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Hey Sxemini
Whilst adding the personalization string to custom pools is easy enough, (and works fine), I haven't found a satisfactory way of adding it to the default preset profit switching pools.
So, the question is, "How do I add the correct personalization strings to the preset profit switching pools?"
Also, see my previous reply to Patrike, where I describe a problem that occurs when I try using the preset pools in conjunction with my custom pools.
Have fun! =8^)
Go to online services and looking for your pool,click edit and add the pers string ^^ Works perfectly!  Thank you Have fun! =8^) |
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Hey Sxemini Hey Lolliedieb The issue I'm having is that with the current Awesome Miner setup, EQUI144_5, ZEL, and EQUI192_7 do not get the --pers parameter added to the generated comandline.
Not sure here, too what happens in AM, but there are two ways of using this algos. Either --algo or --coin. If you still can use --coin you can use --coin ZEL to configure ZelHash + right personalization and --coin AUTO144_5 for --algo EQUI144_5 with --pers AUTO (aka pool selection). If --pers is not passed forwards that seems to be an issue with awesome miner / a bit too tight template / not giving the opportunity to add custom parameters outside of their template. If so that will be interesting for the next algos I am adding, because they will add quite a lot custom params  Not mentioning yet which it will be  I tried using --pers AUTO, at the comandline, but lolMiner returns the following error... Error: Personalization string (--pers) need to have 8 characters. Ok, just thought I'd try something stupid, and added four underscores in front of the AUTO argument, and it worked - although with 100% rejection rate. Have fun! =8^) Is this only a profitswitching problem? Because i have no problems mining 192_7, 144_5 or beamhashIII with lolminer You must set the --pers string in the pool config.
In the Properties of your Pool in Awesome Miner, where you specify URL and worker name, you will also find the field "Personalization string". If you fill in "BgoldPoW" here, Awesome Miner will add "--pers BgoldPoW" when you start lolMiner.
If this doesn't work, can you please send me a few screenshots? Thanks!
Yes patrike this is working. Whilst adding the personalization string to custom pools is easy enough, (and works fine), I haven't found a satisfactory way of adding it to the default preset profit switching pools. So, the question is, "How do I add the correct personalization strings to the preset profit switching pools?" Also, see my previous reply to Patrike, where I describe a problem that occurs when I try using the preset pools in conjunction with my custom pools. Have fun! =8^) |
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Hey Lolliedieb The issue I'm having is that with the current Awesome Miner setup, EQUI144_5, ZEL, and EQUI192_7 do not get the --pers parameter added to the generated comandline.
Not sure here, too what happens in AM, but there are two ways of using this algos. Either --algo or --coin. If you still can use --coin you can use --coin ZEL to configure ZelHash + right personalization and --coin AUTO144_5 for --algo EQUI144_5 with --pers AUTO (aka pool selection). If --pers is not passed forwards that seems to be an issue with awesome miner / a bit too tight template / not giving the opportunity to add custom parameters outside of their template. If so that will be interesting for the next algos I am adding, because they will add quite a lot custom params Not mentioning yet which it will be I tried using --pers AUTO, at the comandline, but lolMiner returns the following error... Error: Personalization string (--pers) need to have 8 characters. Ok, just thought I'd try something stupid, and added four underscores in front of the AUTO argument, and it worked - although with 100% rejection rate. Have fun! =8^) |
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Hey Patrike, The issue I'm having is that with the current Awesome Miner setup, EQUI144_5, ZEL, and EQUI192_7 do not get the --pers parameter added to the generated comandline, (and - for people who are reading along - for those algo's --pers is required, not optional), and I don't know how to setup AM so that it will add it along with the correct argument whilst using profit switching. I don't even know if it is an AM issue, an EBKAC issue, or a combination of both, (which in itself is an EBKAC issue  ), and my google-fu is poo, so I posted the steps I took to find out why I couldn't benchmark those algo's through AM in the hope that someone would point me in the right direction. Have fun! =8^) In the Properties of your Pool in Awesome Miner, where you specify URL and worker name, you will also find the field "Personalization string". If you fill in "BgoldPoW" here, Awesome Miner will add "--pers BgoldPoW" when you start lolMiner. If this doesn't work, can you please send me a few screenshots? Thanks! At the moment, I am only using the default pre-defined pools in AM. I just added custom pools for both BCGold, and Zclassic, setting MiningPoolHub as the target pool. Created a pool group with those two custom pools. I set the personalization string for Zclassic to ZcashPoW, (found the pers strings at https://forum.bitcoingold.org/t/list-of-equihash-coins-by-implementation-parameters/1929 ). Disabled all pre-defined pool sites in Options -> Managed Profit Switching (ZPool, MPH, etc). Selected Add additional pools to Managed Profit Switching, and added my created pool group. Attempted to benchmark using the Enabled Managed Profit Switching pools option, and saw that Equihash Zero (192.7), and ZHash (Equihash 144.5) with lolMiner as the mining software was available, and they benchmarked fine. If I re-enable the default pre-defined pools in Options -> Managed Profit Switching and attempt to benchmark Equihash Zero, AM uses the address equihash144.sea.mine.zpool.ca:2192, and doesn't use the --pers parameter. As a side note, the address should be equihash192.sea.mine.zpool.ca:2192 (copy - paste - forget to edit is too easy to do, unfortunately). So, currently, if I want to use lolMiner alongside the rest of the mining software that AM controls, it appears that I would have to make a custom pool for each coin on each pre-defined pool, group those custom pools, then disable all the default pre-defined pools. It's a bit of work, but it's do-able Have fun! =8^) |
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Hey Lolliedieb, Jumping in here.
Just to clarify the curiosity about lolMiner configuration:
Pre 1.0 lolMiner had only one parameter to configure the algorithm - this was --coin and did all the needed stuff in one command: selecting right algo + right personalization plus right stratum.
Issue some users of mine had was when a new coin was added with the same algo or one project changed the personalization parameter. Then the shortcut was not right.
Therefore lolMiner 1.0 and newer added a new parameter --algo (or short -a) that can select the algorithm, while --pers takes the personalization for Equihash based algos. So one old parameter was replaced by two new, but its now cleaner separated and when new projects with same PoW come along they should work out of the box.
--coin is still present in lolMiner 1.0 and up, but only for special functions like algorithm switchers and some often used presets. The standard way for future use and additions should be using --algo and maybe - for Equihash - --pers. It might be that some algos in future will be added that need a 3rd parameter to select the right stratum, but that did not happen yet.
I have the feeling that --algo + --pers is much closer to what other miners do and so hope using this pattern clears most of the configuration confusion.
Thanks for clarifying the lolMiner configuration side of things The issue I'm having is that with the current Awesome Miner setup, EQUI144_5, ZEL, and EQUI192_7 do not get the --pers parameter added to the generated comandline, (and - for people who are reading along - for those algo's --pers is required, not optional), and I don't know how to setup AM so that it will add it along with the correct argument whilst using profit switching. I don't even know if it is an AM issue, an EBKAC issue, or a combination of both, (which in itself is an EBKAC issue ), and my google-fu is poo, so I posted the steps I took to find out why I couldn't benchmark those algo's through AM in the hope that someone would point me in the right direction. Have fun! =8^) |
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Hey GKumaran,
Hey lolminer has since version 1.0 updated the parameters.
The --coin is also supported, but the newer algos are all using --algo.
Like you said Equihash 144/5, Equihash 192/7, need --algo and --pers. The '--pers' is a string from the coin dev, not the miner dev, you can get the --pers based on the coin you want to mine.
Its better to use this method to ensure future compatibity.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what coins to mine, which is why I left it to autoselect. Even if I did know what coin to mine, I don't know how to add the string to the generated commandline. ZHash currently works because the string BgoldPoW is used as the argument to the --pers parameter, whereas there is no --pers parameter included in the generated commandlines for the other algos. I do know that the string must be eight characters long, but how to automatically select which string to insert, (according to the profit switching mechanism), and how to insert it is beyond me. As for future compatability, using --coin AUTO?  ? works with the profit switching mechanism now, (well, in a limited fashion, anyways), and will continue to work into the future, (well, it will unles the miner dev decides to kill them). Have fun! =8^) |
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Hi Patrike, Just tried benchmarking the new Lolminer, and found that of the algo's that I use, only ZHash works with the current settings. I ran Lolminer in a command prompt, and found that the algo's BEAMHASH I, Equihash 144/5, Equihash 192/7, and ZelHash now require the --pers parameter. I tried finding the arguments to the --pers parameter for each algo, but they aren't listed on github, so I raised an issue requesting them. I was able to get the algo's that I'm using to work in a command prompt, by using the --coin parameter with the following changes... For Equihash 125.4, --algo ZEL --devices 0 --pool <URL>:<Port> --user <User> --pass <Password> --apiport 4029 changed to --coin ZEL --devices 0 --pool <URL>:<Port> --user <User> --pass <Password> --apiport 4029 For Equihash Zero (192.7), --algo EQUI192_7 --devices 0 --pool <URL>:<Port> --user <User> --pass <Password> --apiport 4029 changed to --coin AUTO192_7 --devices 0 --pool <URL>:<Port> --user <User> --pass <Password> --apiport 4029 For Equihash 144.5, --algo EQUI144_5 --devices 0 --pool <URL>:<Port> --user <User> --pass <Password> --apiport 4029 changed to --coin AUTO144_5 --devices 0 --pool <URL>:<Port> --user <User> --pass <Password> --apiport 4029 Is it possible to use these commands in the custom command entry for each algo under Options -> Managed Software -> LolMiner, and have the --pool <URL>:<Port> --user <User> --pass <Password> parameters auto-fill like %URL% would be replaced in batch files? Thanks for your help. |
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Hey Patrike, @patrike any chance of a linux agent in the near future or a partnership with SMOS?
The work to make Remote Agent running on Linux has recently started, but it's not a small implementation task. Expect that it will be a number of months before the first version is ready because there are many other priorities as well. Have you looked at Mono? They say that it only requires minor changes to go from .NET to Mono, though, me not being a coder, I have no idea just how minor their "minor" is. Take care, & Have fun! Radar5k =8^) |
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Hi Patrike, Hi and thanks for reporting this scenario. If you have selected a single GPU for the benchmarking, Awesome Miner tries to be smart and generates a configuration based on a single GPU. However, you don't want that in your case.
I will change this behavior in the next release. I think a workaround for the moment could be to set the GPU for benchmarking to "All Combined". Then Awesome Miner shouldn't change the GPU settings in your configuration.
Worked like a charm, thank you Have fun! =8^) |
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Hi Patrike, I've been playing with Awesome Miner for a couple of weeks, whilst learning about mining, and like how easy it makes things. I have setup various config files for SRBMiner outside of AM, and have been able to gain a 23% increase of my hash rate, but, when I put those configs into AM's profit profile, everything up to "gpu_conf" is passed to the miner, and everything after is ignored  Here's my config for CryptoNightv7 from Options --> Profit Profiles --> AMD GPU --> SRBMiner --> Configure --> SRBMiner (Override config.txt content is checked for all variants of CN) {
"cryptonight_type": "normalv7",
"double_threads": true,
"api_enabled": true,
"api_port": 4028,
"gpu_conf": [
{
"id": 0,
"intensity": 15.4,
"worksize": 8,
"adl_type": 2
}
]
}
Here is the config that AM generates for SRB when benchmarking and mining... {
"cryptonight_type": "normalv7",
"double_threads": true,
"api_enabled": true,
"api_port": 4028,
"gpu_conf": [
{
"id": 0,
"intensity": 0
}
],
"reboot_script": "tskill SRBMiner-CN"
}
Is there someplace else that I have to enable config overrides for SRB? Thanks for a great prog. Have fun! =8^) |
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Windows 10 crashing after last Window 10 update some days ago! Anybody else the same problem and gets a blue screen with a DPC_Watchdog_Violation error I get this error since some days after i updated my Windows 10 with a new update some days ago. I tried everything i could think about so far, including re-installing GPU drivers, re-install of AwesomeMiner, other driver updates, Diskcheck, whatever not, but nothing helps. Hey Boxalex, Each time now i run AwesomeMiner i get after some time that DPC_Watchdog_Violation. When benchmarking it happens rather really fast after only 3 - 5 minutes and when running AwesomeMiner in mining mode later, which makes me think that a given specific algo or miner software is causing the problem. (Just a guess). This said i have no idea what to do. A roll back of Windows isn't a solution for me. Here my config i use at my home pc: CPU 8700K, 64GB RAM, 2x 1080 ti GPU's, Asus ROG X Hero Maximus, SSD, Standart Edition AWM license, Anybody any ideas what else to try? AwesomeMiner maybe working on compatibility as i doubt i'am the only one with this problem on Windows after the recent update.... Two things you can try... 1) Go here, and follow the instructions, and/or 2) Benchmark each algo individually, to see which one(s) cause the problem. Have fun! =8^) |
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