Topic: [StarMiner] - ARM controller image for your ASIC mining needs! - page 2. (Read 15113 times)

Thanks!

Sorry for being lazy.  I should have looked at starminer commands before posting.  I have added "starminer restart" to cron job and now all is good!

You could make a cron job that runs every hour that would run the following code:
once you had the proper ASIC profile selected (which I presume you do ) from the webUI.

Happy and profitable mining to all!

Can someone please help.

Im using starminer with gridseed pods and blades.  I'm experiencing a problem where cgminer will randomly stop.  It seems to be linked to high rejects, particularly on multipools.

I would like to force cgminer to restart every hour.  Can someone please guide me through how this could be done?

If you haven't already, take a look at BFGMiner. It supports R-Box, ZeusMiners, GridSeeds, DualMiners, G-Blades, and more.

In addition, we have carefully written these drivers based on the manufacturer specs and documentation, so they are of a higher quality than what the HW manufacturers have been releasing (in my opinion). The hardware folks have a habit of delivering on hardware and then rushing the software, basing it on an existing driver (such as Icarus and Avalon) and then slashing and burning code until it hashes.

For example, here's our ZeusMiner driver (which works great):

https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/driver-zeusminer.c

Less than 250 lines, and many of those are comments and whitespace. Compare that to the driver the ZeusMiner folks are releasing:

https://github.com/zeusminer/cgminer_zeus/blob/master/driver-zeus.c

The driver is full of code that is unneeded / unnecessary in my testing and development with the devices, and not present in the documentation from ZeusMiner.

From a quick review of Rock Miner's Github repository, it appears that Rock Miner ASIC units are using cgminer with a modified version of the Icarus driver/module.  The Icarus driver/module is more of a "generic FPGA" driver/module, thus it is not specific typically for one particular ASIC or FPGA unit.  This is what was initially released with Zeus Miner's ASIC unit (though we developed a "better driver/module" accordingly ) and also explains why some of the Zeus Miner ASIC units were not performing up to specification.  Without having some Rock Miner ASIC units "in hand", we (the "StarMiner crew") cannot say how their version of cgminer may or may not work of course.  This is just from reviewing the information on their Github repository and knowing the history of how others have used the Icarus driver/module in the past.

Happy and profitable mining to all!

Well, it gets the job done I guess. It gives out a web UI that gives out the usual information about miners (hashrate, hardware errors, accepted shares, etc.) so nothing special there. I just don't like it because even though it supposedly uses Raspbian, there's no way to change its default password. I've SSH'ed into the thing and done the passwd command and it says that it changed the password but it doesn't work; it just always keeps the default password which and that makes me quite uneasy about it. There are also some odd hashrate dips throughout the day that I don't know if they're related to my hardware or the Rock Miner UI and I'd like to compare against another software before reaching conclusions. Unfortunately I can't compare against my PC since I was never able to get my PC to recognize the R-Boxes.

03 July 2014 version release notes and change log:
Files for download from SourceForge can be found here.

• Modifications to the Gridseed configuration files removing the "per_chip_stats" as noted in StarMiner SourceForge ticket #7.
• Updated modules/drivers for both Gridseed and Zeus Miner ASIC units.
• With respects to the "newer" Zeus Miner "batch 2" ASIC units, the ability to use the provided serial number to have specific settings per individual ASIC unit if using USB mode via libusb (versus --scan-serial mode).
• With respects to the "newer" Zeus Miner "batch 2" ASIC units, the ability to ID the individual ASIC unit based off of the number of chips within each unit. These will have the Zeus Miner ASIC names by default instead of the rebranded names.

It is quite possible, save we do not have this particular ASIC "in hand" to do any development work or testing with it for long term support.  It would also be one of the first SHA-256 ASIC units requested to be supported under StarMiner as well.

I have reached out to Rock Miners directly, though if you wish to post a request in their forum thread as well, that would probably help some.

Out of curiosity and assuming you have a R-Box ASIC with Rock Miner's Raspberry Pi image, how it is?

Happy and profitable mining to all!

I don't see mention of the Rockminer units. Is it compatible with the R-Box?

Good to hear and you are quite welcome.

For reference, lighttpd does break things down modular wise a bit, so the question is quite understandable.

Happy and profitable mining to all!

Ok - sorted SSL port in 10-ssl.conf and all working...

Now to hosts / ips to allow!

It's the /etc/lighttpd version - I can see the lighttpd.conf but also /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled with 10-cgi.conf and 10-ssl.conf

Which is the active conf file containing the 'listening' port/s?

TY

The files would be (depending on the version of StarMiner) under either /etc/apache2/ (versions prior to 15 June 2014 release) or /etc/lighttpd/ (versions including and after 15 June 2014 release).

Happy and profitable mining to all!

Hi LinuxETC

Quick question to save me some time...

I have updated /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny to only allow: ALL: myIPaddresses and block everything else.

What I want to do now is change the http & https ports for the web server. Ideally, I want to only use https by default...

Can you point me to the specific conf file (equivalent to httpd.conf / vhosts.conf for Apache) please?

TY in advance

PS Two rigs running 8 GS Blades total on 2 x Pi (one with PiFace Digital which I use to control the ATX PSU on/off remotely - it's really cool!)

 

27 June 2014 version release notes and change log:[/b]
Files for download from SourceForge can be found here.

• Patch of the mining application by dmaxl that addresses "wall of rejects" with mining pools that have network latency issues.
• Fix of the Gridseed ASIC configuration files so that they appear when editing via the webUI.

You (as well as everyone else) are quite welcome.   Download the latest image (web link noted above), give it a test run (or permanently which is even better ) and feel free to inquire if you have any questions and/or issues.  Feel free to post your results as well (including screen shots) and feedback (positive preferred, constructive as well of course).  We have a collection of screen shots from the previous images of various mining set ups on our LitecoinTalk forum thread.

Happy and profitable mining to all!

This is AWESOME!!!!

Thank you for all your hard work!!!

25 June 2014 version release notes and change log:
Files for download from SourceForge can be found here.

• Improved Gridseed and Zeus Miner ASIC unit support via an improved mining application and related driver/modules.
• Updated configuration profiles for individual and multiple Gridseed, Scriptor, and Zeus Miner ASIC units to parallel with the updated and improved driver/modules.
• The webUI being HTTP by default, though HTTPS can be enabled if desired to address some latency issues.
• Updated all of the StarMiner scripts accordingly to work with the previously noted configuration profiles.
• Updated Raspberry Pi Linux kernel/firmware.

I figured I would "tempt some tummies" of our "StarMiner groupies" out here with a screen shot preview of our latest test round of StarMiner.  Here are two screen shots of StarMiner with Zeus Miner "Blizzard" ASIC units.  For reference, these are "stock" units without any physical modifications.


This is using one "Blizzard" ASIC unit for over a 24 hour period (~36 hours in this case).  Please do note that yes, the ASIC is mining right around 1.5Mh/s here.  



This is using two "Blizzard" ASIC units.  Do note, we are hashing at ~1.5Mh/s per Blizzard here as well.  I was hoping to have some more graph data for a full "24 hour" representation, however I think our "proof of concept" with improved mining application software illustrates quite well here.

Now while some folks will say, "there are hardware errors", keep in mind that with an ASIC unit, hardware errors are acceptable to some degree.  The reject rate is...well...quite minimum (if not extremely minimal!).  Thus, quality is being produced here mining wise.

This image should be available in the next day or so (minus the upload time to SourceForge) pending some additional testing of our StarMiner code and script, plus some "house keeping" items.

Happy and profitable mining to all!

Since this thread has been relatively quiet, I am suspecting most of the "StarMiner groupies" are enjoying StarMiner and are happily mining away there in the crypto coin verse.

So a minor update on the prior update.  We are doing a few more tests of the mining application code for performance improvements (does anyone want to take a guess at the hash rate a Zeus Miner "Blizzard" ASIC is properly showing now? ).  We also have some improvements so that multiple Zeus Miner ASIC units can be detected without the -S option we implemented to help everyone out here a bit.  That is just with the mining application as well.   However, we want to be thorough with the testing first before releasing the updated image to ensure "quality" that our "StarMiner groupies" have come to expect and enjoy.  So please be patient a bit more and we should have something ready this coming week.

For upgrading, we will be documenting a slightly better process on "HowTo" do so.  However, one will still need to manually edit the pool settings in the configuration files due to the changes in the mining application itself.  The easiest way is to "copy and paste" your pool settings into a "note pad" text editor, upgrade the image, test out StarMiner with startest for your particular ASIC unit or pick one of the current ASIC profiles (e.g., zm-blizzard for a Zeus Miner "Blizzard" ASIC), then "copy and paste" the pool settings back via either the webUI text editor (which is fixed in the upcoming release) or via stared on the command line.  Due to the enhancements to the mining application, copying the prior configuration files in full will not work here and in fact prevent the mining application from properly mining with the ASIC.

More to come of course.   Happy and profitable mining to all!