Thanks vh, i think i figured out a decent crontab with an added @reboot command. So every 4 hours i start by killall screens, rerun the miner script after 5 minutes and then reboot my machine at 1am and start everything up again. Testing it today seems to be working so far, will test it the rest of the week to see how successful my method is.

Thanks for the help!

So my script writing abilities arent that good, but im just trying to make a simple script (i mean ELI5 simple) and here is what i got so far.


Now here is where i am stuck. (i know i have this timeout at 10s) but once the timeout is done the screen goes back to command line and the rest of my script doesnt run. Now when i type in exit on the command line then the next part of my script starts up (which is a replica of the above script). I have tried everything to get the exit command to go into the command line after the first part of the script runs, but nothing happens.

What can i do to get my screen to exit so the rest of my script can run?

Thanks and sorry for the elementary abilities. I am having fun learning on the way, it has taken me 5 days to get where i am now!

Here is where i am stuck

Very cool, i see it working when i manually input the commands (it seems i had to install screen into raspbian stretch first). Now i will have to make it into a script. Thanks vh!

One question, what does the ^M do at the end of the cgminer configs command? I dont see that in the list of configs for cgminer.

Hey vh, not sure if you can help, but i am trying to set up a crontab with a script to automatically stop and restart the miner on a pi raspbian stretch. Not sure why this script isnt working but can anyone lend a hand on what is wrong with my script?

Here is my script

runtask.sh


In my crontab i have


I keep getting all sort of errors with different edits i try, but the one thing that always works in the script is pkill cgminer after that nothing works.

The script always stops at whatever i do especially at cd ~/git/vthoang/cgminer - all the different ways i have tried dont work.

Is there something that you guys have done that makes a good crontab script work with cgminer? I know in cgminer i can schedule start and stop arguments, but those are only one offs for one time in the day. I wanted to be able to start and restart cgminer at 4 hour increments everyday.

Thanks for anyone who can help on this.  Have sepnt the last 4 days trying to get this work with no success.

So what does the vcore part do on the left hand side? I have my usb multimeter hooked up to my stick but i dont see that reading on there? When i turn my pot clockwise to the right (2 oclock 3 oclock position) my amps go down, when i turn my pot to the left counterclockwise (to the 1 oclock noon position) i see my amps increase to like 1.69, am i reading something wrong or understanding something wrong?

Hello der_wasi, when you say in some of your comments you turn the pot clockwise to say the 3 oclock or 5 oclock position, which way is the stick facing with the usb towards you or the heatsink towards you? And what are your amps reading when you get to 200 or higher? I am running my sticks at 150 at 1.19amps clock about 2 oclock position, these pot are sensitive when you move them, but would like to try it at 175 or 190ish to see what i can get out of these.

Thanks for clarifying.

Ok, just so i understand i believe these seconds have HW errors at stock speeds (pot at 2 oclock and 100mhz) but work with no errors at overclocked speeds like 200 to 250?

I would like to get some of these, PM sent. Thanks!