Bitxaxe's mining to my own node start9 os

I have my bitcoin core synced up and datum gateway… when I try to point my miners to the stratum port they just fall back onto my secondary. I tried setting both to my start9 machine ip and still no go.. I am trying to get mining first then worry about setting up my own local wallet… I have a wallet somewhere else so that is what i am using now…what am i doing wrong?

I don’t think its advisable to setup a local wallet; best have it separate to your node i.e. cold wallet accessed via sparrow