Quote from: Billbags on July 21, 2014, 04:08:43 AM

Quote from: andyjjones on July 21, 2014, 03:13:24 AM

Do you folks know if there's any ARM board cheaper than the raspberry pi which can do the (allocating?*) to my miners?
I am happy to make a filesystem, do the cross-compiling and whatever. But 50USD is kinda expensive for a single-board computer which only needs to run a very small footprint program.

*(what's the correct term to use?)

Tp link routers($25usd) can be flashed(dd openWrt) to run cgminer. One of my rigs run on a tp link MR3020 router. But with the pi you can get sd card images from other members/companies with stable firmware.

There is also a version of pi made in China that's $36usd on Amazon. It's the one with the black audio jack.

*The pi use software to configure your miner(chip speeds/voltage commands) along with pool info. This software is usually built on top of a stratum proxy program. So the pi is actually a local proxy server for your miners. It also allows you to monitor what your miners are actually doing since the pools numbers are just good estimates of your hash rate.

Hmmmm, me thinks I found my next video-guide project! First I should search for Google/YouTube for any current guides for a CGMiner/router hack
Thanks for posting this info...I ams urprised I never thought of using a DD-WRT router for such a purpose but I don't do code/programming (very novice coder/programmer)