This would be better at the first post... but first page will have to do.
Hi Guys,
My name is Phil, and I'm one of the engineers working crazy hard on getting your mining rigs to you and working great.
We've had to do a lot of work to get to this point (I've been averaging 4 hours a night sleep over the past few months), and we still are cranking as hard as we can, so please bear with us.
If you received a BabyJet and it's not working well, I advise you first to try our special MinePeon distribution on your Raspberry Pi. It has a patched version of cgminer which helps stability, and also the distribution has a mechanism to enable firmware and software updates to be pushed out to you as we develop them. Many of the first shipments didn't have this package, but you can download it.
Our #1 priority has been to get you your products, and now we are working hard on making sure they work well for you. We are hiring people as fast as we can so that we can build a world-class support system for you.
Until then, I'll try and help as much as I can, time permitting. The best use of my time is in the lab, as I'm sure you'll agree.
If you are running on the Raspberry Pi and your status screen doesn't show your MinePeon Version to be at least 0.2.4.3hf4, then you could benefit from an update. It also includes cgminer version 3.11.0hf1, which should help solve some reliability issues until we (and Con Kolivas) can get a better version to you. The known issues on this version are that reported hashrates are too high. (I've seen it 2X) Just use your pools stats, as they are going to be the most accurate. Also, if there is a warm-boot on the RPI with your HashFast boards connected, something in the RPI's USB Hub/Controller gets left in a strange state and it sometimes takes a handful of tries before cgminer can successfully get connected. We've set up the system to keep trying over and over again, and usually within a minute or two it "takes" and begins mining. To avoid this, be sure to disconnect the USB before rebooting. The goal in this special distribution was to ensure mining automatically runs and gets going again if there is a problem, that way you don't wake up to find it died right after you went to sleep.
We hope to get these issues fixed soon! Please let me know if you have any problems or possible ideas that may help, so we can try to incorporate them.
To install the new version:
1. If running MinePeon, first make a backup from the Settings tab (near the bottom).
2. Download this SD card image: Windows:
http://setup.hashfast.com/hashfast-minepeon-1.0.zip Linux:
http://setup.hashfast.com/hashfast-minepeon-1.0.img.bz2 3. If running windows, we recommend the Win32DiskImager:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/, If running Linux, you can simply type:
bzcat hashfast-minepeon-1.0.img.bz2 | sudo dd bs=1M of=/dev/xxx
(Where /dev/xxx is the device name of your SD card. If unsure, type "dmesg" after inserting your card.)
4. Boot RPI with the new SD image. Note that it may take up to 2 minutes to collect current updates from us before it will begin mining. You can browse here to see when your system comes online and what it's IP address is:
http://setup.hashfast.com/. If for some reason it doesn't come up after a few minutes, power-cycle it. (We've seen some brands of SD card cause it to hang on reboot)
5. Log into the web interface and restore your backed up MinePeon settings (if any). Note that the RPI will generate a new wallet when you first boot from the new SD image, and will begin mining using that wallet. It's important to switch your mining settings using the "Pools" tab so that your mining proceeds end up in the right wallet!
6. If you have any problems, please post them here and I'll do what I can to help. I'll try to check in here at least once a day.
If you don't want your RPI checking in for updates, you can disable this in the Settings tab, but I advise you to at least do it manually once in while. We hope to have some new firmware and software soon! We also advise you to set a password on MinePeon, especially if exposed to the outside internet. (not behind a router/firewall)
I know the difficulty just went up and it stinks, but please bear with us. All of us really are working our butts off to ensure we have the best mining products in the world!
-Phil
