Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 49. (Read 61918 times)

about 0,000026 a day average about 1.4 Ghs  with twelve newpac's.


OS: try using Linux, way more stable. Was using windows until a month ago. I switched to Linux, works way way way better.
HUB: be sure ur hub can povide the power needed. i myselve use the GS hub, then i am sure its all ok with the power.

Hello, I am a novice in the matter, I am starting so I have 2 usb miner;) and I use slushpool, I run this on a T3200 laptop 2.00Ghz, 4GB 64 bits Win7, I have a Sabrent usb hub Hub 7 ports USB 3.0 AC adapter 60W 12V / 5A, I have cgminer-4.11.1-windows-gekko-a62385f, the command line is:
C: \ cgminer \ cgminer.exe -o stratum + tcp: //eu.stratum.slushpool.com: 3333 -u worker.worker -p x --suggest-diff 128 --gekko-newpac-freq 150
you think that it passes or you advise me changes?
thank you

I have, and they certainly work well. I've tried Slushpool a few more times since my original post and have basically confirmed that something is messed up between Slushpool and my Newpacs for some reason. I've consistently used Bitcoin.com's auto-profit-switching mining pool for bitcoin and bitcoin-cash and can consistently see 7 of 8 of my Newpacs hitting a stable 650MHz and reaching a stable combined hashrate of 1.1THs. This is usually for the first few hours of mining, then one of the 'good' 7 newpacs will back off to about 644MHz or less, and the one sub-par newpac only hitting 500MHz or less.

I'm planning on expanding my setup to a total of 12 Newpacs, ideally all, or most, runnning at 650MHz (or even an even 700MHz), possibly getting me a total of 1.5THs or even 2THs. All of the Newpacs I have so far that can reach a stable 650MHz have shown a hashrate of around 140GHs. I'd like to use the Newpacs to mine Bitcoin-cash, and my Antminer to mine on ProHashing.com, where they can auto-switch between many different SHA256 crypto-currencies.  

Thats completely normal. I get spikes on the pool I use upto 1.1Th but cgminer is running stable at 815Ghs. Sometimes when I check to pool it says 0.6Th but its just down to how the pool is reporting it and how frequent your shares are accepted. Nothing to worry about.

Hey, just a quick question. I am currently running 4 newpacs on antpool. I am mining bch for better payouts. The antpool software reports my hash rate and it is showing a lot higher than what I get in cgminer. I have the newpacs on a gekkoscience hub clocked at 500mhz running very smoothly. I have seen the hash rate spike over 500gh and as high as 900 thru the antpool monitor is this typical. I am not getting any weird resets. ASIC boost is enabled. Any thoughts on this??

Whats your profits like? How many newpacs have you got running on the pool and do you use cgminer or there software?

i am using https://www.mining-dutch.nl, tried many pools. but best results i get here with newpacs.

try poolin.com.

I have an interesting problem. Up until this past Sunday, I was getting almost 1.1TH/s with eight Newpacs on a Sipolar 20-port, 200W, 40Amp, USB 3.0 hub. I know all of my Newpacs are getting the power they need. I even have 4 fans blowing on them at all times when operating. Specifically, I have three 140mm fans and one desktop USB speed-adjustable fan. Two of the 140's are blowing down from above and the third is 'exhausting' warm air to the side. The desktop USB fan is pointed directly at the front of my setup at max speed.

As of now, as shown by the pic below, even setting it at 100MHz still results in "missing nonces from chip[0]" errors and automatic ASIC Plateau adjustments to well below what I set the frequency at. Oddly enough, I seem to only encounter this behavior with my Newpacs on Slushpool stratums and no where else. I've switched to a few different Slushpool stratums and nothing helps. This is especially wierd since I have a used Antminer S9 hashing away with no issues on the US-East Slushpool stratum, even with the "Hashrate+2.0THs" option enabled. Temps hover between 69C on the hottest board and 67C on the coolest one.

https://imgur.com/a/FI85oC8

https://imgur.com/a/zqiWO4M

And below is the current operational behavior on that Bitcoin.com pool (normal behavior for my Newpacs, might bump them back up to 600 or even 650 later):

https://imgur.com/a/FVOTeUZ

I'd ultimately like to go back to Slushpool, but if its going to treat my precious babies like crap, then no more Slushpool for me! Any recommendations for auto-profit switching SHA256 pools would also be appreciated.

Yes, it helps.   Your Cron is running and so is the script and the cgminer in the background.   Watch your pool, you should be submitting shares.

It should be working but if not post the results from "cat /home/pi/cronjoblog".

I have these results:


Does this help?

First check to see if cgminer is actually running in the background.

If not, check to see if crond is even running.

If cgminer isn't running and crond is, make sure you have a blank line at the end of your crontab, hit return after your last line of code.   If it's still not working, check what the log at /home/pi/cronjoblog says?

Hi zsmith and all  

I wonder if you can help again before I headbutt my keyboard   I must be doing something wrong or have a script/permission issue.  My saved mine.sh text file reads as this:


I changed the file permission as 'only owner' and played around with all sorts of commands from page 7 and 66.  No lines of code seem to work in either:


or


These commands don't work in crontab -e:


or


Once I save/exit out of crontab, it does say a new crontab instruction has been saved but nothing auto-starts from the GUI desktop after a test reboot.  I've read up and watched online videos that make it seem so easy and makes me wonder if there's a root, path, permission or script problem?  I'm using noobs/raspbian and recent to this phase of the project, I carried out a:


Would this 'full-upgrade' instead of just the normal 'upgrade' have caused an effect and is there a way to revert versions if this is part of the issue?  I'm happy enough running 24/7 with no issues but really want to nail this last phase in-case of power, network and zombie problems when afk.  Thanks in advance  

Yes open your text editor and save it as mine.sh.  You can put it in any folder, just home folder is easiest.  You also have to mark it as an executing file.  You can do it through the GUI by right clicking on file, select properties, then the permissions tab and check the box for executing.


I would just add an additional line for each instance to your script and just run the one script.


I would use crontab for the weekly reboot, this is what it is made for.


Then add this as last line



It won't conflict.  The script just waits for a certain amount of seconds to have gone by.


Yes, it is in seconds.


Just to give it some time to shutdown the first instance, so there is no conflict.

Hi GT, I may have caused slight confusion.  I would like to programme a weekly reboot of the Pis and a daily/36hr reboot of cgminer.  My set-up is away from home and I can't SSH into it with my USB broadband dongle.  Therefore, refreshing the devices at those intervals was my plan of running stable   I've tried /etc/rc.local and crontab -e scripts but it seems I have permission/path issues that I haven't bottomed out yet as nothing happens after a sudo reboot.

Just out of curiosity, why do you need them to reset at specific intervals?

Hi zsmith and all

When you say "save this code as mine.sh" , do you mean opening a text file then saving it as mine.sh in my cgminer folder? e.g. /home/pi/git/vtoang/cgminer/mine.sh?

Can I run a similar file for more instances such as mine2.sh and mine3.sh?  I run more than one instance for different R606' and Newpac's.

What would be the script to reboot the Pi4 weekly (e.g. 0100hrs every Monday) then to reboot each cgminer .sh file every 24hrs?

Does running the auto-reboot script commence from executing the .sh file and how would that conflict with the Pi4 reboot timing per week?

Would sleep 86400 = 24hrs?

Whats the sleep 4 at the end for?

Thank you in advance from a novice although I've loved this project build.  I can see the end in sight and all I need is to programme the Pi4's and miners to refresh on command

Running on Linux is pretty easy. I've set up enough testing stations that, except for the dependency list, I have just about every other step memorized.
The only trick to it is making sure you don't put a zero where a capital O should be in the one line.

there are quite a few here who have done linux installs - I plan to get a pi eventually but I only have one terminus and it seems silly to buy a pi just for that one. maybe if i get more of them.

Ok thanks, probably should have just contacted the OP but saw a mess of stuff as updated in the thread and have been caught in the loop of using 1st page on installs before and then having to do a complete do-over.

I am going to do Linux due to the fact of the many free NEVER to be upgradeable past Windows XP laptops I have..but on that note everything, including cgminer better be sudo apt install for newbies..in that I MAYBE can follow monkey see monkey do type in as on the page anything breaks beyond that I'm screwed..that is my level of unbuntu knowledge

thanks

Brad