# Connecting iPollo G1-mini to iMac
**URL:** https://forum.grin.mw/t/connecting-ipollo-g1-mini-to-imac/8427
**Category:** Mining
**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/connecting-ipollo-g1-mini-to-imac/8427 "2021-02-17T09:35:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@tromp](https://forum.grin.mw/u/tromp)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/connecting-ipollo-g1-mini-to-imac/8427/1 "2021-02-17T09:35:21Z")
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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### Author:  [@xiaojay](https://forum.grin.mw/u/xiaojay)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/connecting-ipollo-g1-mini-to-imac/8427/2 "2021-02-17T09:44:32Z")
i login in my g1-mini with ssh
ssh admin@g1-mini.ip
password admin
it is openwrt os system.
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### Author:  [@tromp](https://forum.grin.mw/u/tromp)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/connecting-ipollo-g1-mini-to-imac/8427/3 "2021-02-17T10:20:20Z")
$ ssh [admin@169.254.178.245](mailto: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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### Author:  [@tromp](https://forum.grin.mw/u/tromp)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/connecting-ipollo-g1-mini-to-imac/8427/4 "2021-02-17T11:29:35Z")
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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### Author:  [@mcm-mike](https://forum.grin.mw/u/mcm-mike)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/connecting-ipollo-g1-mini-to-imac/8427/5 "2021-02-17T12:43:31Z")
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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### Author:  [@Anynomous](https://forum.grin.mw/u/Anynomous)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/connecting-ipollo-g1-mini-to-imac/8427/6 "2021-02-17T13:21:06Z")
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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### Author:  [@tromp](https://forum.grin.mw/u/tromp)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/connecting-ipollo-g1-mini-to-imac/8427/7 "2021-02-17T15:16:59Z")
I managed to set it up for solo mining.
I’m running a grin server node with
```auto
#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
```auto
grin-wallet listen -n
```
to mine into my wallet. Running
```auto
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?