The following is a setup tutorial for the Goldshell Mini Doge miner. There are plenty of YouTube tutorials on this topic. I will link my favorites below. This post is for people like me who paper instructions.
Disclaimer: I am brand new to the mining world. These two Mini Doge miners are my first experience with mining.
***This post covers the set up of two miners, however, it can be used to set up one or more miners, via ethernet or wifi.
***I used f2pool as the pool for my miners. Some of the information in here is specific to f2pool. You should set up your pooling account before starting this tutorial.
Please comment if this helped you, if I'm missing something, or if there is something you would like me to add.
UNBOXING THE MINER
1: Attach the wifi antenna by screwing it on clockwise.
(I saved the boxes just in case I want to sell these later)
BEFORE POWERING ON YOUR MINER
2. Connect your miner to your modem / router via ethernet cable. This is necessary even if you plan to mine via wifi. (there may be another way that I am not familiar with but this is how I did it)
3. Connect your miner to the power supply. I used the 4 box power supply from Goldshell as I am connecting 2 units.
POWER ON
4. Plug in your power supply.
5. On your computer, navigate to: https://find.goldshell.com/
You should see your miner here, along with its IP address. click to gear icon under setting.
6. Change the language to English by clicking the flag icon on the upper right corner of the screen.
7. Click on the unlock icon directly left of the language icon in the upper right corner.
ADD POOL INFORMATION
8. Click miner in the left menu.
9. If your miner came preloaded with a pool, click on remove to delete that pool.
Then enter the username and password designated for this miner at f2pool.
Double check that the address, username, and password all match the information in f2pool under how to add new workers. You can do that by signing in to f2pool, changing the currency to litecoin, clicking on workers, then clicking the question mark in the bottom right corner of the page.
When all is correct, click Apply.
In less than a minute, your miner should appear on f2pool in the miners tab.
CHOOSE HASHRATE MODE AND FINALIZE SETTINGS
11. Select which hashrate mode you want your miner to run in under Miner - Powerplan. There are differing opinions about this. I chose Balance mode as some people believe Hashrate mode can lead to burning out the power supply wire.
12. Choose your fan settings. I chose energy mode. I also didn't like the fan lights, so I moved the Brightness slider all the way to the left to turn those lights off.
If you plan to keep your miners hard wired via ethernet, then you are officially done at this point. Keep reading for wifi setup.
WIFI SETUP
13. Click system in the left menu and scroll down to WiFi settings.
14. Choose your network and enter your network password.
That's everything. Hopefully this tutorial was helpful for you. Please leave a comment if this helped you or if there is something I left out.
Good luck to all you miners out there.
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