Topic: TECHNOBIT's HEX16A in hand - first impressions / mining software - page 2. (Read 24188 times)

how many of the hex16a devices can be hooked up to just one TL-MR3020 router with preloaded CGminer /dd-wrt for HEX16 board ?

I just added a coincraft, that one is working great.
It would help if slush pool would solve a block, so I can see the more or less right statistics.
In the API-log of the mr3020 are a lot of miners not enabled and status sick, so many that they are not all displayed.
I think I Will downgrade for the one mr 3020 with only Hex16A1's connected.

Thanks for your fast reply Ioshia

oh... I was thinking you are talking  abut coincraft my bad dude
Yes this happens with latest fw they come to zombies and recovering fast
It should not affect your hash rate for sure. If you are not happy to have them come and go just downgrade

I upgraded to 3.1, Same problem. I'm using the same PSU (Corsair 1000W) and powered usb-hub (Belkin 4 port) as I did before and I never had this problem...

There is other issue USB hub or power
The latest fw is 3_1 btv

My Hex16a1's are not realy happy with the latest firmware 0_3_0 for TpLink mr3020, I have 4 on 1 router and within 30 min 3 of them drop out every time.
Should I downgrade back to previous version, or is there another way to get them stable on the current version?

Here's a little bit you guys probably didn't know. HEXMiner is written in C#, grab any decompiler and you can tweak the source code if you have any C# knowledge.

Don't they have something that looks like this that does 60 gh/s?

Honestly I bought this device(used/second hand) to mine solo Bitcoin. No point in mining in a pool for less than $0.5 in profit. Yes, I know diff is 4 billion and going even higher bla bla, I've been around since 2011 when Bitcoin was $3, I know the probability of finding a block is zero with this device, but I still want to do it.

And you will struggle running HEX16A on windows since you can not use cgminer or bfgminer. The only available is HEXMINER.
Or use virtual pc to run linux then compile cgminer with patch from technobit.

It works without the router, it's just so much easyer using the TpLink. It realy makes the miners plug&play devies.

Does this miner require the router at all for windows? The only thing stopping me from buying this for hobby mining is the fact that it requires this MR-3020 router, but if it can work with Windows WITHOUT this said router, I will buy it.

Marto74, if you need webspace to host your downloads, I can provide it to you or just as a mirror. I have a server in UK and Germany.

I want to produce 1T or 2T machines, can provide what help?

Fixed thanks

Latest mr3020 image by Technobit.eu is:
 
0.2.0 Milestone release  http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/497695/0-2-0-rar.html
* openwrt updated to r39555
* HEX8A1 first stable release.
* HEX8A1 options explained: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4973845
* HEX8A1 defaults: --hexminer8-set-diff-to-one 0 --hexminer8-chip-mask 255 --hexminer8-voltage 1000 --hexminer8-options 8:260
* cgminer patch to cgminer 3.12.3 rev e447b697d90c4d1e4c6a2dc8bd9bfc3eab23115f.patch - various code cleanup and optimization needs to be done

Found also from download page http://technobit.eu/index.php?id_product=53&controller=product&id_lang=1#, link on technobit.eu is broken http://technobit.eu/"http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/497695/0-2-0-rar.html/".

I keep getting page not avaliable       http://technobit.eu/0_1_3.rar%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BF

Cool, thanks Marto74 (as so often)!!!

1. Default IP address of mr-3020 is: 192.168.0.99/24 LAN only. Wireless support is completely removed. The reason is LACK of RAM + some usb issues reported in the forum
2. There is no root password configured – that is the first thing to be done
3. Make sure that your computer has L2 connection to router with IP address from same subnet – 192.168.0.0/24
4. Configure your network under Network Interfaces. There are two options (Static IP /Mask GW and DNS or DHCP client). PPPoE is not included in the build. We suggest to use static IP address. Change your timezone settings. Do not enable NTP client. Reboot the mr-3020. Wait one minute. Make sure that mr-3020 shows current time. Do not proceed forward if the time is not correct. Otherwise cgminer will never start!!!   
5. Configure your pools, workers and stuff under Cgminer Configuration page
6. Press Save & Apply . Wait at least 5-10 seconds for cgminer to start/restart
7. All done – Take a look Cgminer API log. You might find some good stuff inside
Some notes for advanced users:
1. cgminer is executed in detached screen session. You can always ssh to mr-3020 and attach the screen with screen –r. Detach it with CTL+a+d. There is nicely formatted cgminer  ncurses output flowing. Be careful with screen detaching – if you mess it up it will kill your screen + cgminer and you will have to restart it manually. Every time when you detach a session something similar shall happen

root@HEX16A:~# screen -r
[detached]

2. All unnecessary services are disabled by default. This applies to firewall and all corresponding kernel modules also. If you know what you wana do you will have to uncomment desired kernel modules located in /etc/modules.d/. They are commented out to save RAM.
3. There is ovpn support package installed by default. If you wanna use it please uncomment tun module located in /etc/modules.d/30-tun
4. API stats notes:
a. No Matching Work is not a hw error. It occurs when cgminer detects new block or during startup mostly. It has been contented as a reference only.
b.  Reset Count – should be low. Let me say 3-4 resets per day. When reset occurs only 2-3 work results are lost if they are lost at all. When higher values are observed check your cooling + overvoltage+overclocking
c. USB Hardware Errors – they are added to HW errors stats. In general these are usb readings with bad checksums
d. [Chip1-16 Nonces] how many nonces a chip has found. Useful in case of dead chip and so on. Note variation (+-)between chips nonces is absolutely normal. Watch for obvious differences and zeros.

The cgminer + current build + HEX16A mining board is super stable. There is no need of cron restarts and such stuff. Cgminer hotplug is working fine on i386. Unfortunately it does not work with mr-3020 + openwrt. The hotplug support is disabled by default: --hotplug 0.

Enjoy!

Thanks for the tip! But how does that work then?