# Mining software for solo mining **URL:** \ **Category:** Bitcoin and Lightning\ **Created:** [September 16, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/mining-software-for-solo-mining/13684 "2023-09-16T17:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrBitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/mrbitcoin/32/2665_2.png) [@MrBitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/MrBitcoin)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/mining-software-for-solo-mining/13684/1 "2023-09-16T17:23:37Z")
I am looking for BFGMiner or similar as I’d like to be able to point my miners at my umbrel node. For this to work there needs to be some software, like BFGMiner between my miners and my umbrel node but could not find anything in the app store. Any solutions? I can install BFGMiner on a separate bit of hardware but ideally it should run on the umbrel server as an easy installable appstore app. ---
**Author:** ![MrBitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/mrbitcoin/32/2665_2.png) [@MrBitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/MrBitcoin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/mining-software-for-solo-mining/13684/2 "2023-09-23T17:38:28Z")
Nobody? I’d really like to point my aging miners to mine to my own node and thought this would be of interest to many other umbrel users. ---
**Author:** ![jarheadwho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@jarheadwho](https://community.umbrel.com/u/jarheadwho)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/mining-software-for-solo-mining/13684/3 "2023-09-23T18:43:06Z")
My hand is raised up ✋ with you for an answer - I would LOVE to have this capability ---
**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/mining-software-for-solo-mining/13684/4 "2023-09-24T02:57:25Z")
Hi @MrBitcoin I haven’t tried pooled/solo mining myself, so I can’t verify this, but I would assume you’d be able to point whatever mining software you use to your own node even without an app? Either way, this is highly requested so it is potentially something that will be added to the app-store in the future. We also have Portainer, and the community app-store framework which allows you to port your chosen mining software to Umbrel if you’d like to. > **[GitHub - getumbrel/umbrel-community-app-store: Template repository for a...](https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-community-app-store)** > > Template repository for a creating your own Community App Store for Umbrel. Click "Use this template" and add your apps! - GitHub - getumbrel/umbrel-community-app-store: Template reposito... > **[Portainer | Umbrel App Store](https://apps.umbrel.com/app/portainer)** > > Discover Portainer for your umbrelOS home server. Learn more, see screenshots, and discover other self-hosted Developer Tools apps available for umbrelOS. Let me know if you have any questions related to that ---
**Author:** ![MrBitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/mrbitcoin/32/2665_2.png) [@MrBitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/MrBitcoin)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/mining-software-for-solo-mining/13684/5 "2023-09-24T13:23:01Z")
The miners talk over the stratum protocol to the pool, even if the pool is effectively solo mining. The stratum pool software talks to the bitcoin node. The miners would connect to the stratum pool software, asking it for ‘work’ and the stratum pool software talks to the bitcoin node on the umbrel server. I’ll have a look at portainer but thought more users might be interested as many running umbrel do so because they want to self-host their own so a ready made app would simplify things. ---
**Author:** ![nnominer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@nnominer1](https://community.umbrel.com/u/nnominer1)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/mining-software-for-solo-mining/13684/6 "2025-11-30T02:02:39Z")
I know it’s been some time, are there any updates on this? From what I see, doesn’t the public pool app do what you say? or does it still use a remote node with a local stratum server ? ---
**Author:** ![homesolominer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@homesolominer](https://community.umbrel.com/u/homesolominer)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/mining-software-for-solo-mining/13684/7 "2026-01-08T12:02:56Z")
I found Retro Mike Tech on youtube. He has tutorials on setting up your own pool software using miningcore. I have Umbrel and installed bitcoin knots. My initial plan was to use Electrs for btc but then stumbled on Retro Mike. I now have DGB mining locally and current still syncing BCH & btc. BCH is also set up in the pool and once since I’ll be mining locally. Lastly I’m hoping to integrate knots into this setup since the Umbrel version of knots is docker and so is the rest. So it is possible.