New commit added with a few minor bug fixes, NOTE: The GUI does not run when cgminer starts (it uses CPU and the terminal window can be minimized if required) this means it should have no affect on any GPU hash rates, but any problems do let me know!

Standalone installer for Linux now available here, please read the README.txt for full instructions.

MineDown-Version-12022013

Or for the source code visit:

https://github.com/Mark-Leck/MineDown

Seeing as I have my miner setup in my garage and that I can't watch over it 24/7 I thought I would create a program to alert me if anything was up while I was away, so I did and I thought I would share it with the mining community:

MineDown
Basically its a GUI front-end watchdog written in bash for cgminer, that will configure cgminer’s start parameters and send an alert via SMS should any of the following (user configurable) trigger go off:

1) Utility = The amount of shares actually generated in a minute (I chose this as the main trigger as I feel it is one of the most important - especially for p2p mining anyway)
2) Not exactly user configurable - but also; If cgminer actually stops responding to the API requests from the watchdog - which usually means its crashed or shutdown.

I can add more triggers if requested or needed.

You will also require a FREE trial account a Twilio.com (of which I have no affiliation I just like their API and it works for free apart from the nagging "Message sent from your free twilo account" that precedes every text you get it’s great.)
The trial account limits the amount of texts you can receive, but unless your miner is going down every minute then you should not hit the limit anytime soon - also you have to send alerts to the mobile that you used to verify the trial account with) you obviously have the choice for a paid account and this will lift all of the above mentioned limits.

Anyway feel free to be my guinea pigs

I have fully tested this and confirm it does work as should on Ubuntu 12.10 and latest cgminer-2.10.5-x86_64-built version I feel any problems on that setup will be down to the user setup, but if you have any problems just post below.... When reporting any problems please share your log which will be @ /tmp/minedown.log along with your current OS & Version

Its open source too, so no nasty surprises:
https://github.com/Mark-Leck/MineDown

All donations, feedback, ideas, suggestions & constructive criticism will be greatly received....

Mark

I started mining approx 2 weeks ago (simply just trying to break even eg mh/s to running costs to BTC) but I think I have already seen the effects on Slush's pool once the ASIC's joined in - What seems to happening is that on a short round I can make more bitcoin (well Satoshi's ) But on a grueler of a round it now seems to be considerably less or is this standard for Slush's pool/ any pool?
TIA

Hi everyone I'm Mark, I'm also Mark over on http://forum.stmlabs.com, I came to post in MineForeman.com's thread on the RPi mining distro, but it looks like I'll have to wait.
I have been helping out on the Raspbmc project and I think MineFormans idea is brilliant and just wanted to offer him some fellow RPi'er support
I have two 6950's on their way so I'm hoping to break even on the power to production ratio, I have also pre-ordered a small Jalapeno.
I have been following bitcoin since nov last year but finally decided to get off the fence and join in!