Iceriver KAS KS1, KS2 Use & Setup Tutorial
January 09, 20241 Start up
1.1 Precautions
- Check whether there is physical interference causing damage to the machine and beware of electric shock.
- Please check if the cable connection is firm before powering on, and pay attention to the safety of electricity.
- Keep the hash board and other parts away from water or exposed to moisture.
- Please make sure the ambient temperature is between 0-35°C.
- Please avoid covering the surface of the machine due to the high temperature of the machine surface during operation.
- Do not place flammable and explosive substances around the machine during operation.
- Please make sure the humidity of the environment is below 90%.
- Please keep the environment clean to prevent dust, hair, willow and other foreign objects from entering the machine and causing damage to the machine.
- Use a stable voltage.
- The machine, hash board or board parts being crushed or burned due to improper environment is not covered by the warranty.
- Customers should not disassemble the machine by themselves without permission from ICERIVER after-sales team.
1.2 Check before start up
Preliminary inspection of the miner before operation:
- Check the appearance of the package for deformation.
- Check the appearance of the machine for deformation and breakage. Also check the fan and cable.
- Check if there is any strange sound in the machine and observe if the heat sink is off.
*Note: Please do not disassemble the machine by yourself. The machine will not be covered by the warranty if the user disassembles the machine without permission.
1.3 Boot
Please connect the machine to the Ethernet first, and then plug in the power cord. Turn on the machine, during the startup process, both of the right and left red and green status lights will be constantly on. After approximately 1 minute, the right status green light will start blinking, indicating that the miner has successfully started.
2 Access Machine
2.1 Obtain Machine IP
1. Obtain the IP address of the machine through download and unzip the batch processing tool provided by our company (please refer to the official website to download:
https://www.iceriver.io/tutorial/ ).
2. Click the [Detect IP] button and long press the machine's IP button for 1-2s after the pop-up window to get the machine IP.
2.2 Access Machine
1. Open your web browser (Chrome browser is recommended) and enter the machine's IP address in the address bar. You will see the following interface.
2. Use the default username "admin" and the default login password "12345678" to log in to the machine.
3 Language Switch
1. Click [Language] in the upper right corner of the page to switch between Chinese or English.
4 Change Password
To protect your property security, please change the miner password after the first time you turn on the machine.
1. Click [User Settings], enter the current password and the new password as shown below, and click the [Save] button.
5 Configuring mining pools and wallets
5.1 Add
1. Go to the [Mining Setting] page and find [Pool Configuration].
You can configure three mining pools with the following reference example:
Pool1：stratum+tcp://eu1.kaspa-pool.org:4444
Wallet/Worker：
kaspa:ndm9tlsgdmrcha4pg83lwwrka0gjya38teh0g5qc4prapavmh7rkyxuzd6w2w.worker
* The password is optional and can be set or not, it does not affect mining.
2. Click Save and a configuration success window will pop up.
3. After successful configuration, click [Reboot] and wait for the machine to reboot (do not power off during the reboot process).
4. The information on the home page shows that the pool is " connected ", which means the pool is successfully connected.
*The default pool configuration is the configuration of our company when testing, please configure your own mining wallet address before you start mining, please do not use the default configuration.
*If pool 1 is not connected, the machine will automatically connect to pool 2. If pool 2 is not connected, the machine will automatically connect to pool 3.
* If the configuration fails you can configure it again and restart it.
The following mining pools are known to be compatible, and will be continuously updated:
| Woolypooly | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://pool.eu.woolypooly.com:3112 |
| SOLO | stratum+tcp://pool.eu.woolypooly.com:3113 | |
| Herominers | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://ru.kaspa.herominers.com:1208 |
| SOLO | stratum+tcp://ru.kaspa.herominers.com:1208 | |
| K1pool | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://eu.kaspa.k1pool.com:23112 |
| SOLO | stratum+tcp://eu.kaspasolo.k1pool.com:23114 | |
| Accpool | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://acc-pool.pw:16061 |
| F2pool | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://kas-euro.f2pool.com:1400 |
| Kryptex | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://kas.kryptex.network:7777/6666 |
| tw-pool.com | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://stratum.tw-pool.com:10005 |
| PPLNS | stratum+tcp://stratum2.tw-pool.com:10005 | |
| 2miners | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://kas.2miners.com:2121 |
| Humpool | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://kas.eu1.humpool.com:18083 |
| Kaspa-pool | PPLNS | stratum+tcp://eu1.kaspa-pool.org:4444 |
| SOLO | stratum+tcp://eu1.kaspa-pool.org:4441 |
* The above mining pool information is the mining pool address we used for testing purposes. Before connecting to the mining pool, please log in to the respective mining pool's official website and check if the mining pool address has changed.
5.2 Remove
1. Clear the information in [Pool Configuration] and click [Save] to remove the mining pool.
5.3 Adjusting fan speed
1. Find [Hardware Configuration] in [Mining Setting].
2. Check [Fan Speed].
3. Select the fan mode, or manually adjust the speed, click [Save] after modification.
* After powering on, the fan will operate at a low speed. Only after the self-check process, the fan will start running at full speed. The default fan speed is set to maximum. If the self-check detects any fan abnormalities, the mining process will not begin.
* The machine will stop mining in sleep mode.
* After manually changing the fan speed, the fan speed in [Hardware Configuration] will still show 100%
6 View Hashrate Chart
1. Click [Home] to view the Hashrate Chart.
* After 5 minutes of connecting to the pool, you can view the miner's hashrate and hashrate chart, the chart is updated every 5 minutes.
* Under Hash board, you can view the machine temperature and fan speed, which can monitor the working status of the machine in real time.
7 Network Settings
The factory default is DHCP mode, users can set the IP mode according to their needs.
Set static IP:
1. Click [IP Settings], select Static in [Protocol], fill in the IP information according to the user, and then click [Save] button.
2. After saving the configuration, click [Reboot] and wait for the machine to reboot (do not power off during the reboot).
8 Firmware Upgrade
When the official website releases a new upgrade package, download it and upgrade it via Web.
1. Click [Firmware Upgrade], select the official upgrade package and click [Upgrade].
2. Wait for the pop-up window to show success and then click [Reboot] and wait for the machine to reboot (do not power off during the reboot process).
3. After reboot, the firmware upgrade is successful.
9 Factory Reset
When the machine has abnormal conditions, you can restore the factory settings through the Rest Button on the machine.
1. After the right green status light starts blinking following the power-up (1 minute after power on), press and hold Rest Button for 20 seconds until the right red status light starts blinking. Waiting until the right red status light stops blinking and wait for the machine to reboot (do not power off the machine during the reboot process).
2. After the machine reboot, reconfigure the mining pool and wallet to resume mining.
10 Shutdown/Reboot
10.1 Shutdown
1. Turn off the machine via the miner power button.
10.2 Reboot
1. Click [Reboot] in the bottom right corner of the home page, then click [OK] to confirm, then reboot the machine.
* Note: do not power off the machine during the reboot process.