Help! Your harvester appears to be offline!

[FrancescoSaverioZuppichini]

Hi guys,

first of all, thank you for this amazing software! So this is what I see from the home page

Everything looks good, the worker is plotting

but I don't understand if I also need a harvest

I am currently using flexpool but I don't see myself in it, so something is wrong.

Do I need a harvester? If so, how do I create one? I can see that in workers > new I have a UI that generates a docker command/docker-compose config but I don't get it why I need it.

Thank you!

Cheers,

Francesco

[guydavis]

Hi, from the perspective of Chiadog (log monitor) inside the Machinaris container, the "Harvester" is a Chia service/process running. If just starting with Machinaris, I would recommend deleting the one alert shown, and let everything run for at least 24 hours to see if the problem recurs.

There is no need to install anything with Machinaris, all the required components are bundled in. The first install of Machinaris is a "fullnode" because all Chia services are present, including harvester.

If this alert recurs, even after restart, look closely at the debug.log for a cause. If farming/harvesting is happening, then try stopping, deleting the debug.log, and restarting. Sometimes Chiadog incorrectly reports that harvesting is not working, even when it is. Hope this helps.

[FrancescoSaverioZuppichini]

Thank you.

I let it run for a week, restarted several times and now I see 0 plots (even if they are there)

I have only the default worker and according to the doc it is not an harvester (do I even need one if I am in a pool?).

Moreover, it is not clear how to run machinaris and an havester on the same machine since booth container need to bind to the same port.

I will try to reset everything and I will let you know :)

Thanks

[FrancescoSaverioZuppichini]

I still have the same issue:

My docker-compose file

version: '3.9' 
services: 
    machinaris: 
        image: ghcr.io/guydavis/machinaris 
        container_name: machinaris 
        hostname: minecraft 
        restart: always 
        tty: true 
        volumes: 
            - /home/rage/machinaris:/root/.chia 
            - /media/chia/0/plots:/plots/0 
            - /media/chia/1/plots:/plots/1 
            - /media/chia/2/plots:/plots/2 
            - /media/chia-plotter/plots:/plotting 
        environment: 
            - TZ=Europe/Zurich 
            - mode=fullnode 
            - plots_dir=/plots/0:/plots/1:/plots/2 
            - blockchains=chia,flax 
        ports: 
            - 8926:8926 
            - 8927:8927
            - 8444:8444
            - 8447:8444 
            - 6888:6888
            - 6885:6885

[FrancescoSaverioZuppichini]

@guydavis I see the following error from the logs. It seems that the harvester is trying to connect to port 8447 using https, but why?

18:32.511 harvester harvester               : INFO     Reconnecting to peer {'host': '192.168.1.171', 'port': 8447}
2021-08-03T16:18:32.515 harvester harvester_server        : INFO     Cannot connect to host 192.168.1.171:8447 ssl:True [SSLCertVerificationError: (1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate signature failure (_ssl.c:1129)')]

UPDATE The SSL port was wrongly mapped to 8447:8444 , now it seems to work! Thanks