Gridseed 5 Chip Cells

[rallasnackbar]

What cables are supplied, and what cables do i need to buy seperat.

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[philipma1957]

What cables are supplied, and what cables do i need to buy seperat.

If you got 1 five chip unit  like I did you get 2 cables . 1  is a usb cable that you will need to shave some black plastic off . my photo is above.

he also put a power cable in you need to wire it to a 12 volt 6 amp power source. make sure you do not wire it in reverse. the cent should be positive the outer negative.

[psyberwolf]

hi all

Thanks for the instructions beastlymac, i followed them on my laptop and i seem to have it working .

Now i have 3 questions for anyone that may be able to help

 - will there be support for CGminer? - if so what do we need to do different?

 - cpu miner is not showing the KH that sits at 0, but its accepting shares and working (as i can see hash rate on pool stats)?

 - Can we somehow downclock this and run lowerspeed to make it quiet?. i live in a flat so i dont care too much about a large hashrate i just want it to be quiet, i can manage to probably downclock the fan myself - how do we check the temp and whats a safe temp?

Thanks

[klintay]

I got it mining in single mode as well. Has anyone got it to mine btc and ltc at the same time? without the wii controller?

Okay some photos

okay pretty plugs when wired correct = blue  wire wrong= red

blue = cool
red = dead

That blue light power cable is friggin awesome!

[philipma1957]

I got it mining in single mode as well. Has anyone got it to mine btc and ltc at the same time? without the wii controller?

Okay some photos

okay pretty plugs when wired correct = blue  wire wrong= red

blue = cool
red = dead

That blue light power cable is friggin awesome!

yeah they are pretty sweet.  do you want me to order 50 and mail them to hong kong?   

[klintay]

I got it mining in single mode as well. Has anyone got it to mine btc and ltc at the same time? without the wii controller?

Okay some photos

okay pretty plugs when wired correct = blue  wire wrong= red

blue = cool
red = dead

That blue light power cable is friggin awesome!

yeah they are pretty sweet.  do you want me to order 50 and mail them to hong kong?  

Maybe..will pm you. don't want to hi-jack the thread, lol!

[johnny5]

Apparently the modded CPUMiner above only works for the USB single-chip version.

All the help and info that I found here and other forums always assume that we are using the controller that we don't have.

So I guess I'll wait for rescue from Beastlymac on this one

So is it not yet possible to run the 5-chip units under linux then?  Does any linux miner software exist?  I compiled the gridseed github minerd and got the same issues:

Code:

[2014-02-27 20:58:21] Stratum detected new block
[2014-02-27 20:58:21] dispatching new work to GC3355 LTC core
>>> LTC : 55aa1f2810000000
>>> LTC : 55aa1f2813000000
>>> LTC : 55aa1f00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000f8ff07000080bf3c3568ca9f531593a7b6dffa29244a573124dd9059e53303ba459ca468980000000138e115835fe6ad35d677b3447a2965f630064c61ac67a8f82eaddd534136520e681bdb830e38f3d393c2b4b7d667ebd66c1fbd29a2a65d7e3b4b19fc8c12525e530fa6f11c56ffb100000000ffffffff

[matt4054]

So is it not yet possible to run the 5-chip units under linux then?  Does any linux miner software exist?  I compiled the gridseed github minerd and got the same issues:

Code:

[2014-02-27 20:58:21] Stratum detected new block
[2014-02-27 20:58:21] dispatching new work to GC3355 LTC core
>>> LTC : 55aa1f2810000000
>>> LTC : 55aa1f2813000000
>>> LTC : 55aa1f00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000f8ff07000080bf3c3568ca9f531593a7b6dffa29244a573124dd9059e53303ba459ca468980000000138e115835fe6ad35d677b3447a2965f630064c61ac67a8f82eaddd534136520e681bdb830e38f3d393c2b4b7d667ebd66c1fbd29a2a65d7e3b4b19fc8c12525e530fa6f11c56ffb100000000ffffffff

Don't worry too much about it, if you read my later posts and follow this topic, you will see that the modified CPUMiner works with silver units, although you may face several difficulties like others and I did.

I will try again the version that I compiled on Linux, now that the 'hardware issues' have been solved and it's hashing fine on Windows.

By the way, the output above is normal, you may want to leave it running for a couple of minutes to see if any shares are found and sent back to the pool (look for such lines in the log)

Code:

[2014-02-28 19:46:15] Target: 0000003fffc00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
[2014-02-28 19:46:15]   Hash: 00000003916b1f87b6783d5ccf638b5459b981f4055d9ddb982f09c9f4fab5b7
[2014-02-28 19:46:15] Got nonce ef587266, Hash <= Htarget!
[2014-02-28 19:46:15] accepted: 502/511 (98.24%), 0.00 khash/s (yay!!!)

Notice that minerd always reports '0.00 khash/s' which is misleading - it's just unable to report the hashrate.

[matt4054]

I will try again the version that I compiled on Linux, now that the 'hardware issues' have been solved and it's hashing fine on Windows.

Unfortunately, my new attempt confirms that the cpuminer from gridseed's github doesn't seem to get any shares from the silver unit (while the Windows compiled version from LightningAsic works).

If you need to stay on Linux, I would attempt either the VM or Wine route for now

[bhai]

i have the custom cpuminer from gridseed running on my raspberry pi.

Its pretty easy to install, just compile it and you will have the minerd in the checkout dir after that run it with:
sudo ./minerd -G /dev/devicename -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u worker.name -p password --freq=750 -D

The -G option can be either /dev/ttyUSB0 [or a higher number] or /dev/ttyACM0 [or a higher number].

I'm running 4 of them now on my Pi, along with some sha256 asics. Every miner needs a separate minerd instance.

I have the gold units.

rgdz,
bhai

[copyfile]

i have the custom cpuminer from gridseed running on my raspberry pi.

Its pretty easy to install, just compile it and you will have the minerd in the checkout dir after that run it with:
sudo ./minerd -G /dev/devicename -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u worker.name -p password --freq=750 -D

The -G option can be either /dev/ttyUSB0 [or a higher number] or /dev/ttyACM0 [or a higher number].

I'm running 4 of them now on my Pi, along with some sha256 asics. Every miner needs a separate minerd instance.

I have the gold units.

rgdz,
bhai

That sounds awesome! Can you give a more detailed description what version o minerd you used, how to compile them, and what linux version you use on the raspberry pi?

And the most important question, are the miners using only the LTC core or both?

[maardein]

i have the custom cpuminer from gridseed running on my raspberry pi.

Its pretty easy to install, just compile it and you will have the minerd in the checkout dir after that run it with:
sudo ./minerd -G /dev/devicename -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u worker.name -p password --freq=750 -D

The -G option can be either /dev/ttyUSB0 [or a higher number] or /dev/ttyACM0 [or a higher number].

I'm running 4 of them now on my Pi, along with some sha256 asics. Every miner needs a separate minerd instance.

I have the gold units.

rgdz,
bhai

That sounds awesome! Can you give a more detailed description what version o minerd you used, how to compile them, and what linux version you use on the raspberry pi?

And the most important question, are the miners using only the LTC core or both?

Take a look at the scripta thread on litecointalk: https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=9908.45 there is a link to the custom minerd there.

Also, I was quite amazed with the performance increase from going from the controller to a raspi:


©worldly from litecointalk.

[Flep182]

Ah, let's see whether this one is finished faster than MinePeon, then I'll have to get another Raspberry

[maardein]

Ah, let's see whether this one is finished faster than MinePeon, then I'll have to get another Raspberry

Is minepeon working on the gridseeds as well? Couldn't find anything about that?

[Flep182]

Ah, let's see whether this one is finished faster than MinePeon, then I'll have to get another Raspberry

Is minepeon working on the gridseeds as well? Couldn't find anything about that?

Nope, haven't seen confirmation of that but when it's taking over 30% of the scrypt mining capacity it'll probably be added somewhere.

[maardein]

Ah, let's see whether this one is finished faster than MinePeon, then I'll have to get another Raspberry

Is minepeon working on the gridseeds as well? Couldn't find anything about that?

Nope, haven't seen confirmation of that but when it's taking over 30% of the scrypt mining capacity it'll probably be added somewhere.

Yeah, you're probably right. But the scripta devs have been working on it for some time already. I would just love to have a single raspi manage everything. Either with minepeon adding scrypt support, or with scripta adding sha support.

[Flep182]

I'd be mainly interested in having a decent working version of either of them for the gridseeds, my donation goes to the first one

I'd rather spread the gridseeds per 20 over multiple raspberry's to be able to use different pools plus a lower risk of failure for the whole "grid". 

[everest556]

I had a regular 12v 6a power supply laying around (like one for a laptop), I tried using that, but the device showed a red light. Why wouldn't this work?

[maardein]

I had a regular 12v 6a power supply laying around (like one for a laptop), I tried using that, but the device showed a red light. Why wouldn't this work?

Does it have + on the inside and - on the outside? Also the correct size plug (5.5x2.5mm)?

[everest556]

Yes, that's what it says.