So I installed Awesome Miner yesterday and spent some time with it.
I was able to setup a miner with my GPUs on a rig, for profit switching.
However, I ran into issues with the CPU miner, which uses XMR-STAK-WIN64.
First, can two separate miners be setup to profit switch on different pools & algos?
Second, I couldn't get a full configure for XMR-STAK-WIN64, only API level, so does that mean it's not possible to use in the profit switching mode?
(configuring that one was way more difficult than CCMiner, btw)
I will say that I wish Awesome Miner had a more thorough setup wizard.
1) Yes, you can create multiple profit profiles via the Options dialog, Profit profile section. Each profile can have its own set of pools and algorithms. For more information: http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/profitswitching.aspx#configure2) XMR-Stak is a bit difficult to setup, which is why it never ended up as a fully supported Managed Miner. These days Awesome Miner supports XMRig as well, which can do CPU mining as well, and that might be a better option. |
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BMiner seems to be misreporting the worker name, if that's where it comes from. This is particular to MPH so far. It seems that when I switch to Excavator, the worker name appears correctly in the Pools tab.
The Bminer API interface only reports pool URL but no worker information. Awesome Miner is then trying to be smart and guess the correct worker name based on the command line you passed. However, for this miner Awesome Miner wasn't doing it correctly, resulting in an incorrect display of worker name. This is a display issue only and doesn't affect the mining - as you probably already verified via the command line used to start Bminer. I will correct this in the next release. Thanks for reporting it. |
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I have problem with cryptonight benchmark:
benchmark working but total all the time is 0.
According to your ccminer console window, the total hashrate is printed as 0, while each GPU still produces a hashrate. This 0 is probably what is reported to Awesome Miner as well. I cannot reproduce this issue myself, as the total hashrate from ccminer is correct in my setup. Is this a problem only while running benchmark, or is the total hashrate 0 when running ccminer on standard mining as well? |
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Patrike,
I sent you a PM on the Avalon 8 ASIC miner. In this release you are working on, if you don't have enough information to enable the stuff in my PM can you please add an ASIC type AV8 enabled the same as the AV7 so that at least it shows correctly in the ASIC listing?
Hi, Many thanks for sharing the API report. The next update of Awesome Miner will correct the temperature readings for the new Avalon miners. |
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Hey using Bminer or dstm miner on a ssl port with AM never works for me , below is showing what Bminer does on a ssl port using it with AM if i use it with out AM it works fine with both Bminer and dstm miner on a ssl port/pool an that's on any ssl port/pool, i have tried..other wise on a normal port/pool Bminer or dstm miner works great with AM .  [INFO] [2018-02-23T19:26:25-05:00] [GPU 0] Speed: 538.09 Sol/s 292.51 Nonce/s Temp: 56C Power: 181W 2.97 Sol/J [INFO] [2018-02-23T19:26:25-05:00] [GPU 1] Speed: 307.35 Sol/s 165.02 Nonce/s Temp: 52C Power: 110W 2.79 Sol/J [INFO] [2018-02-23T19:26:25-05:00] [GPU 2] Speed: 490.91 Sol/s 262.83 Nonce/s Temp: 53C Power: 149W 3.29 Sol/J [INFO] [2018-02-23T19:26:25-05:00] [GPU 3] Speed: 536.48 Sol/s 287.96 Nonce/s Temp: 51C Power: 171W 3.14 Sol/J [INFO] [2018-02-23T19:26:25-05:00] Connected to us.zenmine.pro:9999 [WARN] [2018-02-23T19:26:26-05:00] Get error: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host., resetting in 5 seconds[INFO] [2018-02-23T19:26:26-05:00] Total 1872.83 Sol/s 1008.33 Nonce/s Accepted shares 0 Rejected shares 0 [INFO] [2018-02-23T19:26:31-05:00] Connected to us.zenmine.pro:9999 [WARN] [2018-02-23T19:26:31-05:00] Get error: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host., resetting in 5 secondsusing CLaymore on a ssl port no issues... Is the pool URL defined in Awesome Miner with "stratum+ssl://" in the beginning? Is Awesome Miner passing "stratum+ssl://" as part of the Pool URL if you run the Diagnostics and look at the command line generated by Awesome Miner? |
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On Development Preview of 4.5, seems like BMiner takes a lot longer to get up to top speed than what the benchmarks will allow time for (even precise). To get the right speed for comparison, leave it running on a miner and save the hashrate. So far, it is indeed faster than Excavator by a noticable margin.
4.25KH/s on a rig with Excavator
4.47KH/s on the same rig with BMiner
Ran for about 10 minutes before I saw the speed level out.
Good point. I will do a bit more tests around this and maybe increase the benchmarking time for Bminer. |
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Awesome Miner version 4.4.6 (Development Preview of 4.5)
This is a smaller update to the previous development release, addressing a few points discussed earlier. This update also adds Ccminer KlausT.
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You are amazing! Thank you! Time to get to work for me!
I just pushed the updated API documentation to the web site. Please let me know if any additional clarifications are required. |
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Thank you Patrike for the new version and improvements.
Can you add d3pool to managed profit switcher ?
Is there a way to see for each pool the hashrate for each worker i have that is identified with ID field and using the miners array from yiimp pools API ?
Thanks for your feedback. I was thinking about adding D3Pool to the profit switcher as well, but right now it only has a single X11 pool. This pools is mainly intended for ASIC miners, while the Managed Profit Switching pools are mainly intended for CPU and GPU mining, where X11 isn't so popular. Right now it's not possible to see the pool hashrate. With this version, Awesome Miner starts to integrate more with the pools to display the pool balance, and the next step would then be to improve the integration to also include hashrates. I fully agree that this feature would make sense. But if it is intended for ASICS, it means the statistics are wrong ? because it always shows 25% more than the most profitable pool. I just noticed that in some of the statistics modes, it's showing way too high values for D3Pool X11. I will correct that. It should of course be 1000 times less and be about the same level as the other X11 pools. Thanks for pointing that out. |
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hello, I'm hoping someone can help me.
I have an interesting/unique situation (I think) where I need to run two instances of a customized ccminer at the same time on one rig. Reason being: the ccminer variant only supports a max of 8 GPUs (I have 12)
I'm able to run two instances of the miner in command prompt windows (specifying which GPUs to use).
The issue I have is that within Awesome Miner, when I created the managed software, I set it to full compatibility and compatible software: CcMiner. However, I cannot change the API port, which results in one of the ccminer instances being detected as being offline.
How can I specify a custom API port to be used? I can do this on the command line, will Awesome Miner pick this up? it doesn't seem like it would.
Thanks in advance.
Is this software fully command line and API compatible with ccminer? If that's the case, Awesome Miner will start it in a similar way as Ccminer, and automatically pass "-b 0.0.0.0:4035" to the command line to enable the API (where 4035 is a made up port number that Awesome Miner later will connect to). If you start another instance, Awesome Miner will make sure that each instance get a unique port number. You cannot tell Awesome Miner which port to use, but there shouldn't be a need for that. Are there any differences compared to Ccminer for the API command line? If you use the Diagnostics button in the toolbar, does the command line look correct for both ccminer instances? |
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Thank you Patrike for the new version and improvements.
Can you add d3pool to managed profit switcher ?
Is there a way to see for each pool the hashrate for each worker i have that is identified with ID field and using the miners array from yiimp pools API ?
Thanks for your feedback. I was thinking about adding D3Pool to the profit switcher as well, but right now it only has a single X11 pool. This pools is mainly intended for ASIC miners, while the Managed Profit Switching pools are mainly intended for CPU and GPU mining, where X11 isn't so popular. Right now it's not possible to see the pool hashrate. With this version, Awesome Miner starts to integrate more with the pools to display the pool balance, and the next step would then be to improve the integration to also include hashrates. I fully agree that this feature would make sense. |
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Awesome Miner version 4.4.5 (Development Preview of 4.5)
- Coin exchange rates in the status bar will always use the current exchange rate, independent from the coin statistics settings in the Options dialog
Any feedback is of course appreciated. Thanks!
Exchange rates for custom coins are now no longer displayed. I've added Garlicoin as custom coin, and previously it would list the current exchange rate. With the new version, it's displayed as "0,00". Thanks for letting me know. Is it a coin where you manually entered profitability information or what is the source of the exchange rate? Edit: I was able to reproduce the issue on a user defined coin with manually entered exchange rate. Please let me know if you found another scenario as well. |
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I think Mining Dutch requires a login and worker. The profit switching page asks for BTC address. Should this be login? 1.0 Choose hashing algorithm
Choose the desired hashing algorithm (Top right Corner) settings are algorithm specific!!!.
1.1 Create account.
Register here, or Login if you already have account
Create a worker that will be used by the miner to login
Without this worker we can't link your miner to your account, miners without or with a wrong workername will therefore not receive any payments.
2. Download a miner.
See step 1.0
3. Configure your miner.
Username: Your loginname.Workerid
Password: We dont check this, leave empty or you can use it to put a note .
URL: Configure your miner with one of the Url's from the table below You are of course correct. Awesome Miner passes the information you enter in the profit switcher configuration, but it's incorrectly labeled as "Bitcoin address". Is should labeled like for MiningPoolHub with "Worker name" instead. I will correct this soon. Thanks |
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Awesome Miner version 4.4.5 (Development Preview of 4.5)- Pool Balance to display unpaid balance and recent payouts for the mining pools supported by the profit switcher - New pool for Managed Profit Switcher and profitability information: Zergpool - New pool for Managed Profit Switcher and profitability information: Mining Dutch - New pool for profitability information: D3pool - New mining software support: Bminer for Equihash - New mining software support: PhoenixMiner for Ethereum - Awesome Miner HTTP API for adding, updating and removing user defined coins with profit information - Awesome Miner HTTP API for adding, updating and removing pools - Added CORS support for built-in web server - New rule action to apply a Profit Profile to a miner - Support for wallet balance for SIA, Verge and Digibyte - Coin exchange rates in the status bar will always use the current exchange rate, independent from the coin statistics settings in the Options dialog - Czech Koruna added as display currency - CastXMR 0.8.5 - DSTM ZCash miner 0.6 - Minor corrections Development versions are intended for users that want to try the latest features before they are made available in the official releases. Development versions are not intended to be deployed at large scale as they have not been tested as much as the official releases. 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 if needed: http://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMiner.msihttp://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMinerRemoteService.msiThe plan is to release version 4.5 in a few days from now. Any feedback is of course appreciated. Thanks! Note: The Mining Dutch pool should be configured with a worker name. The label in the Awesome Miner user interface currently state "Bitcoin address", which is incorrect. Please enter your Mining Dutch worker name in this field. Update: This has been corrected in 4.4.6.
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Once a week or so one of my remote Nvidia Managed Profit Miner rigs locks up and requires a reboot. I only get notifications for the rig being offline maybe once out of every ten times it does this. Am I missing something in the configuration? All my email tests through Gmail work without issue. How do I troubleshoot something like this is there a log to review?
Here is my rules...just the default. Rig has been offline for 8 hours with no email received.
Example Offline detection email I've successfully received before:
CS - MP Miner 1: Offline detection
Awesome Miner
Fri 1/5/2018, 2:47 PM
Miner offline
By default, a Notification action is configured for "Notify once until acknowledged". This will give a notification once your miner is offline, but unless you go to the Notifications tab and acknowledge this notification, you will not receive another notification of the same type for the same miner. Could this be the scenario? Another troubleshooting idea would be to search the Awesome Miner log file for "Rule execute", where it will list for which miners a specific rule is executed. The log file can be found via the toolbar Tools -> Log File. |
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My miners were mining Tribus off ahashpool, but reporting zero income.
On checking ahashpool it said Do not Mine, is there a way for AW to pick up this kind of message and not mine? I've manually turned off Tribus for now.
It looks like Awesome Miner lists all these AHashpool algorithms with 0 BTC/GH/day right now. The profit switcher should then have put all these pools at the very bottom of the priority list. If you right click on the miner and select View Details, you will see the pools considered. |
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Go to Options/Online services and look for the "Factor" column. The "1" there equals to 100%. If you want to change profit value by +5% edit it to 1.05, if you want -5% change value to 0.95 Happy mining.  Thanks, just what I was looking for, not sure how I missed that Edit: OK so I fixed all the online services, is there anywhere I can edit the litecoinpool one so it has 1.02, tried the 'user defined online services' but that only allows me to select from the existing ones, not add a brand new one. Currently it's only possible to set a profit factor on the online services and on a specific coin. If you only use Litecoinpool for mining Litecoin, you can go to the Coins tab, select Litecoin and click Coin Properties, and then specify a profitability factor like 1.02. |
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Patrike,
When do you think we can get PhoenixMiner supported as a managed profit miner?
Once Bminer is fully tested and released next week, Phoenix Miner is the next mining software on the priority list. |
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Hello! First of all, thanks for your great work on adding additional coins and statistics to Awesome Miner with your scripts. I do have some good news for you. I've implemented support for adding and removing user defined coins via the API . There will be a new development release with support for it in a few days from now. Add user defined coin with profitabilitySimilar to the API call to set coin profitability, a new user defined coin can automatically be added if no coin with the specified short name exists. The name and algorithm parameters must be specified for the coin to be added. If the coin already exists, the name and algorithm parameters will be ignored and only the profitability will be updated. POST http://mypc:17790/api/coins/{shortname}?profit=...&name=...&algorithm=...Example: POST http://mypc:17790/api/coins/ABC?profit=0.000015&name=MyAbcCoin&algorithm=Scrypt DELETE http://mypc:17790/api/coins/{shortname}Example: DELETE http://mypc:17790/api/coins/ABC Awesome! Thank you, this will help quite a lot. What I've not finalized yet is a way to set other parameters like coin difficulty and so on. I can add that quite fast if there is a need for it as well - just let me know. Any feedback is of course welcome.
Yes, that would be a huge help to me and anyone else who wants to add many custom coins in the future. I will go ahead and just add a few more URL parameters for these coin properties. The overall concept will still be the same. |
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Development update
This purpose of this post is to give an update on what's in the pipeline right now. The plan is to have a development release available in a couple of days from now, and then a public release about one week from now.
- Pool Balance: Show unpaid balance and recent payouts from the pools used by the profit switcher (Nicehash, zpool, MPH, ...). In the future this will be improved by also tracking pool hashrates and similar information where available.
- Bminer mining software
- New pools for the profit switcher
In addition to the above, there will also be a number of smaller improvements as well.
I appreciate all feedback and discussions about improvements. I prioritize the development based on the most requested features in order to make as many users as possible happy.
@patrike, I'm running a main device and 1 remote agent. I have excavator installed in the exact same places on both rigs. Excavator fails to start on the remote rig though. Is there a trick to have it run on both? thanks! Please use the Diagnostics button in the toolbar to see if you get any specific error messages. |
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