Braiins OS & Braiins OS+ custom ASIC firmware: optimize performance & efficiency - page 46.

Shad0wSmurf

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Quote from: Breeze on October 17, 2018, 02:49:15 PM

Hope they show both temp on the next release.
Mine is running nice with the SD card since couple of weeks.
Waiting for the next release with more functions before i flash it on the controller.
Keep up the good work.

If you compile the cgminer git from braiins sources, you can edit it so you can have both Temps shown. I'll see if I can find the line for the Temps. Then it's a edit on the webpage to show both.

https://github.com/braiins/cgminer/blob/braiins-am1/cgminer.c

Breeze

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Hope they show both temp on the next release.
Mine is running nice with the SD card since couple of weeks.
Waiting for the next release with more functions before i flash it on the controller.
Keep up the good work.

Shad0wSmurf

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Quote from: Apprentice on October 16, 2018, 03:32:48 PM

and it is tricky to run more than 1 miner on a SC card as it will have the same MAC address and it seems that DHCP is giving all the same IP address.

also it is not working on all S9s. it worked fine on the first 2 (S9) and not properly on the 3rd which is a S9i, hashrate was rising very slow and barely reached 10,5THs. one of the hashing boards was hashing very low..

Been using it on 2 S9 for like 3 weeks, temps are below 70 (but can those numbers be trusted??)

also the fans are running slower thus the miner is quieter and the noise is at a lower pitch.

There's a way to change the Mac address in the config file if you flash the firmware via terminal. It's in the Readme about adding the address and such.
The Temps if I am reading their gits correctly is using the alternative temp via bitmain.c driver. One is temp and one is pcb. The antminer s9 normal pages, use the chip temp I believe, and slush uses the pcb temp, which is the lower of the 2 Temps that get returned. So it looks lower. But is like a normal offset of like 26 degrees I think if I remember correctly

Apprentice

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and it is tricky to run more than 1 miner on a SC card as it will have the same MAC address and it seems that DHCP is giving all the same IP address.

also it is not working on all S9s. it worked fine on the first 2 (S9) and not properly on the 3rd which is a S9i, hashrate was rising very slow and barely reached 10,5THs. one of the hashing boards was hashing very low..

Been using it on 2 S9 for like 3 weeks, temps are below 70 (but can those numbers be trusted??)

also the fans are running slower thus the miner is quieter and the noise is at a lower pitch.

fanatic26_

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Quote from: Artemis3 on October 13, 2018, 01:21:49 PM

Would be nice if this could be used with the R4... Also, any plans to add asicboost?

for the hundred thousandth time ASICBOOST requires compatible HARDWARE. There is no magic software to enable it on hardware that was not designed for it.

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CLEAN non GPL infringing code made in Rust lang

Would be nice if this could be used with the R4... Also, any plans to add asicboost?

Shad0wSmurf

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Quote from: fanatic26_ on October 08, 2018, 06:37:17 PM

After editing the file CONTROL I was able to successfully flash a controller with this firmware. The first unit i tried it on killed the controller I think, I cant get an IP out of it at all anymore but the second one worked just fine. Thankfully I have a few hundred spare controllers.

Hold down the reset button on the board like a normal hard reset. It should go through the normal hard reset process and fix what didn't go right.. That Did happen to me.

And yes. But I didn't want to be the one to be blamed for someone frying their BB

fanatic26_

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After editing the file CONTROL I was able to successfully flash a controller with this firmware. The first unit i tried it on killed the controller I think, I cant get an IP out of it at all anymore but the second one worked just fine. Thankfully I have a few hundred spare controllers.

PassThePopcorn

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Quote from: Shad0wSmurf on October 08, 2018, 12:37:59 PM

The issue with me saying the edit, is that they won't provide you with any support, and you won't have the ability to fix it yourself without any help if something were to go wrong. And I sure can't help because I didn't have issues so I wouldn't know even how to help you.

But, the files they provide can be opened with notepad, one has a check for your model ID of the s9. It's looking for S9i. Any other model that gets returned, throws an exception and won't install.

It's an alpha firmware anything can get screwed up and become unrecoverable even if you follow the instructions to the letter. It's run at your own risk.

The file that you edited was in the firmware folder and was called Control and it was the top line for anyone else that wants to know.

To get it working there are two options
1) testing with an SD card, it doesn't matter what firmware you are running on the controller it will boot and run from the SD card.
2) Flashing directly to the control board, the miner must match what is in the control file mentioned above.

To flash you cannot be running the firmware from the SD card, the scripts do not copy any data from the SD card and only from your computer. You can either run it from the SD card where settings are not saved after reboot OR you can follow the instructions for flashing the control board with the braiins os.

Shad0wSmurf

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Quote from: PassThePopcorn on October 08, 2018, 10:34:23 AM

Would you mind telling everyone what this edit is? The software seems to run great except for only being able to run it off the SD card, during the flash to controller it seemed to throw errors, as an example the 4th post in this thread.

The issue with me saying the edit, is that they won't provide you with any support, and you won't have the ability to fix it yourself without any help if something were to go wrong. And I sure can't help because I didn't have issues so I wouldn't know even how to help you.

But, the files they provide can be opened with notepad, one has a check for your model ID of the s9. It's looking for S9i. Any other model that gets returned, throws an exception and won't install.

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Quote from: Shad0wSmurf on October 06, 2018, 08:06:43 PM

No I used the over Lan instructions they provided. But there's a edit you need to make in a config file so it allows your antminer s9 model to be recognized by the flasher to complete the transfer

Would you mind telling everyone what this edit is? The software seems to run great except for only being able to run it off the SD card, during the flash to controller it seemed to throw errors, as an example the 4th post in this thread.

Shad0wSmurf

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Quote from: daniel232388 on October 06, 2018, 01:12:21 PM

did you flash it directly with s9 user interface or sd card?

No I used the over Lan instructions they provided. But there's a edit you need to make in a config file so it allows your antminer s9 model to be recognized by the flasher to complete the transfer

daniel232388

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did you flash it directly with s9 user interface or sd card?

Shad0wSmurf

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What exactly isn't working on the s9s? I have it flashed directly to my s9 13.5th version. Everything works. Frequency over clocking, graphs, is there something that I'm missing?

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BTC mining: Slush Pool, Stratum V2 & Braiins OS+

Hello guys, sorry for the late response, we are working hard on the next release and definitely evaluating your feedback.

If you have some specific issue, it is always good to contact us directly via support ticket.

Antminer S9

Complete support for S9 (not only S9i) is our top priority right now, it should be out pretty soon.

As for overclocking, you can change the frequency, however, we do not feel confident to recommend any safe values. Be cautious. We are also working on voltage control so you can get a better grip of the overclocking.

We learned that many people do not know where pins/jumpers are and how to adjust them. We will update the guide accordingly. Please see this instructional pictures: https://imgur.com/a/dCUjXin

It is our goal to replace the closed bitstream and we are researching it, however, it is a difficult task and will surely take some time.

Installing Braiins OS via Antminer web interface is not possible, sorry.

DragonMint T1

Many T1s, unfortunately, does not have SD slot and we were not completely aware of it. While you can flash it directly into the built-in flash memory, we do not recommend it at the moment since it is alpha.

Support for other devices

Currently, we are focusing on Bitcoin only and want to polish support for Bitcoin mining devices before moving anywhere else. Thank you for the testing offers though!

Breeze

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Yes, that would be nice. There is lot of questions....
So i can´t see which frequency my boards are running?
How can i see my fan speeds? Adjust my fan speeds?
How low/high are my HW errors?
I run with a SD card, so can i update the firmware in GUI to the SD card when a new version is out? Or i have to take the SD card out and put the new version on it with my computer?
Thanks.

sarcheer

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@braiins could you please weigh-in/respond to the questions and concerns raised so far in this thread? You specifically requested to have all discussion of your OS occur in this thread and then disappeared.

btcbilly

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Quote from: daniel232388 on October 03, 2018, 01:41:09 PM

did you used the sd card or you used the s9 firmware update? can i just use the s9 ui firmware update to flash the braiins firmware?

idk about him but I downloaded sd.img onto a sd card and it booted on a 13.5 S9 control card.

Code:

sudo dd bs=4M if=/sd.img of=/dev/sdb conv=fsync

daniel232388

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did you used the sd card or you used the s9 firmware update? can i just use the s9 ui firmware update to flash the braiins firmware?

fanatic26_

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Quote from: HankM34 on October 03, 2018, 05:06:40 AM

I will stay temporary with SD cards. Did you overclocked your miners? I am running 4 of them @650MHz and 2@675HMz. I need to know the safe frequency ;p
Also I have noticed that all miners running Braiins are very quiet. Will stay with Braiins.

Regards,

Hank

Im running mine at 700. They are all 13.5 TH runits running around 15TH now. The power draw is a bit high so I wouldnt recommend it on a bitmain PSU. I am running 2450w PSUs with plenty of head room.

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