Bitfury B8

Open Miner
Quick Start Guide

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SUMMARY
This document 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

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1. Preparing SD Card
Latest SD card image (big file with ZIP extension) and this manual located here:
https://drop.re/d/329f007314/
This image supports all types of hashboards available for B8 including Clarke ASIC
hashboards.
Image file should be unzipped and flashed to SD card.
For your convenience we are providing information describing SD card flashing
procedure on different systems:

WINDOWS:
You can use open source utility Win32DiskImager to flash SD card.
Insert 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 file (ext-openminers-bf.img) you downloaded before.
In the device box, select the drive letter of the SD card. Be careful to select the correct drive:
if you choose the wrong drive all data on this drive will be lost permanently!

Click [Write].
When process will be finished, eject SD card from your card rider.

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MAC OS:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md

LINUX:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/linux.md 


PLEASE NOTE: Links to raspberrypi.org website doesn’t mean 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 Zero located
in Open Miner and ensure the card is inserted correctly.

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2. Preparing Tardis Open Miner

for Firmware update
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!

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3. Connecting to your Open Miner

Securely insert the Ethernet cable into Open Miner network port and the other end into
your router with DHCP enabled.
Now, plug the power cord into your Open Miner and into a power outlet. Green LED on
Orange Pi Zero should light on, it means that SD card is detected, and operating 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: test@example.com
Password: Qw1Qw1Qw1

ATTENTION: Please change Login and Password as soon as possible to prevent

unauthorized access to your Open Miner!

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4. Performing tests
Open Miner internal software contains special tests, allows you to test Controlboard,
Motherboard and Hashboard.
To run this test you should login into Open Miner via SSH.

LINUX:
Open Terminal.
Type: ssh 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
field Host Name for IP address.
Connection type = SSH. Port = 22:

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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]:

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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:

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5. Setting up a pool
Just open http://[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:

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6. Remote assistance
Open Miner equipped with special feature allowing you to provide access for Bitfury
technical support team to your Open Miner.
If you have some issues with 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 with your Open Miner.

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When you click [YES], a special VPN-tunnel to your Open Miner will be created and
technical support team should be able to investigate current status of your Open Miner
and download a log files.
WARNING: After you click [YES], remote access to Tardis Open Miner will be granted to
Bitfury technical support team until next restart!

When Bitfury technical support team completes diagnosing 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 rm -rf /etc/openvpn/keys/

By executing this commands you are deletes VPN configuration and keys used by
Open Miner to establish connection with Bitfury technical support team and disabling
Service → Setup Identity feature forever.

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7. Changing passwords
Please change your passwords as soon as possible to prevent unauthorized access to your
Open Miner!

Web interface (http://[Open Miner IP Address], for example: http://192.168.1.224):

Login: test@example.com
Password: Qw1Qw1Qw1

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 For user root.
and then new password twice. Type new password twice.

Changing password for user pi Changing password for user root

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