Hij I am trying to setup solo mining of altcoin with Antminer S1 180. It's a little different as it has it's own cgminer interface.....anyone know how to setup solo with Antminer s1 ? thank you
Easy, I did it for Benjamins. Close your wallet. Find out what the alt coin's .conf file needs to be named. For Benjamins, it is benjamins.conf. Go to where the wallet.dat file is at Users/your_pc_username/AppData/Roaming/altcoin_name/. Create the .conf file. Make sure you make the extension .conf and not .txt or benjamins.conf.txt.
Edit the .conf. Add:
server=1
rpcuser=anyname
rpcpassword=anypass
rpcallowip=the_ip_of_your_antminer (I had multiple miners with static ip's set to 192.168.1.9X. So I used 192.168.1.9* and it works)
rpcport=18332<-any free port will work.
Also, find a forum post with a list of nodes and add them to the .conf:
addnode=71.240.166.229<-don't use these, find them for your altcoin.
addnode=95.85.39.131
addnode=23.25.122.113
addnode=69.64.63.162
addnode=46.118.221.232
addnode=198.147.23.176
Now, login to your miner.
Set all the pools to ipofthecomputerwiththewalletrunning:18332
Usernames to the anyname you used for the rcpuser.
Passwords to the anypass you set for rpcpassword.
Click Apply.
Now check the status to make sure it is running. If status is Dead, your configuration is wrong. Else, you should see work being done.
Good luck!
Edit: By the way, I did better using a pool.