Thanks for the suggestion. It currently not supported to have two Awesome Miner main application connecting to and monitor the same Remote Agent. The reason is that Awesome Miner sends configuration to a Remote Agent, and the agent respond with monitoring information per Managed Miner.

Even if there was a read-only mode where Awesome Miner didn't send any configuration or commands to a specific Remote Agent, this agent would still report the information per miner. The miners reported by the Remote Agent may not match the miners in your Awesome Miner application (if it was another Awesome Miner that provided the configuration/miners). There are currently no concept where Remote Agent can instruct Awesome Miner to add/remove miners, so there needs to be some redesign in order to support this scenario.

The mining software knows of the last share difficulty - but it's not reported over the API so Awesome Miner isn't aware of this information. It's not consistently logged either.

It's only for ASIC miners and some GPU mining software like sgminer where this information is available via an API - for almost all other GPU mining software it is unfortunately not reported.

Thanks for the improvement suggestions.

I will make some dark mode adjustments in v7.0.2 that soon will be made available.

Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into adding more of the settings. I agree that all relevant settings should be possible to set via Awesome Miner.

Awesome Miner version 7.0.1

 Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
  - Added setting for Fan check in the Mining Profile configuration
 User interface
  - Adjusted the green temperature color a bit to increase readability
  - Improved dark mode display
 Corrections
  - Correction to the text output on the Firmware log tab
  - Correction to the temperature display for the report saved in the Mining History dialog
  - Correction to sorting of sub groups

This is a good point and I will add a setting for this in the Mining Profile configuration. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions - I will make improvements for this in the next release.

Is this for GPU or ASIC miners? For GPU mining software it's generally not possible to get this information. For ASIC miners it might be - but please confirm if this is the case. Thanks!

Thanks for letting me know Jim.

According to an issue report on their site, they also block bitcoin.org, coinmarketcap.com and other crypto related sites with good reputation. I will try to find a solution. Thanks!

Awesome Miner version 7.0

 Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
  - Added Mining Profile log as a new tab in the bottom area
  - Include the Mining Profile log and Kernel log in in the API Report for a miner to make troubleshooting easier
 ASIC mining
  - Support for GekkoScience Terminus R606 (except for temperature reporting that isn't supported by this ASIC)
  - Bulk edit of the Algorithm property of External Miners
  - Frequency will display the actual chain frequency instead of the global target frequency
 GPU mining
  - Select pools used by a Managed Profit Miner and instruct the profit switcher to ignore the pools for a specified period of time. Available via the new profit switching tab for a selected miner
 Features
  - The miner group concept is improved by allowing sub groups to be added to groups. Use drag and drop or the context menu item 'Move to group' to move a group into another group.
  - A new tab for Groups has been added in both the Windows application and the web interface to display a summary of all miner groups with hashrate, power usage, temperature and profit details
  - Note about groups: The new web interface supports the concepts of sub groups and group view, but the classic web interface doesn't
  - Colors are used to visualize temperatures. Configurable in the Options dialog, General section. 
  - Notifications for the selected miner is displayed as a tab in the bottom area
  - Profit switching history for the selected miner is displayed as a tab in the bottom area for more control of how the profit switcher operates
 Integration
  - The old Nicehash platform has been removed and is fully replaced by the new Nicehash platform. Nicehash will discontinue the old platform on September 10th 2019.
  - Note: Review the wallet settings for Nicehash in the Options dialog, Profit switching section
 Configuration
  - The predefined rule for detecting high temperature will now allow configuration of the temperature source (Standard or Chip temperature)
  - Added a setting to disable drag&drop operations in the list of miners. Configurable in the Options dialog, Advanced section
 User interface
  - The layout of the Summary tab for the selected miner has been improved
  - Improved user interface for selection of miners and groups for rules and for user account configuration
  - System tools for Managed Miners miners made available via the toolbar Tools
  - Improved context menu user interface for ASIC tools and System tools
  - The operation to perform a mining software cleanup is added to the System tools menu in the context menu for a miner
  - The web interface includes chip temperature display for a selected miner
 Mining software
  - BMiner 15.8.6
  - Gminer 1.62
  - XmRig CPU Miner 3.1.1
  - XmRig AMD Miner 2.14.6
  - XmRig nVidia Miner 2.14.5
  - NBMiner 25.1
  - Z-enemy Miner CUDA 10.1 support added
  - CcMiner Zcoin Official 1.2.2

Note: You will no longer be able to use the old Nicehash platform once you upgrade to Awesome Miner 7.0. Please also note that the old Nicehash platform will be closed down tomorrow (September 10th).

Hi and thanks for your question.

In the past AVG/Avast was very cooperative as they analyzed Awesome Miner and white-listed it as one of the few mining related applications that were considered safe. A while ago they changed their policies and have special rules for mining related software - and although their experts agree that Awesome Miner isn't a threat - they do have some new policies around mining related software where they prefer to mark it as a potential threat.

For most of the AVG/Avast user base, mining isn't something wanted - and this is the reason why they prefer to mark anything related to mining as a threat.

I've been in contact with their support team a number of times during the last few months, but it's not possible to change their decision that Awesome Miner is related to mining and by being related to mining other rules apply. So this is an unfortunate policy on their side that I'm not able to do anything about at the moment.
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​It should be possible to configure Avast with an exception to allow Awesome Miner.

I've updated Z-enemy to also include the CUDA 10.1 version.
Please go to: Menu -> Update mining software definitions

Thanks!

There are actually no changes in the latest version that could resolve your issue - so I wonder if this was something temporary in your setup. Anyway, if it's working better now, it's of course good.

So far MTP is not in the list of algorithm on the new platform, but if it shows up I will make sure it's supported.

I've not seen any information about changes to stratum and API URL's for the new platform, so I assume it will be the same as today with 'new' in the sub domain name.

I'm planning the following for Awesome Miner 7.0, planned to be released Monday 9th:
- Nicehash (old) will be removed
- If you don't have Nicehash New configured already, the wallet from the Nicehash old platform will be used for the Nicehash New platform
- If you already have Nicehash New configured with a wallet, nothing will change except that the Nicehash old platform will no longer be available

I hope the above should make the transition as smooth as possible. Please let me know if I missed anything important here.

For users that still want to use the old platform for one more day before it closes - you will have to wait with upgrading to Awesome Miner 7.0 until Tuesday (10th).

Thanks for the great feedback, both now and in the past as well. The software will of course continue to improve with each new version.

Awesome Miner version 6.9.5 (Development preview of 7.0)

 ASIC mining
  - Support for GekkoScience Terminus R606 (except for temperature reporting that isn't supported by this ASIC)
 GPU mining
  - Select pools used by a Managed Profit Miner and instruct the profit switcher to ignore the pools for a specified period of time
 Features
  - The miner group concept is improved by allowing sub groups to be added to groups. Use drag and drop or the context menu item 'Move to group' to move a group into another group.
  - A new tab for Groups has been added in both the Windows application and the web interface to display a summary of all miner groups with hashrate, power usage, temperature and profit details
  - Colors are used to visualize temperatures. Configurable in the Options dialog, General section. 
  - Notifications for the selected miner is displayed as a tab in the bottom area
  - Profit switching history for the selected miner is displayed as a tab in the bottom area for more control of how the profit switcher operates
 Configuration
  - The predefined rule for detecting high temperature will now allow configuration of the temperature source (Standard or Chip temperature)
 User interface
  - The layout of the Summary tab for the selected miner has been improved
  - Improved user interface for selection of miners and groups for rules and for user account configuration
  - System tools for Managed Miners miners made available via the toolbar Tools
  - Improved context menu user interface for ASIC tools and System tools
  - The operation to perform a mining software cleanup is added to the System tools menu in the context menu for a miner
 Mining software
  - Gminer 1.62
  - XmRig CPU Miner 3.1.1
  - XmRig AMD Miner 2.14.6
  - XmRig nVidia Miner 2.14.5

To get access to development versions, open the Options dialog in Awesome Miner. In the General section, enable Check for development versions. Then go to the Menu and click Check for updates.

Direct download links if needed:
https://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMiner.msi
https://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMinerRemoteService.msi

Thanks for the update and great that you got the API running.

I've looked at the API report and it looks like most information should be displayed correctly in Awesome Miner. One limitation is that this miner doesn't support reporting the temperature - the temperature value reported is 0.

As you point out, it does sound like a very custom cgminer version.

Typically you need to start Cgminer with API parameters like I suggested above in order to enable the monitoring interface (API) where Awesome Miner can connect. If you do open cmd.exe and then launch cgminer.exe with the parameters I suggested, are those simply ignored?

I'm not sure what the exact issue is here. Does it happen to all mining software? If you just start and stop the miner - does the problem happen right away?

Thanks for your feedback and comments - they are always welcome!

Of the 2% mining fee we are actually getting half of it. So we do benefit from customers that go for the Awesome Miner firmware. This is also the reason why we can provide product support for it and also integrate it well with Awesome Miner. Users of other Vnish firmware do get most of the features as well, so your point is valid that we do give away features to a larger user base. Some features like setting Mining Profiles via Awesome Miner is exclusive to our brand of the firmware. We could make more feature exclusive, but we are also trying to be nice to our customers and respect what decisions they make.

It's however not possible for us to control this pricing model of the firmware by much, as it needs to align with what the Vnish firmware uses for other firmware brands. We don't have the option to make the mining fee 0% or 1% as it cannot compete with other Vnish brands by providing a lower fee. This is why I stated above that although I appreciate any feedback and comments related to the pricing, it cannot change and it will stay on 2%. The only direction we are allowed to change the mining fee is to make it higher (2.5% or 3%), but I know this isn't what you where looking for.

As we cannot make the mining fee lower, the only option left that I can see would be to make Awesome Miner not consuming any licenses as long as you are running Antminers with our firmware. We would have to investigate this more, but it might be either license + 2% mining fee or no license requirements + 2.5% mining fee for example. Everyone may not like the concept, but it's an option - just like using this firmware is an option.

Please note that my comments in the section above is just about exploring possibilities based on the topic we discuss - it's not something we have in the pipeline or decided to go for. Please consider this point when reading the statements above. Thanks!

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Hi Enrico,

Thanks for the additional feedback. It's appreciated.

You are correct that there are some older source code available for S9, but it's not up-to-date and lacks features. And going forward, it's way more complicated on S15 and S17 where there is nothing to start from. As we need to maintain focus on delivering good solutions for monitoring and management of mining operations, we see firmware as something where we need partnerships and integrations rather than investing in the development ourselves. It would of course be nice if we could do all this on our own, but it's unfortunately not realistic for us based on our observations.

It's very nice of the Braiins team to release BraiinsOS free of charge, open source and with full flexibility. I fully agree with your point here. But as we don't have the other income sources as I assume they have with Slushpool, we don't have the luxury of giving away the solutions we develop. We always try to be as nice and flexible as possible to make our customers happy, but at the end of the day we also need to run a sustainable business in order to support our customers long term.

I appreciate your comments about the pricing. A general note is that Awesome Miner is actually less expensive than some of the other popular premium solutions for monitoring. The goal is always to make our users happy by making it possible for them to run their mining operations as smooth as possible, making our software solution valuable for them.

Many thanks for your opinions and comments!

Thanks for the update.

The last few minor version of Awesome Miner have been small and not related to how mining software is started.

1) Can you try to disable Avast completely on one of the computers to see if that makes any difference?
2) Can you please check the setting "Run mining process with Administrator privileges" in the Properties of a miner, Environment section. I'm not asking for a change of the setting, but it's good for me to know if it's enabled or not to get a more complete understanding of your setup. Thanks!

I assume you launch cgminer from the command line today? Can you try to enable the API for it by also adding something like the following command line arguments:
--api-listen --api-allow W:0/0

At this point it should be possible to point an External Miner in Awesome Miner to the IP address of the computer running cgminer.