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Re: [ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs
by
klondike_bar
on 04/02/2015, 14:57:11 UTC
My recollection is that with the setting of timed "actions", the time specified must be in UTC. Of course if you live in Greenwich England, this won't matter. This is kinda a surprise, but not so much when consider that Linux is inside there.

i changed the system time to local time though. I set another adjustment to occur during the night and it seems like that one happened correctly as expected, but unfortunately i wasnt awake to hear if the system changed its fan speeds drastically in the adjustment.

I see 2.6.12 is now available so am downloading it to see whats new. hopefully some further abilities are added to scheduling
EDIT: 2.6.12 is crap - voltage settings are all lost and cant be configured, so all loops are Off/null/disabled. I cant seem to input any settings to make it start mining. The fan keeps revving from 0-20 every 3-4 seconds.
EDIT 2: went to change back firmware, clicked manula selection, my only options are 1.5.8 and 1.5.10. The Sp20 now seems to think its an SP10 - what do i do?
EDIT 3: used SSH, typed "echo SP2x > /model_id; echo SP20 > /model_name;"  and was able to get the device to download the 2.6.12 again, this time operational

2.6.12: seems like theres a wifi function (requires dongle, presumably in the system's USB port). no visible changes or improvements to scheduling though. For that reason im curious to know how changes to the /etc/mg_custom/mode are implemented. Is a reboot required, or just restarting the minergate process?

seems like it could be easy to create a cron task that simply copies different mg_custom_mode(day) and mg_custom_mode(night) files to the actual mg_custom_mode and then re-initiates the miner. It would allow better fan control and precision tuning the voltages and wattage limits for each schedule, rather than just the max voltages