The latest releases is by default only listing algorithms where you have a pool available for the profit switcher. If you want to do offline benchmarking (supported by ccminer and a few more), click the box for "Benchmark without a pool" in the Benchmarking dialog. This should make phi2 available again.

I've added a number of new pools for the next release, including those you suggested.

This is a single coin pool, so it shouldn't be added as an Online Service, that is intended for the multi-coin profit switching pools.

I noticed that BTG is temporary disabled from both WhatToMine and Coincalculators due to the forking. You can however manually add this coin via the Options dialog, Statistics section, where you can specify this WhatToMine JSON URL to att BTG:
https://whattomine.com/coins/214.json

This MPH pool for BTG can be added like a standard pool in the Options dialog, Pools section. Enter the Pool URL, and specify that it's the coin Bitcoin Gold.

To use in the profit switcher, go to Options dialog, Profit Switching section and select it as a "Custom pool" to include.

The Excavator mining software changed their API's and configuration formats in 1.5, and in addition to that, version 1.5 doesn't support anything but the Nicehash pools.

At some point the new Excavator software will be supported, but it will add complexity to the profit switcher if some mining software all of a sudden only can be used on specific pools.

The very latest development preview includes CastXMR 1.3 with CryptoNight Saber support.

Awesome Miner version 5.2.5 (Development preview of 5.3)

- The Managed Hosts configuration in the Options dialog has been improved to allow finding hosts without miners and a bulk edit feature to enable or disable hosts
- Predefined mining software (Managed Software) can be configured with a custom download URL and executable, to give more flexibility on which version to use for the automatic download feature
- Added user defined Managed Software compatibility mode 'Command Line', where no API flags are added when launching the mining software
- Increased maximum time for the rule action 'Wait'
- PhoenixMiner pool setting PROTO can be specified in the Properties dialog of a pool
- Support for using Tensority pools with Bminer
- Better detection of Innosilicon A9Z miner
- The information on the Coins tab is presented with more columns and additional details like coins per day.
- Notifications are listed with the hostname or IP address of the miner
- The Notification list will always use time as secondary sorting column when sorting on another columns
- Benchmarking will by default always use pools instead of offline benchmark mode (supported by Ccminer, CpuMiner), with a new setting to enable benchmark without pools if needed
- Values and profit numbers are expressed with at least two significant digits
- Dialog positioning improved for multi screen usage
- The final page of the Add Miner Wizard allows selecting miner group where the miners will be added
- Display profit information from MultiPool.us pools
- Updated list of algorithms for predefined pools, including Nicehash X16r
- Added mining software: CryptoDredge 0.6
- Ccminer 2.3
- XMRig CPU miner 2.6.3
- CastXMR 1.3 with CryptoNight Saber support
- Z-enemy 1.12 with Phi2 support
- EWBF Equihash miner 0.3 with Equihash BTG support
- Correction to profit switching threshold setting when all pool profits are negative
- Minor corrections

Items in blue are updated since the last development preview.

To get access to development versions, open the Options dialog in Awesome Miner. In the General section, enable Check for development versions. Then go to the Menu and click Check for updates

Direct download links
http://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMiner.msi
http://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMinerRemoteService.msi

I see your point, but there is currently no feature to define this - maybe it can be an improvment later on.

Another option if you think some altcoin pools are less profitable than they claim, you can lower their profit factor by 30%. For the predefined pools you can set the Profit Factor to 0.7 via Options dialog, Online Services. For your own pools, you will find the same setting in the Properties of the pool, in the Advanced section. The profit switcher will then consider these pools to be 30% less profitable compared to what the claim.

That's correct. The algorithm itself is listed as "SHA-3 (Keccak)" in Awesome Miner. In the past it was more common that SHA-3 was used as the name, which is the reason why it's listed like that in Awesome Miner. These days Keccak is more common.

It's probably for the Dual Mining it's listed only has "SHA-3" in one of the settings, causing this confusion. I will probably change or clarify that.

Thanks for the update - let's keep an eye on this one. Please also see the other answer I just made here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.msg41512708#msg41512708

I couldn't reproduce the issue with z-enemy. It looks like it's accepting --devices, and the documentation for it also indicates --devices. Can you share more details on this?

Hi,
I couldn't find any information about that this software provides any monitoring interface (API), where Awesome Miner can get hashrate information and more. The only option would then be to add it as a Generic Miner:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/genericminer.aspx

Awesome Miner supports EWBF Equihash miner already. The algorithms are listed as Equihash Zero (197,2) and ZHash (144,5) in Awesome Miner. All these forks and numbers are getting a bit complex.

Good suggestion about saving to a Managed Template - that would make perfect sense. Thanks!

The first release will not be a distribution at all, just a file you download, extract and install. This will make sure Remote Agent is automatically started when Linux is booting. You should be able to run it on anything that's based on Ubuntu, including running it on top of HiveOS.

Creating a new Linux distribution is a larger task and will probably not be a focus area for this year. So far everyone that asked for Remote Agent on Linux already have some kind of mining setup running on Linux.

CastXMR 1.3 and CryptoNight Saber will be included in the next development version, planned to be available within the next 1 - 2 days.

I can also point of a new feature available in the latest development version (5.2.4), where you can specify where Awesome Miner should download the mining software from.

If the automatic download feature in Awesome Miner is on CastXMR 1.2.5 as in the example below, you can change that to point to version 1.3.0 instead. With this change, Awesome Miner will download and run the 1.3.0 version instead.

Earlier you could of course manually download the software and then upload it to your miners, but this process should make it a bit easier as it's based on the automatic download concept.

Please go to the Options dialog, Managed Software section, and edit CastXMR as illustrated in the screenshot below.

Thanks for your feedback on this. The editions of Awesome Miner are unfortunately not very flexible from this point of view. They have a fixed number of miners, and it's not possible to add only a few more miners. The idea is that once you go above the limit for one edition, you need to go to the next. The idea is to keep everything as simple as possible with these predefined editions.

Remote Agent on Linux is currently being developed. I have a prototype running already, and I expect to have a public beta version available next month. Right now it only provides automatic download of a very limited number of mining software, the overclocking feature isn't available and there are a few other implementation items to sort out.

You can configure Awesome Miner to show the chip temperature in the list of miners. Go to the Options dialog, General section and enable "Display Antminer chip temperature in Status column".

Also note that the rules in Awesome Miner (the Temperature Trigger) can be configured to either use the PCB temperature or the Chip temperature.

WhatToMine and Coincalculators.io uses different short name on Maza, which is why they both show up. I suppose one these short names are incorrect. Otherwise Awesome Miner will only use one of these sources, depending on the priority defined in the Options dialog, Statistics section.

I do understand your point about avg. value, but the concept at the moment is to only display the coin from one of the sources.

I'm not sure if I fully understood the last part here. Is the information in Awesome Miner displayed incorrect compared to what's actually going on? Do you have any more details to share on this? Thanks!

Thanks for reporting this issue - it will be resolved in the next release. It turns out that ccminer uses --devices flag, while CryptoDredge expects --device

I've received a few requests for this one, so it will be supported later on. I'm however getting the impression that the Excavator miner isn't as popular to use these day, because it's limited to the Nicehash pool only like you point out.

I will add this one in the next update.

Nicehash uses 33 as the API identifier for X16r:
https://www.nicehash.com/doc-api

Have you tried with another pool? There have been instances where Antminers simply not working well with certain pools and the result is that they stop answering monitoring requests from applications like Awesome Miner.