you might want to check out openhab for such things, or just implement them yourself

 i wish you luck, but it will most certainly have a smr drive in it, which will operate at 5900rpm

the problem with SMR drives is the low write speed of optimized plots, and as you want a single plot file per disk you would either need a pmr 8tb disk or wait for your disk to finish writing with 7mb-ish (sometimes spikes to 30 mb for a few secs) or write unoptimized plots and optimize them on another drive seperately

i'd guesstimate about 12-14 days at least to generate a 8tb optimized plot on smr directly

also at least for me in EU the 8tb smr seagates are more expensive than some other drives (8tb smr being at about 28€/tb, others as low as 24€/tb), in the end it comes down to density (similar to nvidia vs amd setups)

if you got free electricity other mining options are by far more attractive, i myself have free electricity as well, but summer is coming and i want to mine something at least

im still waiting on my plots to verify the performance of the j1900 for burst mining

which will soon (tm) migrate to eth tokens

regarding your build: i5 isnt exactly low power, but when you use this pc for other things as well it might be worth

i successfully used j1800 for 2-4 drives and tested a j1900 with 4 drives, no issues (though they recommend 1 core per drive)
both cpus are soldered onto the mb and have 10W tdp, ram isnt expensive, i had 8gigs lying around, but usage with 4 drives only spiked to 2.4gigs (though they recommend 1gig per drive)

with storj your main bottleneck (if there is much traffic in the whole network) will be you internet connection

will this web ui (?) be made public?
looks nice

the initial plot writing will be slow on SMR drives (optimized plots with 'direct' flag), after that no real difference

sure, you can start reading here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1260863.msg16281552#msg16281552

make sure to read till the end

problem arose before though, but i don't really want to sift through all that BS to find it

it's kinda pointless for nicehash wallets, there you can already define the payment amount and date manually


if it wasnt for the 20% rip off, yes

indeed

it would be super cool if we could at least configure our auto payout for a minimum amount so it doesnt trigger the 0.01 -> 4% fee and rather only cash out on 0.1 with regular 3% (but it will take a little longer to reach)

the point is: it will cost more if you dont want all btc to be on nicehash but withdraw like at least once a month

you can see how i did it in node, eg here: https://github.com/felixbrucker/miner-manager/blob/master/api/controllers/miningController.js#L723

and excuse the horrible code

from where exactly do you ship?

possibly interested in a few

you will need to send json messages over plain sockets (and dont forget to append "\n")
here is the stats request: '{"id":0,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"miner_getstat1"}'

very nice, i like it

probably the best thing to do would be to order one yourself and check all components in hand

ill check it out once i got some spare time in the next couple days, im mostly amd currently and not mining due to heat, but a short testrun doesnt harm
also the api seems nice, though i would love to use http calls as well as plain sockets (i assume its plain sockets as before with nheqminer and because of the \n)

the "old" 4.9.4 had extranonce enabled by default

last time i checked, burstcoin mining wasnt (that) profitable, storj (and maybe sia) offer far better revenues, but currently (at least for storj) it takes quite some time to fill it up, so i assume in like 1-2yrs you can fill up your hdds much faster and actually use storj as mining alternative for hdds