[DIY] - Reward $100 | Antminer S1/S3 Blade on Raspberry Pi

[HerbPean]

Chaositec,

Did you manage to get your hand on one of the prototype controller board ?

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[CHAOSiTEC]

Chaositec,

Did you manage to get your hand on one of the prototype controller board ?

nope...

[klondike_bar]

5 antminer S1 units, cooled by a pair of Cougar 90cfm fans and running approx 460GH/430W  (still working on tuning, 2 units are only running 70GH). Runs off a single CS650M

ps: temps are up around 60-65C, and the hardware seems fine with that. I plan to get it in a cooler location soon though to drop temps 5-10C

seems that the pencil mods increase in effect slightly over time, Ive had to adjust all my frequencies about 6-12MHz lower to minimize 'x' chips.

to that extent, I present the hex value for asic-freq frequency 187.5MHz .......    0801  testing it right now to see how it works out

[HerbPean]

Chaositec,

Did you manage to get your hand on one of the prototype controller board ?

nope...

Just asked Jabber for some news and he's currently overwhelmed by all the command he have for his breaking boards business.

He will assemble the prototype as soon as he have some time.

[CHAOSiTEC]

Chaositec,

Did you manage to get your hand on one of the prototype controller board ?

nope...

Just asked Jabber for some news and he's currently overwhelmed by all the command he have for his breaking boards business.

He will assemble the prototype as soon as he have some time.

yeah, but time (i.e. difficulty level) is running out...

i ended up buying up the needed cp2102s now i have 14 boards running with cables directly connected to the pcb since the connectors i got are crap

[HerbPean]

Chaositec,

Did you manage to get your hand on one of the prototype controller board ?

nope...

Just asked Jabber for some news and he's currently overwhelmed by all the command he have for his breaking boards business.

He will assemble the prototype as soon as he have some time.

yeah, but time (i.e. difficulty level) is running out...

i ended up buying up the needed cp2102s now i have 14 boards running with cables directly connected to the pcb since the connectors i got are crap

yeah I was kind of hoping I would be able to replace all my CP2102 into a single card now that i have 8 original cables

[klondike_bar]

is there a short and sweet recap someone can make? I think it seems pretty straight forwards:
1) buy a USB cp2102 for each blade (2 per antminer) and some powered USB hubs
2) hook hubs to RPI and wire the CP2102 to the antminer (GND, TX, RX) - no power connection needed
3) cownload the custom cgminer for the rpi
4) win?

yep thats about it :-)

just remember, if not undervolted, it needs heatsinks on the backside and fans, if undervolted (below 1 volt per chip) put some fans in pull/push, and your done (or heatsinks)

pins like this:
.      .     .      .      .      .      .      .
            TX GND RX
              ON USB
              CP2102

 

Thanks. And basically any cp2102 will work? I assume power isn't connected so 3.3v/5v versions would be identical?   I have 7 s1 units sitting here to be undervolt ed, and i just ordered 6 cp2102 units from different ebay vendors 3x2 different styles)

Does the pwm fan on the antminer still adjust it's speed without the controller, or just run at full speed 12v? Hoping to downsize 7 antminers into something that's cooled by 2-3 fans

yes, any cp2102 should work, and the fans runs at full speed

Hopefully the first post of the thread can be updated one day - 36 pages is a lot to wade through. Ive got my undervolted hardware running pretty well using the stock control boards, and now have an RPi w/ 8GB class10 card ready to go. Will the new minepeon be capable of running my boards? Also, how much power is drawn over USB? will a 10port hub work unpowered if i connect 10 boards to it, and if not will a 1A hub be sufficient?

ps: I mucked up a unit with hex value 0e02 - should have been 187MHz roughly, but i think it killed either the boards or their controller. hoping the RPi +cp2102 will solve what went wrong

[CHAOSiTEC]

is there a short and sweet recap someone can make? I think it seems pretty straight forwards:
1) buy a USB cp2102 for each blade (2 per antminer) and some powered USB hubs
2) hook hubs to RPI and wire the CP2102 to the antminer (GND, TX, RX) - no power connection needed
3) cownload the custom cgminer for the rpi
4) win?

yep thats about it :-)

just remember, if not undervolted, it needs heatsinks on the backside and fans, if undervolted (below 1 volt per chip) put some fans in pull/push, and your done (or heatsinks)

pins like this:
.      .     .      .      .      .      .      .
            TX GND RX
              ON USB
              CP2102

 

Thanks. And basically any cp2102 will work? I assume power isn't connected so 3.3v/5v versions would be identical?   I have 7 s1 units sitting here to be undervolt ed, and i just ordered 6 cp2102 units from different ebay vendors 3x2 different styles)

Does the pwm fan on the antminer still adjust it's speed without the controller, or just run at full speed 12v? Hoping to downsize 7 antminers into something that's cooled by 2-3 fans

yes, any cp2102 should work, and the fans runs at full speed

Hopefully the first post of the thread can be updated one day - 36 pages is a lot to wade through. Ive got my undervolted hardware running pretty well using the stock control boards, and now have an RPi w/ 8GB class10 card ready to go. Will the new minepeon be capable of running my boards? Also, how much power is drawn over USB? will a 10port hub work unpowered if i connect 10 boards to it, and if not will a 1A hub be sufficient?

ps: I mucked up a unit with hex value 0e02 - should have been 187MHz roughly, but i think it killed either the boards or their controller. hoping the RPi +cp2102 will solve what went wrong

the rpi does not have enough power to run an unpowered hub, i suggest using a powered hub... if going for 7 or 10 ports, make sure they are rpi compatable..

[klondike_bar]

tried with one board only, and put pins 3,4,5 as TX,GND,RX to a CP2102. minepeon v0.2.4.6

tried restarting a few times, rebooting, and setting it to use cgminer rather than the default bfgminer. no luck yet - whats wrong? the 3 UART wires seems to be in snug contact with the S1 pins

plugging in the CP2102 results in a brief flash of the hashing board's LED - nothing beyond that

[CHAOSiTEC]

tried with one board only, and put pins 3,4,5 as TX,GND,RX to a CP2102. minepeon v0.2.4.6

tried restarting a few times, rebooting, and setting it to use cgminer rather than the default bfgminer. no luck yet - whats wrong? the 3 UART wires seems to be in snug contact with the S1 pins

plugging in the CP2102 results in a brief flash of the hashing board's LED - nothing beyond that

you need the cgminer from my repo on github: https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc

compile it on the rpi and try that (i havnt tried out minepeon so your on your own)

[klondike_bar]

tried with one board only, and put pins 3,4,5 as TX,GND,RX to a CP2102. minepeon v0.2.4.6

tried restarting a few times, rebooting, and setting it to use cgminer rather than the default bfgminer. no luck yet - whats wrong? the 3 UART wires seems to be in snug contact with the S1 pins

plugging in the CP2102 results in a brief flash of the hashing board's LED - nothing beyond that

you need the cgminer from my repo on github: https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc

compile it on the rpi and try that (i havnt tried out minepeon so your on your own)

I have virtually zero experience compiling stuff on the RPi via shell. a bit of example code would really help. AFAIK minepeon runs cgminer in a specific folder, would this work:

**Fresh install minepeon
*This runs 1.7 to 2 stable, I think we should compare charts to bfg to see if it matters

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S git base-devel ncurses curl libusbx jre7-openjdk-headless
**Hit Enter
*Hit Y
cd /opt/
sudo git clone https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc.git
cd cgminer-bmsc/
sudo ./autogen.sh --enable-bmsc --enable-bitmain
sudo rm /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer/
sudo make install
cd ..
sudo mv cgminer-bmsc /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer
**edit mine peon startup settings
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer/cgminer --bmsc-options 115200:20 --bmsc-freq 0881 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf
**Reboot

[CHAOSiTEC]

tried with one board only, and put pins 3,4,5 as TX,GND,RX to a CP2102. minepeon v0.2.4.6

tried restarting a few times, rebooting, and setting it to use cgminer rather than the default bfgminer. no luck yet - whats wrong? the 3 UART wires seems to be in snug contact with the S1 pins

plugging in the CP2102 results in a brief flash of the hashing board's LED - nothing beyond that

you need the cgminer from my repo on github: https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc

compile it on the rpi and try that (i havnt tried out minepeon so your on your own)

I have virtually zero experience compiling stuff on the RPi via shell. a bit of example code would really help. AFAIK minepeon runs cgminer in a specific folder, would this work:

**Fresh install minepeon
*This runs 1.7 to 2 stable, I think we should compare charts to bfg to see if it matters

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S git base-devel ncurses curl libusbx jre7-openjdk-headless
**Hit Enter
*Hit Y
cd /opt/
sudo git clone https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc.git
cd cgminer-bmsc/
sudo ./autogen.sh --enable-bmsc --enable-bitmain
sudo rm /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer/
sudo make install
cd ..
sudo mv cgminer-bmsc /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer
**edit mine peon startup settings
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer/cgminer --bmsc-options 115200:20 --bmsc-freq 0881 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf
**Reboot

dont use --enable-bitmain else yes i think that would work

[klondike_bar]

tried with one board only, and put pins 3,4,5 as TX,GND,RX to a CP2102. minepeon v0.2.4.6

tried restarting a few times, rebooting, and setting it to use cgminer rather than the default bfgminer. no luck yet - whats wrong? the 3 UART wires seems to be in snug contact with the S1 pins

plugging in the CP2102 results in a brief flash of the hashing board's LED - nothing beyond that

you need the cgminer from my repo on github: https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc

compile it on the rpi and try that (i havnt tried out minepeon so your on your own)

I have virtually zero experience compiling stuff on the RPi via shell. a bit of example code would really help. AFAIK minepeon runs cgminer in a specific folder, would this work:

**Fresh install minepeon
*This runs 1.7 to 2 stable, I think we should compare charts to bfg to see if it matters

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S git base-devel ncurses curl libusbx jre7-openjdk-headless
**Hit Enter
*Hit Y
cd /opt/
sudo git clone https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc.git
cd cgminer-bmsc/
sudo ./autogen.sh --enable-bmsc --enable-bitmain
sudo rm /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer/
sudo make install
cd ..
sudo mv cgminer-bmsc /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer
**edit mine peon startup settings
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer/cgminer --bmsc-options 115200:20 --bmsc-freq 0881 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf
**Reboot

dont use --enable-bitmain else yes i think that would work

no luck - it seems like everything went fine, but either the "-bmsc' in the cgminer folder name is causing an issue, or another thing is - because the cgminer/minepeon webUI no longer works and i cant start cgminer from within SSH

any chance of posting a download link to a completed SD image I could use?

[CHAOSiTEC]

tried with one board only, and put pins 3,4,5 as TX,GND,RX to a CP2102. minepeon v0.2.4.6

tried restarting a few times, rebooting, and setting it to use cgminer rather than the default bfgminer. no luck yet - whats wrong? the 3 UART wires seems to be in snug contact with the S1 pins

plugging in the CP2102 results in a brief flash of the hashing board's LED - nothing beyond that

you need the cgminer from my repo on github: https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc

compile it on the rpi and try that (i havnt tried out minepeon so your on your own)

I have virtually zero experience compiling stuff on the RPi via shell. a bit of example code would really help. AFAIK minepeon runs cgminer in a specific folder, would this work:

**Fresh install minepeon
*This runs 1.7 to 2 stable, I think we should compare charts to bfg to see if it matters

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S git base-devel ncurses curl libusbx jre7-openjdk-headless
**Hit Enter
*Hit Y
cd /opt/
sudo git clone https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc.git
cd cgminer-bmsc/
sudo ./autogen.sh --enable-bmsc --enable-bitmain
sudo rm /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer/
sudo make install
cd ..
sudo mv cgminer-bmsc /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer
**edit mine peon startup settings
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer/cgminer --bmsc-options 115200:20 --bmsc-freq 0881 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf
**Reboot

dont use --enable-bitmain else yes i think that would work

no luck - it seems like everything went fine, but either the "-bmsc' in the cgminer folder name is causing an issue, or another thing is - because the cgminer/minepeon webUI no longer works and i cant start cgminer from within SSH

any chance of posting a download link to a completed SD image I could use?

when you copy it over just use cgminer not cgminer-bmsc as name

i downloaded raspbian and compiled on there and but link into /etc/local.rc  with cgminer parameters and link to cgminer.conf file

[adib]

Would this work on an S3 board?
My S3 controller died...
Thanks.

[klondike_bar]

Would this work on an S3 board?
My S3 controller died...
Thanks.

someone corret me if im wrong, but a single S3 control board has 4 connectors on it i beleive, so that you could run two units on a single controller.

*or is that only a feature of the C1/S5?

[adib]

The chips are capable but there are only 2 connectors on the S1/S3

[HerbPean]

I wish i could have one of the board Jabber was suppose to do.

I guess it would have work with the S3 too.

[adib]

The S3 needs level shifting from 3.3v to 1.8v so you do need the big board from the S1 to S3 kit, thats what that board does.
I tried a TXB0104 but it doesnt work, my quess it needs another enable signal or something.

Works on a Pi,400-460 if you push them, also works on a BeagleBone. On a side note, i noticed that the upgrade blades have an oscilator and TX RX pads while plain S3 dont,
they work better asincronious i guess.

Pictures on Monday

[johnsquared2]

would love to find a fairly simple way (since I have no more time for new projects) to hook 4 to 8 of my S3 blades together, have a unit that work on 8k Diff nounces (hash?)....

Keep up the good work!

J