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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 11/08/2014, 18:35:02 UTC
yeah its down
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Antminer S1 SoloMining Setup/Easy Solo/Own Pool Setup!
by
illyack
on 06/08/2014, 17:46:49 UTC
So you got your Antminer S1 pointed it at a local wallet server and watched as every block it found was rejected?
You asked on the forum for help and nobody answered or better still suggested the above.
Follow these steps and you can mine Any Sha256 P2pool Compatible Coin (Still waiting for Peercoin) with an Antminer S1 or setup your own P2pool Pool for Scrypt Mining as long as it has a P2pool Compatible Config.
Revised 11/07/2014

First Pick the coin you wish to mine:
Download and Unpack
https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav
Make sure the coin you wish to mine is listed in the Directory p2pool\networks\
EG.
Code:
bitcoin.py
     
Download and Install:
Windows:(Yes only Windows I havent tested Linux though it should be the same)
* Install Python 2.7: http://www.python.org/getit/
* Install Twisted: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads
* Install Zope.Interface: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.interface/3.8.0
* Install python win32 api: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20218/
* Install python win32 api wmi wrapper: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/WMI/#downloads

Download and Install:
Wallet Client for whatever coin you want to mine.

Run and Sync the Wallet Client.
Close the client.
Enter the Directory of the Blockchain/Wallet Dir of the Coin (Windows %AppData% or %Users%Blank%Roaming%)
Create coinname.conf EG. bitcoin.conf
Input
Code:
rpcuser=Thinkofsomething
rpcpassword=Randomlystabatkeyboard
rpcallowip=192.*.*.* #Or whatever your network is only the p2pool has to connect
rpcport=17444 #Pick Something p2pool reads the conf for all settings
port=17334 #Pick Something p2pool reads the conf for all settings

Editing p2pool Configs
Goto where you unpacked https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav
Find the coin you wish to mine.
Edit p2pool\networks\coiname.py

Find
Code:
WORKER_PORT =

The above numbers is the worker port to connect miners use with the Ip address of the computer running P2pool.
Find
Code:
PERSIST=True
Change to:
Code:
PERSIST=False
Find
Code:
BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS='A bunch of other p2pool Nodes'.split(' '),
Change to:
Code:
BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS=''.split(' '),
Save and exit.

Create a Bat in the main p2pool Dir where run_p2pool.py or anywhere if edited properly with the following.
Code:
run_p2pool.py --net Coinyourmining --give-author 0.0 --no-bugreport --disable-upnp
Save.

Now create a shortcut for the wallet client that adds "-server"

Run Your New Shortcut.
LET IT SYNC.
Run your p2pool Bat.
Point your miners at the worker port of your Solo p2pool Node with:
Ip of the Server running p2pool and Worker port.
Code:
Eg. 192.168.1.128:9374
Address of where you want funds to go MUST NOT BE an exchange address remember this is a p2pool and payment have to mature.
Password "x"

You are now SoloMining/Running your own pool and you can check status by pointing a web browser at the worker port of the p2pool server.
Problems, things I've missed whatever just ask.

Big thanks to seocrow of litecointalk.org for giving me the idea when My Ant S1 kept rejecting blocks found.
Rav3nPL for the multiple coins in individual files now under the networks Directory.
https://www.bitmaintech.com/ for making such a good bit of hardware.











Hi I am trying to setup my s1 to solo mine. I have been going through your walkthrough. However as I am installing the different softwares, each one is requiring different version of python. one wants 2.6, another wants 2.7 , another wants 3.3. Any suggestions?
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Re: Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip
by
illyack
on 06/08/2014, 14:35:32 UTC
Hi, i have an S3 that stopped hashing...the red indicator light blinks slowly, and I am not able to login to the OS.  I have contacted Bitmain, but have not heard anything back....Anyone else experiencing this with the S3?  Is there a fix ?  Thanks



Yep is happening me the same, more or less, when i can connect it starts hashing very unstable and disfunctional until the chains info disapear in Antminer status at miner status page and when i go see the machine it has a red light blinking not to fast.

Also didnt got any reply for Bitmain, thanks god is nice people around here trying to help me out.


Try changing your DNS settings, use your router IP first then, 8.8.8.8

If that doesn't work , factory reset
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Re: Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip
by
illyack
on 01/08/2014, 15:28:15 UTC
Bitmain is a good company, pretty much right now the only good company out there in regards to miner manufacturing. No worries
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Re: Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip
by
illyack
on 30/07/2014, 18:57:49 UTC
How would you upgrade any s1 or s2? Totally different chips and voltage requirements. I think it would be highly improbable and impossible to upgrade, these aren't socket chips but soldered and the traces on the pcb are different.  Maybe if you had an S2 kit, then perhaps you could use the daughter board to plug in hash boards, but that  is about it.

By golly, you stumbled upon the answer to your own question!  New PCBs.


+1
             Exactly!

            MEthinks he would be wise to read more...

There are no uprades
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Re: Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip
by
illyack
on 30/07/2014, 14:51:15 UTC
Haha, that isnt an upgrade. That is a new s3
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Re: Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip
by
illyack
on 30/07/2014, 13:32:45 UTC
How would you upgrade any s1 or s2? Totally different chips and voltage requirements. I think it would be highly improbable and impossible to upgrade, these aren't socket chips but soldered and the traces on the pcb are different.  Maybe if you had an S2 kit, then perhaps you could use the daughter board to plug in hash boards, but that  is about it.
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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 24/07/2014, 14:25:37 UTC
New sales will be open tonight 22:00 (UCT +8:00). The shipping date will be before the August 2nd. The price is 0.63BTC per unit.

Coupons will be ready soon. Refund of B1~B3 is in process as well.


The price is already 0.2 BTC higher.

New sales will be open tonight 22:00 (UCT +8:00). The shipping date will be before the August 2nd. The price is 0.63 0.65 BTC per unit.

Coupons will be ready soon. Refund of B1~B3 is in process as well.

and only 0.0025 cheaper than Batch3
0.725- 10% = 0.6525BTC

Can it perhaps a little more to raise ?  0.8 BTC  would be even better.
I wanted to buy 6 pcs, but I do not buy none.

I look forward to a more realistic price that can not be increased every two hours.
Same here, I was going to buy 10 but F that at these prices.


What the hell are you guys talking about? The prices are very competitive in this market. No false advertisement, reliable company , if there is an issue, like the dc board they address it. Hashrates and Errors are spot on with in tolerance, unlike 98% of the bullshit other companies are putting out.
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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 24/07/2014, 14:18:09 UTC
Got both units today and happily hashing on defaults at 450Gh/s for each unit. No issues at all.

Thank you, Bitmain. I am a very happy customer.

my ups is always coming after 6:30pm here. 2 more units expected today as well.
450 at the pool or in web gui?


Me Too!!!!! as always


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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 23/07/2014, 15:03:58 UTC
All of mine, get from 440 to 470GH, running solid for two days now.
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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 18/07/2014, 18:22:59 UTC
I am sure bitmain will do good by all of us. They are a good company.

I patiently wait.
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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 18/07/2014, 18:09:30 UTC
I am in batch 1 and none of mine have been shipped yet.

2014-06-30 19:37:09

Same here...day 1 purchase,  no shipment yet.

when did the payment clear?

That is when the payment cleared.
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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 18/07/2014, 15:07:56 UTC
The whole WAN verses LAN setup is confusing. I guess the S3 is a router under the hood, instead of just a simple Ethernet endpoint.

I don't have my S3s yet and the manual is not very complete. Can you specify that the WAN connection is a DHCP client? I think that that would be selected under "Protocol" popup, which in the manual they show as "Static address".

Being able to use DHCP to specify the IP address would be helpful because initially I'll be setting these up at home, then moving them to a data center. It would be nice to just be able to just move these from LAN to LAN and have them work. I have access to both DHCP servers so I can configure static IPs in both LANs based on the S3's Ethernet MAC address.

The reason why I'm interested in all this rather than just waiting is because It's possible that the S3 units will arrive while I'm out of town. If that happens, I'm going to ask my son to set these up. I want to make the process as simple as possible, and DHCP will help with that.

Here is what it looks like, Very easy Just do not edit or change LAN:

Thanks!

So all you have to do is uncheck the "Disable DHCP for this interface" checkbox under the DHCP Server? Or does that option create a DHCP server (which would make no sense, but neither does the whole router thing).

That will enabled dhcp, but I would assign a static IP, not use DHCP. Even though lease times can be set to infinite where the lease will never expire, or get the MAC address and go into your router and have it assign the same IP , so then it is DCHP/Static
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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 18/07/2014, 15:01:21 UTC
It is a linux based OS, Linux firewalls are setup that way, Like IPCOP, WAN & LAN. WAN is more secure setup because it makes use of the built in firewall, even though it is a LAN.

I suppose they designed these things so that they could be directly placed on the Internet. But then all you have to protect it is the password.

It's still a weird design choice. I'd be willing to bet that most people are going to put these units behind a router or firewall anyway. Certainly that's what I'm going to do. The only reason to have these units be a router is if they have to route traffic internally.

Maybe the boards themselves are Ethernet nodes on the internal LAN? If so, then I guess that would make some sense that there would be a router between the boards and the outside world. Ethernet for internal communication seems like an odd and expensive connection choice. Unless they wanted the ability to change the product configuration, like have a unit with 4 or 6 boards instead of 2.

They are seen as nodes
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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 18/07/2014, 14:46:43 UTC
It is a linux based OS, Linux firewalls are setup that way, Like IPCOP, WAN & LAN. WAN is more secure setup because it makes use of the built in firewall, even though it is a LAN.
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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 18/07/2014, 14:39:26 UTC
I am in batch 1 and none of mine have been shipped yet.

2014-06-30 19:37:09
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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
by
illyack
on 16/07/2014, 14:25:42 UTC
Same here. But the guys at bitmain are good and honest people, I am okay with the delay.