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VNish firmware for Antminers in FARMGOD
VNish is one of the most widely used custom firmwares for Antminers. FARMGOD reads and manages Antminers on VNish, down to the hashrate of every single chip.
VNish is a custom firmware for Antminers. Farms install it in place of Bitmain's stock firmware to tune their machines: more hashrate, or less power for the same work. In return the firmware keeps a small share of the hashrate as its dev fee.
VNish in FARMGOD
- Recognised by the scan. A VNish miner is shown as one, with the firmware's version next to the model.
- Read in full, through VNish's own interface: hashrate, temperatures, fans, power, pools, boards and chips.
- The dev fee in view. FARMGOD shows how much of a fleet's hashrate goes to the firmware's dev fee.
- One fleet. Antminers on VNish, stock firmware and Braiins OS sit in the same lists.
Capabilities
| 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 | ✓ | ✓ |
The locate LED makes a single machine blink, which finds it in a rack of identical boxes.
Every single chip
On VNish the board and chip detail shows each chip's own hashrate, frequency and errors, with the firmware's own verdict drawn in: a weak chip in orange, a failing one in red.
Getting started
FARMGOD Cloud is free for up to five miners, with no time limit. Sign up, start FARMGOD.OS on a spare PC in your miners' network and run a scan: your Antminers on VNish appear on your dashboard. Get started shows the three steps. For a whole farm, a Private VPS brings every feature on a server of your own: see the pricing.
