[GUIDE] GridSeed GC3355 5 Chip Setup/power/windows/linux/rpi by UnicornHasher - page 80.

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Quote from: BrandonMcPherson on March 03, 2014, 01:32:13 PM

Thanks for the setup guide!

I have a single unit, no controller. How in the heck do you A.) know what mode it's in, and B.) change modes?

I have scoured the Interwebs and not found an answer to this question. I assume that means I'm missing something incredibly obvious.

Check the windows/linux sections and follow the steps. To hash in scrypt only mode you just start using the scrypt instruction set. To hash in dual mode you turn on BTC hashing then scrypt hashing with the --dual flag. If anything is missing or unclear let me know and I'll correct it.

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Quote from: miaviator on March 02, 2014, 09:35:57 PM

Quote from: BotwinBG on March 02, 2014, 08:30:52 PM

My units are red - what are the practical differences - should I feel speshul compared to the golden peasants or just jump off a bridge?

Sometimes the units do this :

Code:

0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f2816000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f2817000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c0ff3f00000009a1993dbcaaeb744a2f84d36bd2540e97e4df56486ff3ead1a12a70d0db998700000002d50931d314c0e2070a387b02a95ca2605c1e61b569d425fc9a34ac01588e7f0aecdc35f508449ec1eaf003bfa0a02374a6f0470e0b9719c94201c16e6941a0155313d8f31c08174500000000ffffffff12345678
[2014-03-03 02:21:04] Stratum detected new block
[2014-03-03 02:21:04] 0: Dispatching new work to GC3355 LTC core

for like an eternity , with pools not reporting any hashrate. Any magic tricks to make them do the YAY or is everything as it should be?

There is some difference which I have yet to find. The lack of yay usually means you are not submitting shares. You could try another pool but it sounds like you are submitting shares as you said sometimes.

I had this issue as well seems unplugging/replugging usb connection resolves it. I changed the port speed to 115200 and run it at 800 MHZ which seems to make me have to do this with much less frequency. Anything higher and its every few hrs I must reset it seems.

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Thanks for the setup guide!

I have a single unit, no controller. How in the heck do you A.) know what mode it's in, and B.) change modes?

I have scoured the Interwebs and not found an answer to this question. I assume that means I'm missing something incredibly obvious.

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Quote from: miaviator on March 03, 2014, 11:56:13 AM

Can you link to this guide in your Tech Support OP?

OP updated

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Quote from: EricKennedy on March 03, 2014, 11:51:22 AM

Thanks miaviator for this complete and accurate tutorial. I'd managed to get the ASICs hashing on Windows, but only got them running on Linux thanks to you.

You state that "There is currently no way to check hashrate aside from using the controller or checking at the pool".

Actually, there is one : cpuminer has a -S option, which allows writing its output to syslog. You then need to write a syslog filter to isolate output from the different cpuminers and output to a separate logfile, and some shell/perl/ruby script to parse the logfile and produce relevant statistics. You won't get directly the hash rate, but using the accepted lines, you can make an accurate guess.

Fully agree with you that this souldn't be an issue if Jack was providing proper support to the product he sells.

Eric

Thanks Eric,

I'm going to leave out that last part unless we can make an automated method of showing the estimated hash rate

Can you link to this guide in your Tech Support OP?

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Thanks miaviator for this complete and accurate tutorial. I'd managed to get the ASICs hashing on Windows, but only got them running on Linux thanks to you.

You state that "There is currently no way to check hashrate aside from using the controller or checking at the pool".

Actually, there is one : cpuminer has a -S option, which allows writing its output to syslog. You then need to write a syslog filter to isolate output from the different cpuminers and output to a separate logfile, and some shell/perl/ruby script to parse the logfile and produce relevant statistics. You won't get directly the hash rate, but using the accepted lines, you can make an accurate guess.

Fully agree with you that this souldn't be an issue if Jack was providing proper support to the product he sells.

Eric

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Added wireless info:

Part 4: Setting up the controller

If you do not have wired internet available for the controller box you can easily setup a wireless bridge to run these or any other miners more reliably over wireless:
http://www.trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=180_TEW-432BRP
http://www.trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=230_TEW-651BR

I use one on my laser printer and have used dozens of the 432s for various projects. I have a box of them here that I'm not using at the moment.

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wow. good work on the setup guide. The time and patience it would have taken you! You SIR are a good man!

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Quote from: miaviator on March 03, 2014, 08:56:39 AM

Quote from: jane2 on March 03, 2014, 06:18:38 AM

accepted: 1166/1166 (100.00%), 0.00 khash/s (yay!!!)
i want to chack hashrate cpuminer 2.3.2...

is not there any way other than to check pool?

There is currently no way to check hashrate aside from using the controller or checking at the pool.

It'll likely be 0-3 months before full support is added to make that possible.

okay...
thx

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Quote from: jane2 on March 03, 2014, 06:18:38 AM

accepted: 1166/1166 (100.00%), 0.00 khash/s (yay!!!)
i want to chack hashrate cpuminer 2.3.2...

is not there any way other than to check pool?

There is currently no way to check hashrate aside from using the controller or checking at the pool.

It'll likely be 0-3 months before full support is added to make that possible.

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Quote from: BeerPimp on March 01, 2014, 07:26:34 PM

Quote from: miaviator on March 01, 2014, 07:13:13 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

This is a real thing?

I thought the whole thing was a parody of ASIC vaporware.

Lol. Just because I sell live unicorns doesn't mean all ASIC's are vaporware

Get back to me when you have Petite Lap Giraffes.

that was a very good commercial .

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accepted: 1166/1166 (100.00%), 0.00 khash/s (yay!!!)
i want to chack hashrate cpuminer 2.3.2...

is not there any way other than to check pool?

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Quote from: miaviator on March 02, 2014, 09:35:57 PM

Quote from: BotwinBG on March 02, 2014, 08:30:52 PM

My units are red - what are the practical differences - should I feel speshul compared to the golden peasants or just jump off a bridge?

Sometimes the units do this :

Code:

0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f2816000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f2817000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c0ff3f00000009a1993dbcaaeb744a2f84d36bd2540e97e4df56486ff3ead1a12a70d0db998700000002d50931d314c0e2070a387b02a95ca2605c1e61b569d425fc9a34ac01588e7f0aecdc35f508449ec1eaf003bfa0a02374a6f0470e0b9719c94201c16e6941a0155313d8f31c08174500000000ffffffff12345678
[2014-03-03 02:21:04] Stratum detected new block
[2014-03-03 02:21:04] 0: Dispatching new work to GC3355 LTC core

for like an eternity , with pools not reporting any hashrate. Any magic tricks to make them do the YAY or is everything as it should be?

There is some difference which I have yet to find. The lack of yay usually means you are not submitting shares. You could try another pool but it sounds like you are submitting shares as you said sometimes.

Yeah, they seem to get stuck somehow in that mode, sometimes a powercycle helps, sometimes not. Getting slightly irritating, cause of the constant babysitting.

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rm -rf stupidity

I left my Beagle Bone Blacks at the shop which sadly I had a build I was going to try but the crap USB Hub they sent was the problem (kept power cycling itself) but it ended up doing it on everything I have LOL! I will grab it tomorrow since its 11:30 here in Houston and raining so not worth the 20 minute drive and me spending hours yelling at it LOL!!!

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Quote from: Powell on March 02, 2014, 11:48:53 PM

#9 is the one unit I am not running due to lack of COM ports (10+ no worky Sad

).

Still a HELL of a difference LOL! Only thing different is the laptop (Windows 7 x64) instead of RPi. The hub is a powered 10 port Roswill.

Maybe I should leave my RPi in the drawer

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rm -rf stupidity

#9 is the one unit I am not running due to lack of COM ports (10+ no worky Sad

).

Still a HELL of a difference LOL! Only thing different is the laptop (Windows 7 x64) instead of RPi. The hub is a powered 10 port Roswill.

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In about 10 minutes (so they will have some hash time in them) I'll have a screenshot from my Lenovo X1 Carbon running the miners on the same USB hub. Only issue currently is I'm stuck at 9 due to not launching with COM10+. I'll read first page again because it may have been addressed already LOL!

Also .1BTC from me as well for the help!

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Wow didn't even know scripta worked for 5 chip gridseed

Powell

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5 minutes of hashing... The total shares are from over last few days of messing around.

Powell_2 = RPi running Scripta (850 freq)
Powell_5 = My desktop Cpuminer (the latest build that helps with power) at 850.

USB devices hate me LOL!

Powell

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Quote from: miaviator on March 02, 2014, 09:39:22 PM

Quote from: Powell on March 02, 2014, 09:28:17 PM

Miaviator or anyone running with RPi. I have it running with each session but for some reason regardless of which USB Hub I run (using a 10port I use to use for USB miners) I only get about 150-200khs per worker at 800-850. In Windows I had 5 running last night at 300-350KH/s per. I am running the Scripta release on RPi with Drphranz modified version. I am loading a second SD card to try out Minepeon (since its based on Arch) to see if it helps any.

Also I know people talk about firmware but is that just for the controllers or is there firmware for the Gridseed units themselves?

Firmware for the gridseeds themselves.

Can you try running just one device off the Pi and report back speeds?

I'll have to check the firmware again on the units. I have the software Lightning has but it couldnt connect to the device (my guess the version I have was looking for the white button versions).

Installing Minepeon (since I am used to Arch) and configuring and soon as its done I'll swap USB's and try it out. Thought maybe a latency issue due to USB hub, and maybe so. Post up here in a few.

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