Topic: Who likes pod miners? - page 14. (Read 56097 times)

I had read thru some of these pages as well but if you continue a few more pages philipma1957 had used a USB 3 hub and it worked, I think he also started a thread on what hub to use. The USB 3 hub was not cheap but I didn't mind investing some of my coins, same goes for the sticks they don't make much but I like to tinker and its more of a hobby to have them.


here is one of his post with the USB 3 hub: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.420

This is the post that i was referring to. i guess using a USB 3.0 Hub is a different story

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18979012

Here is my USB 3.0 hub:

Oh also since this doesn't draw any power (seriously- milliwatts) from USB you won't need a powered hub if you want to hook up multiples. Get one of them $8 10-port guys and it'll probably still work.

It is good for you, I also used USB 10 hub I earned so fast using this. I think a little bit more time and the amount I used to provide this hub will be recovered.
For now I never experienced some problems it really worth it to buy. I'm also looking some hub to increase more my daily income.

really?? Lucky you. I remember something about Intel USB3.0 drivers or was it VIA drivers that doesnt really gel well with the 2pacs. i am going to try and find the forum post after work.

I'm using a usb3 hub with no issues, I have 10 2pacs on it at 200mhz.

I know for a fact that the 2pacs does not really play nice with USB3 ports. Is it going to be the same for the terminus pods?

Been so busy with gpus.  Rasp pi for me has been all on Avalon for last two years.

At one time I did minera crazyguy set it up with the 110 rock miners.

I plan to run pods with my compacs on a pc.

I mine the cpu on that pc and it earns about 50 to 60 cents.

Thus it is more cost effective then a rasp pi.

Note House is filled with PCs mining gpus.

I have a small rig mining with a 1050 ti that earns about 70 cents and I have moonlander son that.

So the PCs cover the solo mining of moonlander and the Jonny bravo pool mining with the compacs and 2 pacs.

A cheap mobo with a single gpu will be what I use with the pods.  I have something which will allow for cost free Mining of the pods.

I will show what I mean Monday morning

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/multiminer-any-miner-any-where-on-any-device-free-open-source-cross-platform-248173
Maybe you should try nwools multiminer. He's been away from the community for a little while but is back and said he's open to adding Gekko support if someone had the time to send some links and stuff. I'm in a remote location and internet is spotty at best for me till late February.

I don't believe so. My brother and I set this up all command line.

Is there a decent web frontend for configuring cgminer available on that OS? I'm a firm believer in Debian's reliability and, as handy as Minera is for configuring, honestly... I really really hate web scripting and that package has dynamic content up the butt.

Running Raspbian on mine.

What's the OS? Maybe newer versions of Minera suck.

The v3 I've got running your sticks randomly locks up from time to time... so not sure. It's intermittent... but I think my longest run was 4-5 days. Usually every 24 hours or so.

still profitable with a 11K btc ?

Gotcha... thanks. Color me old school, but I setup a KVM switch at my little mini rig station.

I have not, because that's lame. The point of a cheap basic controller is you won't need a screen and keyboard.

People have suggested miners "need to be" something you plug in power and ethernet and it "just works", and that's all well and good if you like expensive proprietary parts that cost you like $200 to replace when they crap out. But I think that sucks, so I'm not going to do it, ever. The fewer proprietary parts, the better for everyone.

But in the interest of simplicity, I would like to have a basic option available for kit purchase. These are meant to be n00b miners, but they're also meant to be learning miners. I don't want something super easy because you don't learn anything when it's all just handed to you. So I figured a Pi with Minera would be handy, because you can run it headless and configure everything web if you want, or SSH in and play around with stuff like that if you want to learn a bit more. With, you know, off-the-shelf parts that are easy to replace when something craps out.

So plugging in a monitor would be an option, sure, but not really a good option for very many people. I want something with long-term stability in its most basic form. If there's a better option than Minera that still allows basic non-SSH cgminer configuration options (maybe something with fewer buttloads of massively unnecessary scripting all over the darn place; what does Avalon use? That's simple and effective) I'd probably go with that. But first I'll probably just try better hardware than a who-knows-how-old Pi with a probably-even-older SD card.

People seem to like the Pi3, so I'll fetch one of those for starters.

Also, no, overloading the USB port isn't happening. The pod draws on the order of 0.1mA from the USB port, just enough for the USB chip to know it's plugged into something.

Have you tried using an HDMI connection instead of SSH?  My CPU usage always spiked on my pi when I tried using SSH.

They mean no screen no keyboard no mouse