Hi,

This will depend on which rental site you are using. Betarigs uses a concept where the pool is offline until someone rent you rig, while MiningRigRentals uses another concept where the pool stays enabled all the time, but it will mine either for one of your pre-defined pools, or to the renter's pool (but it's unknown from the outside which one that is actually being mined).

The Awesome Profit Switching feature in Awesome Miner will not change the priorities on your Betarigs and MiningRigRental pools at all - they will stay with top priority. Other than that, Awesome Miner isn't really involved in any of this, and the behavior depends more on the specific rental site and how Cgminer/Sgminer operate.

The Awesome Profit Switcher feature in Awesome Miner 1.2.1 has been updated with support for Hamsterpool.

The complete list of the auto-switching multi-pools supported by Awesome Profit Switcher:

• TradeMyBit (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, X11, X13, X15, Nist5, Neoscrypt)
• NiceHash (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, SHA-3 (Keccak), X11, X13, X15, Nist5, Neoscrypt)
• WestHash (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, SHA-3 (Keccak), X11, X13, X15, Nist5, Neoscrypt)
• LTCRabbit (Scrypt, X11)
• Yaamp (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, X11, X13, X15, Neoscrypt)
• Hamsterpool (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, X11)

Awesome Miner v1.2.1 has just been released.

Hamsterpool is now supported by the Awesome Profit Switcher.

This version also uses the latest release of Sgminer 5.1 Beta, together with corrections for how mining software is downloaded in the automatic mode.

Happy mining!

With Awesome Miner 1.2, the Awesome Profit Switcher feature has also been updated to include more algorithms.

Neoscrypt is supported for TradeMyBit, Nice/WestHash and Yaamp. For Yaamp, more pools have been added as well.

Supported multi-pools and algorithms for automatic profit switching

• TradeMyBit (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, X11, X13, X15, Nist5, Neoscrypt)
• NiceHash (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, SHA-3 (Keccak), X11, X13, X15, Nist5, Neoscrypt)
• WestHash (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, SHA-3 (Keccak), X11, X13, X15, Nist5, Neoscrypt)
• LTCRabbit (Scrypt, X11)
• Yaamp (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, X11, X13, X15, Neoscrypt)

In addition to these pools, the profit switcher also uses single coin statistics and can switch to mining any single coin if more profitable than any of the pools above.

As always, you don't have to setup anything manually. Simply go to the Awesome Profit Switcher web site and download the complete pool list to automatically import everything into Awesome Miner.

Awesome Profit Switcher works for all miners on your network, both GPU mining rigs and standalone ASIC's. A single Awesome Miner instance can manage, monitor and do profit switching for up to 200 miners.

Awesome Miner 1.2 has been released. Some of the new features are described below.

Sgminer 5.1
Sgminer 5.1 Beta is being used by default when Sgminer is selected, with support for Neoscrypt mining.

Worker name suffix
There is also a new features called "Worker name suffix". It is intended for those running a large amount of miners with the same pool, but want to use different worker names for each miner (for example myworker.1, myworker.2, myworker.3, ...). Previously this had to be configured as individual pools for each worker. With 50 miners this would result in 50 pools. However, with Awesome Miner 1.2 a single pool can be used, and then a suffix (1, 2, 3, ...) is specified for each miner.

Web
There are also improvements to the built-in web, that automatically refreshes the information and also give access to all notifications.

Antminer
For Antminer, additional statistics like temperature and fan speed per chain will be displayed automatically, as indicated in the Additional column below.

Does the Neptune web interface look like the titan?
http://www.awesomeminer.com/img/guide/awesome-titan-conf.png
If that is the case, you can add the api-allow section as in that example.

The Awesome Profit Switcher will detect betarigs.com and miningrigrentals.com pools and simply let them stay on high priority, while only changing the priority of the other pools. The Profit Switcher never uses the Disable command on any pool.

In your case, do you experience that if you run Awesome Miner with your Scrypt rig, the miningrigrentals.com pool is getting disabled by Awesome Miner? And if you don't use Awesome Miner, it works just fine?

Hi,
I've looked a bit at that miner, but it looks very limited both in terms of providing information and what operations you can perform. It would be possible to make it launchable from Awesome Miner, but I think it will be limited to displaying the hash rate only in that case.

Yes!
I'm currently working on version 1.2, but most of the features are completed and a Beta-version (called 1.1.9) can be downloaded from here:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/betadownload.aspx

Sgminer 5.1 and NeoScrypt are included in the Beta-version as well.

Hi,

I will look into adding NiceHash Neoscrypt to the profit switcher. I was also planning to add support for the latest Sgminer release "sgminer-5.1-dev-2014-11-07-win32". However, already with the current version of Awesome Miner, you should be able to select Sgminer in the Managed Miner properties, but define a custom path and point to the 5.1 version. Then you can go to the Algorithms section in the Options dialog and add the Sgminer kernel name for the Neoscrypt algorithm.

Anyone tried out Sgminer 5.1-dev yet, and have any comments about the stability?

It doesn't look like Hamsterpool provides and real-time profitability information via an API, which is required to be used in Awesome Miner for profit switchng.

A guide how to setup KnC Titan miner API access to use with Awesome Miner:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/guide/titan.aspx

Hi,

I've added the first version of a short guide how to make this kind of setups:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/remotenetworks.aspx

Webhallen hann före, och att vara nummer två på bollen är kanske inte lika roligt?

Hi,
Have you checked out the Help pages on the Awesome Miner website?
You will find getting started guides, explaination of what External Miners and Managed Miners are, when to use them, and how to add them. The guides explain how you add miners step by step using the wizards.

What might be a bit difficult is to setup connections between different networks, but the difficulty here is more related to networks and routers, not really in Awesome Miner itself.

If you already running Sgminer for your GPU mining rigs, I recommend you to start using the External Miner feature in Awesome Miner. The only information you need to provide in the Wizard for adding an External Miner is the IP address (and port) of the remote miner running Sgminer.

In order for the connection to actually work, we have two options:
1) Setup LogMeIn Hamachi that will create a local network between your different sites. Other members have already used this setup and described their experience earlier in this thread. There are also many articles on the web how to setup Hamachi, like: http://wiretuts.com/how-to-get-games-to-work-with-hamachi-on-windows-8/
2) Configure port forwarding in your routers on the remote site. I can give examples on how to do this if you want, but I will not be able to give an exact description of the steps, as it totally depends on what kind of router you are using. The difficulty here isn't really related to Awesome Miner itself, but more on the networking.

This was a really nice way to solve the API configuration on Antminer.

Can you please send me some screenshots and the log file by e-mail, so I can get an understanding of exactly what information that isn't displayed correctly. I will of course work on correcting any issues.

Version 1.1.3 is now available and includes a few corrections for reported problems. Happy mining!

Yes. Awesome Miner needs privileged API access to the miner in order to prioritize the pools, but it doesn't matter if it's a Managed Miner or an External Miner.

The profit switcher will work for those pools and coins where you can see profit information in Awesome Miner. It will not work for unknown coins (unless you manually enter its profitability) and it will not work for multi-pools that doesn't provide real-time profit statistics. Currently it's only TradeMyBit, NiceHash, Yaamp and LTCrabbit that provides this real-time information, that can be used for profit switching.

Hi,
Sorry if I wasn't clear about this, but the setting is only available for Managed Miners in Awesome Miner (see this link for more info), because this is the only case where Awesome Miner is responsible for starting cgminer.

If you run a stand-alone ASIC for example (Antminer S1 / S3 and similar), the cgminer software is started from that device, and in those cases you need to figure out how to modify the command line in the configuration file for that miner.

Hi,
I just verified that the load balance parameter do work. Go to the Properties of a miner in the Options dialog in Awesome Miner, select the "Command line" section, and then enter the following in the field for parameters to mining software:
--load-balance

If you have two pools with Quota 1 for both, you will get 50% mining on each. If you assign a higher Quota value to a pool, it will get a larger share of mining.

Can you try to add the the following command line parameter to your miner?
--load-balance
I think that will enable the quota-feature.