OLD: BFGMiner 3.10.0: modular ASIC+FPGA, GBT+Strtm, RPC, Mac/Lnx/W64, AntU1, DRB

[sevenlee038]

Really thank you , man!

[Harwood]

@ItsUnderstood, forget the Mining_Proxy. I got a 'Cube a couple of weeks ago, and went though the same thing. I am using BFGMiner with "C:\bfgminer\bfgminer.exe -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0A81 --http-port 8330". That's right I am also using with a ANTMiner U1, though it is not on this box anymore because of worker difficulty differences, it now lives with my block eruptors.  Notice that I am using port 8330, if you want to set to something else go ahead and change it.

Example of output:

bfgminer version 3.10.0 - Started: [2014-03-03 14:26:43] - [  1 day  06:31:26]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management S]ettings [D]isplay options                                                       [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to stratum-lb-usa48.btcguild.com diff 16 with stratum as user RobertFHarwood_Cube00
 Block: ...8e36365e #288964  Diff:3.81G (27.31Ph/s)  Started: [20:40:52]
 ST:4  F:2  NB:192  AS:0  BW:[ 58/ 53 B/s]  E:115.98  I:  149uBTC/hr  BS:7.35M
 1            | 36.87/27.95/27.17Gh/s | A:43397 R:737+13(1.7%) HW:7829/1.1%
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PXY 0:       | 35.75/27.95/27.17Gh/s | A:43398 R:737+13(1.7%) HW:7829/1.1%
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2014-03-04 20:56:53] Accepted 06ad0b8d PXY 0  Diff 38/16
 [2014-03-04 20:56:54] Accepted 08060ff4 PXY 0  Diff 31/16
 [2014-03-04 20:56:55] Accepted 00a95ef5 PXY 0  Diff 386/16
 [2014-03-04 20:56:56] Accepted 0528b3f3 PXY 0  Diff 49/16
 [2014-03-04 20:56:58] Accepted 03f6b0de PXY 0  Diff 64/16
 [2014-03-04 20:56:59] Accepted 06dc105d PXY 0  Diff 37/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:00] Accepted 0d1a8d38 PXY 0  Diff 19/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:00] Accepted 05cd8f10 PXY 0  Diff 44/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:01] Accepted 05dd0d73 PXY 0  Diff 43/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:08] Accepted 084b902e PXY 0  Diff 30/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:09] Accepted 046c963e PXY 0  Diff 57/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:14] Accepted 0609bc2c PXY 0  Diff 42/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:14] Accepted 06ef3f87 PXY 0  Diff 36/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:14] Accepted 03be9bc2 PXY 0  Diff 68/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:18] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2014-03-04 20:57:19] Accepted 0ac0b5c7 PXY 0  Diff 23/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:19] Accepted 030a48e3 PXY 0  Diff 84/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:21] Accepted 0cf5532c PXY 0  Diff 19/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:23] Accepted 0c0e1f03 PXY 0  Diff 21/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:25] Accepted 03f08467 PXY 0  Diff 64/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:25] Accepted 0f80d6dc PXY 0  Diff 16/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:26] Accepted 0aa4b5f2 PXY 0  Diff 24/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:27] Accepted 03559575 PXY 0  Diff 76/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:32] Accepted 0efeaaf1 PXY 0  Diff 17/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:32] Accepted 03c0452e PXY 0  Diff 68/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:33] Accepted 0b1943e4 PXY 0  Diff 23/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:34] Accepted 0e2a42bb PXY 0  Diff 18/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:40] Accepted 0fae930d PXY 0  Diff 16/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:45] Accepted 07b6a382 PXY 0  Diff 33/16
 [2014-03-04 20:57:48] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2014-03-04 20:57:51] Accepted 07a7c00f PXY 0  Diff 33/16

[itsunderstood]

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I figured it out: Though I had Comodo firewall on the host machine I had shut it down, thinking that would fix it.  Of course comodo was still running and was blocking ports (never assume).  Once I started comodo up and approved the port, my cube showed up immediately in bfgminer.  I do feel a bit stupid, but anyway, thanks for your help!

[Harwood]

No problem and you are welcome.  Good Luck.

[Fiyasko]

Hey just wondering, Is there a way to get BFGminer to mine two differant coins at once with differant devices?
I've got a few USB ASIC's plugged in and im finally deciding to switch my GPU's over to LTC, and i was hoping it would be as simple as setting the GPU's to script and changing the pool for them (somehow)

but i expect to have to run two differant instances of bfgminer

[Harwood]

I agree that you can't run two coins on the same miner.  Additionally I would do the Scrypt with SGMiner.

[ManeBjorn]

Use MultiMiner, It uses BFGMiner as a back end and has a great GUI and you can set each device to it's own coin if you want.  It also has an easy setup for adding arguments for your SHA and Scrypt miners.
https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=248173.0
Try it out it will be much easier and do what you need it too.

Hey just wondering, Is there a way to get BFGminer to mine two differant coins at once with differant devices?
I've got a few USB ASIC's plugged in and im finally deciding to switch my GPU's over to LTC, and i was hoping it would be as simple as setting the GPU's to script and changing the pool for them (somehow)

but i expect to have to run two differant instances of bfgminer

[wolfey2014]

Okay, I think I'm going to get pummeled by a bunch of GPU loving hashers but I have to ask. Does MultiMiner work with the new GS3355 5 Chip miners?

If so, wonderful! If not, why? Are you working on it?

I've been using cpuminer for some time now,easy to use, easy to mine with.
It was recently suggested to me that I use cgminer 3.7.2 because I want cpuminer to show the actual local hash rate of my miners. So instead of saying "yeah man, we're working on it" they suggested 3.7.2. I really don't want to go through the whole learning curve again, especially with all the code one has to learn just to run these things, so until they come out with a streamlined version and given the fact that my miners are mining happily, I'm not going to convert!...Not yet! Not for a while.

MultiMiner though, sounds like the program for me! If it works with GC3355's.
Would be great if it showed local hash rates too

Thanks and happy hashing, my fellow hash heads!
Wolfey2014

[ManeBjorn]

Yes they are working on support for it right now.
So far they have a pre-release for the USB DualMiners and Nate is busily working on support for the 5 chip units for BFG/MultiMiner.

Okay, I think I'm going to get pummeled by a bunch of GPU loving hashers but I have to ask. Does MultiMiner work with the new GS3355 5 Chip miners?

If so, wonderful! If not, why? Are you working on it?

I've been using cpuminer for some time now,easy to use, easy to mine with.
It was recently suggested to me that I use cgminer 3.7.2 because I want cpuminer to show the actual local hash rate of my miners. So instead of saying "yeah man, we're working on it" they suggested 3.7.2. I really don't want to go through the whole learning curve again, especially with all the code one has to learn just to run these things, so until they come out with a streamlined version and given the fact that my miners are mining happily, I'm not going to convert!...Not yet! Not for a while.

MultiMiner though, sounds like the program for me! If it works with GC3355's.
Would be great if it showed local hash rates too

Thanks and happy hashing, my fellow hash heads!
Wolfey2014

[wolfey2014]

Yes they are working on support for it right now.
So far they have a pre-release for the USB DualMiners and Nate is busily working on support for the 5 chip units for BFG/MultiMiner.

Okay, I think I'm going to get pummeled by a bunch of GPU loving hashers but I have to ask. Does MultiMiner work with the new GS3355 5 Chip miners?

If so, wonderful! If not, why? Are you working on it?

I've been using cpuminer for some time now,easy to use, easy to mine with.
It was recently suggested to me that I use cgminer 3.7.2 because I want cpuminer to show the actual local hash rate of my miners. So instead of saying "yeah man, we're working on it" they suggested 3.7.2. I really don't want to go through the whole learning curve again, especially with all the code one has to learn just to run these things, so until they come out with a streamlined version and given the fact that my miners are mining happily, I'm not going to convert!...Not yet! Not for a while.

MultiMiner though, sounds like the program for me! If it works with GC3355's.
Would be great if it showed local hash rates too

Thanks and happy hashing, my fellow hash heads!
Wolfey2014

Cool, can you provide me with their contact info? Website url?
Thanks
Wolfey2014

[BRADLEYPLOOF]

Hey just wondering, Is there a way to get BFGminer to mine two differant coins at once with differant devices?
I've got a few USB ASIC's plugged in and im finally deciding to switch my GPU's over to LTC, and i was hoping it would be as simple as setting the GPU's to script and changing the pool for them (somehow)

but i expect to have to run two differant instances of bfgminer

Best place to go to mine multiple types of coin is scryptguild.com  Run by eleutheria from btcguild it auto switches between the most profitable coins, can auto convert to bitcoin, or you can just keep hodling the many different types of coins that you mine.  Works great!  I've only got about 120 kh/s that i'm using there and it's earning me about .001 BTC a day. 

[Harwood]

I have been using ScryptGuild since its first few days and its is my primary scrypt pool.  It has been more profitable for me than MultiPool.  I ran identical rigs for a week and tracked income.  I enthusiastically recommend ScryptGuild!

But in this case it is two different alog., SHA-256 and Scrypt.  Hence, two different client instances, one for each alog.. @ManeBjorn suggestion may work, but LukeJr has stated that support for Scrypt is no longer happening in BFGMiner.  That was the reason that CGMiner got forked to produce SGMiner.  Don't get me wrong I love BFGMiner for SHA-256, and I wish the support was there for Scrypt.  With the growing interest in Scrypt processing I would hope that someone would come to LukeJr's aid and do the support.  I am sure with the every changing hardware for SHA-256 he is very busy supporting BFGMiner.  We who use it should donate some to of what we mine to the person who is making it happen.

Hey just wondering, Is there a way to get BFGminer to mine two differant coins at once with differant devices?
I've got a few USB ASIC's plugged in and im finally deciding to switch my GPU's over to LTC, and i was hoping it would be as simple as setting the GPU's to script and changing the pool for them (somehow)

but i expect to have to run two differant instances of bfgminer

Best place to go to mine multiple types of coin is scryptguild.com  Run by eleutheria from btcguild it auto switches between the most profitable coins, can auto convert to bitcoin, or you can just keep hodling the many different types of coins that you mine.  Works great!  I've only got about 120 kh/s that i'm using there and it's earning me about .001 BTC a day.  

[Cassey]

But in this case it is two different alog., SHA-256 and Scrypt.  Hence, two different client instances, one for each alog.. @ManeBjorn suggestion may work, but LukeJr has stated that support for Scrypt is no longer happening in BFGMiner. 

Huh?  Every post I've seen in the past month from Luke has debunked that rumor.  He isn't personally doing the support, but the development team for BFGminer is fully behind Scrypt.  Heck, he still has CPU mining support in the codebase!

[Harwood]

I got it from his read me file.

But in this case it is two different alog., SHA-256 and Scrypt.  Hence, two different client instances, one for each alog.. @ManeBjorn suggestion may work, but LukeJr has stated that support for Scrypt is no longer happening in BFGMiner. 

Huh?  Every post I've seen in the past month from Luke has debunked that rumor.  He isn't personally doing the support, but the development team for BFGminer is fully behind Scrypt.  Heck, he still has CPU mining support in the codebase!

[Cassey]

I got it from his read me file.

But in this case it is two different alog., SHA-256 and Scrypt.  Hence, two different client instances, one for each alog.. @ManeBjorn suggestion may work, but LukeJr has stated that support for Scrypt is no longer happening in BFGMiner. 

Huh?  Every post I've seen in the past month from Luke has debunked that rumor.  He isn't personally doing the support, but the development team for BFGminer is fully behind Scrypt.  Heck, he still has CPU mining support in the codebase!

Which readme?  I'm looking at the 3.10.0 bfgminer ones and not finding what your referencing...

[Luke-Jr]

But in this case it is two different alog., SHA-256 and Scrypt.  Hence, two different client instances, one for each alog.. @ManeBjorn suggestion may work, but LukeJr has stated that support for Scrypt is no longer happening in BFGMiner. 

Huh?  Every post I've seen in the past month from Luke has debunked that rumor.  He isn't personally doing the support, but the development team for BFGminer is fully behind Scrypt.  Heck, he still has CPU mining support in the codebase!

I got it from his read me file.

I see nothing of this sort.

I don't know why the sgminer folks aren't interested in collaboration; you'd have to ask them.

[TheXev]

But in this case it is two different alog., SHA-256 and Scrypt.  Hence, two different client instances, one for each alog.. @ManeBjorn suggestion may work, but LukeJr has stated that support for Scrypt is no longer happening in BFGMiner.  That was the reason that CGMiner got forked to produce SGMiner.  Don't get me wrong I love BFGMiner for SHA-256, and I wish the support was there for Scrypt.  With the growing interest in Scrypt processing I would hope that someone would come to LukeJr's aid and do the support.  I am sure with the every changing hardware for SHA-256 he is very busy supporting BFGMiner.  We who use it should donate some to of what we mine to the person who is making it happen.

Code:

If you wish to donate to the author of scrypt support, Con Kolivas, for his past
work (he no longer maintains this), please send your donations to:
15qSxP1SQcUX3o4nhkfdbgyoWEFMomJ4rZ

Perhaps this opening line from README.scrypt is confusing?  It is simply crediting Kolivas as the original writer of scrypt support and giving a donation address.  SGminer is a fork of cgminer, and cgminer has discontinued scrypt support, but bfgminer still has it and it will be carried as long as people want support.  I am just as confused as Luke-Jr on why the SGMiner crew wouldn't want to collaborate to improve scrypt support in bfgminer (if it possible).

Since my own card doesn't seem to like scrypt, I haven't been able to properly compare SGminer and bfgminer's scrypt support from a usability standpoint. :/

[nwoolls]

SGminer is a fork of cgminer, and cgminer has discontinued scrypt support, but bfgminer still has it and it will be carried as long as people want support.  I am just as confused as Luke-Jr on why the SGMiner crew wouldn't want to collaborate to improve scrypt support in bfgminer (if it possible).

Count me among the confused. I have suggested and requested that they merge their changes back upstream to BFGMiner and gotten nowhere with them. It's very unfortunate as I think that continuing to fork-and-change these miners makes it much harder for the community to support them with higher-level tools (like MultiMiner).

BFGMiner is not dropping Scrypt support. In fact version 3.10 included fixes (by Luke) for R9 class hardware that the SGMiner folks then cherry-picked into their own code.

Additionally, version 4.0 of BFGMiner is slated to have a bunch of Scrypt related improvements including support for higher intensities, shader-based intensities, better support for cards with different GPU-thread settings, and support for Scrypt ASICs.

On top of that we are actively in discussion with other dev teams on merging in new algorithms such as Keccak.

If anything BFGMiner has never been more committed to supporting more types of hardware and algorithms.

[BRADLEYPLOOF]

Definitely glad to have such awesome support personnel for this wonderful program!  Wish I could contribute, but I'd have to delve back into my C++ books and take a look at all the different parts of the code to do some reverse engineering.  If there's anything I can do to contribute, or if there's a white paper available on how BFG Miner works I'd love to read it.

[nwoolls]

Definitely glad to have such awesome support personnel for this wonderful program!  Wish I could contribute, but I'd have to delve back into my C++ books and take a look at all the different parts of the code to do some reverse engineering.  If there's anything I can do to contribute, or if there's a white paper available on how BFG Miner works I'd love to read it.

I'm learning C in doing this - I code in Objective-C and C# which aren't far off but there is a lot of learning going on here. Luke is great with code reviews and I've learned a lot just by doing these drivers and some bug fixes for OS X.

I'd start by getting the source code setup so you can debug it and step through it. I use NetBeans on Windows for that and Xcode on OS X as I like IDEs. I can help with that setup if you want.

Beyond that reference this file for how the drivers in BFGMiner work internally:

https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/HACKING