Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread

Lafu

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Quote from: Frisco415 on August 14, 2024, 10:12:06 PM

I am a new FutureBit Moonlander 2 owner... Lets learn to mine on this little thing!

Congrats for that but i guess there will be no profit from that in this days now.
Back in the days when they was coming out and i got a few ones it was very nice to play around with them.
For sure if you have a coin that has not that much miners or you have a lot of Moonlanders together connected they are still useful.
There are a few ways to overclock them but this can break them or make them not working perfectly.

Frisco415

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I am a new FutureBit Moonlander 2 owner... Lets learn to mine on this little thing!

Cubewaldo

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LEPRECHAIN.RU

Hello I have 4 moonlanders and happy and successfully mining merged LTC and doge just wondering if I can mine other coins with them (I have 4 currently working 12.500 Kh/s thank you and have nice day D

soccerdude71

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Try lowering the frequency

Lucasking2023

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Hi - I recently received a Segmentation Fault 11 error on my Moonlander 2. Please advise how to fix. Thank you.

Lucasking2023

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Hello - my computer that was connected to my Moonlander crashed recently. When I tried to connect it again, I received a Segmentation Fault 11 error and haven't figured out a way to resolve it.

Do I need to flash an SSD card?

If so, where do I download the appropriate files for the Moonlander 2? Is there a Github location somewhere?

Please advise.

BitcoinXProject

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Quote from: soccerdude71 on November 10, 2023, 03:25:36 PM

Hello - I recently got back into this (for fun!)...

I need to see if there is a newer version of the BFG miner running on Raspberry Pi OS... Currently on:

5.4.2-34-gea3ba70

Is there newer? If so, what are the commands to update/upgrade (I don't know a lot about linux...)

TIA!!

Does this work for mining through the daemon instead of a pool? I have a unit and I tried many ways with no luck. I'm trying to mine an altcoin scrypt BTW

soccerdude71

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Hello - I recently got back into this (for fun!)...

I need to see if there is a newer version of the BFG miner running on Raspberry Pi OS... Currently on:

5.4.2-34-gea3ba70

Is there newer? If so, what are the commands to update/upgrade (I don't know a lot about linux...)

TIA!!

kenj

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Hello
Is there some kind of devfee built in to this??

JayDDee

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Quote from: Lazy-66 on March 02, 2023, 02:55:42 PM

Would you say that the small Moonlanders are less affected by the difficulty in shared mode?
I just see the same difficulty either way, but now I'm thinking perhaps shared mode is easier on these little buggers?

The question is ambiguous. Less affected than solo mode or less affected than large miners?
Small miners always have difficulty keeping a regular share submission rate so the pool reported hash rate will be more volatile.
Shared mode will provide more regular revenue because you get a share of every block found by anyone in the shared pool.
In solo you get the whole block but only the ones you find. Statistically it makes no difference.

Also you should find the same number of blocks for the same hashrate whether solo or shared. If your observe a difference it's
due to statistical error, ie bad luck.

Lazy-66

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Quote from: JayDDee on February 27, 2023, 01:42:42 PM

Quote from: Lazy-66 on February 27, 2023, 01:09:32 PM

Anyone else have similar experience? Can it be a sign of manipulation?

Yes. NO.

Pools calculate hash rate based in the number of share submitted. If you don't submit shares your hashrate is zero.
It has nothing to do with solo pool vs shared pool. High stratum difficulty will reduce share rate and make pool's reported hashrate more volatile.

Well, as far as I can tell, BFGMiner behaves the same both in shared mode and solo mode.
I'm talking about the same pool.
Shares are submitted and accepted and I hit blocks in shared mode, but as soon as I switch to solo mode in the same pool
it starts to look "erratic" at the pool's end. Can't see any big change my end (in BFGMiner). Apart from not hitting as many blocks as in shared mode.
I do know that hash rate is seldom exactly the same both ends.

Would you say that the small Moonlanders are less affected by the difficulty in shared mode?
I just see the same difficulty either way, but now I'm thinking perhaps shared mode is easier on these little buggers?

I'm just trying to understand how it works as I just started playing around with mining.
Thanks for trying to explain for a newbie like me

JayDDee

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Quote from: Lazy-66 on February 27, 2023, 01:09:32 PM

Anyone else have similar experience? Can it be a sign of manipulation?

Yes. NO.

Pools calculate hash rate based in the number of share submitted. If you don't submit shares your hashrate is zero.
It has nothing to do with solo pool vs shared pool. High stratum difficulty will reduce share rate and make pool's reported hashrate more volatile.

Lazy-66

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I experience that some pools offering both shared mining and solo mining behaves differently depending om what mode I choose.
Solo mining gives lower hash rate and fluctuates a lot more. Given hash rate even disappears sometimes and it looks like miner starts from zero again.

Anyone else have similar experience? Can it be a sign of manipulation?
Or does the miner sort of start from scratch because a block's been found by someone else?

Elanv

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Quote from: Lazy-66 on January 25, 2023, 07:15:34 PM

Quote from: Elanv on December 26, 2022, 06:32:38 AM

Is there comand in BFG to disable one COM port, i got Apollo in COM3, want it not to be adressed in BFG miner with moonlanders ( windonws ).

Late reply, so you may already have solved your issue, but check in Device Manager what COM ports your Moonlanders use.
My Device Manager shows "Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM3)"

In the start bat-file, change -S MLD:all (this means that all usb/com-ports are scanned for a miner)
to -S \\.\COM1 -S \\.\COM2 -S \\.\COM4 -S \\.\COM5 (this example is not scanning COM3, but 1,2,4 and 5)

I'm not sure if there is a delimiter to use... like -S \\.\COM1,\\.\COM2,\\.\COM4,\\.\COM5 so try the above method.

Hash away and good luck

Ps and OT, I just had to find a block so I tried mining Artbyte in a pool. Found 14 blocks with 1 Moonlander. 2 as solo and 12 in the pool Grin

Coin almost worth nothing and reward only a fraction of a coin, so just for fun.

Thanks for your help.
Yes i did it like this, found in topics befor.
But there is a hot key in Miner that pop ups menu, where u can desable one come port.
I was randomly pressing and got to the screen but cant remmember combination.
And its not on manual.

Lazy-66

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Quote from: Elanv on December 26, 2022, 06:32:38 AM

Is there comand in BFG to disable one COM port, i got Apollo in COM3, want it not to be adressed in BFG miner with moonlanders ( windonws ).

Late reply, so you may already have solved your issue, but check in Device Manager what COM ports your Moonlanders use.
My Device Manager shows "Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM3)"

In the start bat-file, change -S MLD:all (this means that all usb/com-ports are scanned for a miner)
to -S \\.\COM1 -S \\.\COM2 -S \\.\COM4 -S \\.\COM5 (this example is not scanning COM3, but 1,2,4 and 5)

I'm not sure if there is a delimiter to use... like -S \\.\COM1,\\.\COM2,\\.\COM4,\\.\COM5 so try the above method.

Hash away and good luck

Ps and OT, I just had to find a block so I tried mining Artbyte in a pool. Found 14 blocks with 1 Moonlander. 2 as solo and 12 in the pool Grin

Coin almost worth nothing and reward only a fraction of a coin, so just for fun.

zjohn

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Like several of the previous posts I have a pi 3B+ with a 64 bit OS that will not run the precompiled binary. I've managed to git clone the source but am getting an error when attempting make. Does anyone know how to get around this? I've tried manually cloning the ccan-upstream but still can't get it to build.

Quote

root@pibasement:/home/ml/bfgminer# make
( cd . && ./gen-version.sh ) >version.h.new
cmp ./version.h version.h.new && rm version.h.new || mv version.h.new ./version.h
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ml/bfgminer'
Making all in lib
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ml/bfgminer/lib'
make all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/ml/bfgminer/lib'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/ml/bfgminer/lib'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/ml/bfgminer/lib'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/ml/bfgminer/lib'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ml/bfgminer/lib'
Making all in ccan.bfg
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ml/bfgminer/ccan.bfg'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '../ccan-upstream/ccan/opt/helpers.c', needed by '../ccan-upstream/ccan/opt/libccan_a-helpers.o'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ml/bfgminer/ccan.bfg'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2868: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ml/bfgminer'
make: *** [Makefile:1218: all] Error 2
root@pibasement:/home/ml/bfgminer#

Elanv

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Is there comand in BFG to disable one COM port, i got Apollo in COM3, want it not to be adressed in BFG miner with moonlanders ( windonws ).

slurfius

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Switched my 2 Moonlanders from Litecoinpool to ltc.viabtc.io so I can merge mine and get both doge and ltc. Now I’m getting an error in BFGMiner that pool is sending mismatched block contents. Shares are accepted and it’s on the pool website showing the correct hash rate

Should I ignore this error?

rko69

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Need some help with my Moonlander 2 setup

I have the moonlanders connected to a Raspberry Pi, but sometimes when everything boots up, the miners are not detected by bfgminer.
If i do + in bfgminer and scan all, it will detect them and start working... but my point is i want this completely automated and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
If i do bfgminer Settings and do restart miner it will also work and detect the moonlanders and start working,

Is there any way of editing the startup script on the Pi or bfgminer to keep scanning or retrying/loop/delay until all moonlanders are found and then continue mining?
I've tried bfgminer write to config file, but that doesn't seem to affect the hit and miss nature of them loading from cold start.

I want zero touch, but at the moment it's 40% working due to not always connecting to the moonlanders on first boot.

I can't keep the miners all 24/7, as it's a solar setup where batteries are charged during the winter months, hence the daily timer to start/stop the Raspi Pi and Moonlanders.

Any help appreciated

brain brain

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Quote from: 37trillion on October 07, 2022, 03:55:28 PM

Hey i have a few futurebit moonlander2s and just put them on dogecoin solo mining on zsolo.bid..
Im asking a question what and how do i find the Registry of the futurebit in regedit the registry editor in windows 11? is the futurebit moonlander 2 represented in the REGEDIT system?
I just want to see if i can make a adjustment to the registry (REGEDIT) to the futurebit moonlander2 if represented in the regedit system!

Let me look into the REGEDIT issue -- have you resolved it on your own yet?

Also, is zsolo.bid a legit site? There hasn't been activity on their thread in over 4 years (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/zsolobid-solo-pools-zen-hush-zcl-btcz-vot-btg-2196306).
I asked their support a question the other day and did get an answer, but it was a short reply by "Support Specialist Laura P"
Old thread/post indicates the email address for zsolo.bid is zsolobid at protonmail.com

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