Using Gridseed 5-chip unit

mkase64 · January 2015

I can't seem to get macminer to see the gridseed unit. Terminal shows a location. Is there a FAQ for setup somewhere that I missed? Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance,

mk

FabulousPanda · January 2015

should work in the GPU window for Litecoin of ASIC window for bitcoin just make sure to put

-S gridseed:all

in the manual flags of the options panel

Dane Skow · April 2015

I also am having trouble configuring a 5 chip Gridseed device. I'm getting about 300 kH/s with these settings
-S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=850 --scrypt
but it seems none of the hashes are being accepted by the BTC pool. I don't see any evidence that the LTC mining is happening at all as there's no mention of that pool in the logs.

Sorry to be so lost, but I got*NO* documentation with the device at all. The only indicators are a blinking green and red led.

FabulousPanda · April 2015

If you're using MacMiner you need to set it to mine Litecoin/scrypt in the miner options panel rather than specifying it with --scrypt, that's why it's using the pool you set up for BTC not LTC

Dane Skow · April 2015

I've tried that (in the GPU miner, right), but now all I get is constant restarts with this error message:

[2015-04-17 09:29:34] Testing pool stratum+tcp://us2.litecoinpool.org:3333

[2015-04-17 09:29:34] HTTP request failed: Protocol stratum+tcp not supported or disabled in libcurl

Dane Skow · April 2015

I tried switching over to BTC (the Gridseed is supposed to be able to do both at once, yes ?) using the ASIC interface and I get the following output. It seems there are no results being produced, yes ? ANy advice on what to do ?

BTW: I'm using MacMiner on a 10.10.3 Macbook Air with a 5-chip Gridseed device hooked up to USB.

Thanks !

Dane

[2015-04-17 14:38:53] Started bfgminer 5.1.0-unknown

[2015-04-17 14:38:53] Loaded configuration file /Users/personal/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/bfgurls.conf

[2015-04-17 14:38:53] No devices detected!

[2015-04-17 14:38:53] Waiting for devices

[2015-04-17 14:38:53] Probing for an alive pool

[2015-04-17 14:38:53] Testing pool http://stratum.triplemining.com:3334

[2015-04-17 14:38:53] HTTP request failed: Empty reply from server

[2015-04-17 14:38:54] HTTP request failed: Empty reply from server

[2015-04-17 14:38:54] JSON-RPC decode failed: [

20,

"_stratum_mining_subscribe() takes exactly 1 positional argument (2 given)"

]

[2015-04-17 14:38:56] JSON-RPC decode failed: [

20,

"_stratum_mining_subscribe() takes exactly 1 positional argument (3 given)"

]

[2015-04-17 14:38:57] Stratum authorisation success for pool 0

[2015-04-17 14:38:57] Stratum connection to pool 0 resumed

[2015-04-17 14:38:57] Pool 0 http://stratum.triplemining.com:3334 alive

[2015-04-17 14:38:57] Network difficulty changed to 49.4G (354.0P)

[2015-04-17 14:38:57] Pool 0 http://stratum.triplemining.com:3334 alive

[2015-04-17 14:38:57] New block: ...8740ee2eca6403dd diff 49.4G (354.0P)

[2015-04-17 14:38:57] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block

[2015-04-17 14:38:57] API running in IP access mode on port 4028

[2015-04-17 14:39:09] New block: ...5ef5021aa06fc661 diff 49.4G (354.0P)

[2015-04-17 14:39:09] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block

20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none

FabulousPanda · April 2015

for the first issue replace stratum+tcp:// with http:// in your pool

For the second - look in to the difference in hash rate when you use both at once, I think you're better off picking one, but if you do go with one it's important to start sha256 before scrypt or vice versa I forget which way around.

A few of the miners came with switches that set the mode, is yours possibly one of those?

Dane Skow · April 2015

No switches on mine. I've been trying to do just one at a time for the same suspicion you have.

Tried switching to http:// with GPU Miner and now I get the following error message but still restarts every few seconds.

[2015-04-19 22:05:28] Probing for an alive pool

[2015-04-19 22:05:28] Testing pool http://us2.litecoinpool.org:3333

[2015-04-19 22:05:28] JSON-RPC call failed: {

"message": "You are trying to connect to a Stratum server but you are not using the right protocol. Make sure your URL starts with stratum+tcp://",

"code": 0

}

[2015-04-19 22:05:28] Testing pool 0 stratum stratum+tcp://us2.litecoinpool.org:3333

I'm able to mine LTC with the ASIC page setting it to BTC and giving a Litecoin pool, but that's the only combination that works and it works intermittently. Would like to try just plain BTC mining now but have had no success.

Dane Skow · April 2015

Are there clues in the two LEDs ? The one closest to the USB port (labelled LED3) flashes green and starts up quickly. The other LED flashes red and starts much more slowly. Could one be a status LED for the LTC miner and the other for BTC ?

FabulousPanda · May 2015

Sorry for the delay. I'm afraid BitMain haven't been at all supportive in my contact with them on this and bfgminer hasn't been updated in some time. That compounded with the hectic nature of my IRL life atm means I don't have time to look in to this unfortunately. I will update the forum with a status update.

FabulousPanda · May 2015

On the off chance this helped, here's a post someone wrote about getting Gridseed and Fury miners working with MacMiner

http://www.tokyobitcoiner.com/post/100563045434/running-four-gridseed-orbs-and-one-gawminers-fury

I never owned them and I'm out of touch, so…

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