How to get bminer running in smOS in 8 easy steps

[greerso]

No longer needed, smOS has a custom miner option.

In this tutorial we will replace sgminer-gm-5.5.5 with bminer-v5.3.0. You can replace one of the other miners if you wish to keep sgminer-gm-5.5.5. Some basic understanding of linux cli would be helpful but is not necessary. I have a tutorial here Linux CLI (Command Line Interface) primer for beginners — Steemit

1. 
   
   ssh miner@<your.smos.ip.here.>Log into your smOS install via ssh. If you don't know what your smOS ip address is, you can get it from https://simplemining.net/ by hovering over your rig name.

   You’ll get a prompt that looks like this.
   miner@simpleminer:~$

2. Rename the sgminer-5.5.5 directory so that smOS will ignore it.
   sudo mv sgminer-gm-5.5.5 sgminer-gm-5.5.5_backup

3. Go to https://bminer.me/releases/ and copy the download link for the latest linux x64 version. At the time of this writing it is https://www.bminercontent.com/releases/bminer-v5.3.0-e337b9a-amd64.tar.xz

4. Download and expand bminer into the new directory that you created. Paste the url that you copied in the previous step in place of the url below.
   sudo curl -s -N https://www.bminercontent.com/releases/bminer-v5.3.0-e337b9a-amd64.tar.xz | tar xJ -C /root/miner_org/

5. Create a symlink from the download bminer-v5.3.0-e337b9a directory to the sgminer-gm-5.5.5 that you renamed.
   sudo ln -s /root/miner_org/bminer-v5.3.0-e337b9a /root/miner_org/sgminer-gm-5.5.5

6. Create a symlink from the bminer application to masquerade as sgminer.
   sudo ln -s /root/miner_org/sgminer-gm-5.5.5/bminer /root/miner_org/sgminer-gm-5.5.5/sgminer

7. 
   -uri stratum://[email protected]:20594 -no-timestamps -api 127.0.0.1:1880Go to http://simplemining.net and setup a new rig group for sgminer-gm-5.5.5 with the following miner options. This example is for MPH, but whatever your preferred pool is can go here. Change yourusername to your username.

8. Assign the new sgminer (it is actually bminer) to a rig.

My next howto will be how to add a cpu miner to your smOS distro.

Comments

[greerso]

There is some controversy surrounding bminer calling home at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2519271.880

[greerso]

step 2 is missing the full path. It should read:
sudo mv /root/miner_org/sgminer-gm-5.5.5 /root/miner_org/sgminer-gm-5.5.5_backup