GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[sidehack]

No, I don't have YouTube anything since they started requiring attachment to a Google account to login - my YouTube account predated the buyout by a couple years.

This thread is basically the official source for information on setup. The first post has info on compiling cgminer to run a Compac; checking cgminer's readme file should give you the rest of what you need to know to enable Rockminer support. BFGMiner probably already has both miners in it by default.

The closest thing to the new product you're asking for which is in the works is a new idea we're working on, as described in this thread. We're still working on getting new-gen chips to play with so I don't have any designs based around them yet.

[spazzdla]

No, I don't have YouTube anything since they started requiring attachment to a Google account to login - my YouTube account predated the buyout by a couple years.

This thread is basically the official source for information on setup. The first post has info on compiling cgminer to run a Compac; checking cgminer's readme file should give you the rest of what you need to know to enable Rockminer support. BFGMiner probably already has both miners in it by default.

The closest thing to the new product you're asking for which is in the works is a new idea we're working on, as described in this thread. We're still working on getting new-gen chips to play with so I don't have any designs based around them yet.

Ahh sweet, thanks for the help man!!

just got to thinking the Hz of these guys will be different... is CGminer going to run them both at the same Hz?

[notlist3d]

The only conflict I know if is with Icarus. If the New R-box support not built with Icarus (which seems likely) you should be able to compile a cgminer-gekko with support for both. I can't confirm that without testing, but probably.

I'm running a RPI.  I have the review stick, and black prototype one running on regular CGminer with Iccarus.  And 3 production models running on cgminer-gekko with compac support.

It works fine mixing these two with it just have to have two installs.  And then I select devices that should go with each cgminer instance.  Works out pretty well.  I have not ran them in one instance yet though.

[spazzdla]

The only conflict I know if is with Icarus. If the New R-box support not built with Icarus (which seems likely) you should be able to compile a cgminer-gekko with support for both. I can't confirm that without testing, but probably.

I'm running a RPI.  I have the review stick, and black prototype one running on regular CGminer with Iccarus.  And 3 production models running on cgminer-gekko with compac support.

It works fine mixing these two with it just have to have two installs.  And then I select devices that should go with each cgminer instance.  Works out pretty well.  I have not ran them in one instance yet though.

So you have two mining programs runnig kind of idea?  OOH I do like this idea.. So I could mine BTC and something else with two miners connected to one computer?

[Mikestang]

So you have two mining programs runnig kind of idea?  OOH I do like this idea.. So I could mine BTC and something else with two miners connected to one computer?

I have 3 instances of cgminer running, each controlling different usb miners.  This allows me to reset just one miner (typically my U3) without affecting my gekko sticks or my nanofury sticks.  There's posts in this thread, I believe, that help you how to do it.  I use the --usb command to specify a certain number of devices for each cgminer instance, but there are other ways of doing it as well.

[notlist3d]

The only conflict I know if is with Icarus. If the New R-box support not built with Icarus (which seems likely) you should be able to compile a cgminer-gekko with support for both. I can't confirm that without testing, but probably.

I'm running a RPI.  I have the review stick, and black prototype one running on regular CGminer with Iccarus.  And 3 production models running on cgminer-gekko with compac support.

It works fine mixing these two with it just have to have two installs.  And then I select devices that should go with each cgminer instance.  Works out pretty well.  I have not ran them in one instance yet though.

So you have two mining programs runnig kind of idea?  OOH I do like this idea.. So I could mine BTC and something else with two miners connected to one computer?

Yes works great.  You do have to do the install more then once you cannot use the one install for both instances.  So I have 2 install's one is regular cgminer other is the gekko cgminer.

Now look at selecting only devices for each one (easy to do by plugging in first ones and find device numbers, then start it and rest plugged in after are for next instance).

If you need more detailed instructions let me know and I will be happy to. I'm running it on RPI.

[toptek]

Anyone familiar with Minera?  I have 1 stick throwing multiple hardware errors and would like to single that particular stick out.  All Minera shows is Compaq0 to Compaq8

I'm using it with one stick but all you have to do in minera is set once the speed with either BFG 5.3 or CGMINER by novak you may need to compile and put in your own copy's, if you know how to do it with one software miner it's the same way with the other one with the custom folder or replace the default miners all to gather in minera. if you need a walk thu let me know .


In minera you should  be able to plug all you have in at once then it's list them all with BFG or CG. no need to run it with two or three mineras, unless you run separate controllers.

[notlist3d]

Anyone familiar with Minera?  I have 1 stick throwing multiple hardware errors and would like to single that particular stick out.  All Minera shows is Compaq0 to Compaq8

I'm using it with one stick but all you have to do in minera is set once the speed with either BFG 5.3 or CGMINER by novak you may need to compile and put in your own copy's, if you know how to do it with one software miner it's the same way with the other one with the custom folder or replace the default miners all to gather in minera. if you need a walk thu let me know .


In minera you should  be able to plug all you have in at once then it's list them all with BFG or CG. no need to run it with two or three mineras, unless you run separate controllers.

In the compac thread there is also a pre-compiled Minera version to work with compacs.   It is a image to burn to SD card, I have not tried it.

I kinda like having my RPI on raspbian and being able to control everything there very easy.  I can also use multiple different items through it easily by running multiple CGMiner instances.

[Ecnad]

In the compac thread there is also a pre-compiled Minera version to work with compacs.   It is a image to burn to SD card, I have not tried it.

I kinda like having my RPI on raspbian and being able to control everything there very easy.  I can also use multiple different items through it easily by running multiple CGMiner instances.

I'm using it to run 3 Compac's. Set-up was easy and I can manage minera from my PC. Highly reccomend edonkey's minera

[notlist3d]

In the compac thread there is also a pre-compiled Minera version to work with compacs.   It is a image to burn to SD card, I have not tried it.

I kinda like having my RPI on raspbian and being able to control everything there very easy.  I can also use multiple different items through it easily by running multiple CGMiner instances.

I'm using it to run 3 Compac's. Set-up was easy and I can manage minera from my PC. Highly reccomend edonkey's minera

And I should clarify I meant nothing bad about his image. I think it is awesome he did it, and great for the community he saved many people time.

I use the raspbian OS as I have 2 types of miners running.  It allows me to control them, and I don't mind controlling by terminal.   But for most the GUI with minera Edonkey did chances are will be like by more people then what I'm doing.

[Jake36]

In the compac thread there is also a pre-compiled Minera version to work with compacs.   It is a image to burn to SD card, I have not tried it.

I kinda like having my RPI on raspbian and being able to control everything there very easy.  I can also use multiple different items through it easily by running multiple CGMiner instances.

I'm using it to run 3 Compac's. Set-up was easy and I can manage minera from my PC. Highly reccomend edonkey's minera

And I should clarify I meant nothing bad about his image. I think it is awesome he did it, and great for the community he saved many people time.

I use the raspbian OS as I have 2 types of miners running.  It allows me to control them, and I don't mind controlling by terminal.   But for most the GUI with minera Edonkey did chances are will be like by more people then what I'm doing.

I tried the minera Edonkey made and it works good, but I still prefer the raspbian/cgminer.

Right now, I'm trying out 2015-04-06-ubuntu-trusty on a Pi 2. Going to let it run for 24 hrs and see how it runs the compac's. but just playing around with getting it setup and everything, it seems a little bit faster (it doesn't have the desktop or all the other unneeded things), so will see.

[Jake36]

First time I had a problem.  Was not the compacs fault though.  It appears my RPI lost power and rebooted.

Is there any kinda scrypt to use to automatically start once it's started to GUI on RPI?  That would fix the power issue I had.  Which again is my power not the USB's fault.

Just seen this.

You need to install "screen" (to be able to see the cgminer display window, either in terminal on the Pi or in putty from another computer).

Then just add lines into the "/etc/rc.local" file, just above the "exit 0" line,

"sleep 10s" (just gives the pi time to get everything up and running, can be longer/shorter)
"cd /home/"your-user/cgminer" (or what ever you called the 1 for pre-production ones)
"screen -dmS cgminer sudo ./cgminer -o (and the rest, just as if you were starting it the command line)"
"sleep 10s" (again just to give time for the above to start)
"cd home/"your-user"/cgminer-gekko" (or what ever for production ones)
screen -dmS cgminer sudo ./cgminer -o (and the rest)", then save, reboot and see if it works.

If it works, in a terminal "sudo screen -x cgminer", it should give you a message that has 2 "#'s.cgminer" listed, once you get the #'s, do the "sudo screen -r #'s.cgminer" to bring up 1 of the cgminer's, open a second terminal use the other #'s.cgminer for the second cgminer.

That should start the Pi mining as soon as it boots/reboots for any reason and use "screen" to see the cgminer's.

EDIT: Forgot the production sticks work with the regular cgminer, so you should put the cgminer-gekko to start first so it finds the production sticks (don't know if you need to use the --usb :#of production sticks in the -o pool line) or not) and then start the regular cgminer.

[toptek]

http://aperiodic.net/screen/start


if you don't want it to auto load


get http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html   putty ..

Then SSH into the PI

type

sudo apt-get install screen  sometimes it is not installed

screen bash

CD to the directly of CG or BFG miner something like this


CD bfgminer or CD / cgminer-gekko  whatever and were ever you happen to put it, then type

 ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://yoururl  -u USER  -p x --compac-freq 150
 ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://yoururl -u USER -p x --set compac:clock=x0b83


then type once it loads if you need to turn off that PC and let the PI do it''s thing .
CTRL + A D then again D that should close out that window .

to check it either type

screen -list gives a list of all running screens detached or not

or type

screen -r  in most case that shows the running screen then runs it .

type
CTRL + A D to detach it then type D again to close it out .

if want to do it the manual way .

[Mikestang]

Cross posting this information as it is directly applicable to this thread.  Maybe insert it into the first post as well?  At least until bfg 5.4.0 is released.

Using 5.3.0 to run a couple gekko compac sticks and no matter what value I input for --set compac:clock= the sticks hash as if they were set to 225 (x0882), so at about 11GH/s each.  Any idea why the sticks are not taking the frequency setting?

Found this bug. Will fix in 5.4.

Workaround: Use --set cbm:clock=x0783 instead.
I forgot to set the "compac" name on the driver... :|

edit - I have been unable to produce successful results with the revised cbm command, my sticks still hash at default frequency.

[Jake-R]

Are any of these for sale yet that will work with BFG Miner (and MultiMiner)? I read that the sample ones do not and the ones one vendor had in stock a couple weeks ago do not. I'd love to pick up a couple of these. I wish the voltage was also software controlled - would make playing with them remotely easier.

[Meech]

The latest BfgMiner it will but my experience with it was satisfactory.  Just use Cgminer-gekko and it works flawlessly.

[sidehack]

Software-controlled voltage would be nice, but the added cost and complexity was ruled out for the design. If we build another one with a new chip in the future we'll probably put that on there since we'll have already worked out most of the specifics for other things and because since a fair amount of the overall design would transfer directly from the existing version of the Compac to a new one, which means I won't have to start from scratch with the dev of literally every piece of the thing next time.

All our sticks get tested with cgminer-gekko so I know it works. BFG is out of our hands.

[notlist3d]

Software-controlled voltage would be nice, but the added cost and complexity was ruled out for the design. If we build another one with a new chip in the future we'll probably put that on there since we'll have already worked out most of the specifics for other things and because since a fair amount of the overall design would transfer directly from the existing version of the Compac to a new one, which means I won't have to start from scratch with the dev of literally every piece of the thing next time.

All our sticks get tested with cgminer-gekko so I know it works. BFG is out of our hands.

I would agree with using cgminer-gekko.  Using BFG I can understand if someone was use to it.  But Novak did a amazing job with cgminer-gekko and it just works.

So I would take easy route.  Also it's nice and easy to change freq with numbers.

[spazzdla]

Can this be ran on unbuntu?

Also the "new rbox" is using Icurus :S .. (On my windows PC, nothing running on my ubuntu)

[notlist3d]

Can this be ran on unbuntu?

Also the "new rbox" is using Icurus :S .. (On my windows PC, nothing running on my ubuntu)

Yes it can be used on Ubuntu.  The instructions might be a tad different then the Debian ones.  But it will be very close.

Basically forget about Icurus.  Install the compac-cgminer and run it.   So you will need to install it and use it for best results.