Raspberry Pi controlling mining gear

[Harwood]

I have been using a few Raspberry Pis now for controlling gear with mixed results.  For instance MinePeon does well for SHA-256. The Grid Controlla Community Edition for Gridseed.  What have been your experiences?

Hardware wise its always down to the USB ports.  I have great faith in the upcoming KickStarter to solve some of it, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/10la/raspiado-the-usb-hub-that-fits-your-raspberry-pi?ref=nav_search.  Adds some ports, takes care of power cord falling out, and it mounts on the bottom.  Just have to figure out a case for it all.  Anybody else observe any good Pi add ons?

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[firejuan]

Not really sure this belongs in mining hardware but here is another ARM based option running full Ubuntu or other options.

http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php

Not my find someone else was using them.

[slashka]

Hey! I have the following setup: two 5-chip Gridseeds, one USB U2 Antminer (the second is coming soon), the 7 port USB 2.0 hub and a Raspberry of course.

I'm not using such distros, but using the default Raspbian. For me I find the following way which is working well with my setup.

At startup I'm starting two minerd miners (each for the one of the gridseeds) and one cgminer. Cgminer crashes some times and minerd rarely, but freezes. So, I have a cron script to check cgminer running or not and an every hour reboot script.

Sometimes, because it's hot now and a superfarm is standing in front of window, the Raspberry freezes, so I mannualy reboot all "the systems" with one power switch