Awesome Miner can be used with any pool. Or was it the profit switching feature in Awesome Miner that you wanted to use?

You can also add your own custom mining software. When you select the ccminer software in Awesome Miner, you can either let Awesome Miner do the automatic download, or you can specify that you instead want to use your ccminerAlexis78 software by specifying the path. If you only have a single miner you can specify this manually in the properties of the Managed Miner.

If you need to do this operation on a larger scale, you can use this feature to push custom software and configure all your miners at once:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/uploadsoftware.aspx

Awesome Miner Version 3.0.4

- New settings for Managed Miners to set process priority and affinity
- Configure algorithm support per mining software, for more detailed control of the profit switching feature (see: Options dialog, Algorithms section)
- Added operations to change and add pool using the web interface for all mining software where the features is supported
- Added Skein algorithm
- Claymore's Ethereum Miner 9.5
- Minor corrections

You can do basic operations, like starting and stopping miners, from the web interface. The web interface can be used from your phone as well:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/web.aspx
The web interface is however not providing all the features of the main application.

You install Awesome Miner on a single computer and then you install Awesome Miner Remote Agent on all your mining rigs. Then you can control all mining operations, including starting and stopping the Claymore miner, from your single computer where you run the Awesome Miner application. You never have to use Remote Desktop or similar to manually start the mining.

When using the External Miner concept to connect to an already running Claymore miner on Linux, Awesome Miner is able to show monitoring information. You can see hashrate, both for Ethereum and for secondary coin, GPU fan speed and temperature, number of accepted and rejected shares, uptime and revenue information. The only operation available is to switch pool and restart the mining process. You will not be able to start and stop the mining and Awesome Miner cannot do crash recovery other than providing a notification about that the mining isn't working.

The secondary coin hash information can be found in the GPU tab when you select a miner. It's however not possible to view it in the actual list of miners.

I've been thinking of making a Linux version of the Remote Agent, but that will require significant development work and it's not planned for this year.

Awesome Miner can still connect to Linux based miners with the External Miner feature to monitor them, but Awesome Miner will not be in control of everything as when you used Managed Miners on Windows.

The crash bug will be fixed in the release later today. The new release will also have Process Priority and Affinity settings (you will find it in the properties for a Managed Miner, Environment section).

As you noticed the operations available (start or stop) will only be available if all selected miners have that option enabled. I do understand the scenario you descibe, so I will put it on the list to look into.

Hi,
I do like these kind of roadmap discussions. I was almost a year ago since I posted some ideas on what the future could look like for Awesome Miner:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.msg15882970#msg15882970

From that post I've completed "Feature#2 - Multiple users", which is the Security feature in Awesome Miner today. In addition, I've implemented a large number of other features since that post was made. That post was really above large future features.

I've also made good progress on "Feature #1 - Public cloud service for monitoring". One major benefit of the cloud based monitoring will be that you no longer need to configure your router to access the web interface from the outside. You simply navigate to the cloud service and sign in.

The cloud service will also include a SMS notification services that you will be able to use from your Rules in Awesome Miner, similar to how E-mail notification works. The new cloud service will however not be free of charge, as it for sure will consume significant network bandwidth and have costs related to sending SMS.

Short term I do have a significant list of feature requests from many users, and I'm always trying to implement the most popular requests first. But when I get time, I do spend time on these future plans as well. I don't mind sharing what I'm working on so we all can have an open discussion about what is most important.

To answer your questions about the web interface - yes, there are some limitations on the number of operations you can perform. I will however make the change pool feature available for more types of miners in the next release that is planned for today. The feature is already there, but was not made available for the common GPU mining software.

Good that you found this. This behavior was actually changed in Awesome Miner 3.0.

Awesome Miner has always set the port dynamically for most mining software, except the Claymore miners. If you start multiple miners on the same computers they were always assigned a unique port like 4028, 4029, 4030 and so on.

For Claymore it used to be 3333 all the time, which didn't work when you were running multiple Claymore miners on the same computer. For that reason I changed the Claymore miner port to follow the same pattern as for all other miners controlled by Awesome Miner - to start on port 4028 and than increase the number to make it unique.

If you run version 3.X of both Awesome Miner and the Remote Agent, it should work as long as the mining process also was started with a recent version that set the port to 4028+.

Unfortunately, mining on a laptop is not recommended for two reasons.
1) First of all it's difficult to get profit from the CPU/GPU power you have in a typical laptop. The cost for power usage will often get higher than the actual income from mining.
2) Because mining is consuming power, it also generates a lot of heat. Laptops are in general not designed to run at maximum load for longer period of times.

The easiest way to get started with mining is if you have a desktop PC with a decent AMD or nVidia GPU

bensam1231, Thanks for all feedback above. Everything is noted, and I will comment on some topics below.

It's true that the GPU tab doesn't show any information when not mining, but the System tab always show the information for all GPU's.

The purpose of the GPU tab is to show mining related information, including only those GPU's used by a specific miner. This can be fewer than all the GPU's you have in the system. The GPU tab is also focused on providing hashrate statistics per GPU, which is also very related to the mining operation.

The System tab always shows all GPU's, and also some basic CPU/RAM/HDD information. This information is always available even when not mining. As I pointed out earlier, some informaiton, especially for CPU, is not available unless you run in Administrator mode.

As you know, the feature "Map to system monitoring" is really about bringing in the information from the System tab to the GPU tab, to make it more complete for a specific mining operation point of view.


If you use unsupported mining software (Generic Miner), Awesome Miner can still provide you with GPU information on the System tab. But Awesome Miner can of course not show hashrate or even have an idea of which GPU's that are actually being used.

For a Generic Miner, where an API isn't available, you are correct that Awesome Miner can still start and stop the mining process, and also restarting the mining if the process crashed. If you need to restart it on a regular interval, you can define a rule for that. In Options dialog, Rules section, you can add a new rule with a "Time" trigger and for example a "Miner command" action to perform a restart.

Would it be fine if I simply implement the "Process priority" setting in the properties for a Managed Miner, so you manually need to set it per miner? It will of course be supported in the Managed Templates as well.

Hi,
The EWBF and Excavator miners are the two miners that doesn't report their uptime. So if it's only for those two miners you experience the problem, it's not related to the new Awesome Miner release.

Awesome Miner version 3.0.3 is an update with the following improvements:
- GPU Voltage boost can be configured using the MSI Afterburner integration
- Profit switcher more customizable by introducing device profile settings per dual mining algorithm when using Claymore's Ethereum Dual miner
- New setting for Offline Detection rule to include detection of disconnected Remote Agent connections
- Improvements to GPU clocking and GPU mapping features
- Stability corrections

First of all, thanks for putting all this feedback together. I will comment on some of the items below, but keep in mind that I do take notes of all suggestions - so some of your points will be, or already are, planned for the future even if I don't add any specific comment.

I can plan to add a setting for this when you do the network scanning. Although using DHCP is common, most routers assign the same IP to the same computer (MAC address) all the time. However, a router can fail and be replaced, so I do see your point. I've actually never had a request on this in the past, and there are people using Awesome Miner with very large numbers of miners.

Isn't that the network scanning you refered to above? Some people use it to add hundreds of miners at a time.

When you add multiple miners using the network scan, you don't have to create the hosts. They are created automatically. I do understand that you don't want to use this feature now because of the IP vs hostname point above, but this is still just a result of not using the network scan.

I just investigated this one and actually found a bug introduced in the recent 3.0 release, where you sometimes when adding new miners run into this. I correction will be available soon. Performance mode is intended for much more miners than that.

Different mining software reports the GPU's in different orders, and sometimes you don't even assign all GPU's on the system to the same mining software. The same mining software can also report GPU orders differently depending on custom command line parameters. In addition to all that, you can run Ethereum mining on two GPU's and Zcash mining on the other three for example. The only way to support this is to force the user to do some mapping. At first I was thinking of trying to match simliar fan speeds and temperatures to automatically do the mapping, but that's not stable enough.

That one is only available from some mining software, like sgminer. So why don't Awesome Miner bring in this value just like GPU and memory clock? The monitoring library currently used to get GPU information can actually not read the powertune value.

This also brings us to another point about how Awesome Miner get the GPU information. First of all it uses the information from the mining software. When using the mapping feature, you can bring in the GPU monitoring information that Awesome Miner itself (with help of a monitoring library) can get. By doing this all users of Awesome Miner can get much more GPU information without even running MSI Afterburner.

At the moment, MSI Afterburner is only used to set GPU parameters (the GPU clocking dialog), not to display them on the GPU tab. This is subject to change, because if you do run Afterburner, it would of course be fully possible to use the display values from there. There are however fewer users that will run Afterburner, so it will not be available for everyone. In the future there will probably be some concept where Afterburner data will be used if available, and than fallback to the GPU monitoring that is always available in Awesome Miner.

This is to force the user to look at the list of GPU's and consider the mapping. If I would just bring in the GPU monitoring information right away, it would be so many questions from users about GPU statistics not being displayed correctly.

CPU monitoring information is unfortunately only available if you run a process as Administrator. If you would run Awesome Miner Remote Agent as administrator, you would probably see more info.

MSI Afterburner always runs as Administrator and will of course have access to this information. This relates to the point earlier that Afterburner isn't used for monitoring yet.

The default is to show the highest temperature in the miner list. You can change to show all temperatures using the Options dialog, General section, "Temperature display".

Yes, I've recently implemented that and it will be released today. I was also going crazy on this when I was doing GPU clocking.

Please try again in the next release, because I've made some changes to this after getting a few similar reports the last week.

No. Do you want this for all mining software, or only specific? The reason why I'm asking is if this could be a global setting to control this behavior.

Thanks!

Thanks for the update. I problem right now is that Awesome Miner only grabs statistics from the two main sources whattomine.com and coinwarz.com. None of them list any Skein based coins. Because of this, it will not be much for Awesome Miner to show in terms of coin statistics and profitability.

The rules are only executed locally where Awesome Miner main application is running. So unfortunately you cannot execute any command on the remote computer. Even when you define your bat-file locally, it will also only run locally.

However... If you want to reboot a remote system, you can add an action of type "Miner Command", and then select the command "Reboot computer". That should solve the scenario you are trying right now with remote reboots.

If there is a need to run commands (other than reboot) on a remote system, I can of course add support for that.

Hi,
Yes, the rules can be quite powerful.

Dead Device Detection is however only supported in some mining software. It's supported by almost all ASIC's (Antminers, ...) running cgminer but also on some GPU mining software like sgminer and EWBF Zcash miner. It's not supported by the Claymore miners. Awesome Miner is simply reacting to what is reported over the API interface in these cases.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm always trying to add miners that are popular, and I will keep an eye on this one as well.
Until officially supported, I hope that you do know that you can use the Upload Software feature to upload any mining software to all your remote computers in a single operation:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/uploadsoftware.aspx

Can you please try to stop a single Managed Miner, then start it again. Any change?

Just to make sure - you are running the same version of Awesome Miner and the Remote Agent?
Do you see the temperatures on the GPU tab? If not, they are not reported correctly from the mining software. You can then use the button "Map to system monitoring" to bring in the information from the System tab to the GPU's.