For this setup we will have our computer running hushd and we will have our ASIC Miner connecting to it. In this write-up we are using a Linux computer. This might work on Windows or Mac, but that is beyond the scope of this document. If you do successfully test with these surveillance operating systems, then feel free to do a pull request to add your input in here.
1. Make sure you know the IP address of your ASIC miner. If you're not sure how to figure that out then do a [Startpage search](https://startpage.com) to learn how. It is outside the scope of this document.
1. Make sure you know your desktop computer's IP address.
1. Follow compilation or installation of the [Hush daemon](https://git.hush.is/hush/hush3/) onto your desktop computer, which is outside of the scope of this document.
Change the ```rpcuser``` and ```rpcpassword``` above to something unique as it will be used later.
Note: If you had more than 1 ASIC, then each one would get it's own rpcallowip line item.
1. Then start ```hushd``` at the command line. It needs to be on your desktop computer with the Hush blockchain completely downloaded before you continue. You can check its status with the following command ```hush-cli getinfo | grep synced``` and you want the value to be true before continuing.
I didn't know what NOMP meant, so I looked it up and it stands for Node Open Mining Protocol. This software will let our ASIC miner connect to the hushd running on our computer, so here we go...
1. We'll use [KNOMP](https://github.com/webworker01/knomp), which is a NOMP based stratum for Komodo based Equihash coins like Hush.
1. We git clone it and change to the ```knomp``` directory.
```
mkdir ~/hushsolo
cd ~/hushsolo
git clone https://github.com/webworker01/knomp
cd knomp
```
1. Then copy an example config file to be used by us.
```
cp config_example.json config.json
```
1. Then edit config.json and save it.
```
only things changed from default were
"forks": "auto"
"stratumHost": "stratum.hush.puppy"
```
1. Next we create a "coin" config for Hush. Change to the ```coins``` directory, create "hush.json", and configure as follows:
```
{
"name": "hush",
"symbol": "hush",
"algorithm": "equihash",
"peerMagic": "f9eee48d",
"txfee": 0.0001,
"privateChain": true,
"burnFees": true,
"sapling": true
}
```
1. Then copy the poolconfig template into the ```knomp\pool_configs``` directory
Join us in our Hush mining channel on Telegram, which can [be found here](https://t.me/minersgonnamine). Most miners are not rocking "Hush Solo" style, so make sure you mention that too.
##### Credits
Hush puppies like giving credit when it's due,
1. [This resource](https://github.com/zone117x/node-open-mining-portal) was a great help with writing this as it had in-depth explanation of each option in all of the config files we configured. If you need any other info on certain options, then take a look thru their write-up.
1. [This repository](https://github.com/z-classic/z-nomp/tree/master/pool_configs) is an old Z-NOMP with pool configurations, so these were helpful to see other options, like those special _comments.