Topic: Avalon Nano - Stick Mining Fun! - page 2. (Read 20816 times)

No, there are no special characters in the real login.
And yes, the second screen with the Tabs is the one that shows at the beginning of this thread.

Well, the whole thing is very confusing to me.
When I plug the miner into the USB Port the first thing that Pops up is a screen written in Chinese listing what I think is a list of connections.
Then a pretty big ICON shows up on my desktop looking somewhat like a key with a USB symbol the number 1 and then some chinese and the number 0.

Then when I click on the actual Avalon Miner shortcut : "E:\Bitcoin\bootstrap\nano\Avalon nano QuickStart\AvalonMiner.Qt4MSVC\AvalonMiner.Qt4MSVC\AvalonMiner.exe"

Up comes another box labeled as Avalon Miner with two tabs. One for Settins and one for Status. My pool connection shows up in the Settings Tab. But when I click on "Start Mining" the Title bar switches to green and says it's "Mining" but a look at the Avalon Log file shows this :

[2015-12-09 19:53:04] Failed to open Device Parameters registry key in lowl-vcom.c _vcom_devinfo_scan_windows__hubport():440: The system cannot find the file specified.
 [2015-12-09 19:53:04] Do not have user privileges required to open \\.\COM3

I'm pretty much totally lost at this point.

REVISED : Problem was POWER
I had plugged the Stick into a USB Port that was underpowered. I moved the stick to plug directly into my powered hub and everything fired up as expected.

So are you trying to use the GUI or are you using a cgminer you mention in folder?   If using the GUI which one is it the one on first page? There are 2 that I know of of top of head they had at one time for it.

On "my_login.worker1" you dont have a"_" and a "." in your login do you?  i'm guessing not but wanted to make sure.

Hello, I'm new to the whole bitcoin process. However, to hopeful get a grasp of things I purchased an Avalon Nano. I am running a full node on my machine, and have installed the avalon nano driver and associated cgminer software as per the directions at the beginning of this thread.

I'm able to bring up the Avalon miner software without issue. My system recognizes the USB device on com3. The light on the USB device is green. I have a avalon.ini sitting in the same folder as my avalon software, and the cgminer software is a subfolder of that.

My .ini has a config line :
[PoolInfo_1]
PoolURL=stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.bitcoin.cz
PoolPort=3333
WorkerName=my_login.worker1
WorkerPassword=1234

[PoolInfo_2]
PoolURL=/
PoolPort=80
WorkerName=/
WorkerPassword=/

[PoolInfo_3]
PoolURL=/
PoolPort=80
WorkerName=/
WorkerPassword=/
[Avalon]
Log=avalon.log
Parameters=-T, -S, ICA:\\\\.\\COM3, --set-device, "ICA:baud=115200", --set-device, "ICA:reopen=timeout", --set-device, "ICA:work_division=1", --set-device, "ICA:fpga_count=1", --set-device, "ICA:probe_timeout=100", --set-device, "ICA:timing=0.22", --api-listen

I've also create a mining account at bitcoin.cz.

When i bring up the Avalon miner application and click "start mining", it shows a completely different configuration.

I've looked in the Avalon log file and it has this :
[2015-12-08 11:31:21] Started bfgminer 4.0.0
 [2015-12-08 11:31:21] Failed to open Device Parameters registry key in lowl-vcom.c _vcom_devinfo_scan_windows__hubport():440: The system cannot find the file specified.

Any help would be appreciated. As I said, I'm just starting out, so all of this is a bit overwhelming to take in.

Thanks !
J.

Glad to hear we have a new miner!  Welcome to the club.

And I do highly suggest a fan or something to keep heat down.  Without a fan it just gets to hot and slows down.   It does not have the biggest heat sink on it so the active cooling really helps.

I received one of these at the beginning of this week, I put it at work and this is what it's giving me atm:


I had a spare cpu cooling fan, I decided to give it a try putting it above the stick heatsink. Without the fan the stick was mining at an average of 3.7Gh/s, with a WU of about 23.0/m - it really gets hot

Just to share it, I'm having fun with it - it's my first miner after all 

Thanks for adding another method to make it run.

I suggest going for batch file for most.  With it you dont need any other software on windows and can change arguments with CGMiner.

But definitely thanks for addition!

My script could use improvement; as is, it requires the GUI remain the window with focus which is inconvenient.

AutoHotkey http://www.autohotkey.com/

I could be having a moment of not remembering something.  But what language did your write the script in?

toggle = 0
#MaxThreadsPerHotkey 2
z::              ;hit z to toggle script on and off.
    Toggle := !Toggle
     While Toggle{
   Click
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {space}
   Send, {backspace}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {tab}
   Send, {enter}
   Sleep, 240000
    }
return

esc::exitapp ;Kills script

Chances are you are going to need a fan it runs pretty hot (at least mine did when I ran it).  When it get's hot it slows down.  So no fan.... good chance problem is there.

And it is very easy you can make a batch file for cgminer if you don't want to use gui.  Takes a few minutes at most.

No fan; I was thinking it would cool enough without one to get going by itself without having to be prodded along so often.  Perhaps I will try writing a script to get it going automatically.

Do you have a fan pushing air on it?  The nano can get pretty hot and it  would effect it's preformance.

And yea there are actually 2 gui's.  One is in English and easier to use for my language.  The second looks nicer but was in Chinese (they could have added English I have not looked recently)

 If a fan does not work you can try to run cgminer without the gui.  The commands are in the thread to do that.

For my combined birthday and Father's Day gift my son gave me an Avalon Nano (I've got a great son).  The software installation and configuration was, er, not trivial but I got it going http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1NFpUu9D76jRL9m2TAdcKjgwr8axLg4YqN (give it time).  One thing I've notice; a couple of times now it got "stuck" in sleep mode.  It wasn't too tough to get it going again but it requires attention; I want it to run unattended.  Anyone else seen this behavior?

It's like they went to the Apple school of naming stuff.

Avalon Nano has now been removed from product page. - https://ehash.com/

Now they seem to have focused on Avalon Mini - https://ehash.com/product/avalon4-mini/

Also most likely product to hit sale soon is Sidehacks usb miner - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gekkoscience-bm1384-project-development-discussion-995675

It is a fun toy there is no doubt.  There is also a new usb miner coming up thanks to sidehack - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-combined-sidehack-novak-usb-stick-review-thread-aka-gekkoscience-bm1384-1086011 I have not got my review done of it yet.   But it has a lot of ability to adjust freq and made a huge difference in speed.

And also we should see sometime Avalon 4 Mini - https://ehash.com/product/avalon4-mini/ .   We still don't know a ton about it alot.

But those are the two new things to come to market soon on USB.

I haven't been mining a long time. I was thinking of buying one of these Avalon USB miners when I first saw it, just because it looks nice. I accepted that it wouldn't ROI. It's the thought of getting back into mining and learning how mining is nowadays that interests me. It's only 0.07btc each, so it's like buying a new toy 

Don't get an S1, they're not worth turning on, but an S3 still is.  It uses (just a little) less power than the S1 and is more than twice as fast.

I would agree it's entirely different market.  Normally someone looking for a USB miner is not same market as a S1.

USB is great for learning mining.  An item such as Avalon Nano is more a learning tool in my eye's vs S1 which is unless "free electricity" chances are not worth running.