ANTMINER C1 Discussion and Support Thread

[ilostmyface]

Picked up a S3+ off of ebay. I wish the C1 had a better firmware. The features on S3+ are way nicer.

[MyRig]

What feature from S3+ you wanted to see in C1?

Picked up a S3+ off of ebay. I wish the C1 had a better firmware. The features on S3+ are way nicer.

[picolo]

What feature from S3+ you wanted to see in C1?

Picked up a S3+ off of ebay. I wish the C1 had a better firmware. The features on S3+ are way nicer.

Better firmware

[Beachguy]

True.....the CGminer 3.1 is kind of long in the tooth.

[MyRig]

@Picolo and Beachguy!

Duly Noted.  Pass on to the engineers

[tbolt]

@BitmainWarranty

How about passing this on to the engineers while you are at it:

On the S3+s, I can reboot them from the software GUI, without issue.

On the C1s, if I reboot (GUI) they do not come back up cleanly, you have to reset the power switch.


When I say they don't come back up cleanly, I mean the hash rate does not return to the
1000GH/s. Maybe 760 GH/s

Often times the ASICs on chain #2 or chain #3 hashing boards come up all --s or ..s

[MyRig]

@tbolt,

screenshots be nice!  You can post it here or send it to support @ bitmain . zendesk . com

thank you!

[dogie]

On the C1s, if I reboot (GUI) they do not come back up cleanly, you have to reset the power switch. When I say they don't come back up cleanly, I mean the hash rate does not return to the 1000GH/s. Maybe 760 GH/s. Often times the ASICs on chain #2 or chain #3 hashing boards come up all --s or ..s

That appears to be how these boards like their power and like a hard reboot to reinitialise. It may be firmware but its more likely to be a characteristic of the boards themselves.

[ilostmyface]

What feature from S3+ you wanted to see in C1?

Picked up a S3+ off of ebay. I wish the C1 had a better firmware. The features on S3+ are way nicer.

Better firmware

CGminer update would be great. The SSH configurations and auto-refresh are nice.


Honestly a lot of networking features/configuration abilities seem to be left out purposefully, features in which I would never use at the scale of mining I partake in.  It seems the S3 can act as a router and/or switch with its wifi, so the networking features/configurations are very robust.

I know they sold a lot of the S3s.

[Evan]

On the C1s, if I reboot (GUI) they do not come back up cleanly, you have to reset the power switch. When I say they don't come back up cleanly, I mean the hash rate does not return to the 1000GH/s. Maybe 760 GH/s. Often times the ASICs on chain #2 or chain #3 hashing boards come up all --s or ..s

That appears to be how these boards like their power and like a hard reboot to reinitialise. It may be firmware but its more likely to be a characteristic of the boards themselves.

4 reboots always fixes it

[mavericklm]

4 reboots always fixes it

that or off for ~10min and on after that

[dunand]

I experience the same thing. I need to do a power shutdown every 2 weeks on a machine. Before turning off the power supply which command can I run with SSH to cleanly shutdown the machine?

On the C1s, if I reboot (GUI) they do not come back up cleanly, you have to reset the power switch.

When I say they don't come back up cleanly, I mean the hash rate does not return to the
1000GH/s. Maybe 760 GH/s

Often times the ASICs on chain #2 or chain #3 hashing boards come up all --s or ..s

[opentoe]

I experience the same thing. I need to do a power shutdown every 2 weeks on a machine. Before turning off the power supply which command can I run with SSH to cleanly shutdown the machine?

On the C1s, if I reboot (GUI) they do not come back up cleanly, you have to reset the power switch.

When I say they don't come back up cleanly, I mean the hash rate does not return to the
1000GH/s. Maybe 760 GH/s

Often times the ASICs on chain #2 or chain #3 hashing boards come up all --s or ..s

reboot

[notlist3d]

4 reboots always fixes it

that or off for ~10min and on after that

I two have had this on one more then the other of my C1's.  It seems to take a power off and wait just a bit, then power up for it to have proper status.

[psalm69]

What feature from S3+ you wanted to see in C1?

- power off / halt from web gui
- autorefresh miner status web gui (30secs)
- ntp entry on web  gui network setup
- more than 3 pools - 4 or 5
- be able to stop / restart just the cgminer process
- the reboot page from web gui  mostly works, but sometimes I have to physically power cycle for it to boot up properly ...
(and sometimes one chain is all --- & needs a power cycle to re-enable)
- rrd / stats graph of hashrate & temp for hourly, daily, weekly, monthly (like spt)
- be able to schedule start/stop of cgminer cron style in web gui (like spt)

The last couple are a wishlist and not from S3 ...

[Evan]

What feature from S3+ you wanted to see in C1?

- power off / halt from web gui
- autorefresh miner status web gui (30secs)
- ntp entry on web  gui network setup
- more than 3 pools - 4 or 5
- be able to stop / restart just the cgminer process
- the reboot page from web gui  mostly works, but sometimes I have to physically power cycle for it to boot up properly ...
(and sometimes one chain is all --- & needs a power cycle to re-enable)
- rrd / stats graph of hashrate & temp for hourly, daily, weekly, monthly (like spt)
- be able to schedule start/stop of cgminer cron style in web gui (like spt)

The last couple are a wishlist and not from S3 ...

Give us the s3+ options from the pools, like to roundrobin the shares or split my hash between my pools.

Just copy the s3+ options to the C1

[stonerider]

Good news, I was able to get a fully compiled firmware with the latest cgminer 4.9.0. I've been using it all day on a couple of pools for testing and it works fine. It does fully support extranonoce.subscribe feature because when I tried connecting to Westhash.com proxy/pool it gave me a green check mark and no wasted hash. One problem though, if I put a price in the password, like p=0.20 which is really high on purpose for a reason, it does not jump down to my second pool. If you just want to hash on West/Mice all out then no problems. Here is the link you can get it at.

http://www.diggscloud.com/public.php?service=files&t=84a9f8cc5f13fe17a985311bd98eb31b



Download away. That link will eventually expire in several days.

If you need it,just let me know. Props smit1237

Hi opentoe,

The link has expired, would you be able to make the firmware available again? Thanks,

Stone

PS: I pm'd you as well.

[thedreamer]

Hi all. Do you guys run these at full blast or down clock for better efficiency?

I played around with the voltages and frequencies, and best seems to be 810GH/s at 585Watts at the Wall (0675v). Once you go up from here the wattage goes up exponentially.

I mean I dig the quietness, but it is not much quieter than my S3's at 400GH/s down clocked and the plumbing 'issues' with the radiator, wiring, etc..etc.. just IMO make it much more of a PITA than the simple S1/S3/S5 design.

Still playing with mine, but at stock voltages it's not a good design IMO.

Unless you under clock it, it uses the maybe 50watts less juice, than a pair of overclocked S3's at the same speeds.
The only benefit I see is the size savings, which gets negated by the plumbing issues again. LOL

[dunand]

Impressive. You are at 675v. What is your frequency?

When you run at 760v. How many watts you are pulling from the wall.

[dunand]

The only benefit I see is the size savings, which gets negated by the plumbing issues again. LOL

2 advantages:
1- It's near silent
2- You can heat a poll with them (pictures will come later)