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Firstly, hello!

I've been mining Ethereum for over a year now and I've been on Reddit and the Ethereum forums, but this is my first post here.

When I started mining, I looked for a properly-architected Windows application with a Graphical User Interface - a miner done the "Windows" way - but couldn't find one. So I wrote Pro Miner.

The miner runs as a Windows Service, which means it starts as soon as Windows starts - no need to log in. It can also run Geth, Parity, Geth Classic and/or Gexp the same way.

The GUI can connect to multiple miners and shows summary graphs for 1-hour, 1-day and 7-day periods. It also shows all logs, recorded by the miners in databases so you can view all historical logs too.

The performance, as measured by valid shares found, is equal to other miners, but Pro Miner consistently delivers 99% uptime. It was hardened during the DOS attacks last year and has configurable rules such as restarting the Service if no new work items are completed for 5 minutes.

It does have a dev fee of 1% - taken by mining for us for 12 seconds out of every 20 minutes. Our rigs run exactly the same code.

We have a website here: https://www.prominer.website (https://www.prominer.website) and a You Tube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYo8bwEIy2G3cIUmd3LdPgQ (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYo8bwEIy2G3cIUmd3LdPgQ)

There are new releases every week or so - we're on version 1.102 at the moment. Give it a try!

https://i.imgur.com/cT53ZFt.png

can it be used to mine on my own node (parity) running on a different pc?

Yes - Pro Miner can connect to any node that supports Ethereum JSON-RPC. It polls eth_getWork to get work items and calls eth_submitWork to submit solutions.

Just choose "external" as the server on the Farm Client tab and enter the IP address and port of your node's RPC endpoint - e.g. http://192.168.1.1:8545.

EDIT: Of course, it supports Stratum connections for pool mining too.

I don't think it's a good way to make money if that was your point. I mean whats to point of GUI anyway ? Miners already create .txt logs and you can view graph on your pool. I mean i guess it's good for beginners that don't really understand how it all works but any of the big guys wont use it

Thanks for your comment.

The point initially was to write a miner that made it easy to monitor and control multiple rigs. I just thought other miners might find it useful and it wasn't much work to make it public.

With Pro Miner, you can have one display on a remote (LAN) machine and immediately see how all your rigs are doing.

I've also put quite a lot of work into maximizing mining rewards - so I've optimized for average hashrate not peak hashrate, which translates to more valid shares.

For example, when I tested Claymore's miner, it produced around 3% stale shares, whereas Pro Miner produces around 0.3% - 0.5%.

sounds cool!  i'd like to give it a spin..... i totally understand where you were coming from on this project.

up until now, the only windows gui i have found is nicehash miner... nothing against linux but i find myself frequently wanting to change up my rigs to boot windows.

is it free to use?  i mean aside from the dev fee?

Thanks! I know most miners are command line apps, but it doesn't have to stay that way.

Yes, it's free apart from the dev fee.

You can download it from the website, which also has screenshots and instructions for installation and configuration for pool or solo mining.

We've also put together a few short ( 10 minute ) videos on our You Tube channel.

If you want any email support, please feel free to contact me via the form on the "Help & Support" page on the website.

Interesting. Following thread.

Has anyone tried running this yet? I would be interested in hearing any feedback. It seems to be under-promoted from the look of the amount of work that went into it; GUI, website, the YouTube videos, etc.

I am interested in how it compares with other mining programs as far as hash-rate and stability, and of course if it is legit or cleverly disguised malware.

Update: VirusTotal only shows one hit on a scan of the download file, and we know it likes to flag miners in general, but again it would be nice to hear any feedback from established forum members who have used it before since it is a relatively unknown entry.
https://virustotal.com/en/file/0517151d41988b66ce17f28ebf35f27c7488aace07c815cc76a9516590224b70/analysis/1487989491/

I was hoping someone who's using Pro Miner would chime in, but since not, I'll answer!

A few people are running it and yes, I'm better at coding than promotion :)

I hope you liked the You Tube videos - the voice-over was done by my partner.

All the current Ethereum miners are within a couple of percent of each other in terms of hashrate. The algorithm was designed to be memory-intensive and the limit is not the code now, it's the physical limit of the RAM on the GPUs.

The real difference between the miners is the uptime. We get over 99% uptime running Pro Miner on our rigs. There are 168 hours in a week, so losing a couple of hours a week due to a miner crash reduces your rewards by a little over 1%.

BTW, we've just released version 1.92 on the website (https://www.prominer.website)

It has improvements and fixes for few things - notably a bug due to IPv6 that meant the miner process would run, but it wouldn't start mining. Thanks to the person who reported this and worked with me to track it down and get it fixed.

Lastly, a request! If you do try Pro Miner and it doesn't work for you, please use the contact form on the website to let us know so we can fix it. Thanks.

I've just released a new version of Pro Miner: v1.94 https://www.prominer.website (https://www.prominer.website)

Highlights:

• Small bug fixes, faster GUI app
• Improved support for Ethereum Classic
• New! support for mining Expanse

If there are any problems, please let me know. Otherwise, good luck mining!

Reserved.

Planing to support other crypto (like XMR) to your software? :)

How about hash rates ? same with claymore ?

Maybe :)

It's taken a year to get some traction with Ethereum-based mining though!

Peak hashrates are the same, give or take. The algorithm is so well known now, there's not a lot of difference between the current mining applications.

To compare miners, you really need to look at valid shares produced per day or per week. Average hashrates and uptime are actually more important if you want to maximize your profit over weeks or months, and Pro Miner is tuned for this, not peak hashrates.

In fact, Pro Miner is the only miner I know of that reports Average Hashrates over days and weeks. It also produces very few stale shares - about 0.5% - as shown in the research I published on Local and Global Work Sizes: (reddit) (https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/5t1i85/local_and_global_work_sizes)

Also, we run Pro Miner on our rigs and get over 99% uptime with very little maintenance. It just keeps going!

But the main point of Pro Miner is of course the architecture. The miners run as Windows Services and the Graphical Control App can be run remotely, so you can monitor all your rigs in one place and hardly ever need to log in to your miners.

What I like about this is it's pretty simple to use, especially with the youtube channel instructions.

I love the fact this runs as service, this alone is something that some miner developers here could take a cue from

I'm building a gpu miner as a gift for someone and I think I may use this because it makes things very simple for them and the graphs help them understand.

Would it be possible to add tracking of estimated power costs (provided the end user plugs in the variables) - I know it seems silly for us advanced miners but for those out there just getting started or don't have an understanding, it could be really helpful for them to determine if what they are mining is profitable.

I see some great work being done here to bring mining like this to the masses that don't have any computer or relatively little computer knowledge.

currently im use claymore the fee only 1% each 60minute, i think you must decrese your fee.

Thanks! Ease of use has always been a priority, as well as making it easy to keep an eye on your rigs when they are set up and mining.

Running the miner as a Windows Service was an easy decision. It's the proper solution for Windows and means you hardly ever need to actually log into your miners.

Tracking power costs is a good idea. I would like to write an app that shows profit in dollars over time ( I have a spreadsheet and I expect others do too ) but I can't think of a good way to add it to Pro Miner without making it complicated. I'll have another think about this.

I was thinking the most simplest version possible, the miner plugs in how many watts from a device like kila-watt and then plugs in their electricity kwh rate. From there it would would just show the estimated costs vs actual and expected profits. Cryptocompare has this online but this could be built right in to ProMiner I suspect.

OK, I'll give it a try. Is ⅔ of a percent significant? I'd like to know!

I've just published a new version ( v1.96 ) with a reduced dev fee of 1%, taken by mining for us for 12 seconds out of every 20 minutes.

BTW, switching from dev mining and back is very fast in Pro Miner - typically less than 0.2 seconds, even on 6-card rigs.

Decided to give Pro Miner a try on my test rig.

Miner service immediately goes into start/stop loop.

But even if it worked I am not liking it.

Runs as service is unnecessary.
GUI way too complicated and unintuitive.
Wants to be Windows app but no usual packaging or uninstaller.
Open firewall port + Windows RPC + Untrusted Software = Never

Good luck.

Thanks for your feedback - I mean that!

People are using Pro Miner, so it does work when you get it up and running. Sorry you've hit a few issues.

I found a problem with the Miner Process ( not the Windows Service ) restarting when no Devices are selected. I've released a new version ( v1.98 ) that prevents this. If you don't mind, could you try again and confirm this solves the issue?

You can use the Pool Mining Configuration Wizard ( the big button on the "Startup" configuration tab ) to quickly enter the minimum settings to get you mining.

Also, I've been meaning to add an Uninstaller for a while now. There were batch files to stop and uninstall the service, but it's now just a case of pressing a button in the Installer App.

There is an option in the installer to open a port to allow the Control App to communicate with Miner Services running on other machines. You don't have to open this port if you're running the App on the same machine as the Miner Service. Having the option in the installer is just a convenience feature.

Once again, thanks for your feedback and good luck mining!

is possible setup cvddc, mvddc like claymore? for better power save.
Is it request monitor or fake monitor to working like others ?

Sorry, Pro Miner doesn't handle any overclocking settings - you have to use Afterburner / Trixx / Wattman for that.

AMD do have an SDK called the ADL ( the AMD Display Library ) but I couldn't get it to work. I asked AMD for support, but they didn't reply so I've kind of left it for the time being.

I'm not sure what you mean by "request monitor" and "fake monitor". Pro Miner does it's best to report accurate Peak and Average Hashrates. The Average Hashrates should match those reported by your pool, if you're pool mining.

It also displays all shares / solutions found in the graphs, as well as totals over an hour, a day and a week in the summary. The summary also displays the expected values given your hashrate and the difficulty per block, so you can see if you're being lucky ( or not! )

There are example screenshots on the "Performance & Reporting" page on the website - https://www.prominer.website/reporting (https://www.prominer.website/reporting)

need  how shares by each GPU

If running like service and i dont' login i don't know if this tools can run.

Is there an option to use Prominer as a standalone without the service?

For people that use programs like Afterburner to tweak their GPU settings, this would be beneficial if there currently is no way to run it without the service.

Actually, you can use Afterburner or Wattman without logging in - I'm not sure about Trixx as I don't use it.

Wattman applies it's settings on startup ( before login ) but has an annoying feature where it will revert to stock setting if the previous shutdown wasn't clean - i.e. if the rig crashed. It doesn't happen very often, but is annoying when it does!

So what I do is just install the drivers from AMD ( not Wattman ) and then install Afterburner. When you have found the best overclocking settings, you can then go to Afterburner's settings page and select "Start with Windows". Then Afterburner will apply your saved overclocking settings on system startup, again without logging in.

I'm not sure how Afterburner does this, but it does solve the problem!

Please see my reply to @drrobert above - you can use Afterburner to apply overclocking without logging in ( it's what I do )

To answer your question: ProMiner.exe ( which is the Windows Service executable ) is also a Windows Console App. So, yes, you should be able to run it from the command line, although I haven't tested this for a long time.

Will you add dual mining later?

No plans to at the moment. Mining Ethereum, Ethereum Classic or Expanse is currently too profitable by themselves.

I haven't tried running a, for example, Decred miner at the same time as Pro Miner - I'd be interested in the result if anyone tries it.

@Eyedol-X - I just tried running Pro Miner from the command line and, yes, it works fine. You don't need any command line parameters, just configure and monitor it from the Control App as usual. HTH.

Pro Miner v1.100 released - now on version 100!

This release includes the latest versions of the nodes, including Geth v1.6.1, and minor bug fixes and improvements.

As always, feedback and/or new feature requests are welcome :)

Pro Miner v1.102 released :)

Ethereum Classic and Expanse are profitable at the moment. Just to remind you that you can mine them both with Pro Miner, as well as Ethereum itself.

Pro Miner also includes the latest versions of Geth, Parity, Geth Classic and Gexp, so you can solo mine too.

And as always, you get a proper Windows Graphical User Interface that can Monitor and Control all your mining rigs from one place.

Good luck mining!

Hi
Just show your thread and probably I will test the software tomorrow.

What about the supported GPUs and the drivers?
Older GPUs?

Do you suggest any specific Eth pool that works better with the software?

Thank you

Thanks for your post.

You can use this thread, or the contact form on the Pro Miner website to email me directly.

There's also a You Tube channel with short ( 10 minute ) videos showing how to configure and run Pro Miner.

See the first post on this thread for details.


Pro Miner uses OpenCL and supports both AMD and NVidia GPUs.

I run various AMD GPUs, starting from 390s up to 480s, but anything with enough RAM should work.

If you have any problems with your specific cards, you can use the contact form on the website and I'll try to help!

You'll have to test to find the best drivers, and it will depend on the GPUs you have.


Pro Miner uses Stratum to communicate with pools.

I've tested Dwarfpool, EtherMine and Alpereum and there's a Quick Start Wizard you can use to quickly configure Pro Miner for those pools.

Other pools should work - again please let me know if you find one that doesn't work.


You're welcome :)

Actually, it depends of GPU... For example, I am mining with RX480 cards and I have 20% more profit with Dual mining and I suppose that I am not alone... So, maybe you should re-think about adding Dual mining option...

Good luck!

Pro Miner version 1.104 released.

It includes the latest node releases: Geth 1.6.5, Parity 1.6.7, Geth Classic 3.5.0 and Gexp 1.6.1.

The Control App has an improved configuration User Interface to help prevent frustrating configuration issues.

If you're trying Pro Miner for the first time, I suggest you use the "Pool Mining Configuration Wizard" to set the minimum configuration options to start mining.

As always, if you have any problems, just drop me a note using the "Help & Support" page on the website.

Good luck mining!

Pro Miner version 1.108 released. !! Required Update !!

The next DAG, which comes at block 3,870,000, is over 2GB ( 2^31 ) This version of Pro Miner can handle it.

Also fixed a regression in version 1.104 which meant you couldn't change your GPU device selection ( oops - apologies for that! )

Good luck mining!

I haven't tried it, but I will say this - keep going! I personally prefer GUI and if you can build on it adding all the functions that us miners are looking for, you'll be successful, because I know I'm not the only one.

Thanks! I mainly wrote this for my miners and it's done very well for me for over a year now. It makes running a farm very easy and I've put a lot of work into making it reliable.

It does what I want it to, but are there any features it doesn't have that you can't do without? Or is it just the dual mining?

Pro Miner version 1.110 released on the website.

This version includes some small fixes and improved support for nVidia cards.

It seems a lot of new miners have nVidia cards, whereas most established miners have AMD cards.

This means support for nVidia is less well tested, so as always, if you have any problems, please use the contact form on the "Help & Support" page on the website.

https://www.prominer.website (https://www.prominer.website)

Good luck mining!

I've been getting reports of under-performing hashrates using nVidia cards.

It seems they are very sensitive to the "Local Work Size" and "Global Work Size Multiplier" settings on the "Miner Advanced" tab in the Control App.

I'm running some tests for nVidia cards, similar to the ones I did for AMD cards a while back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/5t1i85/local_and_global_work_sizes (https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/5t1i85/local_and_global_work_sizes)

In the meantime, if you're using nVidia cards, please try different values for these 2 settings ( keep them as powers of 2 ) to see what works best for you.

And if you would like to share your results here, that would be great!

Good luck mining!

I've done some basic tests to explore how "Local Work Size" and "Global Work Size Multiplier" affect hashrates on nVidia cards.

These tests are not nearly as comprehensive (yet) as the experiment I did for AMD cards, but I thought I'd share my preliminary results.

TLDR; a "Local Work Size" of 64 and a "Global Work Size Multiplier" of 16384 seem to yield the best Average Hashrate.

Increasing "Local Work Size" from 64 increases the Peak Hashrate, but decreases the Average Hashrate. Setting it to 32 results in a decrease for both Hashrates.

Increasing "Global Work Size Multiplier" from 16384 also increases the Peak Hashrate and decreases the Average Hashrate.

Decreasing "Global Work Size Multiplier" from 16384 decreases the Peak Hashrate and but has a mixed effect on Average Hashrate, depending on the "Local Work Size", but never matching the optimum settings above.

As with the results for AMD cards, optimizing for Peak Hashrates does not maximize mining returns, which depend on Average Hashrates.

If anyone else has run these tests, please share your results too!

Pro Miner version 1.116 released - get it from our website: https://www.prominer.website (https://www.prominer.website)

!!! All new CUDA kernel for native NVIDIA mining which should equal or better other miners !!!

Small tweaks and improvements for OpenCL AMD mining. There's not much room for improvement here - the Ethereum algorithm was designed to be memory-intensive ( which is why we can still mine it with GPUs! )

I know I have an uphill struggle to convince you guys, but as always, please compare Average hash rates, not Peak ones.

Average hash rates are directly proportional to your mining rewards. Peak hash rates ( even when reported accurately ) are largely just bragging rights! Pro Miner is optimized for maximum Average hash rates and so maximum mining rewards. We run exactly the same code in our mining farm.

Quite a few people are using Pro Miner now, so it's well tested - why don't you give it a go?

If you have any problems, you can contact me using the "Help & Support" page on the website and I'll try to help.

If you're using it and like it, please let us know that too!

Good luck mining!

Pro Miner version 1.118 released!

Major improvements to the Control App. The home tab is now fully customizable, so you can monitor all your miners in one screen, just the way you want.

Unfortunately, there is a regression bug that means this version won't mine on Windows 7. I am working on this, and hope to have a fix soon. Windows 10 is fine.

Get it from our website: https://www.prominer.website (https://www.prominer.website)

Good luck mining!

Thanks :)

If you have any problems, suggestions, or anything else, please use the contact form on our website to email me directly.

I would like to see a dual mining feature on this miner.

Dual mining with ETH as high as it is now is a waste. That little extra hashrate you get by just mining ETH makes more profit than dual mining. I'm going to try this GUI on my new build and see how it does. Keep up the good work and thanks!

Pro Miner version 1.122 released - get it on our website: https://www.prominer.website (https://www.prominer.website)

Windows 7 now works - it would be great if a few people could test it out.

As always, it's great to get feedback, good or bad. You can post here or use the Help & Support page on the website to email me.

Good luck mining!

Glad you like it!

I'll have a look at also supporting Music coin. Are there any other Ethash-based coins you'd like support for?


I not sure what you mean exactly. There's a small button in the bottom right corner of the log windows. If this is yellow, the logs auto-scroll to the latest entries. Manually scrolling back in time turns this behavior off and the button turns orange. Just click it to turn it back on again.

Hope this helps. If you have any other ideas or requests, please let me know.

Pro Miner version 1.126 released! Get it from our website here: https://www.prominer.website (https://www.prominer.website)

Bug fixes for devices not being found and log windows not scrolling to the end. Thanks to the miner who helped work through these issues :)

Pro Miner has improved over time, thanks to miners reporting issues. It's become pretty good now - give it a try and help break Claymore's dominance!

Music Coin mining should work, as should any other Ethash-based coin, although with no dev fee, as the seeds, and hence the DAG, will not match.

As always, feedback and especially bug reports if Pro Miner isn't working for you, are welcomed either here or via the "Help & Support" page on the website.

Good luck mining!

It seems version 1.128 is out, but author forgot to announce it here, so there you go...I just downloaded it
and going to try it

how to minnig bitcoin sir?

Why would you want to mine bitcoin?

After some testing, it seems performance is comparable to Claymore, but
I think UI has lots to be desired. Although I'm a windows person, I find
claymore easier to use, with ability to run as a service been main advantage
(or disadvantage, depending what you prefer) of Pro Miner

Thanks for trying it out and posting a review. I think Pro Miner's main advantage is that it just keeps on running with very little effort.

Also, it seems some people just prefer a Graphical User Interface and especially the ability to monitor your miner's performance over the past 7 days.

Thanks again for giving it a go - much appreciated  :)

Version 1.132 is published!

Includes the latest versions of Geth, Parity, Geth Classic and Gexp.

Also a bit of tidying up and better help messages.

Get it at our website! https://www.prominer.website (https://www.prominer.website)

Bumping this despite using another miner lately for ethash :)

Its nice to have competition