Multiple cgminer sessions on one windows 8.1 PC - Gridseed blades - question

[amithus705]

Hello everyone.

I've been mining for a while now and recently swapped out some GPU's for gridseed blades and cupcakes. I started with the cupcakes and have now moved onto the blades, which are mining very well for me.

My question is this. I have 6 blades that I want to plug into one PC however I only want 2 blades / mining session. I know how to do this with video cards where you disable a few cards and then start up another cgminer session and attach the cards that were disabled in the one to the other session and now you have 2 miners on one computer. I want to do this same thing with the blades for a few reasons. First off, I want to be able to rent some of my hashing power out to the public via betarigs or another provider site. I also want to be able to split the hashing power around to a few different coins while mining during the downtime I have with leasing.

I have CGMiner 3.7.2 compiled from jmordica's fork of cgminer for the gridseed blades. I am willing to try other software but it needs to work with NiceHash as well as betarigs and leaserig and of course, IPOMiner and other multipools. I would also like to continue to use CGWatcher and CGRemote as I've become addicted to the control, reporting and management I've gotten from using that software.

Any assistance would be appreciated. Well written out explanations will receive .1 btc tip but the solution needs to work with my setup or at least a reasonable alternative. I'm not opposed to getting a raspberry pi if needed but I don't want to get a bunch of these as I already have 15 computers used for GPU mining. I've re-claimed a few boxes from retired cards no longer profitable enough to keep around. I also understand I can use these extra computers to do what I'm asking to do but I want to reduce the amount of running computers I have and I can't really justify keeping a computer on for just 2 blades / computer. Round-robin and other share based solutions are also not a solution for this as when someone rents a rig, I can't have that scheme on and provide the proper hash to the customer while they have the rig rented.

Again, .1 or more (depending on the answer) BTC tip for the answer written out so a moderately capable computer guy can get it done.

Just so you know what I'm working with:

Multiple 10 slot USB 2.0 and 3.0 powered hubs (all tested and working fine with the miners)
Windows 8.1 fully patched
All are based on dedicated computers that were at one point used for GPU mining
Dedicated power, internet and hardware
All AMD based systems with 4+ gb ram and 1000 watt power supplies
cgminer 3.7.2 jmordica release for gridseed blades / 5 chip seeds (cupcakes)
CGWatcher 1.0.9
CGRemote (dunno what version but it's only one version behind the current release) [not at home right now to look]
(6) Gridseed Blade miners all running stock clock and 5.2 mhs
(20) Gridseed 5 chip cupcake miners all running as one miner and I don't need a solution for this setup, i'm happy with the hash and performance of this rig and how it's setup right now, it's on it's own area with it's own power and setup nicely, so I don't need to touch this one.

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Shouldn't cgminer have a special switch to basically select which USB devices you want? E.g --usb switch.

Advanced USB options:

The --usb option can restrict how many USB devices are found:

  --usb 1:2,1:3,1:4,1:*
or
  --usb BAS:1,BFL:1,MMQ:0,ICA:0,KLN:0
or
  --usb :10

You can only use one of the above 3

The first version
  --usb 1:2,1:3,1:4,1:*
allows you to select which devices to mine on with a list of USB
 bus_number:device_address
All other USB devices will be ignored
Hotplug will also only look at the devices matching the list specified and
find nothing new if they are all in use
You can specify just the USB bus_number to find all devices like 1:*
which means any devices on USB bus_number 1
This is useful if you unplug a device then plug it back in the same port,
it usually reappears with the same bus_number but a different device_address

You can see the list of all USB devices on linux with 'sudo lsusb' under unix
Cgminer will list the recognised USB devices with the '-n' option or the
'--usb-dump 0' option
The '--usb-dump N' option with a value of N greater than 0 will dump a lot
of details about each recognised USB device
If you wish to see all USB devices, include the --usb-list-all option

[amithus705]

Shouldn't cgminer have a special switch to basically select which USB devices you want? E.g --usb switch.

Advanced USB options:

The --usb option can restrict how many USB devices are found:

  --usb 1:2,1:3,1:4,1:*
or
  --usb BAS:1,BFL:1,MMQ:0,ICA:0,KLN:0
or
  --usb :10

You can only use one of the above 3

The first version
  --usb 1:2,1:3,1:4,1:*
allows you to select which devices to mine on with a list of USB
 bus_number:device_address
All other USB devices will be ignored
Hotplug will also only look at the devices matching the list specified and
find nothing new if they are all in use
You can specify just the USB bus_number to find all devices like 1:*
which means any devices on USB bus_number 1
This is useful if you unplug a device then plug it back in the same port,
it usually reappears with the same bus_number but a different device_address

You can see the list of all USB devices on linux with 'sudo lsusb' under unix
Cgminer will list the recognised USB devices with the '-n' option or the
'--usb-dump 0' option
The '--usb-dump N' option with a value of N greater than 0 will dump a lot
of details about each recognised USB device
If you wish to see all USB devices, include the --usb-list-all option

Most excellent, that worked like a charm. I just sent you .1 btc @1:07am CST.

Thanks for the help.