Right click the miner and select Diagnostics.  It will show you the exact command that AM issued the mining software and there may be an error message that gives you a clue as to what was configured wrong.  You can also paste it here if you are stuck, and we can take a look at it.

Did you benchmark your rig and apply an updated/benchmarked profit profile to the managed profit miner?  You can right-click a running profit miner and select View Details to get insight into why AM is making decisions about switching.

I think you are looking at this the wrong way.  Awesome Miner makes it easy to make one change, then apply it to 12 rigs with minimal effort.  What would you do if you weren't using AM, and discovered a problem with a version of some mining software and you needed to manually update 12 rigs one at a time?

Plus, AM offers some of the most popular mining software out of the box.  It's not AM's fault if the mining software has faults.  If you discover something wrong, then just report it Patrike... he usually fixes it the next release.

Or you can upload your corrected version of Alexis as a user-defined managed software.

You can't exclude specific coins out of the box, because that's not how pools like Zpool work.  You can exclude whole algorithms though.  You can uncheck the Ethash algorithm from your profit profile, then it will not switch to that at all.

Now, there is a way to exclude specific coins, but you have to manually setup each individual coin's pool URL and port in individual stand alone pools, then bunch them together in a pool group... then tell AM to use the custom pool group to profit switch against.  It's a little bit of work to setup the individual coins as individual pools... which is why sites like Zpool make it easier to just mine the algorithm... and AM just leverages this auto-switching ability.

You would add things like this in the command line parameters.  Where you add that depends on what you are trying to accomplish.  I usually only add custom command line parameters at the pool level, unless it's something to do specifically with that rig, then I add them at the managed miner or profit miner level.

That's odd.  What is your benched hashrate for Ethash vs. Equihash for those 1070s?  I just ran another benchmark for my 1070 rig and I have 21 Mh/s for Ethash, and 412 sols/s on Equihash.  Now, granted, I have my 1070 rig's power limit and underclock tuned for low-wattage Equihash, but there's no way those  numbers would make AM switch to Ethash.

I wondered about that, but the bonus is a nice premium considering where DNR is heading.

Come on guys... if you are going to join a signature campaign... make it worth your while!

I think the whole point of using something like AM is that it can automate some of these things for you.  You setup a rule with some trigger... like maybe a rig that hasn't increased it's Accepted rate in X minutes... so that would tend to mean that it's offline, then the action would be a webhook with some POST data to the IOT device that does some action.... like a power off and then power on?  Or if you have an executable file, you can have it run a batch script to run some program like:

devicesoftware.exe -poweroff -IP 192.168.0.X
TIMEOUT /t 5
devicesoftware.exe -poweron -IP 192.168.0.X

I'm just spit-balling some ideas here.

Patrike can speak to the exact reasons, but Claymore is a popular miner for Ethash, and has a very good API for AM to get statistics from.  You could always try to add Ethminer in as a custom user-defined miner and see if it performs as well as Claymore.

It's fine.  You should do some experiments to see what switching interval works well for you, or if just mining a single coin is better.  There are many schools of thought on this subject, and I've shared mine several times in this thread, so I won't bore anyone with it again.  



Interface offline just means that the remote agent hasn't responded in the last polling interval.  It's usually temporary.  Could be that your CPU on the rig was taxed.

Do you really want your nvidia cards mining Eth or dual mining Eth/Sia?  I can't see how that would ever be profitable compared to the dozens of other algorithms that nvidia cards are better at.  You might just want to disable those algos so they don't switch to it.  Are you sure you benchmarked your cards correctly?  What kind of rigs are you running?

There's no native support for MQTT, but you could construct some interface for AM to use.  When it comes to rules actions, you have a few options like a custom C# action, email, SMS, telegram, executable, SSH, or webhook.  You might be able to piece something together from an If This Then That website with the webhook option.

Could be a riser going bad, or even the GPU.  Do you have a spare riser you can start swapping out one by one to see if the rig stabilizes?

There's no right answer to this.  It depends on what your goals and plans are.  If you are strictly in it for profit, you sell right away.  If you are in it for long term speculation, you hold.  And there's no reason you can't do both.  Spend a week mining a speculative coin, then three weeks mining your "money coin".

Max out any available 220V circuits you have available in your house.  You can show the wife the proceeds and projections, and they usually jump on board. 

My wife said it was all "fake money" until I showed her my crypto net-worth, and then started making all kinds of plans to spend the money.  That was a mistake.  LOL.  I'm slowly trying to break it to her, that most of the mining proceeds go back into the "business".

At some point, you have to make the leap from "hobby" to "business".  When you are ready, you will probably want that warehouse space, and to separate your ISP and electric bills so all that can be tax deductions to offset your proceeds.  You will want to pay taxes.  It's rumored that the IRS will be going hard this year, and with the new tax bill, you don't want to raise too many red flags unless you have your ducks in a row.  Remember, with the IRS, it's guilty until proven innocent. 

It's not easy.  I have two newegg accounts, and thought I could get around their restrictions, but they know because I was shipping to the same address.  If you have a neighbor that you trust, you could open a new account and ship to your neighbor's house.  You'll also need two different methods of payment... like paypal on one, and a credit card on another.

Otherwise... you just troll multiple websites.

Device Profiles are really only if you are using SGminer.  So, you don't need it.  But in your profit profile, you can add the DCRI value in the command line parameters, or preferably, I would put it in the secondary pool's command line parameters, so that it only applies when you are mining dual coins with claymore.

By the way... it seems you have nvidia GPUs... they are not very good at dual mining with ethereum, or even that good at mining with ethereum at all.  There are much more profitable algorithms that nvidia do much better like equihash, neoscrypt, xevan, lyra2z, nist5 and more.

This is normal.  AM depends on the remote agent to be installed on your rigs in order to control them, otherwise it can only monitor them.  Since the remote agent is Windows only currently, all you can do is monitor your ethos-based linux rigs.  AM needs to know what mining software you are using on that external miner (DSTM vs. ccminer) in order to interpret the API data coming from the external miner.  If there was an API standard that all mining software used, it would be a lot easier... unfortunately, there isn't.  Someone should propose and have all the miner software authors adapt to it.



Unfortunately no, as I detailed above.  If you were to switch your rigs to Windows based ones and install the remote agent then yes, AM can do this automatically.  It will download the mining software to the rig for you, configure the mining software and mine for you.  In addition, it has better control over the rig, using rules to watch for specific triggers and take some action like restarting the mining software or rebooting the rig just for starters.



Yes, you could do it this way.  Just remember that AM is licensed on the number of miners you run whether they are external, managed, or profit miners... so make sure you have enough license to monitor all the duplicates.



I like to think of Awesome Miner as "software-defined" mining.  It takes all these concepts of hosts, mining software, pools, pool groups, services, etc and makes them a software object where you can piece them all together to make your rig do what you want it to do.  It's kind of like when you use VMware virtualization... you define objects in a console to run virtual machines like virtual NICs, virtual hard drives, virtual DVD drives, etc.

But to answer your question, a "miner" in AM's nomenclature is an object that brings together a host, a pool, and mining software to do something on your rig.  The "miner" is very flexible, you can add your own command line parameters to do extra features with the mining software that don't come out of the box.  You can initiate GPU profiles to set over/underclock settings with Afterburner to set specific clocks to match the algorithm you are mining at the pool, and a ton more.

It truly is the one program that brings all these advanced concepts under one roof.  Once you start to "get" how it works, and that everything is software defined, it truly shines.  I'm a huge advocate.

When you go into the options in AM, and look at the Managed Miners tab, you will see a list of your rigs, if you open up the settings for your rig, does it say it is a Managed Profit Miner or a Managed Miner in the title bar?  Either way, you need to assign a profit profile to the miner which shows what your rig is capable of doing.  You need to benchmark your rig and save the numbers in order to get accurate numbers in the profit profile.  AM uses the information in the profit profile to make decisions on when to switch algorithms when you are using a Managed Profit Miner.