Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2

[socal]

Has anyone managed to get Burst plotting/mining working on the RPi2? I was researching it a bit earlier and from what I have found it doesn't seem like it, if anyone knows

1. What is the exact issue with Burst plotting/mining on RPi

2. What can/needs to be done to fix it, if anything

[haitch]

@socal I believe someone got it working, but I don't know what happened with the project, or the availability of the plotter/miner

[socal]

@haitch said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:

@socal I believe someone got it working, but I don't know what happened with the project, or the availability of the plotter/miner

lmao ok thats disappointing I was really looking forward to putting my two RPi2s to work as the Nexus of my Burst rig

[gpedro]

@socal I never used a PI but i suggested in another thread that you could try uploading a Android version to he PI and run the Android Wallet and use it for mining... Nobody seemed to reply to that so maybe it's a stupid idea LOL

If you managed to make it work let us know please ;D

[rnahlawi]

@socal I made all kinds of experiments on PI 3 and no luck with mining, It keeps crashing. Those moments which makes me think like "Only if I can write code"
So, Yes please, tell us your findings :)

[gpedro]

@rnahlawi but you made it in Linux SO right?

[rnahlawi]

@gpedro I made it working in PI Emulator on the desktop. On the real PI, it starts to mine and then crashes when find short DL or after a short period of time. I guess its the ARM compatibility which I don't know how to fix, compiling the miner didn't work on PI too.

[gpedro]

@rnahlawi As far as i know the only miner that was built for running on ARM architechtures was the one in the Android Wallet so that was the reason for my suggestion of try to run an Android Version on the Pi but since i never used a Pi i don't even know if that is possible xD

[rnahlawi]

@gpedro Never tried Android image on the PI. In theory it should work. I know for sure that this Android image works on PI and I will give it a shot this weekend.
Maybe @daWallet can give us his feedback as he's the owner of those tools.

[gpedro]

@rnahlawi you missed a ")" xD
@daWallet and @IceBurst are the creators of that tools but i think they didn't tried this approach in Pi's only on mobiles, tablets and Android TV's!

[rnahlawi]

@gpedro Better :D

[gpedro]

@rnahlawi Much hahaha
Will be waiting for your feedback on that ;D Would love to see a Pi mine BURST?!

[IceBurst]

@gpedro

@gpedro said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:

@rnahlawi you missed a ")" xD
@daWallet and @IceBurst are the creators of that tools but i think they didn't tried this approach in Pi's only on mobiles, tablets and Android TV's!

So I know I could get it working but it's really not a "best use of time" for me. The Android project is designed to reach the masses. The Pi targets the "tinkering" community. The processing power of a Pi would make plotting and mining brutal if you had an external drive attached. I don't see it as a viable tool for mining if you have TBs attached externally as the processor still have to perform a number of SHA calculations (given only one per 4096 nonces)

Sorry my response wasn't more positive.

-IceBurst

[haitch]

@IceBurst Plotting would be brutal, but with an external drive that was pre-plotted, could a Pi mine ?

[IceBurst]

@haitch said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:

@IceBurst Plotting would be brutal, but with an external drive that was pre-plotted, could a Pi mine ?

Could it? Yes, Could it do it in a timely manor? Probably not. I don't have any empirical data to support this its just a hypothesis based on what I have seen in Android World.

-IceBurst

[haitch]

@IceBurst That was my thought as well - but having never used a Pi I wanted a better informed opinion.

[Focus]

@IceBurst said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:

@haitch said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:

@IceBurst Plotting would be brutal, but with an external drive that was pre-plotted, could a Pi mine ?

Could it? Yes, Could it do it in a timely manor? Probably not. I don't have any empirical data to support this its just a hypothesis based on what I have seen in Android World.

-IceBurst

I agree with the older Pis, but some of the newer ones may be faster. Especially if the miner were written in python.

[gpedro]

@Focus said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:

@IceBurst said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:

@haitch said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:

@IceBurst Plotting would be brutal, but with an external drive that was pre-plotted, could a Pi mine ?

Could it? Yes, Could it do it in a timely manor? Probably not. I don't have any empirical data to support this its just a hypothesis based on what I have seen in Android World.

-IceBurst

I agree with the older Pis, but some of the newer ones may be faster. Especially if the miner were written in python.

We have someone in here that i know is good in python ;D
@ccminer What are your thoughts?

@IceBurst Thanks for the feedback... Ofc i don't think that for plotting a Pi would be good but for mining could be amazing if it reads with good times xD

[rapidfireman]

I was thinking of building a pi cluster. How would that match up, or would it not be able to utilize all of the cpu's running.

[socal]

Well what I wanted was to use my computer for plotting and regular computer stuff and to use my RPi2s as the platforms to run the wallet/miner for external HDDs attached to them, in over clock mode the processor gets about 1100 MHz I believe but I'd have to double check on that.