Firmware release notes
The Proto-MDK firmware manages logging, database, API, and hardware configurations.
The beta firmware release notes provides a detail of features and functionality of current and previous firmware releases.
If you need assistance with firmware related issues, contact support at mining.support@block.xyz.
v 2.0
distro 0.1.8
Released October 21, 2024
Mining control
- Hashboard mining voltage changed to 13500 mV / 13.5 V
- Hashboard frequency changed to 800 MHz / 8e+8 HZ
API
- Error messaging - Supports hardware and system-level error messages
- Authentication - Supports Basic Auth
- Supports JSON Web Tokens - Valid for 15 days
- SSH - Disabled by default
- Logging - Added search bar and error / warnings filter
Hardware and system limits
Supports recovery limits for Proto-MDK hardware and systems.
ASICs
- Temperature limit set at 115 °C (239 °F)
- For more information, see Troubleshooting
Hashboards
- Temperature limit set at 75 °C (167 °F).
- For more information, see Troubleshooting
Communication
- For more information, see Troubleshooting
Fans
- Hysteretic fan tachometer
- RPM changes dynamically over a gradient of temperature ranges
[temperature°C, fan %] [0.0, 10] [40.0, 30] [60.0, 70] [80.0, 100]
User Interface
Added status indicators to Proto dashboard.
- Mining pool connection indicator
- Mining stats indicator
- Hashboards indicator
- ASICs indicator
- Fans indicator
v 1.1
distro 0.1.3
Released August 2, 2024
Bug fixes
- White box displaying on Mining pool login screen
- Replaced overflow-scroll with truncating text to show full value on hover
v 1.0
distro 0.1.1
Released July 26, 2024
Mining control
- Hashboard mining voltage set at 13750 mV / 13.75 V
- Hashboard frequency set at 1000 MHz / 1e+9 Hz
- Supports 1 V1 Stratum BTC pool and 2 backup pools
- Test connection feature
API
API backend supports Proto dashboard — displays ASIC and miner-level metrics.
Current miner temperature displays historical temperature data based on time-range selection.
- 12H, 24H, 48H, 5D
Current efficiency displays miner efficiency based on power consumption and hashrate.
- Refreshed every 1 minute
- On click, displays current miner efficiency (J/TH)
- Displays historical miner efficiency based on time-range selection
Power usage displays miner power consumption (kW).
- Refreshed every 1 minute
- On click, displays current miner efficiency (J/TH)
- Displays historical miner power usage based on time-range selection
Current miner temperature displays miner temperature (°C ).
- Refreshed every 1 minute
- On click, displays optimal ASIC temperature based on time range selection, and maximum miner operational temperature
- Displays current miner temperature
- Displays historical highest miner temperature based on time-range selection
- Displays current hashboard temperature for all 3 hashboards
- Tabular interface to view ASIC grid array
Current average fan speed displays average RPM for all 4 fans.
- Tachometer displays current RPM average and graphical display for all 4 fans
- On click, displays current fan RPM for all fans
Hashrate graph displays total miner hashrate.
- Interactive historiographic interface
- Displays total miner hashrate (TH/s)
- On hover, displays hashrate by hashboard
Power button provides multiple power modes.
- Sleep
- Wake up
- Reboot
Logs menu (>_) provides access to logs.
- Streaming logs
- Error counter
- Warning counter
- Export tab
Hashboard tabs display ASIC grid for selected hashboard.
- Displays individual ASIC temperatures
- Displays last 4 numbers of hashboard serial number
- Displays USB port number for selected hashboard
ASICs graph displays an indexed grid of ASIC arrays based on hashboard tab selection.
- Displays individual ASIC temperature