BRAIIN CLOCK

A Linux CLI tool that allows you to broadcast current slushpool bitcoin mining info from your user profile directly to your BlockClock Mini (https://blockclockmini.com/)

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Display the following tags:

  1. Confirmed Reward
  2. Unconfirmed Rewards
  3. Estimated Reward
  4. Alltime Reward
  5. Hashrate 5m
  6. Hashrate 60m
  7. Hashrate 24h
  8. Hashrate Scoring
  9. Active Workers
  10. Offline Workers
  11. Estimate Hash Rate
  12. USD Market Price
  13. EUR Market Price
  14. GBP Market Price
  15. Sats per Dollar
  16. Mempool Transactions
  17. Difficulty Retarget Date
  18. Blockchain Height
  19. Moscow Time

Got requests for other tags? Open an issue.

Setup:

First you'll want to obtain your Blockclock's IP address as well as a Slushpool Auth Token.

Getting your Blockclock IP address:

This assume's that you have already setup your Blockclock Mini.

If you need your Blockclock's IP, press on the second button from the top on the right side of the Blockclock. You'll see an IP address, likely in the 5th square.

We'll need to set your blockclock to manual in order to send it GET requests. Enter your clock's IP in a browser

You now have access to your Blockclock's settings page. On the Display Page, go down to Display Preferences, set Screen Update Rate to Manual.

That is all!

Getting your Slushpool Auth Token:

Login: https://slushpool.com/login/

  1. Click on the icon on the right of your username in the top right corner.
  2. Click on Devices
  3. Click on Access Profiles
  4. Click on Create New
  5. Add a username. Access Permissions can be set to read-only. Check-off Allow access to web APIs, click Generate new token and copy that Auth Token. Finally, click on Create Access Profile.

Keep that IP address and Auth Token handy. You'll be asked to enter those on startup

Installation

The binary for braiin clock is braiin_clock

Currently the only way to install the binary is with cargo. This can easily for achieved on Linux with the following commands in a terminal.

First install the rust toolchain:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.3 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Now install the binary:

cargo install braiin_clock

Running the binary

Within a terminal window enter: braiin_clock

The program will start.

How to use

You'll be asked to enter you Slushpool API Token and your clock's IP address. Make sure you enter those correctly as there is no (currently) way to change/update those yet.

Follow the instructions --> Select the tags you want to display and press "q" once you've selected your desired tags. Select the blockclock display refresh rate. If you want to change any of these settings you'll want to press CTRL+C to exit the program and start over.

The Blockclock will display the tags in the selected order continuously until you exit the program, close the terminal, shutdown your computer.

This is a work in progress and their may be bugs, please open an issue if you run into any. Thank you :D