Hi,
This is my first post.
Was up in the attic, and found my RockMiner New R-Box that I was using before :)
And wanted to try building a Raspberry Pi mini home mining farm.
I aslo have some GekkoScience 2Pac, and bought some GekkoScience NewPac.
Hardware:
- Sipolar 10 Port USB 2.0 Hub 5V 20 Amp
- Gekkoscience 7 Port USB Hub 2.0
- EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G3, 80 Plus Gold 1000W
- ARCTIC Breeze Mobile USB-Powered 92mm Portable Fan
- USB fan fra China
- ENERMAX T.B. SILENCE PWM FAN 120MM
- 5 GekkoScience 2Pac
- 5 GekkoScience NewPac
- RockMiner New R-Box
- Raspberry Pi
Also have a Futurebit Apollo LTC Pod Scrypt ASIC Miner that I bought to have in my office.
Setup:
Download Minera:
https://getminera.com/
And write it to Raspberry Pi SD-card.
- If you are on Windows you can use Win32DiskImager
- If you are on a Mac OS X you can use ApplePi-Baker
- If you are on Linux you can use ImageWriter or the command line below
dd bs=4M if=minera-latest.img of=/dev/your-sd-card
Github:
https://github.com/getminera/minera
Then you need to install cgminer with correct drivers for the GekkoScience NewPac, GekkoScience 2Pac and RockMiner New R-Box.
When you have installed Minera, start the Raspberry Pi, and find the IP.
Then go in your browser and type:
http://<your-controller-ip>/minera/
Default password: minera
When you are on Minera, in the left menu click on "System". And the click on "Open terminal".
Then type in terminal:
cd /var/www/minera/minera-bin/src
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev screen libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev
sudo mkdir -p git/vthoang; cd git/vthoang
sudo git clone https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer.git
cd cgminer
sudo CFLAGS="-O2" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko --enable-icarus
make -j 2
cp cgminer /var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-vthoang
cd /var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom
exit
Shutdown Raspberry Pi, and plug in miners you want to use.
When miners are connected to the Raspberry Pi, power it up.
Log into Minera. (http://<your-controller-ip>/minera/)
In the left menu, click on Settings then Custom Miners.
Enable your custom miner, cgminer-vthoang.
Under Local Miner Settings, select your custom miner, cgminer-vthoang. Enable logging and Append JSON conf.
Under Pools Settings, configure your pool. Make sure your new pool is the first option by dragging it above or removing the donation pool. (You must have a wallet and a pool account for the coin you’re going to mine. (ex. solo.ckpool.org, ckpool.org, SlushPool, TheCoin.pw, etc.)
Or you can mine solo to own node :)
Aften you have the settings you want, reboot Minera.
If you want to try solo mining, this site is fun:
http://solochance.com/