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Welcome to the Machinaris wiki! Building upon the official Chia™ binaries, Machinaris bundles the Plotman plotting manager and Chiadog log monitor along with a simple WebUI:
Powerful plotters like Madmax and Bladebit are also included, along with various forks for double-farming. Drive health monitoring too!
Installation instructions are available for many platforms:
- Windows
- MacOS - both Intel and Apple Silicon supported.
- Linux - including Ubuntu and others
- RaspberryPiOS
- Unraid, Synology, and QNap
- and other Docker via
docker compose
Start a Discussion or join our Discord for support and to help out.
- Keys - How create or import your Chia™ keys into Machinaris on container startup.
- Pooling - How to create a "PlotNFT" and join a Chia pool, obtaining the keys necessary for plotting.
- Plotting - Configuring plotting using either the Chia, Madmax or Bladebit plotter.
- Farming - Farming your plots, validating with both Challenges and Partial Proofs.
- Monitoring - Tracking your farm's daily progress. Receiving alerts and notifications of events.
Questions? Read the FAQ and Troubleshooting pages. Then start a Discussion or join our Discord for support.
- Workers: Managing the farming and plotting on multiple Machinaris systems, all from a single WebUI.
- Forks: Multi-farming the same plots on other blockchains too.
- Proxying: Exposing Machinaris WebUI behind a Nginx web server, such as SWAG.
- Monitoring: Advanced dashboards for additional insight into your farm, including Farmr and Grafana.
- Scaling: Deployment on hundreds workers (forks), harvesting many tens of thousands of plots, totaling many petabytes of storage.
- Hardware: Tips on hardware configuration for Machinaris specifically and Chia in general.