Version 1.0.2 is available!
The Awesome Profit Switching feature adds support for WestHash and LTCRabbit, in addition to TradeMyBit and NiceHash. This release also contains several other improvements and corrections.

There is a new forum thread in the Mining Altcoin section for discussions about the Profit Switching feature:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=723820.0

This thread (that you are reading right now) will be intended for everything else about Awesome Miner.

Please provide comments, feedback and give suggestions about features you would like to see in future releases of Awesome Miner.
Thanks!

(Reserved for changelog)

Awesome Profit Switching - Next generation pool switching

Achieve higher profits than any of the auto-switching multi-pools alone, by automatically switching between multiple algorithms and multiple multi-pools. Works great for both GPU mining and standalone ASIC's, and up to 200 miners can be managed from a single interface.

Awesome Miner introduces the next generation of profit switching multi-algorithm pool mining; Awesome Profit Switching. By using both real-time coin profitability statistics to switch between single-coin pools and also using real-time statistics from popular auto-switching multi-pools, Awesome Miner can automatically switch between mining a specific coin or mine on the currently most profitable auto-switching multi-pool.

Awesome Profit Switching works for any combination of GPU mining computers (both Windows and Linux) and standalone ASIC's, as long as a Cgminer/Sgminer compatible API is available.

Supported multi-pools and algorithms for automatic profit switching

• NiceHash (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, SHA-3 (Keccak), X11, X13, X15, Nist5, Neoscrypt, Lyra2RE)
• WestHash (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, SHA-3 (Keccak), X11, X13, X15, Nist5, Neoscrypt, Lyra2RE)
• LTCRabbit (Scrypt, X11)
• Yaamp (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, X11, X13, X15, Neoscrypt, Lyra2RE)
• Hamsterpool (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, X11)
• TradeMyBit (Scrypt, Scrypt Adaptive N, X11, X13, X15, Nist5, Neoscrypt) (TradeMyBit has closed down)

Prerequisites
Before continuing, please make sure the latest version of Awesome Miner is installed. The software can be downloaded from the Awesome Miner Download page.

Enable rule for Awesome Profit Switching
The Awesome Profit Switching rule in Awesome Miner is disabled by default. To enable the rule, open the Options dialog. Go to the Rules configuration as illustrated below. Check the box to enable the rule Awesome Profit Switching. The Edit operation can be used to customize the rule and select for which miners the rule should apply.


Setup
The Awesome Profit Switching rule requires all pools to switch between to be added to the miner. Of all the added pools, the most profitable will automatically be prioritized.

There are two alternative ways of using the rule:

• Alternative #1 is to download the complete configuration for all the supported pools and a prepared Managed Miner.
• Alternative #2 is to manually ensure that an already running miner has all the pool added.

Alternative #1: Prepared configuration
Download and run one this file to import the configuration to Awesome Miner:

• Download: Awesome Profit Switching complete configuration

The configuration files are associated with Awesome Miner. Run the downloaded configuration file either from the web browser or from the download folder to import in Awesome Miner.

When launching the downloaded configuration file, the import dialog will be opened. Click OK to import the pools and all configuration. If you for example don't want to do Scrypt mining, simply uncheck the pools that uses Scrypt. If you don't want to use the Managed Miner feature, uncheck the Awesome Profit Miner.


For each of the imported pools, a dialog will be displayed where the pool configuration must be completed. The field Worker name must be filled in.

• NiceHash & WestHash & Yaamp: Your Bitcoin address should be used as Worker name
• LTCRabbit & Hamsterpool: Your Worker name follows the pattern Weblogin.Worker - for example AwesomeTest.1

Click OK to continue.


The same dialog will be displayed for each pool, and Worker name must be filled in for all of them.

Import completed
When the import has completed, the miner will appear in the main window of Awesome Miner, unless unselected during the import.

Configure Device Profiles
The next step is to review the imported device profile configuration, that specifies the GPU mining settings. In the Options dialog, go to the Device Profile configuration as illustrated below.


There are two device profiles in the imported configuration.

• S-algorithm profile defines the GPU mining settings for the Scrypt and SHA-based algorithms.
• X-algorithm profile defines the GPU mining settings for the X11, X13, X15 and Nist5 algorithms.

Edit each of these profiles to work well with the GPU's being used. The default configuration is based on AMD Radeon 280X. Using the Load from GPU template button, predefined values can be loaded for common GPU types. For more information about using Device Profiles in Awesome Miner, read the Device Profile article.

Alternative #2: Manual configuration
The Awesome Profit Switching feature supports the multi-pools and algorithms listed below. Add these to your existing miner (either an External Miner or a Managed Miner) that you monitor using Awesome Miner. Only add those pools you want to use.

Start mining
In the example below, two Managed Miners running on different computers uses Awesome Profit Switching where the NiceHash X11 pool is the currently most profitable and will be the highest prioritized pool.


Adding single-coin pools
Any additional pools can be added to the running miners. If the pool has a specific coin specified, the coin statistics will be used to calculate the profitability of the coin, and the Awesome Profit Switching rule will automatically change to the pool if it's more profitable than any of the added multi-pools.

Awesome Miner supports WhatToMine, CoinChoose, CoinWarz and WhatMine as coin statistics providers.

Source code
Awesome Profit Switching is implemented using the Awesome Miner C# Script API, making it very easy for anyone to make their own modifications to the code:

• Awesome Profit Switching Source Code

About
For general information about Awesome Miner, see this thread:
Awesome Miner - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor Cgminer & Sgminer

I would recommend you to take a look at this thread as well, to get some idea of which multi-pools and algorithms that are most popular / profitable:
cryp.today Mining revenue stats Scrypt Scrypt-N X11 X13 pools / hashrate rentals

This is not specific to Awesome Miner, but if you do Scrypt mining (Litecoin, Dogecoin and similar), you GPU's will run hot. That's why it's getting more popular with the X11-algorithm (Darkcoin and similar) that makes your GPU's run much cooler compare to Scrypt.

Det är inte nyttigt att äta så mycket godis, så det är bättre att spenda sina Bitcoins hos Webhallen istället. 

If you want automatically updated profitability for a coin, you need to use Coinwarz or Whatmine API's. TradeMyBit doesn't provide this information in their API.

However, I've started thinking about how to solve this in another way that I think you will find useful. Even if TradeMyBit API doesn't support this, Awesome Miner could still download and parse the TradeMyBit web site to get the list of single-coin pools and their ports. With this information, the profit switcher know that if you use trademybit.com:3498, then you mine Veilcoin and the normalized profitability is 0.00132BTC/MH/day, so it can compare this to all the multi-pool services and switch if most profitable. For this kind of implementation, you don't need Coinwarz or Whatmine, but it will of course only work with the coins/pools supported by TradeMyBit and it's only useful for the coins not part of the multi-pool.

Is everything else working fine, except the hash rate?

I need your help to extract some API responses from the S3 miner. Could you please select the miner in main window of Awesome Miner and click the "View Details..." button. Then go to the API Console tab and perform the following two operations:
1) Enter the command "summary", click Execute. Save and send me the response
2) Enter the command "config", click Execute. Save and send me the response

With the response from these two commands, I should be able to figure out why it isn't working. Thanks!

If you rent a rig on Betarigs, you have to wait for 1 confirmation before you can start hashing. That takes 10 minutes avg. right now because only Bitcoin is supported. If they would implement Litecoin payments as well, you could get started in 2.5 minutes instead. That's a lot faster, when every minute is important.

https://www.nicehash.com/software/#sgminer

Yes

Similar problem here. After the upgrade to the 14.7 drivers, I cannot change the memory speed anymore. Changing GPU speed still works fine for me, but I've heard of others having issues with GPU speed as well.

Let's hope that Dell will follow this example as well

I'm working on updating the Awesome Profit Switcher in Awesome Miner (Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor mining). It is currently switching automatically between NiceHash and TradeMyBit based on highest profitability.

Now when NiceHash is starting up WestHash and AsiaHash, I will go ahead and update the feature to check for highest profitability between those sites as well.

Version 1.0.1 of the software is now available. I've made some changes to the profitability switcher to always keep Betarigs and MiningRigRental pools on top priority. For MiningRigRentals, this will however not work well anyway because the pool will be enabled even when not rented. For now I recommend you to simply Disable those pools.

I've also added log information to the profitability switcher, so if you run into any problems, please send the log file (Can be found in Options dialog, Advanced section) to info@awesomeminer.com and I will help you.

Will you provide the live profitability statistics via some kind of API as well?

If that is the case, I can add it to the next generation multiple-multi-pool profitability switching in Awesome Miner. Or will the fact that you use a little special way to payout the coins be any problem here?

Thanks!

Now I do understand what you were asking for. However, Sgminer API doesn't allow to change x- and raw-intensity on-the-fly the same way that you can do with Intensity. So at the moment, this will not be supported unless you configure it in your Device Profile before you start the mining.

Did you make any progress with the profit switching feature, or isn't it working properly?

Just to let you know, I'm working on improving the software.

"Dell is selling their first bitcoins"
Isn't Coinbase converting Bitcoin payments directly to USD for Dell? How could that affect the price if they do it almost every day? Is that assuming that the Bitcoins used for making these payments was simply hold for a long time and wasn't used - and now they are available on the market?

You need to scroll down in the list of settings to find x- and rawintensity. I do however agree that those settings should be next to the Intensity setting.

You can always verify the generated configuration by clicking the button "View Details" on the right hand side of Awesome Miner when a Managed Miner is running.

Batch-files are currently not supported, so there is no way of setting the color codes. I will put this on the list of feature requests for future versions.

You shouldn't use the auto-closing switching ports, where only one of several pools is alive. Currently, it's only the standard pools multi-port pools that are supported.

Are all pools added to the miner, so it looks something like the last screenshot on this page?
http://www.awesomeminer.com/guide/awesomeprofit.aspx
For TradeMyBit, you also need to enter the API key in Awesome Miner, as described on the link above.
Please let me know if it still doesn't work.

Thanks for all comments! I will continue working on improving the software.

Thanks for your comments.

To automatically start mining when Awesome Miner starts, use the setting "Autostart miner" in the properties of your Managed Miner.
If you want Awesome Miner to autostart when Windows is starting, use the setting "Autostart when Windows starts" that can be found in the General section of the Options dialog.

I have to look into how to solve the rental issue. Because if you use Betarigs, you need that pool to be priority 0 (highest priority) all the time, even when it's Disabled (not rented). That should be possible to implement.

For MiningRigRental it will be a bit more difficult, as we don't know if your rig is rented by just looking at the pool, because you could mine at your pool configured in their settings - right? Maybe this can be solved by implementing their API to figure out if the rig is rented or not.

I will get back to you once I have more information.