warm 

[ubauba]

As martin keeps ignoring my messages here, my emails and my support tickets on the website, does anyone have any other contact details? I am now looking at legal advice on this matter

[marto74]

As martin keeps ignoring my messages here, my emails and my support tickets on the website, does anyone have any other contact details? I am now looking at legal advice on this matter

before going to a lawyer just tell me your ref No. instead of calling me a scammer , because I'm not!!
If I have your order ref I'll just refund you and never accept an order from you again
Please understand that We are working in order to deliver already late orders and are changing our transport company, sorry for that.
If yo can not wait and your order is more than 2 weeks late I'll refund you immediately
Best Martin

[ubauba]

Martin, let me put things clearly here now that I finally have a reply from you.

I have boght items from you before and found them to be excellent so ordered more.

This issue is now happening and I think it is a bit unfair on your side to "not accept any more orders from me".

I have tried to contact you many times and never received a reply, never.

Now put yourself in my position, what would you start to think?

As I said I understand you are busy but at least reply and update your costumers.

You said that some of november orders were returned to you and would be dispatched again Monday or Tuesday yet there has been no updates.

I don't think I am being unreasonable at least in asking to be told, sorry but there are more delays and what is causing them.

There are plenty of delivery companies that serve europe so I really don't see why it's taking 2 weeks to have one of them picking this up

[marto74]

Again , please give me your order ref in order to refund you.
You call me scam so I'm not accepting this and want to refund you.

[gcube1305]

Seriously, everybody here (including marto) are talking about november or even december delivery, but as for me, i'm still waiting for my OCTOBER delivery... (order EGRTGCXFP placed on 2013-10-03 for a last week of october delivery, marked as shipped since 2013-11-01, no news and no tracking number, no answer to PM or direct mail)

[Melb]

Seriously, everybody here (including marto) are talking about november or even december delivery, but as for me, i'm still waiting for my OCTOBER delivery... (order EGRTGCXFP placed on 2013-10-03 for a last week of october delivery, marked as shipped since 2013-11-01, no news and no tracking number, no answer to PM or direct mail)

Seems to be something of a theme! I have received 1 order from Martin already and the products are good and well built. Everyone knows there is a big shortage of ASICS and the building of boards is obviously held back by knock on delays from these components. Most will understand this but unfortunately not answering messages or PM's is not the answer. My issue is to do with delivery - my order HHAHDTTXC was apparently shipped but then 'canceled' for no apparent reason... Martin has said the board was returned and he would send UPS Express on his account - that was a week ago, during which time I have requested confirmation of re-despatch, updated tracking numbers etc but received no answer. I am sorry for posting this here Martin but as you are not replying to my PM's you leave me little choice. If you gave me an idea of what is happening I would be more sympathetic. I appreciate you are very busy but to keep customers in the dark in this way is not being reasonable.


Melb

[AceCobra1]

As martin keeps ignoring my messages here, my emails and my support tickets on the website, does anyone have any other contact details? I am now looking at legal advice on this matter

before going to a lawyer just tell me your ref No. instead of calling me a scammer , because I'm not!!
If I have your order ref I'll just refund you and never accept an order from you again
Please understand that We are working in order to deliver already late orders and are changing our transport company, sorry for that.
If yo can not wait and your order is more than 2 weeks late I'll refund you immediately
Best Martin

When can I expect my order EVAEOQNVV - please check

[cbrboot]

NVM, ignore :-)

[bitminterlt]

Can you please check on my orders:

DRTYHYCSI
and
AXPOLDEBC

Both ordered on 11/21/13 and have not been asked to pay for shipping yet, and I dont want anything delayed on my part. I have also asked your support on the website a few times without a single response from ANYONE!!

Can you please tell me when I should expect these items to ship out?

[Melb]

Hi,

How do you setup the tp link to mine more than one board?
Trough a usb hub, but how to setup the config and what are the settings to overclock?

If you use a USB hub CGMiner will see multiple boards but I do not think you can set separate overclock rates for multiple boards of the same type. The settings are available /etc/config/cgminer if you are comfortable using vi editor under SSH - or you can set them from the web gui.
Just change the pool and worker settings to yours and away you go (you will see the voltage and clock settings there too - although I prefer to run at standard clock speed rather than risk overheating and instability) - the TP-Link is one neat solution:)

Melb

[Pentium100]

I received my HEX16B boards, but cannot make cgminer detect them. Linux detects them as ttyACM0 to 2

Here's what I did:
1. Download cgminer 3.6.4 and the patch for it from technobit.eu
2. applied the patch, it was successful.
3. ./configure --enable-bflsc --enable-hexminer
4. make && make install
5. ran cgminer - it detected my Single, but did not detect the HEX boards.
6. saw that the patch did not patch the configure script, so I edited the config.h to add #define USE_HEXMINER 1
7. ran make - linking failed.
8. I edited the Makefile, copied all lines containing driver-bflsc and changed that to driver-hexminer
9. ran make && make install - this time it went OK.
10. ran cgminer - the boards are still not detected.


Does anyone have the complete source for cgminer that I could compile or just the i486 binaries for Debian7?

[loshia]

I received my HEX16B boards, but cannot make cgminer detect them. Linux detects them as ttyACM0 to 2

Here's what I did:
1. Download cgminer 3.6.4 and the patch for it from technobit.eu
2. applied the patch, it was successful.
3. ./configure --enable-bflsc --enable-hexminer
4. make && make install
5. ran cgminer - it detected my Single, but did not detect the HEX boards.
6. saw that the patch did not patch the configure script, so I edited the config.h to add #define USE_HEXMINER 1
7. ran make - linking failed.
8. I edited the Makefile, copied all lines containing driver-bflsc and changed that to driver-hexminer
9. ran make && make install - this time it went OK.
10. ran cgminer - the boards are still not detected.


Does anyone have the complete source for cgminer that I could compile or just the i486 binaries for Debian7?

It will never work that way. What you need to do is to run two instances of cgminer. One Patched for HEX boards (only hex borads enabled) - use latest and one original version for the rest. The main reason for that is that some of the USB original code is completely disabled like usbpooling and other stuff. Please read the changelog
Hint to build patched cgminer use ./autogen.sh

[AMT_miners]

I received my HEX16B boards, but cannot make cgminer detect them. Linux detects them as ttyACM0 to 2

Here's what I did:
1. Download cgminer 3.6.4 and the patch for it from technobit.eu
2. applied the patch, it was successful.
3. ./configure --enable-bflsc --enable-hexminer
4. make && make install
5. ran cgminer - it detected my Single, but did not detect the HEX boards.
6. saw that the patch did not patch the configure script, so I edited the config.h to add #define USE_HEXMINER 1
7. ran make - linking failed.
8. I edited the Makefile, copied all lines containing driver-bflsc and changed that to driver-hexminer
9. ran make && make install - this time it went OK.
10. ran cgminer - the boards are still not detected.


Does anyone have the complete source for cgminer that I could compile or just the i486 binaries for Debian7?

If you get frustrated you can always network it.
Buy one of these tplinks: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-MR3020-Wireless-Portable-Compatible/dp/B006DEBXD0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386829452&sr=8-1&keywords=TPlink+MR3020 should arrive the next day or pick one up at Bestbuy or walmart if you're close to one.

Then install the MR3020 image set on the device via the firmware upgrade settings in the tplinks admin panel. Get the panel by 192.168.0.254
After you install the firmware upgrade image you need to change you're network on your pc to anything other than what it currently is. so for example 192.168.0.1 and click save. (thats in the properties section your computer's network settingsl btw)
Then in your browser go to 192.168.0.99 and you'll see the new interface including CGminer and the API as well. Default login will be root and the first thing you must do is set a password in the administration section of the system collumn, then click save, log out and then log back in. If you don't do that you'll have to flash the device manually which is a straight up bitch to do.

Also when you connect the miners devices to the computer or TP link via a USB hub make sure its a POWERED usb hub. There has to be a cable going from the USB hub to the outlet in the wall otherwise it wont hash. If its a single miner, don't worry about it.

I know the above is not a direct answer to you're question, but maybe you'll find it someone in there.. who knows. And its a nice solution because you just set the miner next to your router all month and don't have to worry about plugging it in or out of the pc or leaving the pc on etc..

And if your using it for only one or two miners i'll teach you how to make it work it with wifi, which is kinda cool.

[Zich]

I received my HEX16B boards, but cannot make cgminer detect them. Linux detects them as ttyACM0 to 2

Here's what I did:
1. Download cgminer 3.6.4 and the patch for it from technobit.eu
2. applied the patch, it was successful.
3. ./configure --enable-bflsc --enable-hexminer
4. make && make install
5. ran cgminer - it detected my Single, but did not detect the HEX boards.
6. saw that the patch did not patch the configure script, so I edited the config.h to add #define USE_HEXMINER 1
7. ran make - linking failed.
8. I edited the Makefile, copied all lines containing driver-bflsc and changed that to driver-hexminer
9. ran make && make install - this time it went OK.
10. ran cgminer - the boards are still not detected.


Does anyone have the complete source for cgminer that I could compile or just the i486 binaries for Debian7?

That's it, there is no driver for HEX16B on patch for cgminer 3.6.4. It's was available from version 3.8.1  

Code:

0.0.5:
* cgminer updated to 3.6.4 rev 273b04be62a69b2fcfa95790b99822a0bcfd8e75
* cgminer patch to cgminer 3.6.4 rev 273b04be62a69b2fcfa95790b99822a0bcfd8e75.patch 
  - various code cleanup and optimization needs to be done
* openwrt updated to r38461

0.0.6:
* cgminer updated to 3.8.1 rev 2e9afa38e39678a5dc5bf8be6d20baf1849b548c
* cgminer patch to cgminer 3.8.1 rev 2e9afa38e39678a5dc5bf8be6d20baf1849b548c.patch 
  - various code cleanup and optimization needs to be done
* openwrt updated to r38808
* cgminer usb_poll_thread has been disabled - buggy. WARNING this can/will break something with other mining devices supported. 
  If you want it (async cancelable usb transfers) enable it. Check the patch for more details. 
  Besides it reduces CPU usage (Tplink) with 30+%
* cgminer Added suport for HEX16B - Bitfury(--enable-hexminerb) and HEH16C(--enable-hexminerc) - Avalon2 TechnoBit boards
* cgminer BIG FAT NOTE -  i am talking about our code only. A ton of bugs (mutex locks, memory corruption, usb locks, hotplug and so on) 
  were fixed. They were discovered with dgb client/server + TpLink/I386
* cgminer – monitoring script fixed so that it will not restart cgminer when you are watching deteched cgminer session. 
* Factory default is recommended when doing upgrade. Otherwise it is a !!MUST!! HAX16B and C to be configured in the web. 
  Not doing so will prevent cgminer from starting. 
  HEX16B defaults: chips 16, clock 540, voltage 900. 
  HEX16C defaults: chips 16, clock 1500, voltage 1100

0.0.7:

* cgminer fix HEX16C support - some debug left
* cgminer updated to 3.8.2 rev 0ed1828bd47282218c2bb130fd03737ed2c51a5e
* cgminer patch to cgminer 3.8.2 rev 0ed1828bd47282218c2bb130fd03737ed2c51a5e.patch 
- various code cleanup and optimization needs to be done
* openwrt updated to r38818

[Pentium100]

That's it, there is no driver for HEX16B on patch for cgminer 3.6.4. It's was available from version 3.8.1  

Where did you find that? I can only find the patch for 3.6.4 in the Downloads section in technobit.eu website. I guess the newer patch is hidden somewhere.

Hint to build patched cgminer use ./autogen.sh

hmm. autogen.sh was not part of the tar file I downloaded. I guess I have to download cgminer from git.


I wasted so much time (each compile/make takes my control PC about an hour) just because I could not find proper instructions...

[loshia]

That's it, there is no driver for HEX16B on patch for cgminer 3.6.4. It's was available from version 3.8.1  

Where did you find that? I can only find the patch for 3.6.4 in the Downloads section in technobit.eu website. I guess the newer patch is hidden somewhere.

Hint to build patched cgminer use ./autogen.sh

hmm. autogen.sh was not part of the tar file I downloaded. I guess I have to download cgminer from git.


I wasted so much time (each compile/make takes my control PC about an hour) just because I could not find proper instructions...

Same here all us wasting time dude for free you know it right?
All the info is here and there in the forums. You are on your own from now on.
Good Luck....
If i was you i would go with tp-link it will pay you off from electricity savings just for a month

[Zich]

That's it, there is no driver for HEX16B on patch for cgminer 3.6.4. It's was available from version 3.8.1  

Where did you find that? I can only find the patch for 3.6.4 in the Downloads section in technobit.eu website. I guess the newer patch is hidden somewhere.

New download page: Download Page

cgminer patch for v3.8.1: 3.8.1 Patch

Edit: There is no cgminer patch for v 3.8.2
       The latest is v 3.8.3 but i hate it  

[Zich]

How to apply cgminer patch from technoBTCit

Code:

1. mkdir cgminer
2. cd cgminer
3. wget https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/archive/v3.8.1.tar.gz
4. tar -xvf v3.8.1.tar.gz
5. cd cgminer-3.8.1
6. wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/5suzudn2t06087u/2e9afa38e39678a5dc5bf8be6d20baf1849b548c.patch
7. patch -p1 < 2e9afa38e39678a5dc5bf8be6d20baf1849b548c.patch
8. ./autogen.sh --enable-avalon --enable-bitfury --enable-hexminerb --enable-bflsc 
9. make

You can skip step 6 if can copy the file to 3.8.1 folder or upload yourself the patch

[Pentium100]

Same here all us wasting time dude for free you know it right?

My comment was not meant to be directed at the lack of proper documentation (though technobit makes money selling the devices, they should in theory also provide support). It was directed at myself - I had a couple of weeks between ordering the devices and receiving them and I could not make sure that I have a version of the software that actually works. Sorry if I offended you.

I do not need the tp-link because:
1. If I order it now, it will be a day of two before I receive it.
2. The current PC I use for mining uses something like 30W anyway. Even if I used a different PC (that uses more power), it would still probably not pay off the price of the tp-link and I can use that PC for other things (like stats and control (remotely rebooting the miners) and so on) that could be a problem on the underpowered router (not that the PC I use is that more powerful).
3. My current control PC has TV output, so I do not have to lug a monitor to the basement to see its console (in case it crashes).

Thanks, Zich, I am following those instructions right now, we'll see if this works (I currently have my Single connected to a raspberry and the hex boards to the PC in question).