GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 28.

harmonicdrive

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Quote from: sidehack on October 13, 2020, 08:33:30 AM

VH also put in a gekko-specific flag to use only particular serial numbers in each instance, which might simplify things especially if something comes unplugged or gets re-enumerated on the bus.

Do you know where I would find info on how to use it? I can't find it in the readme.

MoparMiningLLC

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I am hoping to get more r606's for the desk soon - especially as I hopefully will have the case that has twin Raspberry Pi's soon will allow for 7 miners if I use a single dongle for kb/mouse.

sidehack

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Curmudgeonly hardware guy

VH also put in a gekko-specific flag to use only particular serial numbers in each instance, which might simplify things especially if something comes unplugged or gets re-enumerated on the bus.

MoparMiningLLC

legendary

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ahh ok yes. I see that option now. and it makes sense if you want them on different pools.

harmonicdrive

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Quote from: MoparMiningLLC on October 12, 2020, 08:00:06 PM

@harmonic I meant to ask, why does your computer run them separately? mine combines them in one window.

I have them on different pools. You can use the --USB option in cgminer to do it. You will need to find out which bus each is on and what it's ID is. You can use cgminer to do it, just go to the USB management and then list devices.

MoparMiningLLC

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@harmonic I meant to ask, why does your computer run them separately? mine combines them in one window.

harmonicdrive

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no really, though ... I'm getting between 1.1 and 1.5 TH/s ... once I can afford 10 I'm unplugging my S9

MoparMiningLLC

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nice I am hoping to add a 3rd soon. would do 4 but 2 slots currently used by r606's and the 3rd will be used by a goldshell miner sometime next week. if they had built in controllers, I would buy more of them - a lot less headaches than my larger asics.

harmonicdrive

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I just bought my 3rd 606 .... CANT WAIT!

I have mine running at 825MHz ... they are so fking good

https://imgur.com/a/QdHWnNy

klintay

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Value will be measured in sats

nice work, welcome to the mining club Cheesy

. Running on raspberry pi is the way Wink

OlgaMachslochov

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Hey, thanks for your reply. A friend gave me the advice after reading the hint with the root rights for the usb devices to put `sudo` in front of the ./cgminer command. Then my newpacs were recognized and the miner is now running successfully

The other possibility to enable usb devices for standard users are the commands provided in the pinned installation guide at page 1. Unfortunately yesterday I believed that the standard "pi user" has those rights, which was a wrong assumption...
Anyway thanks @bmoscato and have a nice weekend Wink

bmoscato

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What operating system are you running? If running Windows, did you use Zadig to install the USB driver? Are you using CGMiner that was modified by VH to recognize the Gekko hardware? If Raspberry PI running Raspbian, did you run the following:

Code:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade -y

$ sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev screen libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev

$ mkdir -p git/vthoang; cd git/vthoang
$ git clone -b r606 https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer.git
$ cd cgminer

$ CFLAGS="-O2" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko
$ make -j 2

I forgot to add this portion earlier:

Code:

cd ~/git/vthoang/cgminer/
sudo usermod -G plugdev -a `whoami`
sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo reboot

OlgaMachslochov

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Hello Guys, Ive got the same problem as "bmoscato" in his post number #1739, the final lines when running the make command are the same. I read that he managed to solve that issue by unplugging his usb fan. I dont use a fan but the newpac miners are still not recognized by the cgminer.

-I have two NewPac Miners in a Sipolar 10 Port USB 2.0 Hub 5V 20 Amp
-Raspberry Pi 4 B 4GB running Raspberry OS Buster ARM64 bit
-Followed the pinned procedure for debian/RPi installation

Tried on USB 2.0 as well as 3.0 --> No difference
Tried compiling with plugged in miners and with unplugged --> No difference
Checked USB Hub with miners on windows laptop --> no problems at all

Any help appreciated =)

sidehack

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Curmudgeonly hardware guy

There is not. The NewPac has no telemetry.

coupeborgward

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Is there a way via a command to get the actual temperature of the NewPac Miner.

Running it via a Raspberry PI with a USB Hub.

Any help is very much appreciated

sidehack

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Curmudgeonly hardware guy

I connect six through a GS hub for pre-shipment testing, but they're not on a Pi. The hub will handle the throughput. Not sure about the Pi.

WilcoWi

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hi all,
is it possible to use the GS hub for connecting several R606 devices to a single pi (6 max)?

Reason for asking is i am wondering if a single pi can manage 6 devices trough a hub, or is it to much data?

btw got only two R606 atm

MoparMiningLLC

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ok great news!

Thanks.

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Quote from: MoparMiningLLC on September 01, 2020, 09:02:45 PM

so my psu should be here Thursday - I have 2 of the R606's and I will be running them both on the pi - is there any issues and/or tricks to running them both? do I have to run two instances of the cgminer? or does the one instance pick up both?

One instance will detect and mine with multiple miners.

MoparMiningLLC

legendary

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so my psu should be here Thursday - I have 2 of the R606's and I will be running them both on the pi - is there any issues and/or tricks to running them both? do I have to run two instances of the cgminer? or does the one instance pick up both?

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