All CLI commands for Chia Network with an explanation

All CLI commands for Chia Network with an explanation

Here you can find the first German-language overview of all important console commands for Chia.

Chia basic commands

chia init – migrates files from an old version to the latest version after an update

chia start node – starts node only

chia start node -r – restarts the node

chia start farmer – starts the farmer, harvester, bode, and wallet

chia start farmer -r – restarts everything

chia plots check – checks all plot files

chia show -s – show status of node

chia farm summary – Show summary of the farmer

chia wallet show – Show wallet data

chia keys generate – Generate keys

chia keys add – Add keys / seed

chia stop -d all – turn off all Chia services

chia netspace – show the current size of the network

chia version – shows the current chia version

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Creating Chia Plots

chia create – creates a new plot according to the settings chosen in the start parameters

-k NUMBER – specifies the k-size for the plot – valid values are 32, 33, 34 or 35. A k32 plot requires about 240 GB of temp memory and ends up with about 100 GB.

-n NUMBER – the number of times a plot should be created

-b NUMBER – size of memory to be used in MB (default 4608 MB).

-f NUMBER – the farmer public key can be specified here

-p NUMBER – the public key of a pool can be specified here

-a NUMBER – here you can specify the fingerprint of the key to use, this option is useful if you have multiple private keys stored

-t PATH – specifies the path to the temp. directory

-2 PATH – specifies the path to the optional second temp. directory; this directory is used only for phase 3 and 4

-d PATH – specifies the path to the final directory where the plot will be saved

-r NUMBER – specifies the number of CPU cores to use in phase 1. 2 cores seems to be the best setting, more than 4 cores will give negative results.

-u NUMBER – specifies the number of buckets / “pots”. More pots require less ram but more accesses to the SSD/HDD. There is no advantage to use less pots, the default is 128

-e – disables bitfield plotting. This setting is not recommended.

For more information on creating Chia plots, see my tutorial on Chia.

Wallet commands

chia wallet get_address – Get a receiving address

chia wallet get_transaction – Obtain a transaction

chia wallet get_transactions – Show all transactions

chia wallet show – Show wallet data

chia wallet sendsend chia to another wallet

Plot commands

chia plots add PATH – adds a directory as plot directory

chia plots check – checks the existing plot files

chia plots create – creates a new plot (see above)

chia plots remove – removes a plot directory from the configuration

chia plots show – shows the currently stored paths for plots

farm commands

chia farm challenges – displays recent challenges

chia farm summary – displays a summary of the farmer

key commands

chia keys add – add a key by seed

chia keys delete -f NUMBER – deletes the key with the fingerprint NUMBER

chia keys delete_all – deletes all keys

chia keys generate – generates a new key

chia keys generate_and_print – generates a new key WITHOUT saving it

chia keys show – shows all saved keys

chia keys sign – signs a message with the private key

chia keys verify – verifies a signature

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10 Antworten zu “All CLI commands for Chia Network with an explanation”

  1. Hi bro thank you for the tutorial. Just to let you know, you forgot to add an ‘s’ to the ‘plot’ command sections. They should read ‘plots’ not ‘plot’.

  2. Hey, great list! To find the farmer and pool key only you can also use:
    chia keys show |Select-String -SimpleMatch “Farmer”,”Pool”
    Handy if you’re plotting on a second machine.

  3. Thank you so much, I just started to run Chia by command, which command should I use to send reward to cold wallet.

  4. Hello, is there a “chia plots refresh” or something to refresh the plots, like the option in the gui ?
    Thanks

  5. Hi Daniel! Thanks for the post.
    Is there changes to the Create Plots command with the new Pools? How would i go around adding a Plot to a Pool now, rather than my Solofarm?

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