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Hi guys,

This is something that I've been working on to solve the pain of having to check multiple pools. (Currently supports 18 different pools)

www.btc-poolwatch.com (http://www.btc-poolwatch.com)

Sample:
1. If you only entered 2 API tokens, you will see only 2 pools information.
2. Green means the miner is alive. Red means it's not responding.

http://btc-poolwatch.com/public/images/poolwatch-main.gif

One step process to get this working. Enter your API key from the pool website.

http://btc-poolwatch.com/public/images/poolwatch-apitokens.gif

What does it do?
This will be an aggregator for information from all the mining pools you have signed up. If you want to check on the statuses, you only have to hit one webpage, instead of visiting all the different websites.

How is the info gathered?
The mining pools would have json information which the pool will provide you with a "API Key" or "API Token". API stands for Application Programming Interface. Basically you will enter this key once and subsequent requests to the server will use this key to pull the information.

Is this safe? Should I pass other people this key?
This API key can only be used to pull data. It cannot be used to login to your account, or change information on your account.

Why is there no login/password?
The API keys are stored as cookies on your browser. This simplifies the login/forgot password process. Thus if you clear cookies on your browser, you will have to fill up the API tokens again.


Features
1. Currently supports the following pools

• ArsBitcoin
• BitClockers
• Bitcoin Pool
• Bitpit
• BTC Guild
• BTC Mine
• Deepbit
• Eclipse Mining Consortium
• Eligius
• Mainframe Mining Cooperative
• Mineco.in
• Mt. Red
• NoFeeMining
• Ozco.in
• PolMine
• rfcpool
• Slush Pool
• TripleMining

2. Allows multiple tokens for 1 pool.
Just separate each with a comma.

3. Shows pool stats where available.

4. Shows your rewards where available.

5. Auto detects mobile device and display nicely. Sample view on ipod touch

http://www.btc-poolwatch.com/public/images/ipod_capture.gif

6. A Pools' Stats page displays stats of 14 different pools.

http://btc-poolwatch.com/public/images/poolwatch-poolstats.gif

7. Auto refresh the main monitoring page every 5 minutes.

No Registration/Login required! No email and password to lose/get hacked!

To-do
1. Add more pools

Please let me know what you guys think.

Regards,
koo


ps: please be gentle. :P

So is this totally a teaser? No website or api calls available yet? It looks cool, but I'm bummed I can't use it...

Its a bitcoin version of isitdownforyouorjustme.com    ;D

I think this would simplify the process. I'd try it out!

I'm still finishing up the programming, and also doing my sums of getting extra server space or run it off a shared server, getting ssl cert, etc.

I'm thinking of not displaying too much info.

Would you guys want to know the blocks proccesed  and other details or just the hash rate of each worker?

Updated with colors to indicate status of workers, reduce information displayed (less is more).

Most important....added total hash rate.

updated.

pls test it out.  ;D

Very nice! :) If only I had more miners to fill the page with...

Can we get a page with overall starts per pool?

Hmm..not all the pools provide this information. I'll see what can be done.

Updated with Pool Stats for btc guild and btc mine. I'm trying my best to keep the information displayed to a minimal.
Less is more. :D

For now, I only look at total hash rate, as a significant drop means one of them has hung. And of course, all miners should be green.
(FYI, dead/non-responsive miners will be in red)

Deepbit only provide your miner's info, so I can't grab and display the info.

Cant u grab some info directly from their page?

Anyway it looks brilliant, but have no use for me, since I have only 1 miner now. For others its really useful. GREAT WORK.

I get this error when adding only deepbit token.

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: payout_history
Filename: models/api_model.php
Line Number: 279

But it still works, I get the same info as on deepbit.

Is there anyway to get the Mh/s on each worker ?

I could grab and scrub the html, but the html page is not intended to be used that way...anyway I don't look at that information. :D

Thanks for the compliment. I've spread my 3 miners across 2 pools, in case a pool goes down or if there's network problem to that particular pool.
I found it a hassle to goto different pools' webpage to look at the status of my miners so I did this for my own use, but made slight modifications so anyone can use it.

I hope it's useful to the community.

Can you give it a try again? I was updating the files just now. Please let me know if you get the error again.

Deepbit don't give information on individual Mh/s of each worker in the JSON API, so that's nothing I can do. On the other hand BTC Guild provides that information (you can see it in the screenshot in my first post), so I can display it.

updated with minor UI change, and added mtgox pricing.

can you add the current price at time of page load, like the calculator does? that would be cool.

The mtgox pricing should be displaying the current price. If not just refresh and the system will pull the latest price from mtgox again.

Added bitcoinpool to be monitored.

Added simplecoin.us to the pool monitor.

Have you thought about adding multiple API's per site? Me and my co-miner want to see what our combined info is.

Can you add Slush's pool please?   ;D

you mean to be able to put in multiple API tokens for the same pool?

I can do that. Basically you will need to separate each API token with a comma ",". e.g. 1AVXZengG7haCfWH, G7haCfWH1AVXZeng

Something like this?

Will get to it.

Will do. Slush pool was one of the earlier ones I tried, but hit a problem. It's probably me.

Pls chk back again in 48 hrs. :)

The API changed right as I was working on a monitoring plugin for rainmeter, and sometimes returns results in differing format/order.  Not 100% sure what is going on with that.  It would display fine 9/10 times, then error out, then fix itself on a refresh.  After I took out a few things form my regexp it stopped erroring out, but now I can't pull all the relevant data.  I'm sure somebody smarter than me can figure it out though.

My approach is lazier....

if php json_decode() can parse the return string and return me an array, I'll display the information.

If json_decode() returns empty string, it means there's problem with the json, and I just dump out the reply string. Typically it will be an error message or something like "Server/service under maintenance". Which is easy for user's to understand, and I don't have to handle such exceptions.

:)

Added slushpool.

kool as shit mann! Good job!

Tks. The really useful one will be the mobile version. Working on that.

hey all,

I've been busy with work and down with flu for a while, that's why the lack of updates.

Added Eclipse MC to the poolwatch.

Also changed the layout to remove total payout, as I thought it does not make much sense to have that.

Instead, I've added in confirmed rewards, unconfirmed rewards and estimated rewards.

Shares of workers are also updated to be per round instead of total (total can be seen at the pool's main site)

Let me know if this change is good or bad. Thks!

Regards,
koo

Can you add mtred.com?

Could you add email support when worker is down? That would be top notch!

Any link to the JSON API sample/documentation?

I registered, but did not find any links to the APIs

Ah, I would like that too...but the way this thing works is this:

The information is updated when you click "refresh" on the page. The system does not store your api keys and poll the respective pools. Thus there's no way to trigger an alert to you.

hello, can you make it possible to add multiple API tokens to same pool,

I have three of those :)

Will try this tonight - thanks

Ah, this is on my to-do list. I'm trying to think of how to output the results in a logical manner.

Let me know what you think. Thanks!

Ah can you add https://www.bitcoins.lc pool?

Argh, they don't provide json api like other pools, so i cannot write a script to get miners info.

Hmm..perhaps email the admin. I'm sure they have provided the info to other developers.

Also can you add https://ozco.in (Australian Mining Pool) API Key 484b5c88097ec6a6a01908261b531b84e5e6030363ceef9cc069c364021d0a88

YES PLEASE!

updated to allow multiple tokens for 1 pool!

Added ozco.in!

I'll follow up with the admin.

I get The BTC Guild Key field can not exceed 50 characters in length. for guild.

sorry, hang on....

ok, it's fixed. Forgot to upload 1 file that performs input checking. sorry abt that.

Great project!  Could be expanded to storing username/password, tokenid and email alert.  This will be one stop for all pool mining!

https://mtred.com/api/stats

https://mtred.com/api/user/key/b830ead9c0a4b99887b0086534db3b7d

Tks, I must be too tired. Will get to it after work or over the weekend.

Finished work early.:)

Added Mt. Red

Cool, thank you.


One more request - I like how I see total speeds on the top - total rewards confirmed/unconfirmed for all pools would be nice too!

Edit: Site seems down at the moment and also its often slow. I run some servers maybe i can help you with that. Were you thinking of open sourcing the script or selling the code to run a personal instance?

Sure thing, I'll do a total confirmed/unconfirmed/estimated rewards just below total hash rate. Maybe over the weekend. It's 4am Sat here.

I think there's some network issue at my DC to international traffic. I'm ssh in right now and the server load is 0.0 and the system don't use a database.
If there's interest (i.e. more users, more users requests), I'll get something at rackspace.

I don't think I'll open source the script for now. I still have a few more (bad ass) features in my mind that I'm considering.

As to personal instance, are you thinking of using this to do email/sms and historical data?

server problem resolved. DNS issue.

Im getting this:

A Database Error Occurred
Unable to connect to your database server using the provided settings.
Filename: core/Loader.php
Line Number: 232


also when site loads, my tokes are saved but no data is loaded (all 4 pools)

My whole VPS is down....resolving the issue now. Sorry about this.

Added BitClockers.

Now you have a choice from 10 pools to monitor. :)

Also added a total rewards view at the top. Please let me know if the maths is wrong.

I seem to be getting much to high a hashrate as the total, too high by about 60%. I've copy pasted the results below. You can see they add up to 1029 (which is about right for me), but the total displayed is 1,537, which is way too high. Bug, or is it PEBKAC on my end?

Your Total Hashrate = 1,537    MH/s
Confirmed: 0.22558979
Unconfirmed: 0
Estimated: 0.632772633618
Eclipse MC
[Users:96, Speed:26.39 GH/s, Duration:3d 23:05:59, Shares:1,787,987]
Confirmed Rewards: 0.00699499
[Unconfirmed: 0.00000000, Estimated: 0.632772633618]
Worker   Hash Rate   Shares   Last Activity
XXXXXXX   134 MH/s   7368   2011-07-04 02:15:21
XXXXXXX   210 MH/s   7306   2011-07-04 02:15:40
XXXXXXX   177 MH/s   7954   2011-07-04 02:15:41
ozco.in
Confirmed Rewards: 0.2185948
Hash Rate: 508
Worker   Hash Rate
XXXXXXX   172
XXXXXXX   193
XXXXXXX   143

Hi,

This is definitely a bug.

I took 1,537-1029=508, which is the total hashrate for ozco.in.

I've mistakenly added the ozcoin hashrate twice (once in the ozcoin total and once of the individual miners).

I've corrected this. Sorry about that.

Thanks for spotting this.

Regards,
Koo

..and it all is working fine. Great job rearwheels - can't do without this. Coinage your way man.

This looks nice! Works well so far too. I haven't found any problems.

Thanks guys.

Sorry my health is not good, no new features for now.

When you have time, could you add bitp.it? Thanks!

Will do! I'm half done with arsbitcoin.

Could you add Eligius :)

I just realised how perfect this is for local Multipool monitoring.

After adding slush i get

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: confirmed_rewards
Filename: models/api_model.php
Line Number: 752

Do you have a link to the Eligius APIs? I tried to find it on their site but nothing.

yap, for those who runs backup pools, this is great for knowing when your miners switched to a secondary pool.

Arg, a bug. I'm surprised I did not catch this.

I have made some changes. Please let me know if you face the same error.

I got some errors as well after adding Slush, Bitclockers, Bitcoinpool, Deepbit, Mineco.in, ozco.in and Mt Red all yesterday evening


A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: workers
Filename: models/api_model.php
Line Number: 426

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: balance
Filename: models/api_model.php
Line Number: 428

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: balance
Filename: models/api_model.php
Line Number: 430

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
Filename: models/api_model.php
Line Number: 439

Hmm...These errors are caused by the code in mtred.com. I think the JSON returned must have been corrupted.

I assume this only happen once and if you refresh it goes away?

I'll put in some checks so that it does not break so easily and display these errors.

No, doesn't go away after a refresh. It's not a big deal, doesn't seem to affect stats. The page just looks less pretty.

Ah! It's due to an invalid token key.

MTRed returns a proper message, while most other pools return empty values.

Please refresh and you will see a proper error message.

Added in a auto-refresh.

The main page will auto-refresh every 5 minutes.

nice work!

what about bitcoins.lc?

Tks.

The last time I checked, bitcoins.lc don't provide user's data via JSON API.

All fixed - nice job.  ;D

oops, you are right

any chance of getting this to work with arsbitcoin.com?
thanks.

It already should. click on the 'API tokens' tab.

There is a small bug in "Your Total Hashrate", it's related with Slush poll JSON API.
When worker hash rate exceed over 1000MH/s it isn't count to "Your Total Hashrate".
Worker hash rate look like this: 1,000.00MH/s, so I think that the reason of this bug is coma after thousand.

http://i52.tinypic.com/103tnwz.png

Thanks for your work on this, rearwheels!

They do provide pool stats via JSON API, nut not individual miners, so until they do, there's nothing I can do.

btw, they have the best looking web interface, imho.

I've added it in, will update the first post.

Tks, organofcorti.

You are right, the coma after the thousand caused the problem, and I'm the one who put that in to pretty up the numbers. I put in the "pretty up" code too early and screwed up the addition....:D

Fixed. Please try and let me know.

I did not manage to test this as I don't have a 1ghs system to test this. :D Thanks for catching this.

ps...I was running high fever on and off for the past 2 weeks. :D

no problem!

It's OK now :) Thank you for fast reaction and great site.

Can you add nofeemining.com?

Just added bitp.it!

Will work on nofeemining.com.

But I may be away for about 2 weeks and have limited access to a computer/internet. If there's any bug, please report here. Tks!

arstechnica is broken, says document has moved.

Nofeemining needs a capcha to access  api - I can't find an easy way to access it via commandline, and someone on their thread mentioned it was to do with poolhopping. You might have a bit of trouble doing it in an automated fashion unless you can get special access.

Updated to the new url (they changed to HTTPS)

ah..I've not signed up with them. If a captcha is required, then it's going to be difficult.

Message them - they might give you special access. They seem like nice folks on their thread.

How is the mobile page coming? If you move the news to another tab, it should display fine on most mobile browsers. it will organize and resize everything itself.

The site is down or is it me?

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/btc-poolwatch.com
 (http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/btc-poolwatch.com)


computer says "yes"

VPS is down...getting the service provider to reboot/get it up.

Damn, after setting up this site, my VPS has been hitting downtimes.

We still love your service mate. You're awesome. Some downtime for such a good free service - no biggy.

Tks..

The frustrating thing is that I cannot monitor my workers as I'm used to having the site opened in a tab!  ;D

Anyway, seems a few racks were affected at the DC. I may just put this onto godaddy.com webhosting and pay the $4.99/mth. LOL.

Is it instability from the provider or just too much load?

I've been using this company for 7 years and has been good.

The load is not that high, even after I added in the 5min auto refresh. Much less hit rate than other sites I'm running on the VPS.

I'll give them another 4 hours before I start pointing the DNS elsewhere.

The system is back up. Sorry for the downtime.

mobile page is done! Simply point your mobile device to http://www.btc-poolwatch.com and it will automatically detect your device and display the stats accordingly.

Mobile page will not auto-refresh every 5 mins as I believe most people have limited/payable data charges on mobile. Please use the browser refresh button manually.

Please let me know if anything does not work/display properly on your phone.

I've made quite a few changes to the under lying structure instead of just taking out the news content.

My next objective is to cache the pool stats so that the page will load faster.

pool stats are cached for 5 mins (from the last person who accessed the same pool stats info).

So if two person are pulling the pool stats, only 1 http call is made to the poolstats json.

This should result in significant speed boost in loading pages. (especially if you mine on > 3 pools).

Since the various pools' stats are cached, I've made a page to display the information. (You can check out the competition :) )

Also added in bitcoins.lc and eligius pool stats.


http://www.btc-poolwatch.com/poolstats

Nice work, rearwheels!

Any chance of getting user stats for eligius, too?

You have a very easy to read and useful website...please continue with your efforts. I really like it so far and am considering giving a donation in the near future.

The user stats provided is very different from other pools.

To include that will require a large portion of re-work on the current pools as well.

I'll try to work this in as I'm thinking of adding a User Token to identify each user.

If the system can keep track of each user with the User Token, I can display performance graphs for each miner.

Thank you, I like to keep it as simple as possible.

There is a problem with multiple API for one pool. First API is counted twice:

http://i54.tinypic.com/72vtom.jpg

Ah...updated!

Sounds great - hope you can make it happen  :)

Exchanged a few emails with Luke-Jr and managed to get user stats up!

Please try it out.

Hey rearwheels, tried it this orning, got:

damn...I think I'm moving to a different webhosting company. They probably put a new VPS customer to the server doing crazy things to the server.

if i use a browser that i haven't used with btc-poolwatch before, i get the site up ok. haven't tried adding api codes though.

What about using a simple json feed in the meantime?

If you have not used the site before, there's no cookies with API tokens thus no database access (pool stats are cached in the database).

Sadly I cannot even ssh to the server, so I cannot make any changes.

so you want me to try deleting cookies and then adding api codes until it fails? or you already know what you need to know?

nah, purely server side problem. It's up after a reboot.

I think I'll put getting stable hosting as top priority

well, just sent you coinage to help you out.

back up! thanks mate, thats a life saver.

Is there an easy way t copy cookies to other browsers on different computers/mobiles? Saves the pain of copy/pasting 10 apis.

ttfn

Thanks for your support!

To use this on different browser/device, you will have to go through the pain of copying and pasting all the APIs.

The way to solve this is to assign each user a user token, like the API token that stores all the pool tokens. But this will take some time to implement.

In the mean time, if you have to manage multiple API Tokens, what I'll do is email all the tokens to myself, so that I don't need to login to various pools to copy the tokens.

On each device, I just open up the email and do a copy and paste. Hope this helps.

Regards,
Koo

Thx for that. I already do email the api tokens and copy/paste them, it's just fiddly on a phone and I've been putting it off. It's not urgent, and I can wait.

Cheers,

ooc

The pool stats cache have had a hit rate of about 85%! That is very good and I'm happy with that.

Next to-do is to move to a different host before I implement anything new things in the database to minimize migration headaches.

Will do tonight while I wait for DNS propagation.

If it's not too much bother, could you add rfcmining, nofeemining and triplemining? *cheesey please grin* - oh, wait -  ;D

and while I'm begging, also a way to disable pools without deleting the api key? Some pools I don't need for a while, but then I find I need them again.

Damn you pool-hoppers!! *shakes fist*

ok, I'll think of something. :D

Added Mainframe MC!

Regards,
Koo

updated with new screen shots in first post.

Cool service.

Thanks, Nasty.

BTW, I have implemented a new feature to turn-off monitoring of some pools, but keep the API keys, to make our life easier.

The has been tested in my test site by beta tester (erm 1 beta tester). I will move this to LIVE tonight or over the weekend.

Sorry for the delay on this. Just got a pre-owned 5870 and was busy with upgrading my rigs to 11.6. A man's gotta eat. :D

ps. I've got a few donations (4 so far...), and if you have donated, please PM me and I can give you the link to the beta site so you can get a first hand view of up-coming features.
Just PM me with the donation transaction code.

Regards,
Koo

Would be nice to show stats via JSON as well, single JSON API for all pools would be nice, as well as consistency of data...

Hi Ed,

Do you mean to provide a JSON API to show the information of all the pools?

I dunno rearwheels. That json api for all pools sunds kinda ... hoppy to me   ;)

I was wondering why would the json api for all pools be "happy"... :D

Major updates

1. Added "Enable" check box in the API tokens setup.
If you do not want to monitor a pool, just uncheck the check box so that the API token of the pool is retained.
(Only available for web version, not for mobile)

2. Auto-refresh, stopping
At the bottom of the page, there is a check box to allow you to stop the auto-refresh.
Check it again to allow auto-refresh.

3. Added a "Page generated" date and time.

4. Miners are sorted by name and aligned left for a more organised look.

For the technies, programmers:

5. Implemented factory design pattern.
Allows easy adding of new pools

6. Refactored MVC codes.
Less repeated codes. Makes for easier and faster changes (whatever it may be).

Just wondering if there was an update on adding NoFeeMining.com??

Added nofeemining.com!  ;D

triplemining API link is broken. Let me contact the admins about this.

Hey mate, in nofeemining, 'confirmed' actually means 'total ever'. They have a field called 'balance' which is in the api, and this is the same as 'confirmed' in other apis. Everyone always have to do something different!

Damn! Fixed.

I thought balance is "total ever". I signed  up for an account and everything is 0 for me atm, sorry abt this.

Hah, no worries, I only figured it out because I was thinking - hey this is cool, I just took out a coin and I have another coin here? Sweet! Only then I looked closer and made sadface

btw could you add polmine.pl and rfcpool.com? I just bribed you for some encouragement!

Added polmine.pl

There's no poolstats available only user stats, if there is one, pls let me know.

User stats are fine - they don't do a pool api. Sorry, should have mentioned.

I'm looking at rfcpool, they have pool stats but not user stats in JSON.

edit. found it.

next time I think I'll save you searching and post the apis - sorry about that!

I was not concentrating..:D

Anyway it's done!

Added rfcpool

With the MVC and factory design pattern, it's quite easy to add pools.

I know! I actually found it before I saw this post! Nice surprise there.  :D

The link for PolMine is going to NoFeeMining.com.

Sorry about that. Fixed!

So, I was looking at triplemining's stats page and saw this:Perhaps the admins responded to you, but if they didn't, perhaps they were letting users know because it has been fixed but they didn't think you needed to.  Perhaps not, though, I don't know.

Was that a convoluted request to add triplemining? If so, I'll second that. But I don't think they do user apis, only pool stats.

No, actually, someone else requested it, he tried and the API was broken so he was going to e-mail the admins.  I was just providing potentially useful information.  That said, TripleMining provides API keys to users, so I should think they would have per-user stats.  However, those may not be at the same URL, I wouldn't know.

EDIT:  I guess one could find out easily enough since the API on the workers page is a link...  http://api.triplemining.com/json/<APIKEY>

The link "http://api.triplemining.com/json/stats" only shows the number of shares currently? I was looking through the bithopper thread and it seems this triplemining API was created for that purpose.

But "http://api.triplemining.com/json/<APIKEY>" is working. I'll get right on that.

But I have a few nasty emails to send to my webhosting company first.

Added TripleMining

I'm not 100% sure if I've interpreted the json reply for worker status correctly. Please try it out.

The worker name and shares counts look right.  I'm not sure that the number you have for stales is right, though, you show 9 stales on my worker while the website appears to say I have no invalids.

Hm...can you check by doing the following:

1. hit the api url with your api key
http://api.triplemining.com/json/<api key>
If you are using IE or firefox, you will be asked to save the output to a file.

2. Copy and paste the output into http://jsonlint.com/ and click validate. This will format the json nicely.

Double check the "stales" information reported by triplemining json.

My only problem with this is that the "alive" is returned as a text and not a boolean value.

IE displayed it instead of asking me to save.  IMHO, it was human readable, so I didn't mess with jsonlint, but it definitely shows 9 stales.  Sounds like a question for triplemining, but I'll let someone else mess with that.

yep - triple just added it yesterday - talk about coincidence!

Minor update to the "Pool Stats" page.

Added a show of count down to new difficulty

thx
sent some coin

Nice addition rw!

btw, pool speed on eligius has a bug:

Eligius pool speed fixed.

The only pool that does not return json. :D

rearwheels would you be willing to add some basic earnings/accounting section.

Im thinking it would be nice to use btc poolwatch that allready combines the confirmed/unconfirmed and estimated earnings in one block for all listed pools however it would be even more usefull if we could select an earnings range or at the very least have 24hr earnings calculated for confirmed/unconfirmed/estimated earnings.

This way we could more easily figure out what we made in a 24hr cycle compared to expected returns based on hashrate. Users on more than one pool it starts to get tricky to keep accurate 24hr cycle track of earnings.

Yours isn't the first request for a feature that would require the server to store our information and poll our data whether we are actually using the page or not.  It probably won't be the last either.  That said, if you had read through the thread, you would have learned that our API keys are stored ina  cookie on our computer and the data from the servers is only retrieved from the pools when we request it by loading the page.  Given those two constraints, there is no way he can tell you what you earned in the last 24 hours or what your overall average hash rate for the last 24 hours was.  Changing this design would be 1) a privacey concern and 2) potentially harmful to the pools due to the number of constant API requests coming in, so I doubt rearwheels is interested in doing such a thing.  However, if you could get your pool(s) to include that data in the data returned by the API i should imagine that he'd be happy to add it to his page and perform math on it where doing so would make sense.

Thanks for assuming I wasnt aware of how btc poolwatch cache the stats in a cookie, unfortunately I was.

My request would obviously suggest an accounts section / users actually logging in. This is part of the request for such a feature and I cant imagine it not being possible to implement.

The question would be would they want to add such features, I guess not. This isnt the end of the world as I have other means to go about this, it would just have been an easier approach to get the same thing done.

Clipse,
I'm not part of the BTC-Poolwatch project, so don't consider it 100% apparent that they wouldn't want to add such features.  I was simply supplying reasons why it isn't feasible with the current setup and why it wouldn't necessarily be a great idea to do such a thing on a mass scale anyway (even an open-source tool for individuals to do this could end up taking down a pool the same way a DDoS attack could if it started spreading like wildfire, much like hoppers sometimes bring down a pool by monitoring it heavily while not even hashing at it).
Dustin

Sorry - I couldn't let this go. Hopper proxies (and non-hopper proxies) only monitor webpages if there is no json feed. We have emailed pools that don't supply feed data in json and recommended one. Most proxies only update website data once every couple of minutes, and I would have been doing that manually. If a pool isn't ready for hoppers, it isn't ready for fulltime miners either.

[/rant]

What he said.

Thanks Dustin.

Ok, that leaves something for me to do ;)

Hi Clipse,

It is certainly possible to implement what you've mentioned. It's just that when I first set out on this project, I only wanted to be able to keep tabs on my miners on multiple pools at one glance. I was using this for my own use with hardcoded API tokens since I was the only user.

Later I made some modifications so that every one here can get to use it. And using only cookies to store user's information reduces the implementation time and effort tremendously (as opposed to getting users to register and login). That's 2 hours coding something simple vs 2 days coding plus testing plus hitting forget password and checking emails, etc.

One thing I've been thinking of implementing, is to have a user token (32 char random characters, similar to the API token) that will be unique to each user. This user token will be tied to all your pools' API tokens. So a user will remain anonymous, and this will be a step closer to implementing what you've mentioned.

However, I don't have a timeline for this as I only work on this in between rebooting my rig, upgrading catalyst versions and re-balancing the GPUs on each rigs. :)

I hear ya, its hard enough at times to manage your own mining farm and then still get requests like mine ;)

I really enjoy the fact that I actually understood you're talking about there. I'm not sure anyone outside the forum would though  :D

Actually I'm looking to build one of these as a next project after btc-poolwatch.

http://linuxfocus.org/English/July2002/article239.shtml

Apologies, server is down.

Server is back up...after a freaking 20hr+ down time.

I've sourced for a new webhoster and will move the server/code over next week.

Hi guys,

I'm migrating to the new server. The DNS will take up to 48 hours to propagate.

No action is necessary on your part.

The server is now in US instead of Asia, so it should be faster for most of you.

"Software Engineering 101: Keeping fingers crossed after hitting enter."

*edit: pointed to the wrong DNS server. Have updated and thus you may experience a slight downtime due to the name servers pointing to the wrong dns I gave. Damn murphy's law.

I read somewhere once that a guy placed 2 pc close enough that he reset one pc by opening the cd tray of ther other... ;D

i dont know much about cookies...but can it save the time of your last visit, and the confirmed/unconfirmed? and when you come back the site tells us since your last visit, at 12:06 pm on monday you made X coins?

cannot find the api for eligius...can anyone point it out?

In a way, that's possible, but if you have automatic payout, your second visit will have less confirmed payout than the earlier, so the delta does not make sense, similiarly for unconfirmed payouts.

Hashrate
http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/raw/combined/hashrate.txt

User stats
http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/hashrate.php?addr=

Balance
http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/raw/5/balances.json

Last block balance
http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/raw/5/blocks/latest.json

Goto http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/ for everything you need.

Great idea. If only have I have CD rom drives....

Anyway, I'm skipping this reset thing, since I have very good up time on my machines now. (7 days and counting)

Crap, the server is down.

http://status.namecheap.com/?p=5218

I actually signed up for godaddy and ran into problems and got a refund within 14 days of sign up.

Lightning does strike twice.

Server is back up.

I hope it's not because some miners got rigs at the same data center and caused the power issue.  ;D

Hey rearwheels,

site down atm. Getting this error:

No data received
Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.

Being without btc-poolwatch is like running blind!

Seems pretty handy if you use multiple pools though!

sorry abt that. fixed. The log file grew too big and caused problems on the hosting.

I've tuned down the logging since the app itself is pretty stable with nothing on my bug list. :)

I do have a couple of new pools to add, but I've been tied down with work, and I gotta replace the fans in a couple of the video cards. Argh, only 24 hours in a day.

Excellent - back on. Thanks so much rearheels. Good luck with the cards.

Could you please add ABCPool.co?  Thanks!

Will do. I'm away from home and my laptop for another week. Will prioritise the new pools.

There is a typo on the reported hash rate of BitcoinPool. It shows up as Speed:91.06 MH/s instead of Speed:91.06 GH/s.

If you aren't anti merged mining, masterpool.eu and nmcbit.com will both have BTC mining going fairly soon.  They offer individual stats at https://www.masterpool.eu/jsonstats/<apikey> and http://www.nmcbit.com/api/<apikey> respectively.  Presumably you could only pull/post the BTC stats if that was your preference.  I don't actually know how to get the stats from these URLs, so I can't post the format here, but if you want to include them, you can PM me to let me know what I can do to help you get that info, because I'm guessing neither site has the format details on it (namecoin sites are mostly not as developed as bitcoin sites, which is no surprise).

Also, do you have any idea why BitcoinPool constantly shows up as red, even when mining just fine?

Hi guys,

Sorry for being MIA.

Just managed to find some time to spend on managing my rigs.

I'll take a look at the bugs reported, and update with new pools over the next few weeks. Still pretty tied up with other stuff.

Thank you for your patience.

Regards,
koo

No worries - btw the site has been absolutely stable and fast for the last month or so. Loving it.

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Fixed. The json API now includes NMC and other currencies. I've modified the code to pull out BTC.

Is the typo on your end or on BitcoinPool's end?

Is it possible we can get an update for btcguild? Since they changed to pps the stats no longer show up.

Sorry for the wait. It's done. Please take a look.

Sorry guys, I've been in bad health for quite a while so I've been away.

I noticed quite a few pools have merge mining now. Let me know if you want to see the NMC earned displayed or something.
(I'm still trying to read up on this.)

Updated, maths error on my part... Thanks.

Hmm...bitcoinpool replies in the json "active"="No" or "active"="Yes". I've made some changes to my code. Please let me know if the change solved this problem.

Regards,
Koo

Awesome! Thanks so much.  :)

One slight problem still. Btcguild shows unconfirmed. Should change it to confirmed as it is now a pps only pool.

Anyone else getting btcpoolwatch database errors when getting refreshes of Slush pool API?

yep. must be my exahash farm.

oh, ic. There are 2 values from btcguild, paid and unpaid. I'm displaying it as follows:

paid="confirmed"
unpaid="estimated"

Does this represent the values well? I can't change much due to all of them being sub-classed from the same parent (if you know what I'm talking about...software engineering stuff).

I'll have to relook at my design to cater for different payments.

Regards,
Koo

Looks like Slush pool information has changed and there's only historical information. So I've removed it.

Long time no see!

What changed? I only added few extra fields, but everything should be backward compatible.

I'm getting the json from here:
http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stats/json/

The current code parses it for "active_workers" and "ghash_ps" which are not in the json. Please let me know if this has changed from last time or I'm looking at something else.

ghash_ps is here. active_workers is away for almost half a year. But it's pretty easy to turn it back on this server. If you wait a moment, it will be in json again...

ok, active_workers is back :-)

got it! The values are after the histories.

I see the active users has been added back in.

I've put back in the code to display the pool info.

Thanks Slush.

json dictionary is unordered, so I have no control how information is serialized. But as far as you parse it with json decoder, those values will be there forever.

"Confirmed Rewards" on the left side should be from ["unpaid_rewards":0.84874402].
"Estimated" on the right side should be removed.

Btcguild is now pps and miners get paid for all valid shares submitted. There is no waiting for confirmed blocks. This is why they charge a fee now. Should look just like Arsbitcoin.

Yep, both issues look to be fixed.  Thanks!

yap, sorry abt that. I was eyeballing the json initially.

done!

Nice! Looks great. Thank you.

Nice, i will try this.

Tried: Nice job!

Great site.

After 2mths and 20 days....it's done. :P

I got 2 rigs mining on it to try this out.

Hi! Could you please add yourbtc.net to your site?

Done! But please help me test if the workers' status is being shown correctly.

i.e.
Green = worker alive
Red = worker dead

The JSON API does not have explicit info on worker status, so I'm using the "Idle Since" value which should be NULL if worker is active (I guess).

Thanks a lot for adding us!

idle since = null means worker is active exactly.

What does confirmed value mean on btc poolwatch? BTC that have to be payed and not payed yet for whatever reason (payout threeshold for example) or do you mean the sum btc that have been payed out so far? The current value of "Confirmed" is btc that have been payed out, if it should be confirmed payout that has to be payed, please change the value to pending_payout.

Great service btw! I like it!

Thanks for the compliment.

Confirmed means it has got 120confirmations, but the pool has not paid it out to you via the auto payment (due to their batch schedule, or the confirmed amount has not reached the auto payment threshold)

From the JSON, this is what I have now:
confirmed = 'completed_payout'
unconfirmed = 'pending_payout'
estimated = 'estimated_payout'

If completed_payout means a cumulative/historical of all the payouts then my implementation is totally wrong. What I'll do is:
confirmed = 'pending_payout'
unconfirmed = *remove*
estimated = 'estimated_payout'

Regards,
Koo

How come every so often btc-poolwatch goes down? Tonight neither my phone, or my computer can access it. Seems to be a dns issue. Usually I can get one or the other working when one is acting up (phone or computer aka diff isp's and diff dns servers).

The name server is down. I'm talking to the support guys on this. Sorry.

update: server is up.

Seems to be down again. Has been down for hours...  :(

At least this time it does not appear to be a DNS problem.

for me too
I miss it - come back soon :D

fixed. sorry about that.

I was overseas and was not monitoring the status of the server so it took a while to get it back up.

I hope it is for holiday ;)
thanks for taking the time to fix it :)

Thank you for fixing it.  :)

Eligius has switched servers apparently. The url you are using to get the required data is now wrong.

It is now http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/raw/7/ instead of the old http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/raw/5/.

Rearwheels, can you please fix this?

Updated. Please let me know if your information is still not reflected correctly. Tks.

Looks good now, thanks.  :)

Hey, could you change the pull of eligius stats to use port 8080 instead of the standard 80? Their stats/web/mining are now on the same ip address, and port 80 and 8337 are for mining.

Thanks.  :)

is poolwatch working for eclipsemc at present?

i'm showing data error for most of the user stats.

speed of workers is shown correctly though.

thanks for your time.

'monkey

Any plans for poolwatch to add Bitlc.net to the supported sites list. It's now stickied in the Top 10 Pools list.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10121.0

https://www.bitlc.net/

Hi all,

I will be stopping all development and changes for a while (8 months at least).

I've been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, and have just gone through 1st round of chemo therapy.

I'll be going for another round of chemo therapy, and than bone marrow transplant (thank god my sis is a match), and i'll take at least 6 months to recover from the transplant.

At this point, btc-poolwatch.com will have to take a backseat. I'll keep the service running.

I'll be back.

Regards,
Koo

Get well soon, Koo. I hope it all goes well for you.

Poolwatch does no longer work with ozco.in


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BTC Poolwatch

I'm genuinely sorry to hear about the health issues. Take care of the health, everything else can wait.

indeed.

focus on getting better.

we'll see ya when we see ya!

'monkey