[Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive RockMiner R-Box Setup [HD]

[dogie]

They'll be difficulty 1 so no.

[kabopar]

With BFGminer it goes dead after about 24 hours.  

I'm doing this on a RPi. How do I install the Zadig part for cgminer or is it not needed?

Here is a how to setup guide for Raspberry Pi:

http://youtu.be/ea6qrQUqvAc

It includes the webUI for communicating with raspberry pi after it has been successfully setup. Hope this helps  

Actually already found that and just got it loaded up.  WORKS GREAT!
Here's the link to the .img
https://www.dropbox.com/s/07axfgdbnw88tf9/RaspberryPi_Rockminer_RBoxV0.3.1.rar

Now if only I could get my U1s working with that webui software too.  Doesn't really matter I'm selling my U1s anyway and getting a second r-box  

EDIT:

After its been running for about an hour I'm getting a ton of hardware errors.  Is that something I should be worried about?

Calculating the HW Error % using Error % = HW / ( HW + DiffA + DiffR) * 100 gives just a bit below 3%.  Probably nothing to get too excited about.

Cheers

[klintay]

cool, yeah the webui rocks. Nice touch there from Rockminer  

RK-box uses a similar thing.

[kcal63]

Can't tell you how happy I am to hear that. Just spent nearly a week putting together all kinds of different configs/setups for my R-box and bought a couple of Pi's so that I wouldn't have to keep a comp running. As much as I like the R-Box (it really is a very cool little device) I just couldn't pass up the compelling specs of the new RK so instead of my initial plan to buy 6 more R-boxes I instead ordered a pair of RK's (waiting for delivery as we speak.  
I really hope you are right and the webui will work the same for those.
One last thing, has anyone , anywhere, actually been able to get the R-Box to run at 300 Mhz ? The only freqs I have found that work are 270 and 290, and I have tried every conceivable variation in the config files and even swapped out a couple of different drivers and pushed the voltage a bit. Nothing I tried had any effect on freq, the only change from default I have been able to get to work is the 290, anything else just drops to 270.

Ok just went back and read a few posts from recent days. My R-Box has been running at 34.9 Gh/s for most of a week and I have yet to have a single HW error (other than when my video card crashed from over clocking a scrypt miner on the same comp).  I have my config file thus:

cgminer.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --rmu-freq 290 -o stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u YYYYY -p XXXXX
pause

using the rbox version of cgminer (I downloaded it from the Chinese site - a real pain, but it should be available on an English site by now).

ANYTHING else and I do mean just about anything at all, and the device will drop down to run at defaults.
Oh, and for some strange reason even this would not run at first, so for my first run I actually started cgminer and manually entered info for pool, use and pass (if you need to add a device the command in the version I am using is shift - M - +   or you can use command auto to have it look for devices) then I hit settings (S) and then (W) to write the config file, you could tweak and rename that file after you have a default setup working.
Hope this helps.

[-ck]

One last thing, has anyone , anywhere, actually been able to get the R-Box to run at 300 Mhz ? The only freqs I have found that work are 270 and 290, and I have tried every conceivable variation in the config files and even swapped out a couple of different drivers and pushed the voltage a bit. Nothing I tried had any effect on freq, the only change from default I have been able to get to work is the 290, anything else just drops to 270.

Code:

cgminer.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --rmu-freq 290 -o stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u YYYYY -p XXXXX 

using the rbox version of cgminer (I downloaded it from the Chinese site - a real pain, but it should be available on an English site by now).

ANYTHING else and I do mean just about anything at all, and the device will drop down to run at defaults.

The code blacklists frequencies above 290 and just ignores your settings, that's why. If you had been using my official version of cgminer and not the fork you would have been able to read that in the ASIC-README included with cgminer but there are as per usual no docs with forks.

[tripppn]

Anyone else using this rockminer web ui img for rpi?

It not very stable.  Keeps dropping off.  Anyone else seeing this?

[Rotorgeek]

Anyone else using this rockminer web ui img for rpi?

It not very stable.  Keeps dropping off.  Anyone else seeing this?

I'm not seeing that, mine just stopped dead after almost 36 hours of mining with no problem. Now no mater what I do it will not  restart.

I switched to the Web UI after having problems with BFGMiner and units randomly getting sick and going dead. This happened on a Win 8 desktop and a Ras Pi.

[philipma1957]

One last thing, has anyone , anywhere, actually been able to get the R-Box to run at 300 Mhz ? The only freqs I have found that work are 270 and 290, and I have tried every conceivable variation in the config files and even swapped out a couple of different drivers and pushed the voltage a bit. Nothing I tried had any effect on freq, the only change from default I have been able to get to work is the 290, anything else just drops to 270.

Code:

cgminer.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --rmu-freq 290 -o stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u YYYYY -p XXXXX 

using the rbox version of cgminer (I downloaded it from the Chinese site - a real pain, but it should be available on an English site by now).

ANYTHING else and I do mean just about anything at all, and the device will drop down to run at defaults.

The code blacklists frequencies above 290 and just ignores your settings, that's why. If you had been using my official version of cgminer and not the fork you would have been able to read that in the ASIC-README included with cgminer but there are as per usual no docs with forks.

yeah this is a funky device…

set it and forget on the fork build of cgminer at freq 270---- that was supplied on crazy guys thread

basically nothing else runs great so far.     don't tweak don't do anything .

and take 32.5gh at 37 watts with a plat psu , and pcie to dc jacks.

 I run six pretty much nonstop perfection with a windows 7  pc. and the custom fork.


 in fact  i am getting a little better  6x 32.5gh since I switched to bitsolo.net  

[la7eralus]

Anyone else using this rockminer web ui img for rpi?

It not very stable.  Keeps dropping off.  Anyone else seeing this?

http://s7.postimg.org/7mfvpivor/graph.png

I just started having this problem myself, now when it dies (a drop off point) instead of restarting it eventually stops and just hangs.  I'm assuming this has to do with one of my 6 miners being defective, so now the hunt to narrow it down begins.  I'm using a powered USB 2.0 RHB 520 10 port hub with MinePeon/R-Box's default image and while it ran fine initially, it now will not go more than 30 minutes.

[FlutterPie]

I have 4 of these setup on a raspberry pi, but only 3 are mining.

[dogie]

I have 4 of these setup on a raspberry pi, but only 3 are mining.

What happens when you only use the one that isn't mining?

[jjdub7]

Anyone else using this rockminer web ui img for rpi?

It not very stable.  Keeps dropping off.  Anyone else seeing this?

I'm not seeing that, mine just stopped dead after almost 36 hours of mining with no problem. Now no mater what I do it will not  restart.

I switched to the Web UI after having problems with BFGMiner and units randomly getting sick and going dead. This happened on a Win 8 desktop and a Ras Pi.

What temp are they running at?

[J4bberwock]

The code blacklists frequencies above 290 and just ignores your settings, that's why. If you had been using my official version of cgminer and not the fork you would have been able to read that in the ASIC-README included with cgminer but there are as per usual no docs with forks.

Hi, will you release a build with this 290 cap removed or at least raised? With little over volt, the device looks like it could go at least 330, probably 350.
I've been stable for a few hours now overvolted around 0.8v with 290Mhz and 35Mh/s and I'd like to test a little higher.

[-ck]

The code blacklists frequencies above 290 and just ignores your settings, that's why. If you had been using my official version of cgminer and not the fork you would have been able to read that in the ASIC-README included with cgminer but there are as per usual no docs with forks.

Hi, will you release a build with this 290 cap removed or at least raised? With little over volt, the device looks like it could go at least 330, probably 350.
I've been stable for a few hours now overvolted around 0.8v with 290Mhz and 45Mh/s and I'd like to test a little higher.

I'm currently travelling overseas so unlikely to release anything till I get back, but it's a one line change to the code if you're compiling it for yourself

driver-icarus.c line 1499

Code:

			rmdev[dev_id].max_frq = 290;

[J4bberwock]

The code blacklists frequencies above 290 and just ignores your settings, that's why. If you had been using my official version of cgminer and not the fork you would have been able to read that in the ASIC-README included with cgminer but there are as per usual no docs with forks.

Hi, will you release a build with this 290 cap removed or at least raised? With little over volt, the device looks like it could go at least 330, probably 350.
I've been stable for a few hours now overvolted around 0.8v with 290Mhz and 45Mh/s and I'd like to test a little higher.

I'm currently travelling overseas so unlikely to release anything till I get back, but it's a one line change to the code if you're compiling it for yourself

driver-icarus.c line 1499

Code:

			rmdev[dev_id].max_frq = 290;

Thanks, I never managed to compile, but I'll try it.

[s1lentb0b35]

Does anyone have a link to the custom raspberry pi image as all the links on the eyeboot youtube channel are dead.

[tripppn]

Anyone else using this rockminer web ui img for rpi?

It not very stable.  Keeps dropping off.  Anyone else seeing this?

I'm not seeing that, mine just stopped dead after almost 36 hours of mining with no problem. Now no mater what I do it will not  restart.

I switched to the Web UI after having problems with BFGMiner and units randomly getting sick and going dead. This happened on a Win 8 desktop and a Ras Pi.

What temp are they running at?

One is 36 the other 40.

I was going to try and update Minepeon with the new bfg miner and give that a shot but someone put a read only file in the rockminer img so I can't format... What gives?

[klintay]

Does anyone have a link to the custom raspberry pi image as all the links on the eyeboot youtube channel are dead.

Raspberry Pi for Rocket Box:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gjodhht8w1rgqjr/Rockminer_Rocket_V1.1.rar

[zarton]

Why I'm getting "no devicies found" warning in bfgminer 4.3.0?

Code:

bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://poolname:3333 -u user.worker-p x --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S \\.\com6

I have the CP210x_VCP drivers installed.

[dogie]

Why I'm getting "no devicies found" warning in bfgminer 4.3.0?

Code:

bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://poolname:3333 -u user.worker-p x --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S \\.\com6

I have the CP210x_VCP drivers installed.

You don't need any of those additional strings in there, not sure where you're getting them from. You also don't need any drivers for BFG.