Public pool ip address help

Vancity · May 21, 2025, 1:05pm

My public pool isn’t working. I input the ipv4 address found in startOS and point my miners to it, but it won’t work. Is there another ip I should be using? For reference I can use that ipv4 10. Address to log into my startOS from another device so I thought that’s the right address. Any help to find my ip of start9 would be appreciated!

h0mer · May 21, 2025, 3:22pm

Hi Vancity,

Have you installed SimpleProxy and followed the service instructions? It may need some tweaking to work correctly. I encourage you to read the instructions on the service page, in the additional information section. If you still have more questions, let us know.

Vancity · May 21, 2025, 9:22pm

I did I will try again though. I can see in logs for public pool it says something along the lines of listening to port 3333, does that mean I did it correctly ?
Also I can’t copy and paste all the commands, I tried on my laptop but it doesn’t let me highlight and copy. I had to take a picture and use picture to text tools to get the command from the photo. Is there anyway I can just copy and paste, is there a setting that needs to be on to be able to highlight text on my startOS?

StuPleb · May 22, 2025, 12:38pm

We can’t really help with copying and pasting on your client OS, you’d have to work out why you can’t do that, but I’ll like to you same instructions in the source code of the wrapper here:

github.com

remcoros/public-pool-startos/blob/main/instructions.md

# Public Pool Instructions

StartOS does not support forwarding non-http ports yet (like the Stratum port). Until this is possible, you can use the following method to open and forward the Stratum port.

Login to StartOS over SSH and switch to the root user:

    sudo -i

Run the following command to switch to the "chrooted" environment, any system changes made now will be persisted across reboots.

    /usr/lib/startos/scripts/chroot-and-upgrade

Install "simpleproxy":

    apt update && apt install simpleproxy -y

Paste the following, this will create a new systemd service responsible for port forwarding 3333 (Stratum):

```
cat > /lib/systemd/system/simpleproxy.stratum.service <<'EOL'

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Vancity · May 22, 2025, 1:32pm

I copied and paste. After copying the install commands, it says 0 upgraded 0 installed etc is that normal? Seems like nothing was installed or changed.

StuPleb · May 22, 2025, 1:55pm

You can’t stop there. You have to follow all the instructions.

remcoros · May 23, 2025, 8:42pm

Check out this video guide from WantClue, he guides you trough the custom commands very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxyPkg7d-ak&ab_channel=WantClue

Vancity · May 24, 2025, 4:24am

So I got it working, I tested hashing with public pool and datum and got my solo (lottery mine) to work! I used putty, I don’t know if that made a difference or not, but it works now. Thank you guys
I still can’t open the graphic web interface for any services on my start9 though. I click on public pool or datum to use the web interface and it won’t open, error page comes up. I already did the certificates, on the computer that I log into my start9 with. The address it tries to open is a really long text with a .local
It works when I open it on my phone though. Any thoughts on how to fix that?