Miner for the helium blockchain. This snap requires multiple interfaces to be connected before the miner daemon can start.
snap connect helium-miner:i2c pi:i2c-1
snap connect helium-miner:log-observe
snap connect helium-miner:hardware-observe
snap connect helium-miner:network-control
After connecting these interfaces the miner daemon will automatically start. All variable data and log files are stored under /var/snap/helium-miner/common
To talk directly to the miner daemon you can use the shipped nebra-helium-miner command like below.
sudo nebra-helium-miner info summary
The genesis blockchain api can be found in /var/snap/helium-miner/common/miner/update/genesis You can use the "sudo nebra-helium-miner load genesis ..." command pointing to that directory to load and update the blockchain api.
The miner daemon registers as com.helium.Miner to the system dbus of the host
This snap is designed to be built on an arm64 device like a Pi4 using an Ubuntu Core or Classic install.
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install lxd and create a focal (20.04) lxd container
$ sudo snap install lxd $ sudo lxd init --auto $ sudo lxc launch ubuntu:20.04 focal -
enter the container and install snapcraft
$ sudo lxc shell focal # snap install snapcraft --classic -
clone this branch and build it
# git clone https://github.com/ogra1/hm-miner-snap.git # cd hm-miner-snap # snapcraft --destructive-mode ... Snapped nebra-helium-miner_0.1.0_arm64.snap # exit $ -
pull the file from the container
$ lxc file pull focal/root/hm-miner-snap/nebra-helium-miner_0.1.0_arm64.snap . $ ls -lh nebra-helium-miner_0.1.0_arm64.snap -rw-r--r-- 1 ogra ogra 56M Feb 18 17:17 nebra-helium-miner_0.1.0_arm64.snap $