ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[gt_addict]

Ignore my last post. I re-read what toptek had put and realised my mistake. I am now running Kanos update on my old S3 and so far so good. Looks better and has the option to change the asic freq like my S3+ which is handy 

[underachieved]

2 days with no progress. 

[notlist3d]

2 days with no progress. 

Where did you get the S3 I might have missed it.  Is it new to you?  Or did a network change cause it?

Just trying to see if machine is new to you, or if it was a problem you had after it working.

[underachieved]

New to me. Ebay purchase.

[notlist3d]

New to me. Ebay purchase.

Ok send message to seller and ask what he did to connect to it.  Ask what former IP was, if it worked for him.  If he ever has experienced this.

He is really the first person you should go to, as it's hard to really say remotely what is going on as far as what it was set to.   

[aarons6]

I have the S3 connect to a router as of now. I have tried both the router and a direct connection to my laptop.

I was typing the ip (192.168.1.99) in IE. The cgi-bin/luci screen comes up but ends up timing out and saying bad gateway.

I cannot believe accessing the webGUI is so difficult.

BTW.. I did install winSCP.

one thing you need to check is to make sure your network is on 192.168.1.x

the new comcast xfinity wifi routers are set to 10.0.0.1 as default..

also you network could be 192.168.0.x

these will cause the bad gateway error.

[pinhead666]

Same questions asked over and over again. Reset controller. Give your computer static ip (192.168.1.100), subnet mask 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.1.99, dns doesn\t matter. Connect miner straight to the computer or via switch, surf to page 192.168.1.99, turn miner on dhcp. Save settings, turn computer back on dhcp, find right ip from modems status page. Surf to that ip. Done.
If you can\t reset your controller, unbrick it with cp2102 adapter, instructions are here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1335865.0

[notlist3d]

Same questions asked over and over again. Reset controller. Give your computer static ip (192.168.1.100), subnet mask 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.1.99, dns doesn\t matter. Connect miner straight to the computer or via switch, surf to page 192.168.1.99, turn miner on dhcp. Save settings, turn computer back on dhcp, find right ip from modems status page. Surf to that ip. Done.
If you can\t reset your controller, unbrick it with cp2102 adapter, instructions are here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1335865.0

This is why when I sell miners I include the IP. Been a while since I sold one but it makes it so much easier on buyer if they don't know much on networking.

I still think he should contact seller, and it chances are would be easy to get IP from him.   After that would be a simple matter setting up a static IP like you mention.   And he likely could try it now with 192.168.1.100 or 192.168.0.100 and hitting it from there.  But if he asks seller would be no guess work. 

Reset should do the trick if he follows it.  I'm thinking one firmware did have where reset did not work so slim chance, but he could be on that firmware.

[gt_addict]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

[aarons6]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

depends on the pool. i did for awhile and some pools work great, kano and cksolo.. some not so great.. it has something to do if the pool mines alt coins..
you get a TON of stale and invalid shares..

[kano]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

depends on the pool. i did for awhile and some pools work great, kano and cksolo.. some not so great.. it has something to do if the pool mines alt coins..
you get a TON of stale and invalid shares..

You can't mine multiple coins.
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/README#L915

[zOU]

hello,

is there a 3rd party tool that can provide graph of the S3/S3+ behavior ? (i've not found any in my search)

i can see what my S3's are doing from CKpool monitor page, but as hashrate seems to fluctuate a lot, I'd like to see it locally.

I'm using cryptoglance (but it only provides numbers) as M's miner monitor and Minera can do for network miners.
For the 3 above, there's no history, just real time.

I'm really interested to see how hashrate and share submission evolve over time.

[gt_addict]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

depends on the pool. i did for awhile and some pools work great, kano and cksolo.. some not so great.. it has something to do if the pool mines alt coins..
you get a TON of stale and invalid shares..

I'm on bitminter at the moment and doing alright but don't want to have all my eggs in one basket. So was going to balance the two S3s I've got between Kano.is and bitminter.

I know bitminter does nmc aswell as a by product but would that affect the errors if I was to balance between the two pools?

[aarons6]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

depends on the pool. i did for awhile and some pools work great, kano and cksolo.. some not so great.. it has something to do if the pool mines alt coins..
you get a TON of stale and invalid shares..

I'm on bitminter at the moment and doing alright but don't want to have all my eggs in one basket. So was going to balance the two S3s I've got between Kano.is and bitminter.

I know bitminter does nmc aswell as a by product but would that affect the errors if I was to balance between the two pools?

if you have 2 s3s.. it would be logical to aim one to kano, and one to bitminter.. then make the failover the opposite..

no need to balance anything.

[gt_addict]

That is a very good point 

[toptek]

hello,

is there a 3rd party tool that can provide graph of the S3/S3+ behavior ? (i've not found any in my search)

i can see what my S3's are doing from CKpool monitor page, but as hashrate seems to fluctuate a lot, I'd like to see it locally.

I'm using cryptoglance (but it only provides numbers) as M's miner monitor and Minera can do for network miners.
For the 3 above, there's no history, just real time.

I'm really interested to see how hashrate and share submission evolve over time.

there is one i reread what you asked . but it's not supported anymore, your on your own setting it up .

That's here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=604476.0

Miniera does store a history but i don't think it does how you want.

there is a S3 firmware i could never figure out how to loud in my S3 that gives  some of what you want  by Smit1237.

I use the S5 version.

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

there is a way to mine the way you want to between pool but you will need either a pi type Pc , or laptop or PC  that is running a linux type operating system ;

and follow this https://github.com/Stratehm/stratum-proxy  

that tells you how to set it up

and this tells you how to set up the pool switching strategy it uses

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=611338.msg12489739#msg12489739


I would ask kano also if his pool allows proxy's,i have ckpool set on my proxy list but that's encase one of my other pools goes down it will kick in.so my s5 won't burn up sense i don't use the July firmware and it's overclocked to 1.2 th .

I use slashes pool and  Eligius Pool Statistics ,mainly, they both can use proxy pool switching but don't on slashes it can be unprofitably or take forever to get anything because of how the pay system works.


Slushes is the very first btc mining pool, it started pool mining.

https://mining.bitcoin.cz/home/

The S3 balance option doesn't work that great, it's like others said depends on the pool.

[zOU]

there is one i reread what you asked . but it's not supported anymore, your on your own setting it up .

That's here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=604476.0

Miniera does store a history but i don't think it does how you want.

there is a S3 firmware i could never figure out how to loud in my S3 that gives  some of what you want  by Smit1237.

I use the S5 version.

Thank you

basically minera shows me real time what my S3+ do.


and shows that for my USB miners:



This is what I'd like to have for my S3+

[toptek]

something like this



that's S5 firmware i use by Smit1237

there is S3 version here that does the same as the S5 version. it does some of what you want.

http://smit1237.asuscomm.com:8080/nicehash/

but the ftp is down atm but does come up for days at a time then down again, it may be a home server of some kind. or even be my isp being my isp .


 i had it loaded in my s3 one time it worked but didn't.

minerlink from antminer would do it all, if they ever being it online.


https://www.minerlink.com/home.htm

[zOU]

Thank you

[aarons6]

there is one i reread what you asked . but it's not supported anymore, your on your own setting it up .

That's here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=604476.0

Miniera does store a history but i don't think it does how you want.

there is a S3 firmware i could never figure out how to loud in my S3 that gives  some of what you want  by Smit1237.

I use the S5 version.

Thank you

basically minera shows me real time what my S3+ do.


and shows that for my USB miners:



This is what I'd like to have for my S3+

i really wish they would update minera for showing the graphs for ALL your miners.. even remote ones..