January 5, 2024Firmware
Support for VNish firmware added
FARMGOD now reads and manages Antminers running VNish, next to stock firmware and Braiins OS.
VNish is one of the most widely used custom firmwares for Antminers. Farms run it for its tuning, and many run it next to machines that are still on stock firmware. FARMGOD now speaks VNish.
What you get
- Found by the scan. A network scan recognises a VNish miner as what it is and shows the firmware and its version next to the model.
- Read in full. Hashrate, temperatures, fans, power, pools, boards and chips, through VNish's own interface.
- One fleet. Antminers on VNish, on stock firmware and on Braiins OS sit in the same lists and the same Device-Sets. FARMGOD offers each miner what its firmware can do.
- The dev fee in view. FARMGOD shows how much of a fleet's hashrate goes to the firmware's dev fee.
Capabilities
What you can do from the dashboard with an Antminer on VNish, next to stock firmware:
| Stock firmware | VNish | |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reboot | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pool settings | ✓ | ✓ |
| Power modes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Power limit | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sleep and wake | ✓ | ✓ |
| Curtailment | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log export | ✓ | ✓ |
| Admin password | ✓ | ✓ |
| Preheat | ✓ | ✓ |
| Locate LED | – | ✓ |
| Board and chip detail | ✓ | ✓ |
Two things stand out. The locate LED makes a single machine blink, which finds it in a rack of identical boxes. And the board and chip detail goes down to every single chip on VNish: Board and chip detail shows what that looks like.
