Blue Fury Support Thread.

[Taugeran]

I'm up and running now on Win7, Ubuntu 13, Raspbian - Only on BFGMiner with all of them, eventually I gave up on CGMiner today...
(Of course being me, I just moved all the miners to the Ubuntu machine and enabled SSH... trying to work on a build of BFGMiner that will work with MinePeon atm.)

I tried the D-Link HUB-D7, including just using the 2 fast-charging ports, didn't see any rating increase (and even though these do generate little heat in comparison to other miners, I'm a cooling freak, so yea, there are fans). Still think there's some limiting factors in the software, I only say that because that's the world I come from and I damn well know nothing every goes right the first time, hell maybe not even the first few hundred times, no matter how good a programmer is, there are always some factors unaccounted for, overlooked, typo'ed (fking semi-colon), suddenly broken by something else (fking random updates) or just not thought of.

to boil down my TL;DR from earlier. the firmware on the BF1 that sets up the clock frequency is hardcoded at probably 52 osc6 bits which translates to about 2.2-2.3 Ghash/sec

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[kabopar]

Are you using Ubuntu 13 or 12.04.xx? Just curious.

I am using 13

I switched as I was using 12.04... after switching it appears the rep is having some issues (didn't on 12.04) of which won't let you install bfgminer (that way). I checked the server, the server connection is fine, just files aren't there.

I am getting this also on Ubuntu 13.10

In "software and updates", "other software"  you have to change "saucy" to "raring" in the ppa.

Thanks for the useful tip about the ppa repository settings.  I had the same problem and applying this allowed me to install bfgminer on Ubuntu 13.10 (amd64).  It is running bfgminer 3.0.99 now with the BF device, reaching about 2.26 GH/sec as on the Win7 machine.  We may be entitled to some compensation, as it is becoming clear that the BlueFury cannot attain the originally specified hash rate.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/OtZFnpv.jpg[img]
after more than 1 hour, so it is statistically correct

[tk1337]

I'm up and running now on Win7, Ubuntu 13, Raspbian - Only on BFGMiner with all of them, eventually I gave up on CGMiner today...
(Of course being me, I just moved all the miners to the Ubuntu machine and enabled SSH... trying to work on a build of BFGMiner that will work with MinePeon atm.)

I tried the D-Link HUB-D7, including just using the 2 fast-charging ports, didn't see any rating increase (and even though these do generate little heat in comparison to other miners, I'm a cooling freak, so yea, there are fans). Still think there's some limiting factors in the software, I only say that because that's the world I come from and I damn well know nothing every goes right the first time, hell maybe not even the first few hundred times, no matter how good a programmer is, there are always some factors unaccounted for, overlooked, typo'ed (fking semi-colon), suddenly broken by something else (fking random updates) or just not thought of.

to boil down my TL;DR from earlier. the firmware on the BF1 that sets up the clock frequency is hardcoded at probably 52 osc6 bits which translates to about 2.2-2.3 Ghash/sec

If this were true, why would Beastlymac stating 2.7GH/s on his own system, of course, I'm assuming he would use the same firmware (and I can't see he any reason why he wouldn't nor do I doubt he didn't use the same firmware to flash the chips).

Furthermore, I've seen one sit at 2.659GH/s - 2.8xxGH/s for about an hour, granted one out of eight and after I restarted the miner to add some api parameters for BFGMiner, I haven't seen anything that high yet again.

[Beastlymac]

I'm up and running now on Win7, Ubuntu 13, Raspbian - Only on BFGMiner with all of them, eventually I gave up on CGMiner today...
(Of course being me, I just moved all the miners to the Ubuntu machine and enabled SSH... trying to work on a build of BFGMiner that will work with MinePeon atm.)

I tried the D-Link HUB-D7, including just using the 2 fast-charging ports, didn't see any rating increase (and even though these do generate little heat in comparison to other miners, I'm a cooling freak, so yea, there are fans). Still think there's some limiting factors in the software, I only say that because that's the world I come from and I damn well know nothing every goes right the first time, hell maybe not even the first few hundred times, no matter how good a programmer is, there are always some factors unaccounted for, overlooked, typo'ed (fking semi-colon), suddenly broken by something else (fking random updates) or just not thought of.

to boil down my TL;DR from earlier. the firmware on the BF1 that sets up the clock frequency is hardcoded at probably 52 osc6 bits which translates to about 2.2-2.3 Ghash/sec

If this were true, why would Beastlymac stating 2.7GH/s on his own system, of course, I'm assuming he would use the same firmware (and I can't see he any reason why he wouldn't nor do I doubt he didn't use the same firmware to flash the chips).

Furthermore, I've seen one sit at 2.659GH/s - 2.8xxGH/s for about an hour, granted one out of eight and after I restarted the miner to add some api parameters for BFGMiner, I haven't seen anything that high yet again.

Yes all devices are flashed with the newest firmware. You can tell because the led will flash from yellow to orange. That shows it is working. The devices I have and the devices all the developers have are all the same as the production ones.

Here is a photo of the test units running. Granted the time it has been running isn't very long.

And I am consistently getting 2.5-2.9ghs

[tk1337]

I meant to try Eligius earlier, I haven't used it in a few weeks now... but I have made most of my btc there... anyhow..

Switched the pool, I see 4 at 2.6GH/s to 3GH/s, going to going to give it a little while, but I am seeing much better numbers off the bat with Eligius (still have yet to see a HW error!).

[kabopar]

I meant to try Eligius earlier, I haven't used it in a few weeks now... but I have made most of my btc there... anyhow..

Switched the pool, I see 4 at 2.6GH/s to 3GH/s, going to going to give it a little while, but I am seeing much better numbers off the bat with Eligius (still have yet to see a HW error!).

Tried Eligius as well, for almost 7 minutes, the hash rate was as on the previous pools that I tried (Slush and BTC)

[thegoldbug]

Thanks for the pointers everyone,  I switched computers from Windows 8.0 to a Windows 7 machined and am now able to get my Blue Fury recognized by the cleaned up version of Bfgminer 3.2.0.

However after 60 minutes of hashing the BF is only averaging 2.16 Gh/s  (Eligius pool).

[zyk0]

After some work with ckolivas, got cgminer working with my blue furies.
The manufacture string is BFMG instead of BPMC on the blue vs red, so next release is likely going to ignore that when attempting to use BF1 devices.
However, speed on my sticks hasn't been too great.

Will try resetting stick 15062915 once again I suppose.

Code:

 cgminer version 3.6.6 - Started: [2013-11-03 01:02:47]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):6.704G (avg):6.647Gh/s | A:57670  R:132  HW:0  WU:93.2/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 91  LW: 106939  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to xxx diff 4 with stratum as user xxx
 Block: ac3f2fff...  Diff:391M  Started: [11:23:51]  Best share: 192K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 BF1 0:                | 2.213G/2.124Gh/s | A:18324 R:20 HW:0 WU:29.8/m
 BF1 1:                | 2.132G/2.050Gh/s | A:18188 R:52 HW:0 WU:28.8/m
 BF1 3:                | 2.223G/2.146Gh/s | A:18406 R:56 HW:0 WU:30.0/m
 BF1 4:                | 345.3M/327.6Mh/s | A: 2724 R: 4 HW:0 WU: 4.6/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Code:

[STATS0] =>
(
   [ID] => BF10
   [Elapsed] => 37069
   [Version] => 224
   [Product] => ;└PI☺BF1
   [Serial] => 00000000
   [NonceRate] => 0.677997
   [USB Pipe] => 2 0/0/0 1383501508
   [USB Delay] => r0 0.000000 w0 0.000000
   [USB tmo] => 204427 50=1/70/70/60/10 100=0/0/0/0/0 500=0/0/0/0/0
)
[STATS1] =>
(
   [ID] => BF11
   [Elapsed] => 37069
   [Version] => 1
   [Product] => BF1
   [Serial] => 15062312
   [NonceRate] => 0.682141
   [USB Pipe] => 10 0/0/0 1383505537
   [USB Delay] => r0 0.000000 w0 0.000000
   [USB tmo] => 196265 50=12/65/672/759/4194 100=1/114/114/104/10 500=0/0/0/0/0
)
[STATS2] =>
(
   [ID] => BF12
   [Elapsed] => 37069
   [Version] => 1
   [Product] => BF1
   [Serial] => 15062915
   [NonceRate] => 0.122563
   [USB Pipe] => 5 0/0/5 1383469931
   [USB Delay] => r0 0.000000 w0 0.000000
   [USB tmo] => 2312 0
)
[STATS3] =>
(
   [ID] => BF13
   [Elapsed] => 37069
   [Version] => 1
   [Product] => BF1
   [Serial] => 15062b15
   [NonceRate] => 0.688453
   [USB Pipe] => 6 0/0/0 1383483895
   [USB Delay] => r0 0.000000 w0 0.000000
   [USB tmo] => 203386 50=4/633/655/234/2350 100=0/0/0/0/0 500=0/0/0/0/0
)
[STATS4] =>
(
   [ID] => BF14
   [Elapsed] => 37069
   [Version] => 1
   [Product] => BF1
   [Serial] => 15062915
   [NonceRate] => 0.121812
   [USB Pipe] => 10 0/0/0 1383504731
   [USB Delay] => r0 0.000000 w0 0.000000
   [USB tmo] => 147066 50=1/642/642/51/591 100=0/0/0/0/0 500=0/0/0/0/0
)

also, that corrupted product string/version/missing serial on that first device is worrisome, hopefully that's just a software flaw (and hopefully just that debug build) that won't end up crashing cgminer.

[Epinnoia]

After some work with ckolivas, got cgminer working with my blue furies.
The manufacture string is BFMG instead of BPMC on the blue vs red, so next release is likely going to ignore that when attempting to use BF1 devices.
However, speed on my sticks hasn't been too great.

Will try resetting stick 15062915 once again I suppose.

...
also, that corrupted product string/version/missing serial on that first device is worrisome, hopefully that's just a software flaw (and hopefully just that debug build) that won't end up crashing cgminer.

Odd.  Have you tried isolating that suspect card/unit such that you try mining with it and only it?  Since 4-port unpowered hubs are common, I have to ask...  Are you using a powered hub?

[colemab]

On Ubuntu 12.04.3, I get the following error when running the  'sudo apt-get install bfgminer' command

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 bfgminer : Depends: libjansson4 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have searched on google but no luck.  Any ideas?

In the mean time, I have them running temporary on a windows 7 box and I am getting about 2.22 - 2.34 Ghps (per unit) with bfgminer 3.2.0.

Anyone have any ideas?

[thegoldbug]

After 60 minutes I restarted Bfgminer 3.2.0. on my Windows 7.0 desktop, the BF is plugged directly into one of the front USB ports and has a fan blow on the heatsink.

About 3.5 hours into this run and the hashing rate has dropped to 2.25/2.26/2.02 Gh/s (Eligius pool).

I believe the 3rd number is the running average??

[tk1337]

On Ubuntu 12.04.3, I get the following error when running the  'sudo apt-get install bfgminer' command

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 bfgminer : Depends: libjansson4 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have searched on google but no luck.  Any ideas?

In the mean time, I have them running temporary on a windows 7 box and I am getting about 2.22 - 2.34 Ghps (per unit) with bfgminer 3.2.0.

Anyone have any ideas?

Use Ubuntu 13.10... best idea I got for you, since I couldn't get it working under 12.04, but 13.10 took me 2 minutes.

[zyk0]

After some work with ckolivas, got cgminer working with my blue furies.
The manufacture string is BFMG instead of BPMC on the blue vs red, so next release is likely going to ignore that when attempting to use BF1 devices.
However, speed on my sticks hasn't been too great.

Will try resetting stick 15062915 once again I suppose.

...
also, that corrupted product string/version/missing serial on that first device is worrisome, hopefully that's just a software flaw (and hopefully just that debug build) that won't end up crashing cgminer.

Odd.  Have you tried isolating that suspect card/unit such that you try mining with it and only it?  Since 4-port unpowered hubs are common, I have to ask...  Are you using a powered hub?

Hadn't tried running on it's own yet but it's still not doing to well after a couple resets.

Code:

 cgminer version 3.6.6 - Started: [2013-11-03 01:02:47]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):6.425G (avg):6.640Gh/s | A:83266  R:176  HW:0  WU:93.4/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 120  LW: 153191  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to xxxxx diff 4 with stratum as user xxx
 Block: 338ef766...  Diff:391M  Started: [15:42:36]  Best share: 192K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 BF1 0:                | 2.143G/2.129Gh/s | A:26540 R:24 HW:0 WU:30.0/m
 BF1 1:                | 2.046G/2.041Gh/s | A:25744 R:64 HW:0 WU:28.7/m
 BF1 3:                | 2.149G/2.141Gh/s | A:26982 R:68 HW:0 WU:30.1/m
 BF1 6:                | 332.7M/327.5Mh/s | A: 1072 R:12 HW:0 WU: 4.7/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Most common 4 port hubs don't have the spacing between ports to allow you to get usb miners in there, but the http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005NGQWL2 I'm using w/ it's 60w power adapter should have more than enough for these things.

[LogicalUnit]

Just got my three Blue Fury units in the post now. I'm trying to use them with MinePeon 0.2.4 PR2, but they are not being detected by cgminer or bfgminer.

Any suggestions?

[MineForeman.com]

Try;-

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer -S bigpic:all  /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

In your startup.

If your running them with eruptors though you need to identify everything seperetily like;-

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer -S bigpic:all -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB0 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB1 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB2 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB3 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB4 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB5 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB6 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB7 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB8 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB9 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB10 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB11 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB12 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB13 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB14 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB15 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB16 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB17 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB18 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB19 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB20 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB21 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB22 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB23 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB24 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB25 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB26 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB27 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB28 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB29 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB30 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB31 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB32 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB33 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB34 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

Neil

[LogicalUnit]

Try;-

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer -S bigpic:all  /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

In your startup.

Disconnected the Block Erupters and tried that, but now bfgminer doesn't even start.

[LogicalUnit]

Try;-

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer -S bigpic:all -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

In your startup.

Disconnected the Block Erupters and tried that, but now bfgminer doesn't even start.

Fixed it! Blue Fury units are running!!

Now, how do I identify the Block Erupters so I can get everything working simultaneously?

[Beastlymac]

Try;-

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer -S bigpic:all -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

In your startup.

Disconnected the Block Erupters and tried that, but now bfgminer doesn't even start.

Fixed it! Blue Fury units are running!!

Now, how do I identify the Block Erupters so I can get everything working simultaneously?

You will need to manually assign the com ports.

[LogicalUnit]

You will need to manually assign the com ports.

Any info on this?

[tk1337]

You will need to manually assign the com ports.

Any info on this?

Your answer:

If your running them with eruptors though you need to identify everything seperetily like;-

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer -S bigpic:all -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB0 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB1 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB2 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB3 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB4 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB5 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB6 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB7 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB8 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB9 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB10 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB11 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB12 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB13 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB14 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB15 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB16 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB17 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB18 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB19 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB20 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB21 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB22 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB23 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB24 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB25 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB26 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB27 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB28 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB29 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB30 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB31 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB32 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB33 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB34 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf