The so long waited release is here!
Minera 0.5.0 is out!As I said a lot of times before, this release brings up a completely new feature I hope you like as I like it, get prepared for cool stuff
Now you are able to add also Network miners to your Minera system.
What does this mean?
This means that if you have your Minera monitoring your USB miners as usual but you also have some Network miners such as Antminer S1/S2/S3/S4/S5, Rockminer, etc... now you can add those one as well having everything monitored in one place.
But this is not all, there is more, because if you run several Minera systems in your farm, now you can add also them!
For example, you have 10 Gridseed in one Minera, 4 Antminer S1 around your room and another Minera with some Zeus or whatever, well, now you can choose what is your main Minera (local one) and add the others miners/system to that as network devices, or if you have another RPI you can install another Minera to act only as centralised monitoring system for everything else. I know now your head is just blown up, sorry for that, but it's all true
In addiction to this, 0.5.0 has a lot of new minor features such as, changing hostname, changing system user password, Euro rates, and much more as well as a lot of bug fixes and code rewrite.
Of course, as you can imagine, all this new code can bring up new bugs, I checked a lot of things and possible combinations but you know Murphy's law is everywhere, so if you are in trouble feedback me, if you are upgrading from an older release check the troubleshooting guide below and as always, I hope you like this new release as I loved the time spent to code it.
Ladies & gentlemen the 0.5.0 changelog:
- Ability to add network miners like Antminer, Rockminer, etc…
- Ability to add other remote Minera system as network miner (this works only if the network Minera uses bfgminer/cgminer as local miner, doesn't work for cpuminer)
- Automatically scan the LAN network to discover network miners
- Add/Remove/Select pools on the fly for network miners
- New network miners widgets
- Fixed change web password
- Fixed wrong current pool in Mobileminer
- Ability to change system hostname from settings page
- Ability to change system user password from settings page
- Added option to not append the JSON conf file to the local miner command
- Added Eur/Usd BTC rates
- Added errors from log file if miner won’t start
- Restyled dashboard page when local miner isn't running (now it shows other info also if miner is stopped or it won't start)
- Added network miners to Mobileminers (you will have a new miner system for every network miner you have)
- Updated Built-in local miners to the latest version
- Added fix for libusb library
- Added preconfigured miner options (I added several pre-configured options to the settings page so newbies have everything ready to start)
- Rewrote of topbar widgets now visible on every pages
- Fixed focus event on Firefox (duplicate table rows on page reload)
- Updated jQuery
- Lots of code rewrite
I always recommend to start from
the image build, but if you want to upgrade from a previous version please check this if you get in trouble.
IMPORTANT You have to configure your network miner before Minera can connect to it, please refer to this wiki page: https://github.com/michelem09/minera/wiki/Network-mining-devices
ONLY IF YOU ARE UPGRADING:I can't login in the dashboard anymore:You have to restore the default WEB password, SSH into Minera and do this:
redis-cli set minera_password "70e880b1effe0f770849d985231aed2784e11b38"
This will reset the WEB password to "minera"
On the dashboard I have problems getting topbar and/or spin wheels continue foreverYou have to go to the settings page and save the settings, no matter you change anything, just save once.
Local miners won't start anymoreYou probably had problems while upgrading, SSH into Minera and do this:
cd /var/www/minera
sudo git fetch --all && sudo git reset --hard origin/master
sudo ./upgrade_minera.sh
After the process ends you should be ready to start any local miner. Also make sure you have "Append JSON Conf" turned on as local miner option.
Some extra notes on network miners, before you asking:
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IMPORTANT You have to configure your network miner before Minera can connect to it please refer to this wiki page: https://github.com/michelem09/minera/wiki/Network-mining-devices- You CANNOT start/stop/restart network miners from Minera
- You CANNOT configure anything of a network miner from Minera, configurations must be done by their own interface, with Minera you can only monitor them and add/remove/select pools on the fly
- Any pool change to network miners from Minera won't be permanent. If you stop/restart the network miner pool data will be restored from original one
And that's all I think.
As usual pm me, email me, feedback me for anything, I hope you like Minera 0.5.0
Have a great weekend!
