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Bitfury B8 Open Miner — Quick Start Guide

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Summary of Contents for B8

Page 1: ...Bitfury B8 Open Miner Quick Start Guide v 1 3 ...

Page 2: ...nt describes all required procedures needed to start up your B8 Open Miner 1 Preparing SD Card 2 2 Preparing miner for Firmware flashing 4 3 Connecting to your Open Miner 5 4 Performing tests 6 5 Setting up a pool 9 6 Remote assistance 10 7 Changing passwords 12 ...

Page 3: ...sert the SD card into your SD card reader You can use the SD card slot if you have one or an SD adapter in a USB port Note the drive letter assigned to the SD card You can see the drive letter in My Computer in Windows Download and install the Win32DiskImager from this location https sourceforge net projects win32diskimager Run the Win32DiskImager utility from your desktop or menu Select the image...

Page 4: ...ean that Open Miner equipped with Raspberry Pi device Open Miner contains Orange Pi Zero SD card image we are providing is not compatible with Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi cannot boot from this image We are providing this links because it contains well described process of preparation SD card images on Linux Mac OS systems When the flashing process is complete install this SD card into Orange Pi ...

Page 5: ...te PLEASE NOTE In some cases first run major software update B8 Open Miner should automatically update internal firmware To allow firmware update special PROG jumper should be set Location of PROG jumper inside of Open Miner Please perform this operation when your Open Miner is switched off ...

Page 6: ...rating system is loading now If green LED on Orange Pi Zero is switched off you should repeat step 2 Preparing SD card again Wait 60 sec and locate Open Miner on the network using administrative interface of your router MAC addresses of Open Miners begin with 16 BF 00 or 16 BF 05 You can connect to your Open Miner via web interface http Open Miner IP Address for example http 192 168 1 224 Login te...

Page 7: ...pi 192 168 1 224 replacing 192 168 1 224 with IP address of your Open Miner and press Enter Then enter password pi login and password are the same pi WINDOWS First you need to download SSH client we are recommending PuTTY https www chiark greenend org uk sgtatham putty latest html Download PuTTY client install it and establish a connection with your Open Miner Enter IP address of YOUR MINER in the...

Page 8: ...Bitfury B8 Open Miner Quick Start Guide 7 Click Open and enter pi as login and password Now you can run omtest utility to test your Open Miner Just type omtest and press Enter ...

Page 9: ...n Miner Quick Start Guide 8 Omtest utility main screen looks like this PLEASE NOTE omtest utility will ask you to press two special buttons on front panel to perform any test You can press them in any order you want ...

Page 10: ...ttp Open Miner IP Address for example http 192 168 1 224 and navigate to Miner Settings Pool menu You should insert server host or IP address port worker and worker password provided to you by pool you are selected here and click SAVE to apply settings and reboot Open Miner ...

Page 11: ...h Open Miner you can request support bitfury com for assistance Technical support team should ask you to complete following steps to get Remote Access to your Open Miner Go to Service Setup Identity and click YES Then you will see string of letters and numbers New identity Providing this string to technical support team contact your manager for details will allow them to establish a connection wit...

Page 12: ...of your Open Miner you should proceed restart Open Miner to disable Remote Assistance feature ATTENTION If you want to disable Remote Assistance feature in your Open Miner forever please complete following steps 1 Establish SSH connection with Open Miner as described in Section 6 2 sudo rm rf root ssh 3 sudo systemctl disable openvpn openminer service 4 sudo rm rf etc openvpn openminer conf 5 sudo...

Page 13: ... You should change password via web interface SSH access any SSH client to your Open Miner IP address for example ssh pi 192 168 1 224 replacing 192 168 1 224 with IP address of your Tardis Open Miner http Tardis Open Miner IP Address for example http 192 168 1 224 Login pi Password pi You should use command passwd For user pi Type current password and then new password twice Changing password for...

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