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[p3yot33at3r]

I've put an AntS3 update archive in my binaries git hub of latest 4.9.2 cgminer.
For details and installing: https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

This has been tested and run on both an old AntS3 and one of the later AntS3

I don't have an AntS3+ but I suspect it should work fine there also.

The menu frequency settings in the "Miner Configuration" "Advanced Settings" web interface includes default settings for both S3 and S3+

I've, of course, tested it on my pool https://kano.is/

It should also be OK on p2pool since it's the same code related to p2pool as in my AntS1 and AntS2 releases

Please give it a try and let me know if anyone has any trouble with it on AntS3 or AntS3+

Will test it now my good man! 

Hi kano,

Been playing with this a bit, but I'm unable to get the hash rate or queue reading up on mmonitor, & cryptoglance cant connect at all. I've tried deleting the --quiet option, but it's not possible - is this by design? I've also tried adding the local ip of the PC using mmonitor/cryptoglance, but still no joy - what am I missing here?

Apart from that, the load is very good, much lower when using it with p2pool than before - I presume the standard queue setting of 1 is being used?

Love the interface & extra options!

Thanks 

[LoneRangir]

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And another one!  That's more like it.

[727miner]

Go BTCWoman!! 

[kano]

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Will test it now my good man! 

Hi kano,

Been playing with this a bit, but I'm unable to get the hash rate or queue reading up on mmonitor, & cryptoglance cant connect at all. I've tried deleting the --quiet option, but it's not possible - is this by design? I've also tried adding the local ip of the PC using mmonitor/cryptoglance, but still no joy - what am I missing here?

Apart from that, the load is very good, much lower when using it with p2pool than before - I presume the standard queue setting of 1 is being used?

Love the interface & extra options!

Thanks 

--queue is effectively gone from cgminer now - it's a 'hidden' option meaning it is ignored.
It never made any sense and -ck set it to being ignored in 4.9.2
As per the cgminer update the API now doesn't return any of the useless information, just a message saying it's been deprecated.
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/81be63d32596f8c63fbc73ed6b02e861e7b55b20
and
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/bf261a899d3925f65f3fd1c3562151a7c2b760df
This also included removing getwork from cgminer, since no mining uses it, and again the getwork information being deprecated.

I'll look into the --quiet problem and see if I can reproduce it ...

[kano]

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I'll look into the --quiet problem and see if I can reproduce it ...

Ah OK, I see what you meant.
Yes if you enter nothing in "More Options(Default: --quiet)" you end up with --quiet

That's OK though since the S3 doesn't use screen so you aren't watching cgminer ... and it reduces IO a tiny bit also.

If you really want it to not use --quiet you can put some other option(s) there and it will use that rather than the default --quiet
So e.g. you could add --btc-address 1xxxxx (with your BTC address of course, not 1xxxxx)
if you wanted to set a backup pool to solo-mine at home (and it will have no effect if you don't have any pools pointed at a bitcoind)

This is also how you solo-mine on an S3 vs how to do it on an S1
... my S1 solo mining guide/post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330665.msg11590434#msg11590434

... which shows how you CAN easily solo mine on an S1 even though the Eligius people imply you can't without their software ... coz they don't like cgminer and spread FUD about it ...
http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/394gw5/q_i_want_to_use_my_old_s1_antminer_for_solomining/

I still don't know why anyone mines at Eligius, you lose BTC doing that, their so call no-fee mining pool loses blocks in an amount similar to my fee on this pool and their payout means someone who block withholds can still be paid their full payout (on here with PPLNS, if you block withhold, you lose BTC you will never get back)
The fee here also means I manage the pool 24/7 and don't ignore it when there are problems like what happens on Eligius.

[p3yot33at3r]

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I'll look into the --quiet problem and see if I can reproduce it ...

Ah OK, I see what you meant.
Yes if you enter nothing in "More Options(Default: --quiet)" you end up with --quiet

That's OK though since the S3 doesn't use screen so you aren't watching cgminer ... and it reduces IO a tiny bit also.

If you really want it to not use --quiet you can put some other option(s) there and it will use that rather than the default --quiet
So e.g. you could add --btc-address 1xxxxx (with your BTC address of course, not 1xxxxx)
if you wanted to set a backup pool to solo-mine at home (and it will have no effect if you don't have any pools pointed at a bitcoind)

Yeah, I thought that maybe (probably out of desperation) the --quiet option was preventing the api from broadcasting the hash rate stats to mmonitor/cryptoglance. I'm not too bothered about the queue setting not being displayed tbh, for the reasons you describe, but it would be nice to be able to connect to & monitor the miner remotely with the software I mentioned above. Is that option not available now?

Thanks again kano.

[kano]

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I'll look into the --quiet problem and see if I can reproduce it ...

Ah OK, I see what you meant.
Yes if you enter nothing in "More Options(Default: --quiet)" you end up with --quiet

That's OK though since the S3 doesn't use screen so you aren't watching cgminer ... and it reduces IO a tiny bit also.

If you really want it to not use --quiet you can put some other option(s) there and it will use that rather than the default --quiet
So e.g. you could add --btc-address 1xxxxx (with your BTC address of course, not 1xxxxx)
if you wanted to set a backup pool to solo-mine at home (and it will have no effect if you don't have any pools pointed at a bitcoind)

Yeah, I thought that maybe (probably out of desperation) the --quiet option was preventing the api from broadcasting the hash rate stats to mmonitor/cryptoglance. I'm not too bothered about the queue setting not being displayed tbh, for the reasons you describe, but it would be nice to be able to connect to & monitor the miner remotely with the software I mentioned above. Is that option not available now?

Thanks again kano.

Then they are probably not using the standard cgminer API commands/replies.
I wrote the cgminer API.
Various parties have broken it - including Bitmain by changing the names and formats of API replies.
Not enhancements, just simply changing things and breaking compatibility.

Get whoever wrote your monitor tools to properly support the standard cgminer API
If they want to also support the broken API from Bitmain that's up to them.
But the problem is probably both Bitmain and whoever wrote your monitor.

A simple example of the above is that while cgminer has always replied with a number representing MHs in fields called "MHs..." Bitmain replies don't return MHs they return GHs and they changed the names of the fields
... rather than simply dividing the numbers returned by 1000 in their display code (like I've done in my modified S3 code), they changed the API output ... yeah some people don't know what they are doing and should stay away from touching code.
What Bitmain's change means is that you have to support different format replies from different devices.
Though ... the monitor tools shouldn't have problems with that if they've decided to handle the broken replies also ... unless they wont work with anything but Bitmain devices ...

[sorry2xs]

is there a Kano AntS5,AntC1 cgminer update

[kano]

is there a Kano AntS5,AntC1 cgminer update

No.
I asked someone at Bitmain to fund me doing an S5 ... a proper full SPI driver ... to get rid of the crappy unreliable kernel module ... and of course use a proper working cgminer processing work properly ...
That's about 3 or 4 weeks work - I said 1 BTC a day min 20 - max 30 days with no up front BTC and a guarantee of at least equivalent performance
I've already done 2 SPI drivers in cgminer, I updated the Bitfury SPI driver and added it to cgminer, then wrote from scratch the SPI driver for blackarrow minion (which was actually able to process 1diff work at about 3THs on an RPi)
He keeps wanting me to setup pools that have taken hash rate away from kano.is with a 'possible' chance of funding it ... so yeah that's not gonna happen.
kano.is priority comes a long way before anything Bitmain wants.

[sorry2xs]

well i like what you have done with s3, well i only have 1 s5 and 3 c1 it is not in my budget sorry i also understand that knowledge does not fall out of the sky, can you point me to the s1 update provided that you have done it, best Regards

[kano]

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[kano]

well i like what you have done with s3, well i only have 1 s5 and 3 c1 it is not in my budget sorry i also understand that knowledge does not fall out of the sky, can you point me to the s1 update provided that you have done it, best Regards

S1 is just a binary, not a whole web update as well:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS1
(that I did a bit over a month ago)

[jonnybravo0311]

I've put an AntS3 update archive in my binaries git hub of latest 4.9.2 cgminer.
For details and installing: https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

This has been tested and run on both an old AntS3 and one of the later AntS3

I don't have an AntS3+ but I suspect it should work fine there also.

The menu frequency settings in the "Miner Configuration" "Advanced Settings" web interface includes default settings for both S3 and S3+

I've, of course, tested it on my pool https://kano.is/

It should also be OK on p2pool since it's the same code related to p2pool as in my AntS1 and AntS2 releases

Please give it a try and let me know if anyone has any trouble with it on AntS3 or AntS3+

I upgraded my S3s to use this.  I'm happy to report that they are all functioning quite happily and hashing away on p2pool.  Reported hash rate is accurate and things seem to be going quite well so far.  I've also noticed that CPU utilization is down quite a bit and my S3s are not constantly rebooting like they did previously using the NH-provided extranonce patch.

Thanks again for your work.  While I don't mine on your pool often (I have in the past), I figured I'd throw you a donation for the work you've done.  Go enjoy a couple beers on me .  Here's the TxID: 80b31448a4bf00d56a25a197565f6760013e2aed7bf2b7deded694ea8637c7d2

[jonnybravo0311]

Hiya JB,

Regarding kanos latest firmware:

I upgraded my S3s to use this.

....did you manage to get the hash rate stats up on mmonitor/cryptoglance by any chance? If so, what flags are you using?

Thanks.

Sorry, no.  I don't use the monitoring apps.  I just look directly at the miners.  You might want to ping mdude77 to see if he's going to make any changes to his app to reflect the standard cgminer APIs in addition to the borked Bitmain ones.

[CapnBDL]

Before I TRY to get into this s3+ I thought I would ask if the update is now complete? Mind you, I AM NOT very skilled /w Linux & am a bit apprehensive about doing the upgrade. As soon as I know the code is ready....well, I guess I'll be off-line for a bit. let me know & wish me luck!!

Thanks for the hard work done on this...looking forward to success.   

   CapnBDL   

[mrquick]

I have just updated my Ant S3 to the latest Kano cgminer build and its back mining happily on the pool. The instructions are clear and easy to follow.
A big THANK YOU to Kano for all the hard work.

 

[aarons6]

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I'll look into the --quiet problem and see if I can reproduce it ...

Ah OK, I see what you meant.
Yes if you enter nothing in "More Options(Default: --quiet)" you end up with --quiet

That's OK though since the S3 doesn't use screen so you aren't watching cgminer ... and it reduces IO a tiny bit also.

If you really want it to not use --quiet you can put some other option(s) there and it will use that rather than the default --quiet
So e.g. you could add --btc-address 1xxxxx (with your BTC address of course, not 1xxxxx)
if you wanted to set a backup pool to solo-mine at home (and it will have no effect if you don't have any pools pointed at a bitcoind)

This is also how you solo-mine on an S3 vs how to do it on an S1
... my S1 solo mining guide/post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330665.msg11590434#msg11590434

... which shows how you CAN easily solo mine on an S1 even though the Eligius people imply you can't without their software ... coz they don't like cgminer and spread FUD about it ...
http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/394gw5/q_i_want_to_use_my_old_s1_antminer_for_solomining/

I still don't know why anyone mines at Eligius, you lose BTC doing that, their so call no-fee mining pool loses blocks in an amount similar to my fee on this pool and their payout means someone who block withholds can still be paid their full payout (on here with PPLNS, if you block withhold, you lose BTC you will never get back)
The fee here also means I manage the pool 24/7 and don't ignore it when there are problems like what happens on Eligius.

i just updated one of my S3s to this new version but cryptoglance stopped working.

is there anything default that you keep you from seeing API port 4028?


NM i think i got it.

for anyone interested gotta add this line to the API
,W:192.168.1.0/24

so the whole line is

W:127.0.0.1,W:192.168.1.0/2


WOW huge improvement..


GH/S(avg)   
498.849

THANKS KANO!!

[sorry2xs]

...
I'll look into the --quiet problem and see if I can reproduce it ...

Ah OK, I see what you meant.
Yes if you enter nothing in "More Options(Default: --quiet)" you end up with --quiet

That's OK though since the S3 doesn't use screen so you aren't watching cgminer ... and it reduces IO a tiny bit also.

If you really want it to not use --quiet you can put some other option(s) there and it will use that rather than the default --quiet
So e.g. you could add --btc-address 1xxxxx (with your BTC address of course, not 1xxxxx)
if you wanted to set a backup pool to solo-mine at home (and it will have no effect if you don't have any pools pointed at a bitcoind)

This is also how you solo-mine on an S3 vs how to do it on an S1
... my S1 solo mining guide/post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330665.msg11590434#msg11590434

... which shows how you CAN easily solo mine on an S1 even though the Eligius people imply you can't without their software ... coz they don't like cgminer and spread FUD about it ...
http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/394gw5/q_i_want_to_use_my_old_s1_antminer_for_solomining/

I still don't know why anyone mines at Eligius, you lose BTC doing that, their so call no-fee mining pool loses blocks in an amount similar to my fee on this pool and their payout means someone who block withholds can still be paid their full payout (on here with PPLNS, if you block withhold, you lose BTC you will never get back)
The fee here also means I manage the pool 24/7 and don't ignore it when there are problems like what happens on Eligius.

i just updated one of my S3s to this new version but cryptoglance stopped working.

is there anything default that you keep you from seeing API port 4028?


NM i think i got it.

for anyone interested gotta add this line to the API
,W:192.168.1.0/24

so the whole line is

W:127.0.0.1,W:192.168.1.0/2


WOW huge improvement..


GH/S(avg)   
498.849

THANKS KANO!!

i did the update to my 6 S3s' they are working great and no bitmain reboot

[sorry2xs]

i don't think spondoolies is going to support those units any more
Edit: i have one running 4.8.0

[kano]

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WOW huge improvement..


GH/S(avg)   
498.849

THANKS KANO!!

Heh, no that's probably just variance.
I make sure the hardware difficulty is as close to the pool difficulty as possible, not sure if they do that properly or not.
Over time it should average out to the expected or possibly a little above it.

The most obvious performance change is the CPU reduction which should minimise any delays and thus minimise latency and delays processing results.
Of course the other things are also the web changes and being able to see the API allow options and add your own cgminer options (e.g. for direct solo mining)
... and lastly being updated to latest cgminer.