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Hi,

Any experience, advice, etc. on Awesome Miner http://www.awesomeminer.com/default.aspx (http://www.awesomeminer.com/default.aspx).

Thanks and regards,

Rizwan

I'm looking into it , I'll be testing it a little this weekend. Looking for feedback too.

Great. Would be looking forward for your feedback :)

Yes, I use Awesome Miner.  It's really great, and I highly recommend it.  Come on over to the AM thread if you have any questions:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.0)

It can seem a little daunting to setup, but that's because it offers so many features, and is very flexible to let you do what you need it to do.

I've used it with EWBF miner and it does great when the miner fails or goes to 0 Sol/s.. Awesome Miner will restart the miner so you don't wake up and find your miner has been down all night.

Initial setup can take some time, but it comes down to a Managed Miner or a Profit Managed Miner.  I was able to use it with any pool I threw at it. 

its a great programm but you should bring the time to config right for your needs. and sometimes it has some wired bugs with profit switching not saveing results or not mineing the best coin.

I'm not sure what you mean that AM doesn't mine the best coin?  The Profit Miners in AM use data from Whattomine for individual coins that you setup in a custom pool group... or will use the data that Nicehash, Zpool, MiningPoolHub, or MiningRigRentals say is the most profitable.

If you don't trust Whattomine or the Online Services to give you the most profitable coin, then you need to setup templates to quickly apply mining software, pools, and settings to the rigs and change them yourself.  This is as simple as right-click a Managed Miner and select the template.  In a few clicks you have switched.  That's a million times faster than RDPing or consoling into each rig and manually configuring and running batch scripts.

If you are having issues with bugs, report them in the AM thread, and Patrike the developer will help.

I don't really know about Awesome miner, anybody can help me to describe what is this ? Is this same like claymore or minergate windows software ?

It is an easy to use thing, but basically not needed. It is an API node point between the mining software and several internet API's. It lets you quickly set up a mining pool and the software, but the options are wrong on most the software configs and the coin list is short and limited. To add a new coin you will need a tiny bit of knowledge and that is beyond the scope of most people here.

It's a monitoring and control tool for your miners with a lot of features and support for different mining programs, APIs and more.
EDIT: It looks really useful ,I'm considering buying a license...you can try it for free for up to 2 miners. (I wish they would pay me for the promotion:)

I'm not sure you should look for it unless you have ASIC farm, but for ASICs this software is great, worth of any cent, tons of options and problem solving rules. Also some pretty good options for GPU and honestly never used it for my rigs except of anrminers.

I just purchased it today  and I got one set of avalons on it. took a while to figure the issues out.

my goal is running the six avalons and the 4  s-9's  soon to be 7 s-9s

I am expanding to about  140th  in the next 35 days and my gear is in 2 or 3 places.
I want to move pools on the s-9's without driving to the gear.

smos  does a good job with the gpus.  also nvoc19 is good

For your multiple locations you can setup site-to-site VPNs to come to your computer than runs Awesome Miner.

Is Awesome Miner inefficient in GPU case?

I don't know  but smos  is really quite good.

and nvoc 0019  is also good.

refer to their thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.0
they will have all the answers you are looking for, but for ASICs it is the best one around I've tried

Not at all.  AM really shines when it comes to controlling Windows based GPU rigs.  With a GPU rig, you have access to many different algorithms, different coins, different mining software, Afterburner integration, and more fine-grained control.  Since AM makes everything a module (the concepts of hosts, miners, software, etc.) it makes it easy to mix and match, create templates, and even do profit switching if you are in to that.