[GUIDE] How to rent your rig on LEASERIG.NET - Scrypt & SHA256

[Sy]

This should work without static ip and dyndns too...

[Lowkek]

This should work without static ip and dyndns too...

This, please add dynamic ip functionality

[sowanted]

when i want to try to test :
 --api-groups P:switchpool:addpool:removepool:restart:save:* --api-listen --api-allow P:89.212.242.33 --api-port 2014

it says: need to specify at least one pool server.
Input server details.
URL

[forestmining]

Edit: problem solved.

For peoples who can access on rig only by local network (even if ports are open), and not by internet, you can try changeip.com instead no-ip. With no-ip and their program, i could not access to anything. with changeip, everything was solved. I don't know how this is possible but it works for me (probably my fault and my noob linux skills  ).

Thanks again to alex28 for his help.

[trogdorjw73]

A few items to add to the How To notes:

1) While LeaseRig will try to save your settings so that if a rig reboots the client doesn't lose all their miner information, this does not work with a custom config file. You should only use the default cgminer.conf file.

2) At one point LeaseRig saved some settings for me and apparently GPU-threads was not specified or saved properly; the result was that when cgminer restarted with the updated config file, hash rates were about 10% lower (and could have been much worse on some PCs!) thanks to the incorrect threads setting, so make sure to include -g 1 (or -g 2 if that's what you want) in your cgminer options and not just in the conf file.

3) CGWatcher does work with LeaseRig, and you can configure it to use other ports. On version 3.5.2, look in the Settings->Miner tab for the API port. The default is 4028, but I've successfully used other ports.

4) I've found Windows' Firewall doesn't play well with LeaseRig and had to disable it on at least a couple of my leased rigs; this is not always necessary, but if you're unable to get LeaseRig to see your system after configuring everything else properly, try disabling your firewall for a bit and see if that fixes the issue. If it does, you can either run without the firewall, or try to fix the problem.

Happy mining/leasing everybody!

[djeZo]

Updated first post.

[Patsak]

Official thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=414009

What you will need:
- mining rig
- cgminer 3.7.2 or sgminer 4.0.0

1. STEP: Make your miner accessible via static IP or static domain name. If your mining rig already has static IP, then you can skip this step.

If your mining rig has dynamic IP, then you will have to use domain name. You can sort this on your own or you can use dyn dns service like this one: https://www.noip.com/sign-up
After you register and choose domain, login and download client (http://www.noip.com/download?page=win) which you have to run to keep your domain name updated with your IP address. Launch it and after it loads click "Edit Hosts" button. Then check your domain name and click "Save" button. That is it, just leave this program running - it will update your domain name to your IP every 5 minutes.

If you have linux miner, there is a way to achieve this, but unfortunately since I have no linux, I cannot test any possible solution. If someone here knows what exactly to do, it would be very nice to share and I will update my post with linux instructions.

2. STEP: Configure cgminer

You have to enable API listening on your cgminer. Following config options have to be added in cgminer config/command line:

Code:

--api-listen --api-allow W:89.212.242.33 --api-port 7777

You can choose whatever port you want, but you have to keep exactly IP 89.212.242.33. You can modify and create access rules. Following commands are needed to provide full functionality: summary, pools, switchpool, addpool, removepool, restart, save. Read API-README.txt in cgminer directory to get more details about cgminer API and how to configure access rules.

After checking API-README.txt, following should work:

Code:

--api-groups P:switchpool:addpool:removepool:restart:save:* --api-listen --api-allow P:89.212.242.33 --api-port 7777

3. STEP: Make sure cgminer is visible outside

If your mining rig is behind router (NAT), you need to configure your NAT. Forward API port of cgminer.

Once you configure NAT, you can verify cgminer API port here: http://www.checkmyports.net/
It must say OPENED, if not, then it is still closed and you did something wrong.

4. STEP: Provide data to me (djeZo) - send me PM

In PM, include for each mining rig:
- mining rig name (choose on your own - alphanumeric characters)
- your trust thread (MANDATORY NOW so customers can post feedback there)


If you have additional questions regarding HOW-TO, please post them here (PM me only data for adding your mining rig). I will update this posts if there are additional questions.

A few items to add to the How To notes:

1) While LeaseRig will try to save your settings so that if a rig reboots the client doesn't lose all their miner information, this does not work with a custom config file. You should only use the default cgminer.conf file.

2) At one point LeaseRig saved some settings for me and apparently GPU-threads was not specified or saved properly; the result was that when cgminer restarted with the updated config file, hash rates were about 10% lower (and could have been much worse on some PCs!) thanks to the incorrect threads setting, so make sure to include -g 1 (or -g 2 if that's what you want) in your cgminer options and not just in the conf file.

3) CGWatcher does work with LeaseRig, and you can configure it to use other ports. On version 3.5.2, look in the Settings->Miner tab for the API port. The default is 4028, but I've successfully used other ports.

4) I've found Windows' Firewall doesn't play well with LeaseRig and had to disable it on at least a couple of my leased rigs; this is not always necessary, but if you're unable to get LeaseRig to see your system after configuring everything else properly, try disabling your firewall for a bit and see if that fixes the issue. If it does, you can either run without the firewall, or try to fix the problem.

Happy mining/leasing everybody!

Can add to 4th point; you need to either allow cgminer in your firewall rules or allow cgminer API port for incoming connections, then there should be no problems with Windows firewall.

Hi i am so nube that i dont  know how i can get Trust thread? help pls. Thanks

[djeZo]

SHA256 support added!

[Quacko]

Hi,

is there anyway to check that the rig is actually mining for the person that  paid for it? It does say lease.myrigname. But it's mining on pool 2 apparently wich looks like it is middlecoin. But that is my default? Or is it the failover from the customer that is also middlecoin? Any way to check?
I want to make sure that it is the customer mining and not me...

Thx

[BotwinBG]

2) At one point LeaseRig saved some settings for me and apparently GPU-threads was not specified or saved properly; the result was that when cgminer restarted with the updated config file, hash rates were about 10% lower (and could have been much worse on some PCs!) thanks to the incorrect threads setting, so make sure to include -g 1 (or -g 2 if that's what you want) in your cgminer options and not just in the conf file.

That happened to me, took me a while to understand why the rigs were running slower. Where do I include the -g 2 , you mean as the runtime argument ?

[djeZo]

Hi,

is there anyway to check that the rig is actually mining for the person that  paid for it? It does say lease.myrigname. But it's mining on pool 2 apparently wich looks like it is middlecoin. But that is my default? Or is it the failover from the customer that is also middlecoin? Any way to check?
I want to make sure that it is the customer mining and not me...

Thx

The green marked pool on admin panel (and customers panel) is currently active pool. Sadly, cgminer does not report which pool it is mining on atm, but I calculate that by taking priorities and alive status into consideration.

[Quacko]

2) At one point LeaseRig saved some settings for me and apparently GPU-threads was not specified or saved properly; the result was that when cgminer restarted with the updated config file, hash rates were about 10% lower (and could have been much worse on some PCs!) thanks to the incorrect threads setting, so make sure to include -g 1 (or -g 2 if that's what you want) in your cgminer options and not just in the conf file.

That happened to me, took me a while to understand why the rigs were running slower. Where do I include the -g 2 , you mean as the runtime argument ?

same question. Should it be in the shell  file which I use to start or in the config? All my settings are in the config. Or is it actually best to not give restart privileges to the customer? Because in all honestly my rig never goes down (been stable 4 weeks without any issues), only a manual reboot once a week is what I do.

[djeZo]

Restart has so far haven't been put into use, due to obvious issues with R9 cards. You don't have to permit it for now, but even if you do, nothing will be different, because the site never uses it.

[Dogebear]

hmm im trying to figure out how to do it with linux i see that some one can point bamt stats

http://simplyaccomplished.com/cgi-bin/status.pl anyone know how?

[thehun]

It doesn't matter what port I configure on the command line, cgminer will always listen on port 4028 

Am I missing something?

[thehun]

It doesn't matter what port I configure on the command line, cgminer will always listen on port 4028 

Am I missing something?

Answering myself: wrong setting in cgminer.conf which overrides command line 

[iarsenaux]

i'm having trouble opening a port i already tried to port forward on my router and add port on firewall still no luck.

[Test User]

When does leaserig actually issue a save command?

I was initially running with a custom .conf, but have switched to the default .conf file? I've also added the save command to the permitted command list, however, when I admin the pools from the admin console, no save command is issued, and a cgminer restart will re-load the original conf.

Is the command only issued when hiring starts and ends? Is it only customer that can issue save commands?

[djeZo]

Check from which folder you run cgminer. Config is saved in default cgminer.conf

[kenshirothefist]

Short notice for advanced API configuration with various restrictive permissions. In my case I want localhost (the rig itself) to have full permissions, remote monitoring system only read permissions and LEASERIG.NET only the permissions that are needed for LEASERIG.NET to work properly. One can achieve this with:

(LEASERIG.NET group permission)
"api-groups" : "L:switchpool:addpool:removepool:restart:save:*",

(W is special privileged access to commands that modify cgminer, thus all API commands)
(192.168.2.70 is my monitoring server with only default read access)
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1,192.168.2.70,L:89.212.242.33",