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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 12/01/2018, 21:32:43 UTC
Been running my M2 on RPI with a USB hub. I've noticed with a fresh start it runs well but over time it slowly loses steam and hashing decreases from 4MH down to the 2's. I'm confused as to if its the USB hub considering it starts out fine. I'm using Beta 2. Suggestions?

Thanks
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 08/01/2018, 19:20:04 UTC
I know the issue is with the hub considering it recognizes the moonlander when directly plugged in. So the question now becomes does RPI3 not support a USB hub that is 3.0? Where could I find drivers to help this situation?

If ML2 is recognized when directly plugged in, how is this an ML2 issue?

Do you have a different computer which you could try attaching USB HUB to? For a USB HUB to be recognized, make sure you have no devices attached to it. Attach USB HUB solo to your computer and see if it is detected. After USB HUB is detected, then you attach other USB devices to it.

Some hubs under linux/pi have issues...I specifically know that anker hubs for example wont work under linux/pi due to some kernel/driver issue they still have not fixed.

Thank you for the response, I ordered a different hub to see if that solves the issue. For anyone in the future having similar issues I’ll post the results.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 08/01/2018, 19:18:36 UTC
I know the issue is with the hub considering it recognizes the moonlander when directly plugged in. So the question now becomes does RPI3 not support a USB hub that is 3.0? Where could I find drivers to help this situation?

If ML2 is recognized when directly plugged in, how is this an ML2 issue?


It started as a process of elimination and since this is a place for help I posted it. Also, others are running similar set ups and are willing to help.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 08/01/2018, 17:52:47 UTC
What HUB you use? What show lsusb on you raspberry ?

I had the issue that the plug was not put is tight to the hub.  Roll Eyes

I’m using https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-port-USB-3-0-hub/dp/B008ZGKWQI and have tried all ports on it.


http://i67.tinypic.com/16m22y0.jpg


Please go to you shell and execute "lsusb" with connected and aktiv hub and past the output here.

Did you do in the setup the following commands?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt.get upgrade
sudo rpi-update


Thanks

I just reran the whole installation using the commands you provided before the ones on the first page. It still cannot find the moonlander.

Here is the lsusb
http://i65.tinypic.com/22nvk4.jpg

I know the issue is with the hub considering it recognizes the moonlander when directly plugged in. So the question now becomes does RPI3 not support a USB hub that is 3.0? Where could I find drivers to help this situation?
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 08/01/2018, 17:37:54 UTC
Can you try putting a non usb powered hub between your powered hub and your RPI.

I've never needed a USB hub so I only have the one I bought. Is the USB hub not being recognized by the RPI? Is there a driver that can be downloaded? This is my first week with a RPI so I apologize that I'm not up to par.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 08/01/2018, 16:49:23 UTC
What HUB you use? What show lsusb on you raspberry ?

I had the issue that the plug was not put is tight to the hub.  Roll Eyes

I’m using https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-port-USB-3-0-hub/dp/B008ZGKWQI and have tried all ports on it.


http://i67.tinypic.com/16m22y0.jpg


Please go to you shell and execute "lsusb" with connected and aktiv hub and past the output here.

Did you do in the setup the following commands?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt.get upgrade
sudo rpi-update


Thanks

I did not try those commands, I will in a few minutes.

Here is lsusb

http://i65.tinypic.com/22nvk4.jpg
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 08/01/2018, 16:27:13 UTC
What HUB you use? What show lsusb on you raspberry ?

I had the issue that the plug was not put is tight to the hub.  Roll Eyes

I’m using https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-port-USB-3-0-hub/dp/B008ZGKWQI and have tried all ports on it.


http://i67.tinypic.com/16m22y0.jpg
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 08/01/2018, 16:06:42 UTC
I just got my USB hub for my raspberry pi 3 with NOOB that I posted on here last week. Now I cant get the raspberry to find the moonlander. Any suggestions on what I should do?

I've also tried this with no luck.

Code:
Enter "auto", "all", or a serial port to probe for mining devices.
Prefix by a driver name and colon to only probe a specific driver.
For example: erupter:/dev/ttyUSB39
Enter target:
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 06/01/2018, 22:03:51 UTC
So I've slowly been able to get most things working on the Moonlander 2. With that said, why do some "Misbehave" which ultimately won't allow me to mine. What is misbehaving and how do I fix the issue?

An example would be

URL: prohashing.com:3333
User: xxxxx
Password: c=Verge



Not sure about misbehaving, but you can get rid of that password argument, that will tell it to only mine Verge (you want it to mine whatever happens to be the most profitable at the moment). You can still take 100% of your payout in Verge.

Yea I was wanting it as a lotto vs pool mining. I have it running on http://ltc.tbdice.org for now but really wanted to solo mine Verge. I seem to get a bit of misbehaving despite best efforts. I get it on multiple websites as well.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 06/01/2018, 14:35:19 UTC
So I've slowly been able to get most things working on the Moonlander 2. With that said, why do some "Misbehave" which ultimately won't allow me to mine. What is misbehaving and how do I fix the issue?

An example would be

URL: prohashing.com:3333
User: xxxxx
Password: c=Verge

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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 04/01/2018, 19:26:57 UTC
So what’s everyone mining? You using these as lottery or are you mining something for a HODL? Anyone hit a lottery?
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 02/01/2018, 23:33:55 UTC
I just got a Raspberry Pi with the touchscreen set up. I tried plugging the Moonlander 2 into the Pi but noticed it didn't have enough power to support it.

With that said, whats the recommended USB powered attachment that can handle the power draw of a single Moonlander 2? Something like this work?

https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-port-USB-3-0-hub/dp/B008ZGKWQI

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 14/12/2017, 18:30:58 UTC
6)Moonlannder runs fine until I add another pool. Password for any pool I add is d=128.

7) Pro-Hash AND Mining-Dutch are the ones I'm trying to mine. Mining-Dutch has no issues with Litecoin but anything else is a problem.

Try leaving the password empty. prohashing.com has vardiff (variable difficulty). You're setting the difficulty too high for scrypt algorithm. scrypto algorithm is not the same as SHA256 algorithm.

For mining-dutch.nl 3321 is the low diff for litecoin so that seems to be the right port for you.

I tried that as well. It's almost as if by adding another pool it locks things up.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 14/12/2017, 17:22:37 UTC
I've probably royally messed this up but here is steps and pictures of EVERYTHING I've done. Maybe someone can help.

1) Downloaded BGFminer-5.4.FutureBut2-Mac64

2) Control clicked on "start-moonlander-2" and used textedit and change the code to this'
Code:
#!/bin/sh
cd -- "$(dirname "$0")"
cd bin
./bfgminer --scrypt -S MLD:all --set MLD:clock=756
pause
exit

3) Went to GitHub and clicked on the comments. Then cut and pasted the coding in the picture below to "driver-futurebit.c", saved and closed.
https://ibb.co/nCDtx6

4)Everytime I start up BFGminer using the start-moonlader-2 it automatically starts mining the picture below.
https://ibb.co/jzhH76

5) I deleted the pool that's misbehaving.

6)Moonlannder runs fine until I add another pool. Password for any pool I add is d=128.

7) Pro-Hash AND Mining-Dutch are the ones I'm trying to mine. Mining-Dutch has no issues with Litecoin but anything else is a problem.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 14/12/2017, 16:35:06 UTC
So I've updated with the new coding that you have posted but I'm still running into problems. When I initially boot BGFminer it starts up fine and runs all day with no problems. The moment I add a pool to switch to, it gets hung up and flashes yellow. I'm literally stuck mining one pool. I've tried everything and cant figure it out. I'm operating on OSX 10.13.2.

https://ibb.co/fdqHPm

https://ibb.co/jQQOx6
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 11/12/2017, 00:39:31 UTC
Alright, I've been playing with this thing all day. I've targeted it down this issue.

Code:
[2017-12-10 16:15:41] Network difficulty changed to 20.4k (146.3G)

Any time this happens the miner stops running. You can hear the fan wind up a little as if there's an increase in juice that was being used for the processor. Now the yellow light just flashes every few seconds. Once at this point, unless I restart everything, it won't work on any changes. I'm at a loss... please help.


Honestly looking for some help please.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 10/12/2017, 21:17:40 UTC
Alright, I've been playing with this thing all day. I've targeted it down this issue.

Code:
[2017-12-10 16:15:41] Network difficulty changed to 20.4k (146.3G)

Any time this happens the miner stops running. You can hear the fan wind up a little as if there's an increase in juice that was being used for the processor. Now the yellow light just flashes every few seconds. Once at this point, unless I restart everything, it won't work on any changes. I'm at a loss... please help.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 10/12/2017, 14:36:34 UTC
Hello,

My miner doesn't run for more than 5 minutes until it gets hung up and blinks the yellow light occasionally (stock settings). I'm running BFGminer 5.4-FutureBit2 for Mac on OSX 10.13.2 Beta. I see it happen whenever there's a difficulty change but not sure if its coincidence. I've tried changing from Mining-Dutch to Prohashing and still having problems with the miner working. I guess I get confused as it works fine initially then gets hung up. I also thought maybe a cooling issue but again, playing with the settings didn't change the problem.




As for a different topic, I'm noticing every time I start BFGminer its pulling up URLs that I've used in the past. How do I clean out BFGminer to stop bringing up previous work. I want a clean slate at each boot up with only 1 URL that is defaults to. I've edited the start-moonlander-2 to read this:

#!/bin/sh
cd -- "$(dirname "$0")"
cd bin
./bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://mining-dutch.nl:3322 -u JustAnotherPLT.2 -p d=128 -S MLD:all --set MLD:clock=600

Its still loading with multiple URLs.


Sounds like your Mac's USB port is cutting power. Ive seen this on my Mac as well if the stick tries to pull more than 1-1.5 amps. Try lowering core voltage, stock voltage is too high if your only running 600 mhz.

I've adjusted the core voltage multiple times but still nothing. Here's what I'm getting on the BFGminer. When it boots up, it flashes red for a few seconds and then stops. Green stays steady the whole time. After a while the yellow flashes occasionally. I've installed drivers according to the website, again this miner worked initially. I've deleted and reinstalled BFGminer, which it seems to keep all old URLs and settings for some reason, I cant get it to start clean. I've switched pools and restarted through BFGminer, no go either.

http://i65.tinypic.com/2h6epgj.png

UPDATE 1, I switched to another USB drive and now it's back to where it was in the beginning. I'm still having an issue where it stops working on a difficulty change, picture below. Not sure if BFGminer is the issue or the miner.

https://ibb.co/cuZzhw

UPDATE 2

I finally have it stable on LTC with Mining-Dutch. The moment I change to another coin (still scrypt) it has problems when it hits a difficulty change. Essentially stops, flashed yellow and despite my best efforts won't restart until BFGminer is completely restarted. Changing pools does not help.

Any suggestions?

Also, still looking for help on BFGminer starting with wrong URLs. I'm still using the info below:
#!/bin/sh
cd -- "$(dirname "$0")"
cd bin
./bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://mining-dutch.nl:3322 -u JustAnotherPLT.2 -p d=128 -S MLD:all --set MLD:clock=600
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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JustAnotherPLT
on 10/12/2017, 02:28:52 UTC
Hello,

My miner doesn't run for more than 5 minutes until it gets hung up and blinks the yellow light occasionally (stock settings). I'm running BFGminer 5.4-FutureBit2 for Mac on OSX 10.13.2 Beta. I see it happen whenever there's a difficulty change but not sure if its coincidence. I've tried changing from Mining-Dutch to Prohashing and still having problems with the miner working. I guess I get confused as it works fine initially then gets hung up. I also thought maybe a cooling issue but again, playing with the settings didn't change the problem.




As for a different topic, I'm noticing every time I start BFGminer its pulling up URLs that I've used in the past. How do I clean out BFGminer to stop bringing up previous work. I want a clean slate at each boot up with only 1 URL that is defaults to. I've edited the start-moonlander-2 to read this:

#!/bin/sh
cd -- "$(dirname "$0")"
cd bin
./bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://mining-dutch.nl:3322 -u JustAnotherPLT.2 -p d=128 -S MLD:all --set MLD:clock=600

Its still loading with multiple URLs.