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HI,

I live in a small studio/apartment in a city that gets ridiculously hot in summer, I have 6 gpus mining and my place gets already pretty hot, even though it's still cold outside. I don't think I'll be able to stand the heat for much longer since weather is starting to get warmer lately. I've been thinking about bringing the miner to my family home since they have a basement, I know there's some ways to remotely control cgminer but I'm looking for something that can allow me to remotely control the whole desktop in a secure way ( install/uninstall drivers, modify cgminer.conf file, restart the computer, download and run different miners like the one for vertcoin...). My family is not really tech-savvy so at the most I could ask them to turn on or off the miner but not much more. Any ideas??

tightvnc is a free remote desktop app. 

windows does have a remote desktop/remote desktop assistance built in.  i use tightvnc so i can cross platforms:  tightvnc runs on unix and windows. 

if you are running linux/unix you could open (portfoward) ssh of your mining rig and access it that way.  If not, you could install cygwin, and have it run an ssh daemon for you, and then VNC over an ssh tunnel (your traffic will be encrypted).

if you dont want to go that route, there's also openVPN, and then use VNC over the VPN tunnel (again traffic encrypted).


EDIT:  Both of these solutions are open source  :)

I use teamviewer free to monitor my home miner on windows.

+1... Free and they have mobile apps.

wow, thanks for the answers! I forgot to mention that I'll be monitoring mainly from a mac so it seems that teamviewer is the one to go for in that case.
Also I know that with remote control there's always some lag due to the internet connection, my family lives in europe and I'm located in the US (planning on bringing the miner there on my next visit). Would that create any lag issues due to distance?

I've been using my iPad to monitor mine. It works great.

Team viewer works well from my Android phone :)

+1 to all the teamviewer comments, I use teamviewer to control my miner, works great, can do everything you need to do, and can access it from another pc/mac, iphone, ipad it's perfect

It will create some lag yes, but it's doable. You can choose some settings for performance or through a slow connection. I've been able to remote control with Teamviewer and UltraVNC from 200 km away on a 220 kb/s, ping 90 connection.

UltraVNC with Tight encoding, 256 colors is very good for slow connections, but it's annoying to set up: open ports on router and use dynamic dns.

However, I'd suggest you to lower the voltage of the cards down to 0.9V and the core to 950 ~ 1000 Mhz, to see if temperatures become acceptable.