My guess would be either the watchdog setting(Tuning option on the rig page) or the Overclocking is set too high.

Hardware could also be the issue but it's less likely to be that if it works in another OS.

The Equihash option under Algo Auto Switch is the correct option and the port 12023 will still work.

The way you have it configured will switch between coins within the equihash algorithm. Using DSTM the way you have it is the correct way to do this. If you want to switch between different algorithms, you will need additional software.

It really depends on your definition of reasonable profits. $1000 is not very much to start with, but you can still have fun and make a little extra every month.

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My advice if you want to learn would be to dig into the code of existing coins on Github. If you really want to make your own, you could clone one of the existing projects.

Totally agree on the wifi. Tried it once and had so many issues. It would unsync  somehow... on the dashboard it would show all the GPUs as online but with no hashrate or fan speed while on the actual rig the fans were going 100%. Then at some point it just stopped working... rig would go offline for no reason. So... yeah... don't do it.

Having used both, I would recommend HiveOS.

They are both very alike for the initial setup but HiveOS has quite a few additional features that SMOS is lacking.

Heres a few of those:
- Remote SSH/VNC. (although only on local networks. You could probably do some port forwarding and get this working remotely as well.)
- Monitoring. GPU goes red if temp goes above threshold. Rig goes red if offline. The monitor dashboard helps when you have a few rigs to take care of. You can easily tell if something is wrong with a single glance at the screen.
- Watchdog. Haven't used this much but it can be quite useful to restart the miner or reboot the rig if hashrate is lower than expected.
- Shared access. You can delegate some rights to your rigs to another account. Such as if you hire a tech to help out with your farm, you can give him tech rights. Which would only allow him to do OC, reboots, or OS upgrades. (not allowing him to go into the wallet settings)
- Stats. When something goes wrong, you want to know when and how. The stats page gives you alot of information.
- API. Though I have not gone into this at all. I have not seen SMOS with anything close to API.

Also, if you have 3 rigs or less, HiveOS is free. While you will have to pay for SMOS eventually.

One big argument people will give you is that if you buy an asic, and BTC crashed, you are left with a paperweight. On the other hand, if you buy GPUs, and the altcoin you are mining crashes, you can switch coin. Or even if the entire market crashes, you can still sell the gear and make some of the money back.

There is also the fact that you can start mining altcoins with your gaming rig. Starting to mine slowly 1 GPU at a time. You don't have to start with buying a $3000 machine.

And finally, while BTC is a coin meant to be used as a currency, not all altcoins are the same. Many have a purpose, application, goal for the future. Alot of people simply believe in the projects and mine to support them.

Watt usage should be(or be very close to) the value of power limit set in the overclock settings. Since your GPU will be running full power it will likely be using the most wattage that it can. So if you set 100, it should be using 100W.

The 2.45 or 3.65 you see is not watts. It is sols per watt. Which means if you are doing 300 sols/s and using 140 watts, your sols/watt is 300/140=2.14.

The idea is that you can optimize your rig to be more power efficient by getting your sols/watt higher even if it lowers you sols/s a bit.