Topic: Mining with GridBlades (Read 688 times)

Yes the hub is probably the one to blame, it's a cheap one.
On the other hand, bfgminer is stable, but when looking at the pool, I get half the hashrate that I get with cgminer, although they both advertise the same hashrate (running the blades at the same frequency of course). What may I have done wrong, does it ring a bell to anyone?

I am running around 50 Blades and I can tell you that many times the USB Hub is the issue. The USB Address translation dies not work for whatever reason and thats why the miner software shows a dead card. I use the cgminer fork you mentioned with Minera. (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/minera-v090-your-next-mining-dashboard-s9l3d3cpuminercgminerbfgminer-596620) Pretty sleek and good community Support.

Happy Mining

Thanks!
Apparently it's the same version than the one I have. You might not be able to mine on certain pools, though.
I might need to check my usb connections, if the unmodified version has worked for you...
In the meantime, I've done some testing with bfgminer (the one by luke-jr), and it seems to be stable so far, but I'll have to let it run for a longer time to be sure...

im using http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/zedomax/highoncoins/gridseed/HighOnCoinsGridSeedBLADERaspberryPi.zip

http://highoncoins.com/litecoin-rig/how-to-make-gridseed-blade-mining-rig-pre-built-cgminer/

been stable for weeks.  not sure if it has all you need but its a cgminer version

from my limited g-blade experience, originally i used minerEU's version of scripta, but it was only lasting 12hrs to 30mins before crashing  (suddenly forgetting miner etc, needed power cycling before it would run again)

i am now using minera, 25hrs later its still working  but i dont think it has all the functionality you require  (as i don't know if it has remote API functions etc)

Hi all,
I've just acquired some gridblades (40 seeds on each blade) along with a raspberry pi, and I'm looking at the best software to mine with them.
Here are my requirements:
-I'd like to have one single software to handle them, in one single view,
-it has to have the remote API (to be able to have them on leaserig.net),
-it has to be able to mine on any kind of pool,
-it has to have a good overall performance,
-possibly be able to individually tune each blade's characteristics (autotune is even better).

So far I've found versions of cgminer but each of them has problems:
-either it is limited to 5 chips, so it doesn't work for a 40 chips blade,
-either p2pool mining is broken,
-another one has autotuning but other features broken,
etc.
The best I've found on github is a version from jmordica, that can be tweaked (the latest has problems with p2pool mining, but a few commits back it's fine) to work pretty good.
But now with this version, I get now and again (sometimes after 10 minutes, sometimes 2 hours) the following error on random blades:
And after that, the blade is OFF and stops mining.
I've tweaked it a little bit so that it will restart the blade rather than switching it off, but I'm concerned that if the blade has a real problem (fan, overheat, etc.) it might not be a good move. So far it has been stable like this. Although I do have quite a lot of HW errors.

However, I'm looking for other (better) alternatives, I've seen bfgminer (and that it has autotuning), but I'm not quite sure what the best version is, there are so many out there and probably very few with 40 chips support! I've also heard that sgminer would support them, but I couldn't find any version that does so far.
Anyone have luck with these?

An extra question is: does anyone know if there is there any temperature sensor in these blades? If not, I have some USB temp sensors that I could use, but cgminer doesn't like them (probably wants to mine on them too! ).

Thanks!
JY.