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

[CHAOSiTEC]

okay so i have bought 18 boards what do i need to get them all to mine?
is all i need a CP2102 for each card and an usb hub?
Is there a compiled version of cgminer that works with a raspberry pi and would recognise the cards?
thanks,
JT

you need a powered hub that works with raspberry pi to connect all the cp2102s to (see http://elinux.org/RPi_Powered_USB_Hubs#Working_USB_Hubs)

install latest raspbian and do:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl3-dev libudev-dev git

git clone https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc.git

cd cgminer-bmsc

./autogen.sh --enable-bmsc

make

..all done

thats it??
what is the average what/gh ?
Would i access it like an normal antminer after these steps??

well, you will need to access the raspberry pi via ssh, i would suggest google 'linux screen command'

hmm it seems like your not sure what your doing, so i suggest, read all of this thread, and, look at antminer s1 undervolt thread ( if you dont undervolt, it will do 2 watt/gh, if you undervolt you can go down to theoritical 0.9 watt/gh mine is at 1.1 watt/gh but read the threads carefully..

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[HerbPean]

Any of you have a dead board ? I need the a capacitor like the on at C17. (we got of them per board) One of mine is broken at C415.

Any place I could by one ?

thanks !

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpv15dbhmzon818/IMG_1848.JPG?dl=0

EDIT: My board version is v1.5

[pekatete]

@ CHAOSiTEC - digression from topic - look at this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671189.msg9538818#msg9538818, maybe you can help!

[CHAOSiTEC]

Any of you have a dead board ? I need the a capacitor like the on at C17. (we got of them per board) One of mine is broken at C415.

Any place I could by one ?

thanks !

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpv15dbhmzon818/IMG_1848.JPG?dl=0

EDIT: My board version is v1.5

maybe j4bberwock can help there, i dont have capacidence measurement on my voltmeter, i im unsure what the value is of the capacitor

@ CHAOSiTEC - digression from topic - look at this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671189.msg9538818#msg9538818, maybe you can help!

i might, but right now im the middle of another project, and this is going to take hours to set up

[zziggi]

Any of you have a dead board ? I need the a capacitor like the on at C17. (we got of them per board) One of mine is broken at C415.

Any place I could by one ?

thanks !

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpv15dbhmzon818/IMG_1848.JPG?dl=0

EDIT: My board version is v1.5

https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/blob/master/PCB/ANT_Miner_V1.3.rar

c17 - 680mF 6.3V-can be replaced by any similar capacity
all small capacitors around the chip is a 100nf

[CHAOSiTEC]

Any of you have a dead board ? I need the a capacitor like the on at C17. (we got of them per board) One of mine is broken at C415.

Any place I could by one ?

thanks !

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpv15dbhmzon818/IMG_1848.JPG?dl=0

EDIT: My board version is v1.5

https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/blob/master/PCB/ANT_Miner_V1.3.rar

c17 - 680mF 6.3V-can be replaced by any similar capacity
all small capacitors around the chip is a 100nf

lol, forgot about the pcb layout was available :-p

[HerbPean]

Any of you have a dead board ? I need the a capacitor like the on at C17. (we got of them per board) One of mine is broken at C415.

Any place I could by one ?

thanks !

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpv15dbhmzon818/IMG_1848.JPG?dl=0

EDIT: My board version is v1.5

https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/blob/master/PCB/ANT_Miner_V1.3.rar

c17 - 680mF 6.3V-can be replaced by any similar capacity
all small capacitors around the chip is a 100nf

Alright i wasn't sure it would be the same for each revision of the board.

Thanks !

[HerbPean]

Any of you have a dead board ? I need the a capacitor like the on at C17. (we got of them per board) One of mine is broken at C415.

Any place I could by one ?

thanks !

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpv15dbhmzon818/IMG_1848.JPG?dl=0

EDIT: My board version is v1.5

https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/blob/master/PCB/ANT_Miner_V1.3.rar

c17 - 680mF 6.3V-can be replaced by any similar capacity
all small capacitors around the chip is a 100nf

i could buy this one ? Even if it's not the same model ?

http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/APSA6R3ELL681MJB5S/565-3065-ND/758496

EDIt: Pain in the ass to pay 10$ for a broken capacitor ...

[luckypyrate]

Especially since you can get a whole board on ebay for 20 bucks.

[HerbPean]

Allright after futher talking with co-worker at my job. The capacitor on the board is a Tatalum 107A.

100uF 10Volt, it is not the same as the one on the schema. I guess I have an older rev of the board.

[forpblat]

Working through my CP2102s on my 4 boards again after a hiatus.

I have a whole slew of:

AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:13] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:13] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:13] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Discarded work
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Selecting pool 0 for work
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Generated stratum merkle dd97b19085ad4c5c1631a740ee43a7dcf52656eec12e478c7b582189d553d70b
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Generated stratum header 0000000255f68287a970c063a3523c67d4edc537dd0ecd13018236260000000000000000dd97b19 085ad4c5c1631a740e
e43a7dcf52656eec12e478c7b582189d553d70b5466ae2e181bc330000000000000008000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Work job_id 62459d0e nonce2 5 ntime 5466ae2e
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Generated target 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000f0ff0f00000000
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Generated stratum work
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] (5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Send freq getstatus 84000400
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=471)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Send freq getstatus ok
 [2014-11-14 20:37:15] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:15] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)

and

 [2014-11-14 20:37:00] AMU: cgid 0 EnableUART got err 0
 [2014-11-14 20:37:00] AMU: cgid 0 SetDataCtrl got err 0
 [2014-11-14 20:37:00] AMU: cgid 0 SetBaud got err 4

But no hashing using --bmsc-options 115200:550 --bmsc-freq 0981. I've played with many timeout settings but same behavior. Again, using bitmaintech cgminer. No flashing lights on the board either.

Thoughts?

[CHAOSiTEC]

Working through my CP2102s on my 4 boards again after a hiatus.

I have a whole slew of:

AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:13] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:13] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:13] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Discarded work
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Selecting pool 0 for work
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Generated stratum merkle dd97b19085ad4c5c1631a740ee43a7dcf52656eec12e478c7b582189d553d70b
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Generated stratum header 0000000255f68287a970c063a3523c67d4edc537dd0ecd13018236260000000000000000dd97b19 085ad4c5c1631a740e
e43a7dcf52656eec12e478c7b582189d553d70b5466ae2e181bc330000000000000008000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Work job_id 62459d0e nonce2 5 ntime 5466ae2e
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Generated target 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000f0ff0f00000000
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Generated stratum work
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] (5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Send freq getstatus 84000400
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=471)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:14] Send freq getstatus ok
 [2014-11-14 20:37:15] AMU0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=25)
 [2014-11-14 20:37:15] AMU0: Read freq Comms timeout (rerr=-7 relen=0)

and

 [2014-11-14 20:37:00] AMU: cgid 0 EnableUART got err 0
 [2014-11-14 20:37:00] AMU: cgid 0 SetDataCtrl got err 0
 [2014-11-14 20:37:00] AMU: cgid 0 SetBaud got err 4

But no hashing using --bmsc-options 115200:550 --bmsc-freq 0981. I've played with many timeout settings but same behavior. Again, using bitmaintech cgminer. No flashing lights on the board either.

Thoughts?

if your using cgminer from my git repo (https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc.git), then i would suggest the following settings:

--bmsc-options 115200:55 --bmsc-freq 0981
or
--bmsc-options 115200:52 --bmsc-freq 0981

[forpblat]

if your using cgminer from my git repo (https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc.git), then i would suggest the following settings:

--bmsc-options 115200:55 --bmsc-freq 0981
or
--bmsc-options 115200:52 --bmsc-freq 0981

Same, no change. I'll diagnose in the morning.

[CHAOSiTEC]

if your using cgminer from my git repo (https://github.com/FireWalkerX/cgminer-bmsc.git), then i would suggest the following settings:

--bmsc-options 115200:55 --bmsc-freq 0981
or
--bmsc-options 115200:52 --bmsc-freq 0981

Same, no change. I'll diagnose in the morning.

did you run with or without sudo / or user permissions to usb?

[forpblat]

did you run with or without sudo / or user permissions to usb?

This is all on Ubuntu 14.04 fwiw.

Not running with sudo (as no one should be, much better to set the proper permissions. A compromised miner running with sudo could easily infect your machine)

I'm part of plugdev, and dialout (...4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),109(lpadmin),124(sambashare)...)

Permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0 are:

crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Nov 15 08:27 /dev/ttyUSB0

Also, I have /etc/udev/rules.d/01-cgminer.rules from I believe it's bitmaintech.

The USB bus is rather complicated on the laptop I'm running this on (screen digitizer, fingerswipe reader, etc). I'm going to fire up my raspberry pi and see if I can get it running there.

I've been using two different CP2102s on two different blades for now. I've run a voltmeter across the 12V pci-e connector, getting a healthy 12V. I haven't test pointed anywhere else on the blade. If the pi is unsuccessful, I will make sure the RX/TX lines are good. One of the blades has had resoldered pins to ease prototyping, the other has direct soldered to leads off the uart. It's possible the resoldered one didn't get good solder through the hole. Are these blade multilayer boards? I suspect they are.

[pekatete]

^^^ Before you try the rPi, it may be a good idea to try and flip the tx/rx connections during the cgminer detection routine. I did the same and "discovered" that these are twisted on the CP201x dongles I got.

[forpblat]

Before you try the rPi, it may be a good idea to try and flip the tx/rx connections during the cgminer detection routine. I did the same and "discovered" that these are twisted on the CP201x dongles I got.

Ouf, really? I thought twisted RX/TX lines would end up blowing one end of the UART and letting out the purple smoke?

How did you discover that they are twisted? Did you just flip them half-way through and saw if they worked?

These are the UARTs I have:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/USB-2-0-to-UART-TTL-6PIN-CP2102-Connector-Module-Serial-Converter-New-/231367399716?pt=US_Parallel_Serial_PS_2_Cables_Adapters&hash=item35de925924

[pekatete]

Before you try the rPi, it may be a good idea to try and flip the tx/rx connections during the cgminer detection routine. I did the same and "discovered" that these are twisted on the CP201x dongles I got.

Ouf, really? I thought twisted RX/TX lines would end up blowing one end of the UART and letting out the purple smoke?

How did you discover that they are twisted? Did you just flip them half-way through and saw if they worked?

These are the UARTs I have:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/USB-2-0-to-UART-TTL-6PIN-CP2102-Connector-Module-Serial-Converter-New-/231367399716?pt=US_Parallel_Serial_PS_2_Cables_Adapters&hash=item35de925924

I am sure you will not get any blue smoke .... and yes, the way I discovered was just that way, flipped them when plugged in and cgminer spewing errors at me ... then voilla!

Mine dongles are red in coulor, but look very similar in size to that one.

[forpblat]

I am sure you will not get any blue smoke .... and yes, the way I discovered was just that way, flipped them when plugged in and cgminer spewing errors at me ... then voilla!

Screw it, pray for no magic smoke. I'd be blown away if that was it. Two different uarts, both swapped on the silkscreening...

[zziggi]

can be changed at any low esr)The larger the capacity is better,I changed for 1500mF 6.3v-working fine.

blades 2013- 680 mkF soldered, 2014-470mkf possible on newer become quite save.Blade will work with any capacity, for example from the old motherboard or power supply.

Allright after futher talking with co-worker at my job. The capacitor on the board is a Tatalum 107A.

100uF 10Volt, it is not the same as the one on the schema. I guess I have an older rev of the board.