Quote from: Nomadseif on September 28, 2016, 06:09:33 PM

Quote from: solarcoiner on September 28, 2016, 12:55:21 PM

Quote from: Nomadseif on September 26, 2016, 03:03:27 PM

So great news, my Intel Compute Stick arrived today and it's all setup and staking solarcoin already

The best part is that I have my wallet and blockchain on a SD card in the slot and have directed the wallet to store all dirdata on the the SD so it doesn't take up the memory of the compute stick. It's quite simple to do if anyone wants to do it. I got the info from the bitcoin wiki and just changed it to solarcoin and it all worked. I just copied my current solarcoin wallet info from my %appdata% folder and put it on a 16GB SD and then directed the wallet to start and use that file as the data directory. (how to is at the bottom of this post)

I can say that it works 100% I now still have 17.2 GB free on my compute stick which is great. On the box it says that the power consumption when in use is 2.61Wh so even less than I thought it would be.

next step is to make a solar setup to run that and my laptop and charge phones. Cheesy

Happy days.

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How to change your solarcoin directory:
You can also store Solarcoin data files in any other drive or folder. Not only in %appdata%

If you have already downloaded the data then you will have to move the data to the new folder. If you want to store them in D:\SolarCoin then click on "Properties" of a shortcut to solarcoin-qt.exe and add -datadir=D:\SolarCoin at the end as an example:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarCoin\solarcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=d:\SolarCoin

Were you able to run everything on Solar power or only the Monitor?

Right now nothing is on solar yet, I'm actually looking at buying the equipment as I don't have any yet and I'm still in the research phase to make sure I get the right stuff.

Stick is working well although, it auto updated and turned my wallet off and then I did the big Windows 1607 update which took half the day today so almost 20 hours not staking, been back up for a few hours now and I had trouble with port forwarding could only get 8 connections a little fiddling and refreshing the Upnp option on the wallet and I have 11 connections now but I saw 20 connections a few days ago, from what I understand 8 or less connections and your not supporting the network (torrent equivalent of downloading but not uploading) someone correct me if I'm wrong.

But I hope to have some solar running soon, need to work out my total Wh (harder than I thought) before I go buying the wrong panels and batteries.

After the big update I have 8GB left on the internal memory of the stick, and I was using it to browse the web earlier and it wasn't too bad (Atom x5 version 2016) had about 8 tabs open and it was surprisingly responsive I expected more lag. I've heard that they have some newer models with Intel M processors in them and 4GB RAM with 64 GB Flash memory 3 USB 3.0 ports and apparently they work very but they are 450 Euro ($500) but for what we need my 150 Euro stick is perfect very glad.

I'll keep you posted on the Solar project and will post some pics if I get the time when it's done.

Yeah the auto updates are really annoying on windows 10...I have to use windows 10 at work and I'm not such a fan
As for the connections you're right. 8 or less connections means you're not running a full node!
Unfortunately it can be a bit tricky to setup if you're network runs on a separate router like mine does. (Internet provider box to netgear)
I had it setup perfectly with 23 connections but it randomly went back down to 8 although all my ports are forwarded properly. My guess is that my internet provider is blocking forwarded ports!

Yeah I have the older model wich cost me around 100 Euros. When I try to open 2-3 tabs on a web browser it becomes really unresponsive. It's nice to hear that the newer models can handle more multitasking