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Hi,

We would need to control the site overall power draw and would need a tool to control the miner power draw pretty fast.

Its easy to shutdown the miner and power comes down fast, but are there any software that can stop the mining so that if can be restored fast too?

So the need is to toggle between few hundred watts and few kilowatts in less than 10 sec.

Thanks!

Not easy to uptick, but if you use an epic controller on a s19xp it can clock up or down quickly.

whatsminers will not fire back up fast.

https://altairtech.io/product/epic-umc/

you could try the controller above.

Thanks,

I have heard that someone has tried to program a software that could pause the mining so that the power will go down like the sleep but could be again start mining fast.

Adjusting power down fast is easy. Just shutdown or set to sleep but the difficult one is to start the mining again fast.

So you are looking for a software/program to automatically shut down the miner and rerun it when needed?

I think awesomeminer is what you looking for where you can set rules for your ASIC unit to pause or stop the miner it drops the power or it runs at idle mode it's not hashing but it consumes power.

Check this link
- https://support.awesomeminer.com/support/solutions/articles/35000085907-rules-detect-mining-issues-and-automate-tasks

Hi ours is the fastest in the industry usually between 6-15 seconds to full power.

How fast is too fast? Also, what miner types are we talking? whatsminers can change power limit by sending a simple command using their API, but then booting up takes a few mins.


But he needs to use a saved-profile for that, not just a random profile or freq/voltage settings which the miner doesn't know, no?

epic controller with its custom firmware is very fast.

0 to mining in well under 1 minute

vnsh is very fast

and even braiins is fast.

but having used all of them epic with it custom controller will reboot and be up to speed the fastest.

Note all my tests were done on viabtc.

all three of the above are quicker than stock bitmain

I think he just wants to stop and resume mining without shutting down or turning off the miner itself.

There is or was a command line tool which I think Avalon added to the cgminer codebase called "cgminer-api" which you could then run api commands against an running instance of cgminer, and as long as you had your config file setup with the API access turned on you could then tell it to stop, start, pause, change pool etc, using the standard Cgminer commands.

Its even listed in Linux but you have to install cgminer through apt to get it.


Dunno what that does to any existing cgminer you have running on that machine but if you are installing it on a separate box that you will use to control your miner or miners then it should be ok.

I don't know the codebase or anything so YMMV kano might know something about the command line app itself.

Actually, AFAIK there is no ability within cgminer api to pause and restart mining, you can shutdown cgminer using the api but once its shutdown I can't see how you would start it again remotely.

Braiins OS+ is ERCOT compliant. The bosminer api has pause & resume functions...