Official Skyminer Guide
Building, operating and maintaining a Skyminer demands a certain amount of time and dedication. Our team of software developers and hardware engineers are here to support you with this process on [telegram](https://t.me/skywire).
The official Skyminer ships with two type of ARM boards.
- Orange Pi Prime
- Orange Pi 3
Please select the appropriate options in the referenced guides when setting up your Skyminer.
The support team can be contacted by:
- Joining the exclusive official miner telegram channel. Details of this can be found in your Skyminer welcome email.
- Using the support form
Each section of this guide highlights how to contact the support team. It's highlighted in bold and begins with Contact support
We also encourage you to join our great community on Telegram:
- Public Skycoin channel
- Public Skywire channel
- Skywire PSA channel
The steps you're about to follow are:
- Understanding the Skywire mainnet rules and requirements to qualify and earn rewards.
- Assemble the official Skyminer.
- Flashing the microSD cards with skybian images or installing Skywire from source.
- Verifying the network settings of your official Skyminer.
- Registering your public keys on the Skywire Whitelisting System.
You can find flow chart of all steps in the appendix (TBD).
Depending on previous experience your Skyminer can take anywhere from 2-9 hours to assemble.
Contact support via the support form if you need some advice or anything is missing in your package!
You can find a comprehensive assembly manual here or linked in the downloads section of skycoin.com
- Official skyminer wiring guide if you need pictures of the wiring aspects.
- Official Skyminer assembly video.
Depending on your experience / technical know-how you can:
- Use the Skybian image via the Skybian User Guide.
- Install Skywire on base armbian as a package.
Contact support if you require assistance with setting up a skyminer or installing skywire.
The Skywire Whitelisting System (user guide) allows you to manage and maintain your Skyminer registration. Within this system, you can manage:
- The associated public keys of your boards
- Your Skycoin reward address
- As well as submitting new DIY applications (please note these must comply with our mainnet rules). Note that you are not required to submit an application since official Skyminers are automatically allocated in the Skywire Whitelisting System and associated with your user account.
By purchasing an official Skyminer you will have received an automated welcome email. Please follow these instructions to complete your registration.
Please complete the following:
- Setup your own password
- Confirm your account
- Enter your public Skyminer keys and the Skycoin wallet address you wish to receive the rewards.
Please visit auth.skycoin.com to create your personal password. If you receive an error saying that the personal access token expired, simply request a new one by clicking on Forgot your password?.
Next, visit auth.skycoin.com and click the confirm account button. You will receive an account verification email, click the link to authorize your account. Please check out this
After you confirmed your account visit whitelist.skycoin.com to access the Skywire Whitelisting System.
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Please follow these steps to add a Skycoin wallet reward address to your account:
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Please follow these steps to register your public keys. Do not open submit an application form, official Skyminers do not have to be approved for the whitelist:
- https://github.com/skycoin/skywire/wiki/Skywire-Whitelisting-System#modify-public-keys
- You will find an official Skyminer already registered under your account, simply enter your public keys and click on
SUBMIT
Once you pasted all of your public keys press 'Submit' and your public keys are stored. Refresh the page to double-check your information is correct.
Contact support via the support form if you need replacements or help to perform any of the steps!
Now that you performed all of the previous steps the only task that's left is to keep your nodes online to meet the reward requirements.
Please perform the steps to ensure that your nodes are online to verify that your nodes are online if you haven't done that already.
This section will help you with a few common issues.
If you have received DOA orange pi prime/orange pi 3 board(s), because they can't be accessed via SSH and/or are not showing up in the manager web interface, please perform the following troubleshooting steps:
- reboot the router
- reboot the manager
- reboot the board(s) in question
If that doesn't help, try:
- to reset the router
- turn off the board(s) in question
- exchange the micro sd cards with a working board (which must be turned off before extracting the micro sd card)
- exchange the power supply with a working board
- exchange the LAN cables with a working board
- switch the LAN port on the router with a working port
- measure the output voltage of the power switching unit (PSU):
- the voltage should be at min. 5.0 V. Do not go above 5.3 V in any case.
- increase the voltage in 0.1 V steps and check if the board is turning on after each increase
Contact support via the support form to request replacements of your faulty components!
In case you are experiencing any networking issues that cannot be resolved, please check out this section of the networking guide. If your issue is not covered there or you need additional help, please contact support via the support form or, preferably, on Telegram in the dedicated official Skyminer chat.