Topic: Linux mining distro for the Raspberry PI - MinePeon - page 58. (Read 685140 times)

ya it works great!!! i'm using it on 0.2.3a (the beta)

Thankfully, the BitcoinTalk forum is up again.

Any news about MinePeon version 0.2.4?

Yeah, it sure can. I have an assembled and tested one sitting right here. Works "Out of the Box" with the latest MinePeon.

Wanna buy mine? I'm moving away from the Pi toward the Arduino, since I mostly want to do hardware projects, so I don't really need it after all. It's a cool display though.

I've seen talk of LCD mods for Raspberry's mentioned before in this thread.

I didn't see anyone yet ask if the plate in this project could be utilized by Minepeon.

http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/initial-setup-and-assembly

I refuse to run my rPi's off the hubs, just doesn't seem logical when I have tons of extra 5v 1amp USB connectors sitting around (Apple i-Device chargers), plus I recently bought a nice surge protector that was laid out spaciously (to allow for power adapters), small surprise was that it also had 2x USB 5v @ 2a connections, so now I use those.

Also worth mentioning (possibly), power conditioning, not sure if this plays a huge role in things or not, but I noticed when I switched from a cheap surge protector coming off my UPS system to a not-so-cheap surge protector which had in-line power conditioning as well and not connected to my UPS, my rate of hardware errors has drastically gone down, a lot. Found this to be interesting, since I only changed the surge protector and the outlet to where it was getting the power.

I run RHB-500 Rosewill 10-Port hubs w/8 usable... I tried the "use the red wire (5v) and ground to a barrel-plug adapter from a PSU" (to get it to run all 10 ports) however the PSU I bought for $10 (still 400watt), tired it on one hub, couldn't get more than 6 to run... and couldn't find my multi-meter so I just said screw it and went back to using the power bricks, lol. I imagine it's due to the cheap-as-hell PSU...

I thought the same about the power draw.. His pi's are running off his hubs, which i have and they are giving me problems.  When I connect 2 dlinks to one, and that one's connect to pi. i cant even run 10 on the 2 connected hubs that way, 1 always doesnt start and have hardware errors.  And my Pi is powered with its own supply.  LOST!

I can't even get these hubs to hash without some serious HW errors unless i only have like 2 usb miners in each of the hubs connected to the main hub....  Any help on how to get 15 miners working well on 3 dlink hubs please let me know.  Or do i need a 4th to spread out the power, all i know is the roswell 10 port can easly take 7 or 8 just cant use it like the dlink in that i get com errors?  i dont know i dont have 2 to try..

From the webUI I would say 0.2.3...

Also, he's wasting some (very little) energy by using 4 pi's when you could easily use two. However I did find it interesting he's got 88 erupters at 351watts, as I know my setup of 32 erupters + fans, fans, fans, fans, fans (10x fans) one a single rPi sits at 105-115watts. So just doing some simple math, if I triple my farm to 96 erupters (including adding another pi, plus fans to match growth at the current rate of fans). I should be at 315watts to 345watts... hrmm... am I missing something here, where's his power draw coming form?

96 erupters = 32GH/s+, at the current price of .11BTC per erupter, 10.56 BTC (+cost of fans, usb hubs, rPi, etc...)

Now, 4 ASIC Blades I've clocked using 346watts (on a 1200watt PSU, including a wireless router & raspberryPi & 6 fans) ... they average 40GH/s however after running for awhile pick up to around 50GH/s (so far seen a max of 53.4GH/s out of the 4). At the current price of 3.5BTC (4x = 14BTC).

4 blades = 40-53GH/s, at current price of 3.5BTC per blade, 14BTC total + cost of PSU, fans, rPi (if you want, not necessary, though I think it is...)

If you add in the cost of USB Hubs, it makes up the extra 3.44BTC needed to buy said blades, where you have more hashing power and the power to hashrate is better than with erupters. Hmm... I was going to go to 96 erupters, but after doing this, it just seems more logical to sell my erupters and buy more blades and/or Blue Fury Miners.

right now i finally got all 15 of my usb miners running via pi but using 4 hubs in total, 3 dlink 5ports and 1 roswell 10 port.  I have the one dlink as the main hub for the other usb hubs to plug into.  After trying and trying i could never get all 5 slots in both of the (dlinks dhub7 the popular one for pi) to every get all of the miners running.  I wasnt even close with cgminer so i switched to bfgminer.  So i offloaded 1 by 1 and in different setups took miners from the hubs and added them to the 5 miners i had in the roswell, i got to the max for the roswell, and then added some to the main dlink usb hub that plugs into my pi.  I am now stable with very very few HW errors ~1% down from 10%+.  

My question is there any other efficient way to run this. As i see it just get another roswell cause i cant link these dlinks to a main dlink hub for shit, anyone know the trick?  My cooling is powered outside the setup so thats not eating power.  Hate having 2 hubs here with only 2 miners in them, and if i put more in...magical HW errors.

http://rdmsnippets.com/2013/07/24/mining-bitcoins-with-usb-block-erupters-a-raspberry-pi-and-minepeon/

how is this guy getting good results, and i cant even tell how all 6 are connected i don't see the ethernet cables.. well enough of them.  Wtf ver of minepeon is he using id love to know... and how he got the hubs to use so many and work so well...

here's a quick note for everybody wondering... The cheap 10 port hubs on ebay like this one

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-High-Speed-10-Port-USB-2-0-Hub-Multi-Outlet-Power-Strip-Type-CA-/390640611731?pt=US_USB_Cables_Hubs_Adapters&hash=item5af3feb193

work great on the pi with mine peon but your gonna need a new adapter OR buy a home light strip PSU and wire it up to a bunch of thease hubs!  thought it was worth letting you guys know!

Unplug them one at a time.  Unfortunately with the way USB works it is the only way to tell.

Neil

So now i have everything hashing but getting high HW error rates on 4 units, any ideas on to go about fixing this?  I wish i knew what units they were in the hubs anyway to tell?

man i been at this all day was fine running 12, on a mix of a dhub and roswell 10 port but now i am just looking for a way to get all of them running, sumtin is up with the hubs i don't get it.

I have the same issue running bfgminer.  There are always 3-4 USB's that are not recognized within my 5 hubs.  I have 1 hub feeding 3 on one USB and 1 hub on the 2nd USB for a total of 5.

So i got it running but in my chain of d hubs only 3 are recongnized after the first hub leaving 4 unregonized and not hashing.  Thinking about just plugging them into my roswell 10 and plugging that into the remaining pi port but really wanted to run these off the 3 dhub's any ideas?

This is awesome i really needed this but im having a problem.  Same as many my pi isnt seeing or having com issues under cgminer using dhub's.  Problems with 2 in chain...cant get past that but roswell is working fine next to it.  I went through steps on the minepeon site to stop cg and start BG with no success can you you help me out on how to get bfgminer running.

No problem, let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks tk1337 for the information and help!

I have been working hard to migrate from a laptop running Windows to a raspberry pi and this will help me a lot (can I save a few KW I will do that ).

Thanks!!

hummmm that sucks.... it's a newish card (2weeks) but i know that kind of thing happens, DAMMIT =),  thanks i'm a give this one more whirl (the Copy is almost done) and we will see

thanks for the speedy reply

*****EDIT*****

i think it is worth noting that the unknown block (179,2) was the same block as last time!