Privacy is a good point. I’m running 2 modes at residential locations, I’d rather not show up on maps if possible.
@derelle
Sorry for coming back to you so late, I had been busy.
To be honest, I never used tor by myself until now, so this is something completely new to me. But it seems to me, that both tor issues are somehow related to ppcoind, which is not part of the scripts I am maintaining. Nevertheless I will set up a node with tor for testing purposes and have a look at it. But I cannot promise right now when I will do.
I read the whole support thread here yesterday in the evening trying to get a first impression of your problem and I saw that peerchemist told you, that he wasn’t able to find out what exactly is the reason for only sometimes getting more than 8 connections in tor mode. It sometimes works and sometimes not. Not sure, but handling the connections is, as far as I understand, part of ppcoind. I can test and try to analyze what’s happening.
I also checked the scripts and if I understood right, when starting peerbox with -tor then tor is started, a generic hostname/address is generated and ppcoind is started with this generic hostname/address. So ppcoind works with tor and then suddenly your local IP is used again, I think that this behaviour might also somehow be related to the connection handling in ppcoind. Nevertheless, I’m going to have a look at it. Maybe I’m able to find something.
But there is also something you could do. If you are able to reproduce this behaviour very easily, it would be great if you would provide my your error.log. This may be quite helpful.
Regarding your and @fishbone 's privacy topic. If tor is working, your external IP would be - more or less - obfuscated, right?
Thank you for taking lead on the project. It’s good to see activity again.
The Tor issues are sporadic, and searching the history there are several users reporting the same problem.
It could be occurring when Tor updates the circuit path and ppcoind is not handling this event properly. Or some other change/update in Tor that is not updated in ppcoind.
Or maybe even firewall.
Though I think we can help by adding debugging logic and instrumenting the code and collecting the data and relevant events.
However, I think we as a community need a way to package and modify Peerbox ourselves. If we can figure out how to run the debian package scripts I think this will be a good start as there are already several members who are willing and are compiling themselves.
OK, ran peerbox -tor, got an obfuscated IP address which has apparently not yet flipped back to my local IP (that’s good), but again only 8 connections.
There is a debug.log in the .ppcoin directory - is that what you are looking for? I’ve saved that as a file. What is the best way to get it to you? Is it OK to just upload that file included in a reply, or is there sensitive info in there that should concern me?
Sorry for the paranoia & inexperience,
Yes exactly, it’s the debug.log I was asking for. Not sure if it works, but I’d suggest that you send me a PN and attach the debug.log. I guess that should work. If not, we’ll find another way 
Hi all,
I’m sure some of you might have already seen it, but I’d also like to post it here, because this thread it getting more active again in the last days and it fits here quite well.
I designed 3d printable Pi Zero enclosures in Peercoin Design about a month ago. I offer them in this thread: UPDATE: Raspberry Pi enclosure in peercoin design + new designs
I also plan to design some enclosures for Pi B+/2/3. But before I do so, I’d like to know whether someone’s interested in such enclosures. So if someone’s interested, please like this post. This does not mean, that you finally have to take one ;-).
Please write any comments or questions related to the enclosures in the appropriate thread, thanks.
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So I checked Bitinfocharts, the only site I am aware of which maps full nodes, and I’m not listed there. For now, I’m not going to worry about using my real IP
I have bought a new SD card in order to do a fresh raspbian install and try this peerbox.
I thought it would really take 20 mins, but i’ve lost half a day while putting on the image and fiddling with it 
I have booted up, connected with SSH and updated everything. While installing “peerbox” it stops saying it needs “ppcoin” installed first. So now, many opened tabs later i’m still compiling it from the source.
I was also following: Headless mint with Raspberry Pi Guide
Is there an updated guide for all of this? A script that does everything?
I just needed to setup a wallet on the raspberrypi and import my already existing .dat file just to leave it minting while i’m at work. Suggestions?
which version of raspbian are you using?
you need for peerbox https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-07-05/
I have downloaded and put the latest one “RASPBIAN STRETCH WITH DESKTOP March 2018” on the SD card, then enabled the terminal bootup.
that is the problem
you need to download Jessie
Goddamn, alright I’ll do it again tomorrow. Thanks
@irritant I’ve finally managed to see it working 
Questions:
- how do I update it? my version is “ppc_version”: “v0.6.1.0-g8c9f8b589bb”, can I go on with this?
- How do I import my existing .dat wallet? or my private key
Thanks in advance
yes, you can go on with 0.6.1
wallet is in ~/.ppcoin , there you put your existing wallet.dat
Ok thanks, I’ve exported the .dat from the GUI Peercoin program and put it under that folder.
Restarted peerbox but now if I do -health it tells:
EDIT: Had error on -balance, I guess it just needs more time to update all the blocks
pi@peerbox:~ $ peerbox -health
Checking if we are on the right chain…
Using peercoin.mintr.org as reference.
(“error: Can’t reach remote API server!”, ConnectionError(ProtocolError(‘Connection aborted.’, gaierror(-2, ‘Name or service not known’)),))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/peerbox”, line 443, in
health_check()
File “/usr/bin/peerbox”, line 278, in health_check
r = _check()
File “/usr/bin/peerbox”, line 246, in _check
remote = _remote()
File “/usr/bin/peerbox”, line 222, in _remote
a = requests.get(“https://peercoin.mintr.org/api/block/latest”, timeout=3, verify=False).json()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py”, line 60, in get
return request(‘get’, url, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py”, line 49, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 457, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 569, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py”, line 407, in send
raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: (‘Connection aborted.’, gaierror(-2, ‘Name or service not known’))
Looks like a 404 URL, does it matter to anything?
yes you should wait until you’re fully synchronised
@irritant Hi, after that I managed to get everything synchronized and started minting. It went on for a day and I checked it regularly via ssh. This morning I find this error: i’m unable to restart it and I’m stuck in this loop, what can I do? I have already rebooted, restarted, killed the process…
Waiting changes nothing, even rebooting or killing the process and restarting… It can also show up python error stacks for connection error. Does anyone else get this issue? I can only safe mint at random times
does peercoind getinfo say anything?
“peercoind get info” command doesn’t work, did you mean peerbox - info or another param?