Been running my Cube on my Rasp Pi for 24 hrs now and hasnt missed a beat! I have to mention that BFGminer as a proxy is faaaaaarrrrrr better than the Proxy from Slush's, it seams to use maybe only 1/10 the CPU and gives a much more stable gh.

If any one wants Pi setup details for BFGminer let me know and i will make a post describing my steps.

Quick update....nailed it! yey...

i now have 6 x Antminer U1's and 1 asic cube running from my Pi..

Hello all,
I have just bought my 1st Asic Cube, i have it setup and running the proxy (on my windows PC)as per descriptions on here, all good so far! but i would like to run in with my Rasp Pi, i have configured the proxy from slush and everything connects ok and the cube starts to run now, my Pis CPU goes to 100% and stays there, and only half the cubes processors run and its producing around 15gh max, can anyone help with this?
i have tried to use bfgminer but this simply will not connect! any ideas as i know people are running 4/5 cubes from there pis.

Thanks
Steve

With either CGminer or BFGminer it lists QTY "HW"

Just thought i would add an update into this thread!

I have been running the forked version of cgminer, with 5xU1 overclocked at 2.0gh (about 1 week) and have noticed about 6-7% HW (Hardware)erros! 1stly has anyone else seen this?
I have tried to fix this by converting a PC PSU to power my hub! however this has made no difference.

I have now installed bfgminer and is running very nicely, with so far only a 0.2% HW error (and this was from start up) so my thoughts are that the forked version of cgminer is unstable! and may be best to wait until an official one has been released.

I am keen to see what other people experiance are with cgminer, so please let me know.

Thanks

im on slush, and they have been running ok for me all day.

does the pi run ok with nothing plugged in? do the antminers work ok on a pc? all i can sugest is start ruling things out that it cannot be!

I have 1 more Ant on order and that will fill my small hub, just going to let em run in the corner! once i have enough BTC i will then spend that on a bigger hub, and keep putting my BTC in more miners, hopfully growing my empire!..lol

So what have i done is made my initial investment, and now said to myself it either live or dies by its own mining potential. will see what happens over the next year if i make enough btc to keep expanding, hopfully keeping up/ahead of difficulty growth and slowly increase payout frequency.

Wait and see now.

 

Oh and cooling simply extends unit life! it may help with reliability as well.


If Anyone is interested i do have 3 BE's on ebay at the moment! just in a straight auction.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291058947222?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_298wt_1082

All,
For referance, i had been running 3 Ants at 2.0gh with a fan, they seem to be ticking along nicely, with no down time and maybe around 0.02% share reject rate. so im a happy bunny. just had my first payout from Slush Pool 0.01BTC!

when you say going offline do you mean internet connection? or cgminer? or the pi just shuts off?

did the "debug" work?

when you save do Ctrl +X then enter to confirm the overwrite, it should be perminant!


PS if ive helped any1 and they want to make a small donation (LOL)!
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Did you miss the Sudo?..lol

greenemeso:-
For ant miners you should --enable-bmsc during the cgminer setup

the cgminer.conf file you have there should only be used for 3.1.1 on BE's (so leave it alone as 3.8.5 will not look for it)

also when you run do
sudo ./cgminer etc........

this should fix the privalidge error.

Olddiesel:-
Good job figuring out the power supply! things like that you always assume are ok!

Mrclown:-
Not a clue how many it can handle, buy 100 plug em in and let us know!..lol

Fuglie:-
In respose to your sugestion of BFminer, i have to admint i did almost switch to it! lol, but im not realy in this to make loads of bitcoin, i enjoy solving problems(Sad i know) and for me this was a good one for me to get my teeth into, especially as there was little or no info around on running both Antminers and BE on a Pi with CGminer.

Thanks for posting the comment, and the alternative for others who may have been getting to frustrated with it all.

hmmm, yes they do get v warm when running at correct speed.

Does the Antminer run ok on say a normal windows pc? Or do you have a 2nd unit to test to see if its duff or not?

Other than that i would unplug all devices, completely turn off, then back on insert only the antminer and try.

if not go back though and perhaps re-do all steps. (Should be fairly quick at doing these by now! i know i am..lol)

just one more thing to check, there may be somthing wrong in your start line! somthing as simple as a space in the wrong place, or only 1 - instead of 2 --. if the freq and bauds are not sent correctly then i think it goes to a low default setting.

sudo ./cgminer.exe --bmsc-options 115200:20 -o stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u oldiesel.worker1 -p x --bmsc-freq 0981

drop the .exe! (this is only for windows)

do you have them in a Powered hub? as the Pi by itself cannot supply enough juice to run any miners!

hmm, thats v interesting! If i have my BE's in and running on 3.1.1, and start the U1 all my BE's turn off...lol
however i am not using Piminer just remote access my pi from my pc. so maybe Piminer has an effect somehow.

Glad you are up and running!

Congrates on the BE'S!

Are you using the "frigged" version from the begining of this post?

Have you --enable-bmsc?

and this is the comand line you used?
./cgminer --bmsc-options 115200:20 -o mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u bitcoinco_demo -p x--bmsc-freq 0781 --usb :1

have you installed all the dependaces from earlier in this post?

i noticed there is a privalige errer, you could try:-
sudo ./cgminer etc...........

Cool, do you know if there is a Pi version?

lol..a pic says a thousand words!

i have been running my setup for 4 days now continuasly! and have seen very few error blocks so it is a stable setup.

Yes you do open 2 terminals, but you run a different Cgminer in each! each cgminer has settings to match the different devices.. this is the only i way i know for sure to be able to run both BE's and Antminer U1 on the same hub.

the 2 instances of cgminer miner live in 2 seperate folders!

eg,
Instance 1 may be - cd cgminer-3.1.1
Instance 2 may be - cd cgminer

http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy78/sweaving/PiCgminer_zps17c0cc2c.jpg

its a yes and no answer, yes you can have Block Erupters and antminers on the same hub!

but they cant be run with the same cgminer.
You need to install 2 seperate cgminers! and run them seperatly, (one with icarus enabled and the other with bmsc enabled.

i currently have 3 Block Erupters, and 1 Antminer plugged into the same hub i run cgminer 3.1.1 for the BEs and 3.8.5 (frigged) for the Antminer.

Please read back through all posts! myself and phoenixsilverbird decribe how to install Antminers.. follow adafruit (just google it!..lol) tutorial for BE's on 3.1.1