BFL "EasyMiner" Released. Reviews? - page 5.

rjk

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Quote from: BFL-Engineer on May 10, 2012, 01:04:12 AM

Quote from: rjk on May 09, 2012, 09:51:39 PM

My single got the new bitstream, but doesn't seem to be going any faster. I dunno if cgminer has an indicator for the number of times it has throttled, but it is currently at 826/803 5s/avg speed. The test went through without a hitch, but it sure isn't going at 860+ mhash/s.

Certain older versions of the single need a power-cycle after firmware upload.

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

Thanks, after a power cycle it is going faster.

fuuka

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I have a rev3 with the extra fan on the bottom (some don't have this?).

Using the diagnostic feature, the default firmware averages something like 844Mh/s while the 862Mh/s firmware averages 880Mh/s indicated, it is closer to the 832 and 862 advertised values in the non-ideal situation of actual mining. Ambient temp is 74F (~23C) measured with an IR temp gun. No throttling detected and a max temp of something like 53C for the single. I will check power consumption in a bit when I move it to my mining rig.

cgminer 2.4.1 shows an average around 30Mh/s improvement, but I haven't let it run long enough to get a good average reading.

http://i.imgur.com/F5X7L.png

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Quote from: Epoch on May 09, 2012, 11:39:44 PM

Anyone have any luck with the 'Blink Unit(s)' function? I'm running EasyMiner_V_1.0_Beta and the 'Blink Unit(s)' feature on the right-click menu doesn't do anything for me. i.e. I click on it, but no LED on my unit blinks. It would be a handy feature if it worked.

Some of the Rev 2 do not offer the blink feature, since it was released in a later
MCU Firmware.

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

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Quote from: rjk on May 09, 2012, 09:51:39 PM

My single got the new bitstream, but doesn't seem to be going any faster. I dunno if cgminer has an indicator for the number of times it has throttled, but it is currently at 826/803 5s/avg speed. The test went through without a hitch, but it sure isn't going at 860+ mhash/s.

Certain older versions of the single need a power-cycle after firmware upload.

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

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Quote from: rjk on May 09, 2012, 09:51:39 PM

My single got the new bitstream, but doesn't seem to be going any faster. I dunno if cgminer has an indicator for the number of times it has throttled, but it is currently at 826/803 5s/avg speed. The test went through without a hitch, but it sure isn't going at 860+ mhash/s.

Weird story, but one of my rev2's did this, while the other didn't. However all rev3's took the new firmware.

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Quote from: Epoch on May 09, 2012, 11:39:44 PM

Anyone have any luck with the 'Blink Unit(s)' function? I'm running EasyMiner_V_1.0_Beta and the 'Blink Unit(s)' feature on the right-click menu doesn't do anything for me. i.e. I click on it, but no LED on my unit blinks. It would be a handy feature if it worked.

Nevermind ... it seems that my Rev2's (I tried 2 different units) don't work with the 'blink' command; even after upgrading firmware. My Rev3's work fine.

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Anyone have any luck with the 'Blink Unit(s)' function? I'm running EasyMiner_V_1.0_Beta and the 'Blink Unit(s)' feature on the right-click menu doesn't do anything for me. i.e. I click on it, but no LED on my unit blinks. It would be a handy feature if it worked.

rjk

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Quote from: Garr255 on May 09, 2012, 10:26:29 PM

Quote from: rjk on May 09, 2012, 09:51:39 PM

My single got the new bitstream, but doesn't seem to be going any faster. I dunno if cgminer has an indicator for the number of times it has throttled, but it is currently at 826/803 5s/avg speed. The test went through without a hitch, but it sure isn't going at 860+ mhash/s.

Do you still have that deafening fan mod? XD

haha no, I have it in my office and that got annoying. Also the video was mostly a troll just to poke fun at the people that were saying it was too loud. Grin

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What's a GPU?

Quote from: rjk on May 09, 2012, 09:51:39 PM

My single got the new bitstream, but doesn't seem to be going any faster. I dunno if cgminer has an indicator for the number of times it has throttled, but it is currently at 826/803 5s/avg speed. The test went through without a hitch, but it sure isn't going at 860+ mhash/s.

Do you still have that deafening fan mod? XD

Thanks for the information everyone. I might be using this software in the coming months Wink

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1ngldh

My single got the new bitstream, but doesn't seem to be going any faster. I dunno if cgminer has an indicator for the number of times it has throttled, but it is currently at 826/803 5s/avg speed. The test went through without a hitch, but it sure isn't going at 860+ mhash/s.

xDGDZEx

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So I tested out the 864 MH experimental firmware on 2 Rev3 singles and this is what I got.

Also, the status of the second one is wrong, it was done uploading firmware before I began the test.

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Feel the coffee, be the coffee.

Quote from: zefir on May 09, 2012, 05:03:30 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: BFL-Engineer on May 09, 2012, 03:16:25 PM

Firmware upload is a proprietary mechanism, which I'm afraid we cannot disclose. For your information,
it will work flawlessly through a VM. Minimum requirement is Windows XP SP2.

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

It is your choice.

It does not take long to write a COM proxy to debug/dump what you send/receive to/from a COM port.

^this exactly.

Unless an encrypted protocol us used to upload the FW, I don't see that the command sequence can be kept secret for ... a week max.

But having it doable from a VM lowers my personal incentive to spend time on reverse engineering that - going to upload FW maybe twice a year does not pay of investing too much time.

Any obscurity on your part does not add any security, BFL Engineer, you are only wasting time you could use on shipping machines and deluding yourself. I am dead serious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_cow_problem

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Feel the coffee, be the coffee.

Running EasyMiner in VirtualBox, I get a scary looking "The application failed to initialize properly" pop-up box.

Anyone else have this problem ?

Running diagnostics would be great right now as one of my units is DOA and I don't have any physical windows machine physically close.

Unacceptable

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Quote from: BFL-Engineer on May 09, 2012, 01:59:40 PM

Quote from: dirtycat on May 09, 2012, 01:31:44 PM

Quote from: Unacceptable on May 09, 2012, 04:05:21 AM

Any way to allow us to mine where we want,pools other than Eclipse??

Did BFL answer this or am I just blind?

We must say that the Easyminer was designed to target novice and new users. Professional
users may use their miner of their choice. This is our first release and in the future, other
pools will be added to Easyminer.

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

Thank you BFL Engineer!!

I've been using GUIminer since I started mining in june & I like the dropdown list to pick the pool I want & put my email & password info in & go mining ,something as easy as that would be very welcomed Wink

Having to setup config files & the like is time consuming & if your like me,software slow,kinda confusing Embarrassed

Keep it simple,please Grin

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Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: BFL-Engineer on May 09, 2012, 03:16:25 PM

Firmware upload is a proprietary mechanism, which I'm afraid we cannot disclose. For your information,
it will work flawlessly through a VM. Minimum requirement is Windows XP SP2.

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

It is your choice.

It does not take long to write a COM proxy to debug/dump what you send/receive to/from a COM port.

^this exactly.

Unless an encrypted protocol us used to upload the FW, I don't see that the command sequence can be kept secret for ... a week max.

But having it doable from a VM lowers my personal incentive to spend time on reverse engineering that - going to upload FW maybe twice a year does not pay of investing too much time.

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Quote from: zefir on May 09, 2012, 02:11:18 PM

Quote from: BFL-Engineer on May 09, 2012, 01:59:40 PM

[...]
Professional users may use their miner of their choice.
[...]

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

Not to claim I'm a professional user, but I'm a Linux only one. Any chance to also get the FW-upload command sequence documented?

Would be great not to have a spare Windows machine available just to update the Single's firmware. Or would that work from within a VM?

Firmware upload is a proprietary mechanism, which I'm afraid we cannot disclose. For your information,
it will work flawlessly through a VM. Minimum requirement is Windows XP SP2.

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

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Quote from: BFL-Engineer on May 09, 2012, 01:59:40 PM

[...]
Professional users may use their miner of their choice.
[...]

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

Not to claim I'm a professional user, but I'm a Linux only one. Any chance to also get the FW-upload command sequence documented?

Would be great not to have a spare Windows machine available just to update the Single's firmware. Or would that work from within a VM?

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Quote from: dirtycat on May 09, 2012, 01:31:44 PM

Quote from: Unacceptable on May 09, 2012, 04:05:21 AM

Any way to allow us to mine where we want,pools other than Eclipse??

Did BFL answer this or am I just blind?

We must say that the Easyminer was designed to target novice and new users. Professional
users may use their miner of their choice. This is our first release and in the future, other
pools will be added to Easyminer.

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

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We've forgot to mention one small thing. The blink command for the units is 'ZMX'.
Unit only accepts this command and does not reply to it. Once sent, the unit will
blink for a small period of time.

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

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Quote from: dirtycat on May 09, 2012, 01:31:44 PM

Quote from: Unacceptable on May 09, 2012, 04:05:21 AM

Any way to allow us to mine where we want,pools other than Eclipse??

Did BFL answer this or am I just blind?

In 4-6 weeks they will release a miner that allows you to mine anywhere you like.

In the meantime they are paying Inaba for doing the PR and tech support around here by locking easy miner to his pool only.

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