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chia-farming

How I set up a my headless Raspberry Pi 4 "RPi" to farm Chia.

Install Raspbian onto RPi

Link

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=275370

Set up RPi to connect to wifi

Enable ssh

• Put ssh into boot folder. Upon reboot, the RPi will be enabled for SSH and the file will be removed from the directory.

Enable wifi

• Edit wpa_supplicant.conf and put in two letter country code, network name, and password.
• Put wpa_supplicant.conf into boot folder. Upon reboot, the RPi will connect to the network.

Power up the Pi!

Find its ip

ping raspberrypi.local

Log into pi

• ssh pi@<ip>
• password is raspberry

Change password

• Default password is raspberry.
• passwd

Change RPi's name

• Update your RPi's name from raspberrypi to whatever you'd like.
• Do it here sudo nano /etc/hostname
• and here sudo nano /etc/hosts
• Reboot to have it take effect sudo reboot

Install chia-blockchain

• https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/Raspberry-Pi

Mount external drives

• Create mount point
• https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/external-storage.md

Copy Chia blockchain

rsync -P ~/.chia/mainnet/db/* pi@192.168.56.100:~/.chia/mainnet/db

TODO: Set up Chiadog

• Update Python https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-python-3-7-on-debian-9/
• Update Pip
• Make sure Requirements installed https://github.com/martomi/chiadog/blob/main/requirements.txt

TODO: Robustness

• set up reboot on network interruption https://weworkweplay.com/play/rebooting-the-raspberry-pi-when-it-loses-wireless-connection-wifi/
• start chia farm on boot https://weworkweplay.com/play/raspberry-pi-nodejs/
• start chiadog on boot