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Hello All.  Since I am “Crypto Dad”  ::) I am in search for a software for my sons “latest crypto project” that does the following. *Spoiler - I’m going to just explain what I desire as I don’t want to spare you guys any mangling or misappropriation of any technical terminology.  :D

Scenario
5 Family members have usb plug in type miners (Gekko, ASIC Saphire, Moonlander, etc).
• All miners are SOLO mining. (No mining pool)
• Each individual miners “stats” are sent to my sons server (website) and stored in a database allowing him to assign individual log ins for each miner. (Family member) and They are able to view the results of their miner however he chooses.

* Software Download for each user?

As this “seeming” simple enough I assume that there is software or apps that allow this currently.  Any open source recommendations or developers would be appreciated.

* Any advice on which USB miners that would be best suited for this please advise.  Keep in mind that the actual reward value is not a concern. The amount of data that can be extracted from the miner to the server snd how “cool” the miners look is of more value in this endeavor.

It sounds like you want to run your own mini-mining pool. If that's the case, you'll need:

1) A synced bitcoin node
2) Pool software, for example ckpool: https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool-solo/src/master/
3) Configure the pool talking to your node and make sure you have either the DB option or access to the logs folder
4) Point your miners to your local pool

This should let your family mine, solo, to your own pool, which can track stats and users and whatever else your son programs or configures it.

First off. I’m very grateful for your reply. (I was starting to worry that I wouldn’t one.)
That’s exactly what I desire. In this situation When we say “Solo” mining set up that you described. (And I saved. Ty) would I as the Pool owner be able to configure/display each of the family members stats, coin balance, and most importantly, they would be rewarded the entire 6.25 Block reward if they hit it? 

Yes, but keep in mind what you want to do isn't really a quick point and click exercise. Even the open source code I linked is slightly out of maintenance and you may need developer skills to setup what you want.

I'm not sure of other open source bitcoin pool code as well - maybe someone else will chime in.

Thanks again. The search for a custom programmer begins.

There isn't really a web dashboard for ckpool so you'll have to code that yourself.

If you want my advice, you should find someone to do it for you - unless your son is already a webev - using the r/Jobs4Bitcoin subreddit on reddit. I recently found one successfully using it.

Instead of writing everything from scratch,you can use BTC pool open-source project (https://github.com/btccom/btcpool-ABANDONED), I think Viabtc also have something similar, there will be some word required so if you don't have any programming knowledge you will need to hire someone.

Thank you sir

Well, if you use cgminer for each, you may use the api for displaying the individual result on a webpage.
The sample code for doing so is in the cgminer folder.
There is also a php script for displaying multiple api messages on one website.
A user of bct has written it and it works great.
(I search for the name and type it here if I can find it)

Thanks for the detailed reply.  Please post it if you come across it.

LG

To monitor your miners directly, in the cgminer folder, miner.php
I wrote it.
Check my git for the latest version and API-README for details about it.

Hmm, someone forgot to give the link...  ;D Here is location of his git (https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer)

Found the thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=222632.0

and here the Github link:
https://github.com/Paxxil/cgminer_remote_monitoring