Awesome Miner 2.2.2 is a minor release with the following updates

- Monero mining profit displayed correctly
- Claymore's Zcash Miner 9.3
- Minor corrections

The last line of output from sgminer indicates "All devices disabled, cannot mine!". Is it possible to compare this with a configuration where sgminer is working?

Hi,
It's a good suggestion that it should be possible to see more details why a rule was triggered. I will try to find a good solution for this in future releases.

I've just fixed the Monero revenue/profit display, and a new version of Awesome Miner with this correction will be released soon.

If you select an Antminer in the main window of Awesome Miner, and look at the tab Summary at the bottom part of the screen, you should be able to see "API Access", indicating either Privileged or Restricted.

The Claymore API only provides basic statistics via its API. Sgminer can display and do much more.
Please provide this as feedback to Claymore - that you want more API features. Once it's available, I can add support for it in Awesome Miner.

Can you try to add another action to the same rule? For example to show a Notification as well. By doing that we can figure out if the rule is triggered or not.
Is the Antminer running in Privileged API mode?

Hi,

For a Managed Miner with Ethereum, there is a guide on the web site: http://www.awesomeminer.com/guide/ethereum.aspx. The guide is about Dual mining with Ethereum and Decred, but it's the same concept for Ethereum and Sia.

The basic concept is:
1) Create two pools, one for Ethereum and one for Sia
2) Create a group pool, where you include these two
3) Create a Managed Miner, set to Claymore's Dual Ethereum Miner and Dual Mode to Ethereum + Sia. Set the group pool you defined.
4) Finally you go to the "Command Line" section (in the menu on the left side of the Managed Miner properties dialog), where you enter all your custom parameters, like -gser and so on.

Awesome Miner can of course restart a miner that is failing. Awesome Miner uses the concept of Rules (Options dialog, Rules section) where you have a few build in rules that can be enabled, or you can define your own. An introduction to the Rules can be found on the web site: http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/rules.aspx.

With Rules you have trigger, for example that the hashrate is too low, that Accepted isn't increasing or similar. Then you define the action or actions you want for this trigger, for example to restart the miner.

Any error message? Could you send me the Awesome Miner log file by e-mail? The log file AwesomeMiner.log is located in the folder:
%localappdata%\AwesomeMiner

Microsoft .NET 4.5 is the only prerequisite. Which version of .NET do you have and which version of Windows are you running?

In a basic setup, it looks like this:
[Awesome Miner]
Where you only have Awesome Miner main software that can do both mining and monitoring. It can connect to remote ASIC's as well.

If you want to control a remote control another PC for mining purposes, it looks like this:
[Awesome Miner] <--> [Awesome Miner Remote Agent]
Awesome Miner can connect to many Remote Agents and control the mining on all of them

If you want to access Awesome Miner from a smart phone or another PC, you can use the web interface. This is optional:
[Awesome Miner Web] <--> [Awesome Miner] <--> [Awesome Miner Remote Agent]

In the future there will also be a cloud option...

It sound like we can't do much about that the miner revert back to the preconfigured pool, but you are correct that the rules should work.

If you have a rule with a Miner Command action using "Change pool group", what happens? If you enable "Support manual activation" for the rule, you have an Actions button in the toolbar where you can try to trigger the rule manually. Once you know that is working, we can try to come up with a Trigger to do it automatically

The feature levels are structured in a way that aligns well with what most users require, but it may not be a perfect fit for everyone. The Enterprise Edition (up to 40 miners, $200) that you bring up is actually only adding the Security and Multi-user access control features. That feature is almost never used if you have only a few miners, but instead if you have a larger number of miners where more people are involved.

So if you don't need that feature, but want everything else, you can aim for the Premium Edition (up to 20 miners, $100). Then it's of course possible to discuss what a good price level is. I typically bring up how much people are spending on hardware, like $1500 for a single Antminer S9, where 20 of those will be $30000. If you can afford $30000 for the hardware, paying $100 for the software to monitor them isn't a big deal. If you run 20 computers for GPU mining the hardware cost is of course much lower, but $100 should still be affordable in that scenario.

There are many happy users of Awesome Miner that think it's worth every penny, because the software helps them to save more money than what they payed for the license. Also keep in mind that Awesome Miner is a quite specialized software, it doesn't have a market of millions of people like other software do.

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That should be possible with the Rules. If you create a Trigger of the type Time, you can select a specific time of the day. Then you add an Action of type Miner Command, and select Change Group Pool.

Awesome Miner 2.2.1 has been released

- Performance history improved for low hashrate statistics
- Diagnostics feature for Managed Miners. Can be used if a miner isn't starting properly.
- Improved logging for fault isolation
- Claymore's Zcash Miner 9.1

I'm not familiar with the pool setup on the A4 miner. Is the pool defined in the miner to always possible to override from Awesome Miner? Is there a limitation on the miner itself to not have more than 3 pools defined?

In addition to Nicehash, Awesome Miner can also get coin statistics for WhatToMine and Coinwarz, where the WhatToMine API is available for free. Anything between 10-30 minutes should be fine for profit switching.

I would recommend looking at the official coin thread here on the forum for available Block Explorers. Awesome Miner supports a few explorer API's, and I can add support for more if needed.

Failover-only is a cgminer/sgminer pool setting that is used to indicate that the primary pool should be used all the time, unless it's unavailable.

Hi,
I've been getting several request for adding support for Optiminer Zcash in Awesome Miner. However, I couldn't find any documentation for the HTTP API other than it's enabled with the parameter '-m'. Any suggestions where I can find it? Thanks!

In a default configuration, there are nothing in Awesome Miner that stops an Antminer. Have you defined any Rules with an action to restart? Have you enabled the feature to automatically configure Antminer API Access? Both these settings are available in the Options dialog. Could you please provide me with more details of what your configuration looks like?

If you want to configure Awesome Miner to restart on lost Internet connection, you need to define a rule that would cover that case. For example if the 'Accepted' hasn't increased for 5 or 10 minutes?

Which Antminer S9 batch are you used? I do know that the frequency change feature is not longer supported by the later batches of Antminer. But is it something else that isn't working? If that's the case, could you please provide me with an API report (Toolbar: Tools -> API Report) for that Antminer.

The issue reported by topgeek was related to Claymore's ZCash miner. Are you running this ZCash miner in addition to the Antminers?

In general, please provide me log files and the requested details for the problems being reported. By doing that, it makes it easier/possible to provide solutions. Thanks!

I can investigate that for sure. However, I still would like to look at the log files for the problem you had. Could you mail me both the log for Awesome Miner and the Remote Agent, and let me know what time you experience the problem?

Hi,
I assume it's Sgminer-gm. The question is actually good, and points out the fact that configuration of miners is getting more difficult with all these mining software out there.
Could it be that your pool is configured with a Wallet address, a concept used by Claymore's Miner, but it's expected to be Worker Name for Sgminer-gm?

Please let me know which mining pool you are using and I will also try that setup.

Awesome Miner doesn't only look nice, it's actually very nice to use as well.

$50 for 10 miner license isn't that much considering that many people are paying $15000 for 10 Antminers. There are of course less expensive hardware out there, but for most people it's worth alot to have Awesome Miner monitoring and ensuring that the mining is running fine. We all know that lost mining time is expensive.

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Hi,
On sgminer and similar, the Change Pool feature can be performed with the API, and no restart is needed.

With Claymore miner, the mining process should be terminated and a new one should startup. In your case it sound like the first process doesn't terminate correctly. Could you please send me your Awesome Miner log file for this scenario and let me know the time when you performed the Change Pool operation? The log file can be found in toolbar: Tools->Log File

About your previous question on profit switching. When running sgminer and similar, you simply enable Awesome Profit Switcher in the Options dialog, Rules. It will look at all the pools that are available for the miner and prioritize in profit order.

Again, with Claymore miner it's much more complicated because there are two different miners depending on algorithm (Zcash vs Ethereum). In this case you need to use the "Multi Engine Profit Switcher" in the Options dialog. Then you need to add two Managed Miners. One with Claymore's Zcash and one with Claymore's Ethereum. Then you start one of them and the profit switcher will automatically switch to the other one (stop the first Managed Miner and start the second).

The scenario with multiple mining software and profit switching between them is a bit complex at the moment. I planning to write a guide on the web site on that topic.