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ScryptMiner GUI is a simple GUI I created for the scrypt-fork of cpuminer, which is used with Litecoin and other alternate cryptocurrencies based on the scrypt proof-of-work.
It has a bunch of neat features like mining pool status reporting (unpaid rewards and such), speed rate reporting and share rate counting.

It is coded in Qt and released under MIT license. At the moment it's available for Windows and Linux.

https://i.imgur.com/GlX6q.png

Download r10 (Windows) :
http://www.mediafire.com/?0g2wi33437dawbs

Download r10 (Linux - Ubuntu) :
http://www.mediafire.com/?7kaydt0o9d3x9bi

Download r10 (OS X - build by Fanquake) :
https://github.com/downloads/litecoin-project/litecoin/Scrypt%20Miner%20GUI%20-%20OSX.zip

Github repository :
https://github.com/Matoking/ScryptMiner-GUI

Glad to see that this project is back, I'm sure many users will appreciate it. (If you find the program useful, please be kind and donate some LTC to Matoking!)

I would like to observe that this new version correctly reports the number of shares even with the newest minerd.

I also have one feature request: would it be possible to minimize the window to the system tray?

I updated the program to work with the newest minerd shortly after I started the thread.

About the system tray minimization feature request, I think I'll get into it right now.

Cool. I was also thinking that it would be useful to have a command-line option to start the program (and the mining) minimized, so that users can set it up to autostart when the system boots.

Just added a command line argument --automine that starts the application minimized and starts mining automatically and implemented system tray minimization. Now I just need a nifty little icon to go with the application, a blank spot in the system tray doesn't look too nice. I'll release a new version when it is done.

EDIT:
New version out with optional --automine launch parameter, minimization to system tray and some other little fixes:
http://www.mediafire.com/?v1z2va4bxuxse49

...just donated some, because if we want LTC to succeed we need more guys like you. So, please go on!

Wow, thanks for your generousness! :D

Small donation sent.

It's OBVIOUS there is "demand".
What you're really after, is donations /before/ it's done instead of doing it first and waiting for it to be worth something.
Greedy much?

I would like to point out that the OP never asked for donations.
Also, it is not obvious that the author of a program can provide binaries for operating systems he does not use.

Very Very nice! Would it be possible to add Elitist Jerks to the list?

http://www.ejpool.info:8080

Yes, I'll try adding Elitist Jerks pool to the list of pools and also try my hands at compiling for Linux tomorrow. :)

EDIT:
I've managed to compile Scryptminer-GUI on Ubuntu. It was so easy I cried. I also added the Elitist Jerks pool. Next release should be coming up soon enough.

New release for Windows:
http://www.mediafire.com/?eu8s3f6zl4omc3f
Release for Linux (Ubuntu, no idea if it works with other distros too):
http://www.mediafire.com/?7on3x3uiby4bc96

EDIT 2:
I've added Linux binaries to the OP. Remember to read README since it has instructions on how to install Qt4 libraries. They were compiled under Ubuntu, but I have no idea whether they work on other distros too. Bear with me, this is the first time I've tried compiling anything in Linux.

Good work on the GUI, I think I'm in love...

Can the output be logged to a file as well, rather than just a screen.

Also can you set the output window so that if I have the scroll bar at the bottom of the window, or I've hit END then the scroll bar stays at the bottom. Currently it jumps to the top as soon as new output has entered the window.


marked.

maybe someone can help me with this, how do i get it to save my miner info (pool addy, user, pass,...) and how do i add the automine command?

It saves the settings into a file named easyminer.conf automatically when you close the program. You can use the automine parameter by creating a shortcut and appending " --automine" without quotes to Target.

got it, thanks :)

really good job looks and runs nicely one thing tho api for pool-x is a little quick made ;) would be nice to have fixed i just look at src but better getting it fixed at the root :)

What's missing from the Pool-X mining pool information?

EDIT :
Pull request merged. Thanks very much. :)

New release coming up with better Pool-X reportin and option to save output to a file. I haven't got the output tab to work neatly yet when it removes text.

Windows (r9) :
http://www.mediafire.com/?o9dc2exsb25lzf0

Linux (Ubuntu, r9) :
http://www.mediafire.com/?ihgwl6hgym7a4mp

EDIT 2 :
The "restart miner when it crashes" option seems to restart the miner even when it shouldn't (for example, when stopping the miner) at least on Ubuntu. It will be closed when you close the GUI, though.

i added another pull request to make gui work with newest miner :)

EDiT : closed pull req failure was else where -.-

The 2.1.3 version of poolers miner doesn't seem to start for my with ScryptMiner-GUI either, any ideas?

This should be fixed in the GitHub repo already, we just have to wait for the next binary release.

New release packaged with the newest cpuminer out.

Windows (r10) :
http://www.mediafire.com/?0g2wi33437dawbs

Linux - Ubuntu (r10) :
http://www.mediafire.com/?7kaydt0o9d3x9bi

This version doesn't mine at all for me, not even when I tried the minerd.exe that worked with r9 :-(

Dumb ass you can't compile or even try to build An app fgr mac osx without a MAC

Building ScryptMiner-GUI should be as easy as opening the project file in Qt Creator and just pressing Build/Run.

Clearly updating the miner in the GUI is a little more involved than dumping the latest version of pooler into the folder and let-er rip, any ideas?

Depends on what's been changed. In most cases it should work just like that.

I'm pretty sure I did not change the output format in the latest release, so the GUI should work with 2.1.5. I tested it briefly on Linux and it seems to work.

Just found this. Thanks! Sent Donation just now. I will send some down the road too!

Miner failing to start for me :/

Ubuntu 12.04, QT dependency installed, can mine with the Litecoin client fine with 2.2.2

This client is only for solomining, right? Its not possible to mine for pools?

Thanks!
Sebastian

You can do both, just put in the correct credentials and start mining.

could you add notroll.in to it? :)

and also when i set --automine it just say "killed miner" ?

and last, maybe update with lastest minerd :P

Why don't this support 12 threads?

AVG is complaining to me that the minerd.exe in the Windows zipfile contains a Trojan, Generic29.JAV :(

Hrm. taking a long time to start...trying to mine on OzCoin....

wonder what kinda hashrate i could get out of a server with 32 2.4Ghz cores in it...

ooh, something happened. "LONGPOLL activated"

Not sure if good.

HAHA. ur only good sign so far.

should mine within seconds. i had problems with my ozcoin login

first pool out of three to work for me was: ltc.kattare.com (http://ltc.kattare.com)

I use McAfee and I'm having the same issue. I'm trying to find another minerd.exe file to see if that works.

Has anyone got this working on Mac OSX I keep getting an errer

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /Users/Fordy/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/lib/QtGui.framework/Versions/4/QtGui
  Referenced from: /Users/markplunkett/Downloads/Scrypt Miner GUI - OSX/ScryptMiner GUI.app/Contents/MacOS/ScryptMiner GUI
  Reason: image not found

having this same problem

What does the "scantime" setting do? (it was set by default to 15)

I would recommend to add a small menu/buttons for saving the setting (without having to restart the program), and also add some version info in the gui.

Ive been trying to get scryptminer to work for hours, and I have no idea what I am doing wrong. I extracted scryptminer x64 (Im on windows 7 pro on a q9550), run it, enter my username and password for Pool-X, port 9332, and click start mining.

Nothing happens. Its says "Miner started. It usually takes a minute until the program starts."

But speed stays at 0. Shares accepted N/A Shares Rejected N/A

I watched this youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvhpOQHVZpM, Im doing the exact same thing but it never starts and my CPU usage stays at 0-2% across every core.

Why isnt it working???

I can't answer this, I'm new to litecoin mining as well, but I'm going to try to do exactly what you did and I'll get back to you.

Wtvr, I give up, I fail

CDog recheck your pool info. Did you make a config file?

I have a problem updating information pool (pool-x.eu), when I try to update I get "Could not update data mining pool."
I have reviewed the source code and see that the request is made​​: http://pool-x.eu/api?api_key=apiKey, I tried to address in the browser out and working properly.
I thought that is because I use a proxy but I see that the request is made by port 80, as in the browser where it works.

says nothing is in the zip file for windows?

This doesn't use gpu, you want my guiminer: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0

That minerd is flagged as a trojan.
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e036b4c8e47bb161a711f7dc71ce891657f5d61f7f182337f4a0418e9ec4a9b0/analysis/

As opposed to a different minerd I downloaded
https://www.virustotal.com/latest-scan/54bf4f4e051285bc0f64b01e302ba0a1377965de8ce05ef8a97b1b0818ec8a89


Is that from people who embedded miners into trojans?

If the minerd or scryptminer in linux produces 50% less hashes and gets no acceptances of shares problem, what would be a fix for that?

I have a litecoin-qt downloading the blockchain atm (I'm sure that has nothing to do with it if running connected to a pool other than p2p00l)

This ones a new problem for me.

Would it be possible to get the notroll.in pool added to the Mining Pool Status list for the Windows version?

Actually, what would be better is if there was an "other" option so that anyone could watch their mining pool's status. That way there wouldn't be the issue of needing to add more and more mining pools to the list. I don't know how easy that would be to do, but it's just an idea.

That's not possible since the names the mining pools use in the JSON API to denote stats vary.

On a general note, I've stopped developing this application. I have an idea for a similar GUI application for cgminer, but that's really low in my list of priorities right now.

I used to get about 25kh/s with my phenom II, but after the last reboot it went down to 9, any idea?

 8)Hope this ltc mining thing works!

This was not answered and I wonder the same: what is the optimal setting for scantime and what does it depend on?

Mine was set at 4, not sure if it should be more or less? I run a Intel I7 2600k on Win64. Currently (5 cores), I get about 40kh/s (upping to 8 cores only increases about 3kh/s more while CPU goes to 100%).

Thanks!

The best settings are 2 to 4 but why? I have no idea. I assume it's the amount of time to look ahead for work.

Not a clue. Adjust it to see if you get any difference, I don't.

With my computer when I try to download the file, Avast say : a threat have been detected... Isn't it annoying?

Does anyone have an alternate download link for the Windows version? It seems that the link from mediafire is not working.

ScryptMiner stops immediately after I click "START" if the following additional parameters are included.

--shaders 1120 --intensity 10 --worksize 256

I guess those are the wrong kind of parameters but an error message would be a good improvement if you are still updating the code.

Thanks for the app.

Scryptminer runs GPU's now?  I thought it was purely a CPU miner.

Windows download link still not working.

Its there at the bottom.

Actually the link works but when the download is about to finish i m getting a network error or something...
With firefox i m getting the file in my hard drive with a .part extension and in the case of chrome it totally rejects the file.

Maybe the problem it is caused by security issues because my antivirus identifies it as a trojan...

Anyway i went with the r9 version and i m mining right now :p

Awesome.  I was wondering why the litecoin wallet didn't come with a minerd.exe, but this gui built one for me, I stuck all the extracted files into the same folder as litecoin-qt.exe, ran the scryptminer.exe, put in the credentials from the ltcoin.net pool, and I'm at 0.00029422 LTC after an hour, not bad for my crappy 2.5 Khash/second system.

i put this on my windows 2008 server. program starts but nothign happends. im tryign to use it with ltcmine.ru
any suggestions? im using r10.

also when im clicking 'stop' nothing happends. is there some libraries i might be missing?

Awesome thanks for hard work! 8)

actually got it to work - nmeeded statrum proxy running. but now i have other issue:
on my Nvidia notebook it just says 'miner failed to start'. all the time, proxy is running.
any ideas?

is the new cudaminer mod for fast nvidia mining integrated in this yet?

is this still working?

Yes, just slow because its CPU only.

http://it5.webege.com/ScryptMiner.jpg

I get "couldn't update mining pool data" with Elitist Jerks using my API...any ideas?  Thanks!

Hi All,

I seemingly cannot connect to give-me-coins.com with scryptminer GUI
Gives a json-rpc-failed error
I have stratum proxy running but nothing...any advice?

For some reason the Additional parameters are not saved in the easyminer.conf file. Can it be fixed?

i just found it and think it might help me

Holy cow this thread got over 139,000 views with just 4 pages. That means OP actually did something of value that is worthwhile to the community, and its not the same 4 people posting in the same thread over and over and over again.

https://github.com/mrpostiga/ScryptMiner-GUI/releases

ScryptMiner-Gui (new release)

Read the release notes for changes...

This is a great program! I will definitely sacrifice you a certain amount. It would be nice if there was an opportunity to mine and other coins of algoritm scrypt, for example dogecoin. I hope you do not consider this impudence. Good luck to you. :D

the chance as user might gains with the option as mining with the CPU computer helps as the use on rest with the allocation of resource as might to focus as managing use with details of different customs of tasks on work with the point of manage to helps with the plan to collects with the better returns of compliance.