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Re: The bitaxeUltra: Open source Bitcoin miner based on the BM1366 ASIC
Oops. Didn't realize I was doing bad things by applying the 205 to the 201. Should I flash it back to a 201 of some flavor?
I've never had USB working on this second device. I was able to see the device on it's provided wifi at first, but it could never connect to my wifi (so it could never connect to the internet).
I've never had USB working on this second device. I was able to see the device on it's provided wifi at first, but it could never connect to my wifi (so it could never connect to the internet).
Re: The bitaxeUltra: Open source Bitcoin miner based on the BM1366 ASIC
I've got two Bitaxe 201 boards. One of them is happily hashing away after applying esp-miner-factory-205-v2.1.3.bin directly to it over USB.
I was unable to connect via USB to the other one, so I updated the firmware to 2.1.3 (successfully) via the web interface. However, when I tried to update www.bin, it hung for about 10 minutes. After power cycling it, there's no display and I still cannot see it via USB.
Any ideas on how to get this working again?
Thanks!
I was unable to connect via USB to the other one, so I updated the firmware to 2.1.3 (successfully) via the web interface. However, when I tried to update www.bin, it hung for about 10 minutes. After power cycling it, there's no display and I still cannot see it via USB.
Any ideas on how to get this working again?
Thanks!
⭐ Merited by ABCbits (1)
I've got a few S9j boxes running underclocked at ~700W. It's a standard setting on a number of the custom firmwares out there. (I use Hiveon because it's easy and mostly decent.)
https://hiveon.com/asic/#S9
That shows you some of the prebuilt setups they have.
As people have noted, they are not even REMOTELY as profitable as newer miners: at best, you're looking at 77.3 J/TH vs 22 J/TH (or whatever). That said, they work great as space heaters that pay you a little money.
I'm running a number of the boxes in these shrouds: https://www.cryptocloaks.com/the-future-of-space-heaters-s9-bitcoin-asic/
Next steps are to tear apart 19-series boxes and use Loki hacks to get profitable space heaters that run on 110V: https://pivotalpleb.com/collections/all
Good luck!
https://hiveon.com/asic/#S9
That shows you some of the prebuilt setups they have.
As people have noted, they are not even REMOTELY as profitable as newer miners: at best, you're looking at 77.3 J/TH vs 22 J/TH (or whatever). That said, they work great as space heaters that pay you a little money.
I'm running a number of the boxes in these shrouds: https://www.cryptocloaks.com/the-future-of-space-heaters-s9-bitcoin-asic/
Next steps are to tear apart 19-series boxes and use Loki hacks to get profitable space heaters that run on 110V: https://pivotalpleb.com/collections/all
Good luck!
There are a lot of great projects out there using old miners as space heaters. I'm wondering if anyone is working on the opposite: using miners to provide cooling.
In my previous life in aircraft reliability, I worked with air cycle machines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_cycle_machine), which use the ridiculously hot bleed air off of aircraft engines to cool--yes, cool--the aircraft cabin. I've seen these "reverse cycle air conditioners"--mostly in Australia, I guess--that provide both heating & cooling in the same unit.
This makes me think that there's reason to believe that it'd be possible to use mining boards as the heat element in the devices: if you could run old miners for both heating AND cooling, I think that'd be an absolute game changer.
Is anyone aware of any projects like this?
In my previous life in aircraft reliability, I worked with air cycle machines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_cycle_machine), which use the ridiculously hot bleed air off of aircraft engines to cool--yes, cool--the aircraft cabin. I've seen these "reverse cycle air conditioners"--mostly in Australia, I guess--that provide both heating & cooling in the same unit.
This makes me think that there's reason to believe that it'd be possible to use mining boards as the heat element in the devices: if you could run old miners for both heating AND cooling, I think that'd be an absolute game changer.
Is anyone aware of any projects like this?
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Known Issues
Q: I have a full package unit and one or more standard units. Some Standard units show 0 hashrate or dont start hashing right away
A: USB Driver is a bit finicky for the USB controller on the hashboard. It can take several minutes for the controller to establish a good connection to the Standard unit and start hashing, so please wait 10-15 minutes and it should start up on its own. If you keep pressing restart the software won't have time to properly start up the hashboards.
Q: I have a full package unit and one or more standard units. Some Standard units show 0 hashrate or dont start hashing right away
A: USB Driver is a bit finicky for the USB controller on the hashboard. It can take several minutes for the controller to establish a good connection to the Standard unit and start hashing, so please wait 10-15 minutes and it should start up on its own. If you keep pressing restart the software won't have time to properly start up the hashboards.
I bought two "sets" of Full & Standard: each hosted at different locations. I have different problems with each of the two sets:
Set 1:
- The ASIC on the Full unit is running fine.
- Can't see the Standard ASIC. lsusb doesn't show the Standard device attached at all, even after replacing the USB cable multiple times.
- Node is running, but only shows 10/32 connections. I'm assuming that's because I already have another node running on a "real" machine on my network that's stealing the inbound connections. (This is not a big deal, I'd just like to confirm that's what's going on.)
Set 2:
- Both hashboards work great and even hash slightly faster than advertised! (Yay!)
- NVMe drive is not detected, even after removing & reseating the drive, so I can't run the node.
TL;DR: I've basically got two out of 4 devices working correctly.
I'll probably mix and match all of the devices to see if it's the USB port on the Full, but regardless, this does not give me a lot of hope in FutureBit's quality control. These boxes look really nice, but they are not robust in the least. Over the years, I've been shipped multiple Bitmain ASICs badly packed in boxes that look like they've been catapulted across the country...and every one of them has run full-bore out of the box. They're basically bulletproof. I want to support USA built products, but it looks like FutureBit has a ways to go to get to that level of reliability.
Any additional thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Update: I've determined that the non-SS USB port on my Full unit in Set 1 is not working, which could have been why the board wasn't coming up this last week. I put a USB hub on one of the SS ports to connect my keyboard and mouse and plugged the Standard into one of the SS ports. It's still not coming up, in spite of the fact that it's showing a solid red LED. The Full continues to hash away with no problems.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Known Issues
Q: I have a full package unit and one or more standard units. Some Standard units show 0 hashrate or dont start hashing right away
A: USB Driver is a bit finicky for the USB controller on the hashboard. It can take several minutes for the controller to establish a good connection to the Standard unit and start hashing, so please wait 10-15 minutes and it should start up on its own. If you keep pressing restart the software won't have time to properly start up the hashboards.
Q: I have a full package unit and one or more standard units. Some Standard units show 0 hashrate or dont start hashing right away
A: USB Driver is a bit finicky for the USB controller on the hashboard. It can take several minutes for the controller to establish a good connection to the Standard unit and start hashing, so please wait 10-15 minutes and it should start up on its own. If you keep pressing restart the software won't have time to properly start up the hashboards.
I bought two "sets" of Full & Standard: each hosted at different locations. I have different problems with each of the two sets:
Set 1:
- The ASIC on the Full unit is running fine.
- Can't see the Standard ASIC. lsusb doesn't show the Standard device attached at all, even after replacing the USB cable multiple times.
- Node is running, but only shows 10/32 connections. I'm assuming that's because I already have another node running on a "real" machine on my network that's stealing the inbound connections. (This is not a big deal, I'd just like to confirm that's what's going on.)
Set 2:
- Both hashboards work great and even hash slightly faster than advertised! (Yay!)
- NVMe drive is not detected, even after removing & reseating the drive, so I can't run the node.
TL;DR: I've basically got two out of 4 devices working correctly.
I'll probably mix and match all of the devices to see if it's the USB port on the Full, but regardless, this does not give me a lot of hope in FutureBit's quality control. These boxes look really nice, but they are not robust in the least. Over the years, I've been shipped multiple Bitmain ASICs badly packed in boxes that look like they've been catapulted across the country...and every one of them has run full-bore out of the box. They're basically bulletproof. I want to support USA built products, but it looks like FutureBit has a ways to go to get to that level of reliability.
Any additional thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
The node finally finished syncing last night.
When I came to check on the machine this morning, it was no longer showing the USB device as connected. Couple of questions:
1) Is there a command I can use to force the device to reconnect?
2) Are there logs somewhere that can help me identify what's going on?
When I came to check on the machine this morning, it was no longer showing the USB device as connected. Couple of questions:
1) Is there a command I can use to force the device to reconnect?
2) Are there logs somewhere that can help me identify what's going on?
What USB device? Flash card or mouse/key board?
No. I mean the Standard isn't detected. I only have Hashboard #0 showing. The LED on the Standard is solid red.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
The node finally finished syncing last night.
When I came to check on the machine this morning, it was no longer showing the USB device as connected. Couple of questions:
1) Is there a command I can use to force the device to reconnect?
2) Are there logs somewhere that can help me identify what's going on?
When I came to check on the machine this morning, it was no longer showing the USB device as connected. Couple of questions:
1) Is there a command I can use to force the device to reconnect?
2) Are there logs somewhere that can help me identify what's going on?
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
TL;DR: Do I have to wait for the Full to sync before a completely separate hashboard in my Standard is able to mine? That seems pretty silly.
FWIW, my single standard unit was able to sync and mine at the same time.It took it 48h roughly to sync, which is pretty good. CPU temp was in the 70s / 80s, but that should be no problem for modern chips. In fact, high end desktop CPUs can operate even close to 100C before throttling.
I would just position the thing on top of something else so it can more easily suck in air from the bottom for the little Orange Pi fan.
So it's even weirder. I just ended up leaving it all running overnight...and what do you know--Nicehash is reporting that it's been successfully mining since I posted this message...The web dashboard still shows that the miners are inactive: everything is showing zeroes, even after I refresh the screen. I'm happy that it's successfully mining, but the whole reason I bought these things was to resell them and set them up for normies that want to get into mining in a plug-and-play manner. If the web dashboard doesn't work, that defeats a lot of the purpose for my use case.
Are there logs I need to look at? An update I need to run?
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
TL;DR: Do I have to wait for the Full to sync before a completely separate hashboard in my Standard is able to mine? That seems pretty silly.
I just got a Full & Standard. After plugging them in, I had the problem with the unseated NVMe drive and I've already reflashed my install because I made the mistake of accepting the system upgrades when the machine first booted. (I've since turned off all of the repositories so it thinks I'm fully upgraded.)
ANYWAY...
I'm still waiting for the node to sync. After reading the thread, I'm assuming the miner isn't staying running on the Full because syncing is overheating the CPU. Meanwhile, my Standard is sitting there with a solid red LED on the front, connected via the USB cable, doing nothing. So I restart the miner, it detects both of them, starts them up--going from solid red LED to flashing LED--and then immediately proceeds to show them inactive.
I just got a Full & Standard. After plugging them in, I had the problem with the unseated NVMe drive and I've already reflashed my install because I made the mistake of accepting the system upgrades when the machine first booted. (I've since turned off all of the repositories so it thinks I'm fully upgraded.)
ANYWAY...
I'm still waiting for the node to sync. After reading the thread, I'm assuming the miner isn't staying running on the Full because syncing is overheating the CPU. Meanwhile, my Standard is sitting there with a solid red LED on the front, connected via the USB cable, doing nothing. So I restart the miner, it detects both of them, starts them up--going from solid red LED to flashing LED--and then immediately proceeds to show them inactive.
Re: Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services - for forgotten wallet password
Two thumbs up for Dave. Finally was able to recover a wallet I sent back in December of 2013(!).
He just contacted me out of the blue and let me know that he was ready to send out my funds.
Highly, highly recommended!!
He just contacted me out of the blue and let me know that he was ready to send out my funds.
Highly, highly recommended!!
Another option is to buy some shitcoin ASICs--I've got a few D3 boxes that currently are right around break-even in terms of profitability. Hook them up to a pool like Nicehash that automatically converts to Bitcoin (for ease of use) and you've got Bitcoin-generating heaters like you want.
Ping me if you're interested.
Ping me if you're interested.
+1 to Gabrics' statement.
A major issue for most people running profitability calculations is that they don't consider total cost of electrical: the $/kWh rate listed on your electric bill is probably not the full picture.
And even Gabrics didn't mention another major issue: cooling costs. One of my S9j boxes throws off 1350W of heat...which is like having a hair dryer running full blast on hot...all the time. Multiply that by even 10 boxes, and you're talking about a TON of heat that you have to dispose of.
...and that's not counting the noise.
A major issue for most people running profitability calculations is that they don't consider total cost of electrical: the $/kWh rate listed on your electric bill is probably not the full picture.
And even Gabrics didn't mention another major issue: cooling costs. One of my S9j boxes throws off 1350W of heat...which is like having a hair dryer running full blast on hot...all the time. Multiply that by even 10 boxes, and you're talking about a TON of heat that you have to dispose of.
...and that's not counting the noise.
Someone asked earlier about what the 'default' is for the JSON pulls, i.e.
http://whattomine.com/asic.json
I realized that I have exactly the same question. I have a number of ASICs that hash at different rates, so I need to be able to use separate hashrate values for each of them. However, I don't want to hit the site once per ASIC to get my calculations.
After some rough guessing with the UI, it looks like it's assuming something like 14000Gh/s for SHA-256 (for example). However, it would be nice to know exactly what those defaults are for each algorithm so I don't have to guess.
And yes, I can use a ratio of my hashrate to the estimated 14TH/s number, but it'd be preferable to get the right answer directly.
http://whattomine.com/asic.json
I realized that I have exactly the same question. I have a number of ASICs that hash at different rates, so I need to be able to use separate hashrate values for each of them. However, I don't want to hit the site once per ASIC to get my calculations.
After some rough guessing with the UI, it looks like it's assuming something like 14000Gh/s for SHA-256 (for example). However, it would be nice to know exactly what those defaults are for each algorithm so I don't have to guess.
And yes, I can use a ratio of my hashrate to the estimated 14TH/s number, but it'd be preferable to get the right answer directly.