Quote from: turtle83 on May 24, 2013, 08:46:10 AM

Quote from: aahzmundus on May 23, 2013, 09:09:30 PM

If anyone would like to point me in the right starting direction, I would appreciate it. Things like what OS I should put on my pi, what miner I should use... I plan to buy this: http://www.amazon.com/Anker%C2%AE-Uspeed-7-Port-Adapter-Chipset/dp/B006TT91TW ... can I use that to power the pi, and then also plug it into the PI for splitting to the USB miners? or will that create some sort of infinite loop of doom... (pure ignorance here).

I got a cheap shitty unbranded chinese hubs to use with my pi (with ztex). cant use more than 2 units cause its shitty.

To answer your question specifically, there wont be any loop thingy. The power jack on pi is not real usb port. Its just a power port . The data pins are not used/connected. So u can power a pi from the same hub the pi uses.

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Package includes: 1 USB 3.0 7-port Hub / 1 12V 3A Power Adapter / 1 USB 3.0 Cable (3 feet) / 1 User Manual.

Means u can use 1 pi + 5 usb erupter cause i think each needs 0.5A ... hmm.. 12V 3A .. i thought USB is 5v.

One thing u need to be careful. You dont want the hub to backfeed power from the raspi's USB(not power) port, many hubs have this problem. even if the pi boots up it would become unstable, or writa garbage on the SD card. work-around is to block the usb pin 1 with electrical tape or smthn... (i being cheap bastard used piece of paper Tongue

). OR cut out the +ve wire from the usb cable... - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#Standard_connectors

The image im using is from http://sirlagz.net/2013/02/14/raspbian-server-edition-version-2-3/

Running it completely headless, never had to touch monitor or keyboard with it. Cgminer compiles without any fuss at all. Should be really trivial if uve ever used a real OS like linux. Windows n00bs might needs step by step guides...

I need to buy some decent hubs for myself...

Sadly I am mostly a windows noob, although I have limited experience with linux but not on any serious level. I plan to try and use MinePeon, but it also appears that the current version of it does not include the most up to date mining software that I suspect I will need since updates to those programs were made recently to support this... So i will have to figure out how to update the mining software... i think?

Thank you for the tip on blocking the pin on the usb port on the pie to avoid issues.

Looks like my devices are not packed yet, probably good because I am not ready for them yet!?! They are coming to fast!