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Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 25. (Read 61906 times)

sr. member
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It will work for a while but you are guaranteed to have problems. I helped vh a little to try and work some of them out but windoze is a pain. I made the switch to a pi and its been running for months without any hiccups.

I can attest to this, I have 7 NewPacs running on Pi4 for 61 days straight without issue. It would've been over 120, but I lost power due to a storm 2 months ago.
hero member
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It will work for a while but you are guaranteed to have problems. I helped vh a little to try and work some of them out but windoze is a pain. I made the switch to a pi and its been running for months without any hiccups.
newbie
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There should be a test .bat file in there you can use as a base and then change your address and pool etc.

YOU ARE A LEGEND! Thanks so much! I just copied the code, made a new batch file, edited the code a bit and it works flawlessly!
legendary
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Hello all,

I'm currently trying to make the BAT file to start mining output to a console window. Using Windows 10 as my OS. Was told by a friend to use ECHO to show the console. Please let me know what I can use as the rest of the code, as it's very very confusing.

Update on using RPi4 as the mining rig: Not working; Rasbian (RPi OS) keeps removing the cgminer directory and Ubuntu just crashes itself.

what version did you download?

I am running 4 miners on one rpi with zero issues.
hero member
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There should be a test .bat file in there you can use as a base and then change your address and pool etc.
newbie
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Hello all,

I'm currently trying to make the BAT file to start mining output to a console window. Using Windows 10 as my OS. Was told by a friend to use ECHO to show the console. Please let me know what I can use as the rest of the code, as it's very very confusing.

Update on using RPi4 as the mining rig: Not working; Rasbian (RPi OS) keeps removing the cgminer directory and Ubuntu just crashes itself.
legendary
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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
Hi.

I will try to raise my question here.

Is there any option to be notified if the cgminer detects any issues - like using http://pushover.net?
The miner's job is to mine and do nothing else.
It's pretty important that it's not screwing around wasting effort on bitcoin, network, vpn delays, tor or anything else that could delay that one share you may find that is a block.
i.e. it points at the pool in the shortest possible path, and gets work from the pool and processes that.
Nothing more.

The cgminer API (I wrote) allows you to query the miner.
Thus if you want something to report about the miner, you need to get an app that can query the miner API or your pool API.

Aside, there is never any need to query the miner more than once a minute.

With the miner API, probably the 2 most useful pieces of information are:
'summary' : "Last getwork"
'pools' : ''Last Share Time"
newbie
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For some reason, the directory seems to get deleted all the time. Going to try installing Ubuntu instead of Raspberry Pi OS.
newbie
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Thanks all, rolled back to Pi 3B+ for now, will spend some more time on this another day.
newbie
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Even when I was in the directory, it would give me the no usb devices detected error. I will try again.
hero member
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No real difference between the two setups apart from the pi3 to pi4. Try using a known good version of raspbian and not the beta perhaps?
full member
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Hi.

I will try to raise my question here.

Is there any option to be notified if the cgminer detects any issues - like using http://pushover.net?
newbie
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Hi all!

I've been mining with the NewPac's for about a year now, previously running from a Raspberry Pi 3b+ (32bit OS). I recently upgraded to a Pi 4 and the beta 64bit Raspberry Pi OS, where I'm getting a "No devices detected!" error.

The hub is working, tested with a thumb-drive, the install of cgminer was successful. Any ideas?

Code:
./cgminer -n
 [2020-12-13 11:24:38.306] USB all: found 3 devices - listing known devices
 [2020-12-13 11:24:38.306] No known USB devices

Cheers.
newbie
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Hi,

Are you in the cgminer directory when you run "./cgminer....... "

The "./" assumes you are physically in the cgminer directory.

HTH!
sr. member
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40Gh/s seems low... have you tried pushing the speed up? I have 7 of these running at 500MHz and they hash around 113Gh/s each.
newbie
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Need some help. Running 2 of the NewPac miners on a Raspberry Pi 4 2gb ram model with a 32GB micro sd boot card. The Pi did a reboot and now I can't run the command to start mining, which would be

Code:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333 -u XXXXXXXXX -p x --gekko-newpac-freq 200

(replaced my username with X's for privacy), it spits out

Code:
-bash: ./cgminer: No such file or directory

What do I do and how do I fix it? Before the Pi rebooted, the miner said that there was no USB devices attached. I am more than willing to reinstall rasbian and the cgminer if needed. Please let me know!
hero member
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Glad to hear it was that setting. You should just get accepted shares, the occasional rejected/stale and notifications from the pool.
newbie
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Have you got the “-verbose” output set? (I think thats the option).

Yep, I have indeed. I have since turned it off and alas, only accepted shares. I was concerned that even though some shares were accepted, I was still having a lot of "Share of Target" notifications. Turning verbose off does switch all that noise off and strips it down to Accepted shares.

I'm gonna agree with gt_addict, looks like you've got a flag set to report every gosh darn thing. Usually it just reports accepted shares, which when everything's working right you might see a few every minute. The A number up near the top is the number of accepted shares, and it's a big number so you're definitely mining and cooperating with the pool.

What's your command line? You can strip the credentials for safety, we just want to see what else is in there to help find the root of this.

Code:
"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333",
                "user" : "1Cihg3mahU5QaQjhz8ns**************p",
                "pass" : "x"
        }
]
,
        "api-listen" : true,
        "api-port" : "4028",
        "log" : "5",
        "worktime" : true,
        "verbose" : true,
        "api-allow" : "0/0"

}

I think the Verbose thing has been throwing me off tbh!
legendary
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Curmudgeonly hardware guy
I'm gonna agree with gt_addict, looks like you've got a flag set to report every gosh darn thing. Usually it just reports accepted shares, which when everything's working right you might see a few every minute. The A number up near the top is the number of accepted shares, and it's a big number so you're definitely mining and cooperating with the pool.

What's your command line? You can strip the credentials for safety, we just want to see what else is in there to help find the root of this.
hero member
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Have you got the “-verbose” output set? (I think thats the option).
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