Connecting iPollo G1-mini to iMac

Mining
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I’m trying to connect the iPollo G1-miner that I unboxed yesterday to my 27" iMac running the latest maOS Catalina 10.15.7

I found the miner on cabled ethernet at
$ arp -a
johns-imac.local (169.254.178.245) at 68:5b:35:99:ee:87 on en0 permanent [ethernet]
…
and can ping it as soon as the miner is done booting.

But all my browsers (Safari/Chrome/Brave) report
169.254.178.245 refused to connect.
For good measure I also tried

$ login 169.254.178.245
Login incorrect
login: admin
Login incorrect

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

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i login in my g1-mini with ssh

ssh admin@g1-mini.ip
password admin

it is openwrt os system.

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$ ssh admin@169.254.178.245
ssh: connect to host 169.254.178.245 port 22: Connection refused

Is it possible there’s another IP besides the one I can ping?

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My wife suggested connecting the device to our ISP router instead of to my iMac. That worked. The ISP router webpage showed the IP address of the “OpenWrt” device, and I easily connected to its webpage.

It reports running at 1.47 Gps, and submitted 13 shares in the 7 minutes it ran. I can’t leave it running in my living room though as it’s too noisy.

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I bet they used DHCP to assign an IP address. This could be the problem, why you didnt get a correct address to start with.
But once I get the miner I do some networking tests and see if everything is fine and the miner is not doing anything it should not do.

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So far the G1 mini miners are even performing better than market. I only run them for 24h but I got 1.91 G/s in the last 24h opposed to the marketed 1.5. Some longer tested are needed to put any significance to it, but so far I am very satisfied.

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I managed to set it up for solo mining.
I’m running a grin server node with

#whether stratum server is enabled
enable_stratum_server = true

#what port and address for the stratum server to listen on
stratum_server_addr = "MY.IP.AD.DR:3416"

where MY.IP.AD.DR was determined by logging in to my local routerbox and looking at connected devices. I also run

grin-wallet listen -n

to mine into my wallet. Running

netstat -a -n | grep LISTEN

confirmed that my iMac was listening on the right port (its firewall being turned off by default).
At first I had trouble having the G1-mini connect to my grin node, but it turns out that was because I had left the Pool worker and password blank in the Pool Configuration. After putting in arbtrary text there, I saw the worker connect in the Mining Server Status TUI.

With an expected 2 coinbases per week, I’d rather mine solo than use a pool.
It also helps to decentralize Grin.

Btw, mine shows the temperature always at 0C. Does anyone have actual temperature readings?

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