Yotta BC Home Tutorial – Bulk Management of Multiple Goldshell ASIC Miners

This guide will show you how to use Yotta BC to collect IPs and configuring multiple Goldshell miners at Once.

One reality of cryptocurrency mining is that you are almost certainly going to need multiple units to reach whatever goals you have. Most people approach this by first paying for and recouping their existing units, adding more units, and then repeating the process.

With a small number of units, this is simple at first, but as you add more, it becomes more difficult. You will need better infrastructure and management tools as you scale up to manage them effectively. I wanted to share some of the tools I’ve discovered and used to make scaling up significantly more effective because I’ve been going through this process for an ASIC farm build-out.

Today I’m going to cover an official tool from Goldshell called “Yotta BC” that let you do a lot of cool things like tell all of your Goldshell miners to change pools at once, view the status of all miners in one fell swoop, fix miners that have lost their many other crucial features, including IP addresses. Let’s take a look!

IP Collection Function

When you run Yotta BC for the first time it will have a single group out of the box called “IP Collector”. This mode seems to “listen” or scan your network for miners that have pressed the “IP Button” on the miner I’m assuming using broadcast or multicast traffic.

The miners are on an isolated network (I can connect in, they can’t connect out to my other internal networks), and that type of traffic isn’t allowed anyhow (by intention on my part), so this mode shows nothing on my network (even pressing both the big extended button and the little hidden black button on the back of the miner). I’m not sure if it’s intended to do that or just to recover miners with lost IPs since that was the only part that worked for me. For you, it might discover your entire network right out of the box. To try it press the “Rescan Devices” button in the top left of the screen.

For recovering miners who have forgotten their IP address, the IP collector mode is very helpful. The IP collector will typically find it even if it has a self-assigned 169.X.X.X IP when it’s directly connected, so you can do that by connecting the miner directly to something like a laptop running Yotta BC. The method to get them back is well known.

To use this function, follow these steps.

Open the software

Click “IP” Button

Select IP

Click Set Pool in the function bar of the miner, enter the pool information and click OK

Click the rightmost icon in the software function bar to enter the miner backstage

Waiting for the miner to generate hashrate

IP Scope Function

Open the software

Click the plus icon to create a new group

Click IP range and enter the starting IP information and range 255 in the right information column

Completed the creation, click the first function bar icon to scan the device

Select the device

Click to set the pool and input the information

To set up multiple machines at the same time, press and hold the keyboard Ctrl + left mouse button to select

Miner Password Setup

The Yotta BC software has a sort of password “vault” in the preferences (located in the Preferences (Edit menu).

It might need to be added more than once (notice the Model dropdown box) for various miner models, but it’s worthwhile.

There’s other configuration items in here worth examining as well such as the “warning” level for your temperatures, fan speeds, and other items so definitely make sure to check those out after your initial configuration.

Configuring Multiple Miners at Once (Bulk Configuration)

Now that you know how to configure multiple miners, I’ll explain how because these methods may not be obvious to those who aren’t familiar with standard keyboard and mouse shortcuts. The way you select a miner is to click a little bit to the left of the miner’s “No.” column.

Another way to select them is to right-click in that same area, but doing so will always open the right-click context menu, which can be a little annoying.

The best way is to hold down the “CTRL” key and then left click each miner you want to select. By doing this, you can pick several miners without constantly getting the right-click menu.

Only miners of the same kind are eligible for many options. If choosing the same miner type is necessary for the action you’re trying to perform, the software will let you know.

Once you’ve chosen the miners you want, you can either use the Device menu or the context menu from a right-click to perform different operations on the miners.

Conclusion

They are all simple to perform separately. Additionally, they don’t require much time. How long does it take to change your pools, maybe a couple of minutes or less to log in and change it? Multiply that by 10 now. Or 20. Or 30. The same thing. Without the aid of automation or bulk management tools, your work will scale indefinitely in this way.

Even if you were capable of doing so, you could never complete the task as quickly without the aid of these automation tools. You’re working inefficiently, and the more you scale, the more this inefficiency will become an ongoing issue (usually at the worst possible times, when there are DNS problems with pools or a significant crypto shakeup is taking place). Even if you only have a few miners, it’s still a good idea to learn how to use these tools and get started.

Undoubtedly, Goldshell will continue to include new features. The Goldshell Hub (cloud management site) was recently added to Yotta BC in version 1.5.9. Additional helpful features will be added as time goes on (and as users’ feedback and usage of the tools increases).

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