Actually, you can use Afterburner or Wattman without logging in - I'm not sure about Trixx as I don't use it.

Wattman applies it's settings on startup ( before login ) but has an annoying feature where it will revert to stock setting if the previous shutdown wasn't clean - i.e. if the rig crashed. It doesn't happen very often, but is annoying when it does!

So what I do is just install the drivers from AMD ( not Wattman ) and then install Afterburner. When you have found the best overclocking settings, you can then go to Afterburner's settings page and select "Start with Windows". Then Afterburner will apply your saved overclocking settings on system startup, again without logging in.

I'm not sure how Afterburner does this, but it does solve the problem!

Sorry, Pro Miner doesn't handle any overclocking settings - you have to use Afterburner / Trixx / Wattman for that.

AMD do have an SDK called the ADL ( the AMD Display Library ) but I couldn't get it to work. I asked AMD for support, but they didn't reply so I've kind of left it for the time being.

I'm not sure what you mean by "request monitor" and "fake monitor". Pro Miner does it's best to report accurate Peak and Average Hashrates. The Average Hashrates should match those reported by your pool, if you're pool mining.

It also displays all shares / solutions found in the graphs, as well as totals over an hour, a day and a week in the summary. The summary also displays the expected values given your hashrate and the difficulty per block, so you can see if you're being lucky ( or not! )

There are example screenshots on the "Performance & Reporting" page on the website - https://www.prominer.website/reporting

Thanks for your feedback - I mean that!

People are using Pro Miner, so it does work when you get it up and running. Sorry you've hit a few issues.

I found a problem with the Miner Process ( not the Windows Service ) restarting when no Devices are selected. I've released a new version ( v1.98 ) that prevents this. If you don't mind, could you try again and confirm this solves the issue?

You can use the Pool Mining Configuration Wizard ( the big button on the "Startup" configuration tab ) to quickly enter the minimum settings to get you mining.

Also, I've been meaning to add an Uninstaller for a while now. There were batch files to stop and uninstall the service, but it's now just a case of pressing a button in the Installer App.

There is an option in the installer to open a port to allow the Control App to communicate with Miner Services running on other machines. You don't have to open this port if you're running the App on the same machine as the Miner Service. Having the option in the installer is just a convenience feature.

Once again, thanks for your feedback and good luck mining!

OK, I'll give it a try. Is ⅔ of a percent significant? I'd like to know!

I've just published a new version ( v1.96 ) with a reduced dev fee of 1%, taken by mining for us for 12 seconds out of every 20 minutes.

BTW, switching from dev mining and back is very fast in Pro Miner - typically less than 0.2 seconds, even on 6-card rigs.

Thanks! Ease of use has always been a priority, as well as making it easy to keep an eye on your rigs when they are set up and mining.

Running the miner as a Windows Service was an easy decision. It's the proper solution for Windows and means you hardly ever need to actually log into your miners.

Tracking power costs is a good idea. I would like to write an app that shows profit in dollars over time ( I have a spreadsheet and I expect others do too ) but I can't think of a good way to add it to Pro Miner without making it complicated. I'll have another think about this.

Peak hashrates are the same, give or take. The algorithm is so well known now, there's not a lot of difference between the current mining applications.

To compare miners, you really need to look at valid shares produced per day or per week. Average hashrates and uptime are actually more important if you want to maximize your profit over weeks or months, and Pro Miner is tuned for this, not peak hashrates.

In fact, Pro Miner is the only miner I know of that reports Average Hashrates over days and weeks. It also produces very few stale shares - about 0.5% - as shown in the research I published on Local and Global Work Sizes: (reddit)

Also, we run Pro Miner on our rigs and get over 99% uptime with very little maintenance. It just keeps going!

But the main point of Pro Miner is of course the architecture. The miners run as Windows Services and the Graphical Control App can be run remotely, so you can monitor all your rigs in one place and hardly ever need to log in to your miners.

Maybe

It's taken a year to get some traction with Ethereum-based mining though!

I've just released a new version of Pro Miner: v1.94 https://www.prominer.website

Highlights:

• Small bug fixes, faster GUI app
• Improved support for Ethereum Classic
• New! support for mining Expanse

If there are any problems, please let me know. Otherwise, good luck mining!

I was hoping someone who's using Pro Miner would chime in, but since not, I'll answer!

A few people are running it and yes, I'm better at coding than promotion

I hope you liked the You Tube videos - the voice-over was done by my partner.

All the current Ethereum miners are within a couple of percent of each other in terms of hashrate. The algorithm was designed to be memory-intensive and the limit is not the code now, it's the physical limit of the RAM on the GPUs.

The real difference between the miners is the uptime. We get over 99% uptime running Pro Miner on our rigs. There are 168 hours in a week, so losing a couple of hours a week due to a miner crash reduces your rewards by a little over 1%.

BTW, we've just released version 1.92 on the website

It has improvements and fixes for few things - notably a bug due to IPv6 that meant the miner process would run, but it wouldn't start mining. Thanks to the person who reported this and worked with me to track it down and get it fixed.

Lastly, a request! If you do try Pro Miner and it doesn't work for you, please use the contact form on the website to let us know so we can fix it. Thanks.

Thanks! I know most miners are command line apps, but it doesn't have to stay that way.

Yes, it's free apart from the dev fee.

You can download it from the website, which also has screenshots and instructions for installation and configuration for pool or solo mining.

We've also put together a few short ( 10 minute ) videos on our You Tube channel.

If you want any email support, please feel free to contact me via the form on the "Help & Support" page on the website.

Thanks for your comment.

The point initially was to write a miner that made it easy to monitor and control multiple rigs. I just thought other miners might find it useful and it wasn't much work to make it public.

With Pro Miner, you can have one display on a remote (LAN) machine and immediately see how all your rigs are doing.

I've also put quite a lot of work into maximizing mining rewards - so I've optimized for average hashrate not peak hashrate, which translates to more valid shares.

For example, when I tested Claymore's miner, it produced around 3% stale shares, whereas Pro Miner produces around 0.3% - 0.5%.

Yes - Pro Miner can connect to any node that supports Ethereum JSON-RPC. It polls eth_getWork to get work items and calls eth_submitWork to submit solutions.

Just choose "external" as the server on the Farm Client tab and enter the IP address and port of your node's RPC endpoint - e.g. http://192.168.1.1:8545.

EDIT: Of course, it supports Stratum connections for pool mining too.

Firstly, hello!

I've been mining Ethereum for over a year now and I've been on Reddit and the Ethereum forums, but this is my first post here.

When I started mining, I looked for a properly-architected Windows application with a Graphical User Interface - a miner done the "Windows" way - but couldn't find one. So I wrote Pro Miner.

The miner runs as a Windows Service, which means it starts as soon as Windows starts - no need to log in. It can also run Geth, Parity, Geth Classic and/or Gexp the same way.

The GUI can connect to multiple miners and shows summary graphs for 1-hour, 1-day and 7-day periods. It also shows all logs, recorded by the miners in databases so you can view all historical logs too.

The performance, as measured by valid shares found, is equal to other miners, but Pro Miner consistently delivers 99% uptime. It was hardened during the DOS attacks last year and has configurable rules such as restarting the Service if no new work items are completed for 5 minutes.

It does have a dev fee of 1% - taken by mining for us for 12 seconds out of every 20 minutes. Our rigs run exactly the same code.

We have a website here: https://www.prominer.website and a You Tube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYo8bwEIy2G3cIUmd3LdPgQ

There are new releases every week or so - we're on version 1.102 at the moment. Give it a try!