Sounds good and I await these changes. I currently have the free version setup, so it would be nice to see this happen.
Awesome Miner 2.4 has a concept of Managed Template that will address your main concern about licenses. In Options dialog, Managed Template section, you can define template configurations. You can for example have one template for Claymore's Ethereum + Pascal mining, and another one for Claymore's Zcash. In the main window of Awesome Miner you will find a "Template" button in the toolbar, where you can switch template for the selected Managed Miners. This should allow you to only use a single Managed Miner per computer, but still have a way to switch configuration settings for one, many or all miners in a single operation. Please give the new feature a try - Thanks! |
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Awesome Miner Version 2.4 is available for download
A summary of the new features:
- Claymore's Ethereum Miner 8.0 with dual mining support for Pascal
- Managed Template feature allows definition of mining settings that can be applied to one or many Managed Miners
- Coin visibility settings moved to the Coin page
- Miner API connection timeout configurable
- Claymore's Zcash Miner 12.3
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I have one problem.
I have paid version of AM, but i always have problem with update.
Miner alsways show me when new update is availiable, and if u do upgrade AM download new files, install them and restart AM.
After restart i still have old version of AM and i get again msg about update to new version. I can reperat this 100 times and is still same.
In past i had always download new version from your website and install new version, then was OK. But lately you dont updata new versions on website,
so i cant update. Now im running v 2.3 and AM show me there is update 2.31, but is not on your website.
You have any clue why my AM dont update automaticly?
Thx for suggestions
Hi, The update 2.3.1 was a development version, and those are not listed on the web site. I will post the 2.4 in a few minutes, and this version is a public release that also can be downloaded from the web site. Maybe you could send me the Awesome Miner log file, that's availble via Tools->Log File. Please also let me know the exact time you tried the upgrade. |
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Claymore's Ethereum + Pascal miner is supported in the latest development version of Awesome Miner. To get access to development versions, go to the Options dialog and enable "Check for development versions". Then you can go to the Menu and select "Check for updates". |
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I want to be able to switch between different miners and also add in ewbf miner for zcash. Is there a way to add in ewbf or other currently non-listed miners and have them display statistics so it can take part in the multi engine profit switching?
Hi, The EWBF miner doesn't provide any API for Awesome Miner to use, so it will not be supported. |
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Yes, definitely the biggest problem with this software right now. Each 'miner', NOT 'rig' is considered a 'instance'. So when you look at the licenses and you see four 'instances' that means 'miners'. If you want to use more then that you have to manually change each miner 'instance' profile. Really weird and heavily inflates licensing costs.
You can see it yourself in the trial version. The whole program confused the fuck out of me till I figured that out. After I did, I lost a lot of interest in this, even though it can be heavily improved it's borderline worthless for good GPU miners.
I'm sure it works great for ASICs and FPGAs though as their 'miner' is the same thing as their 'rigs'.
I discussed alternate ways to license a page back. Easiest way to do it currently is each hostname/ip is considered a 'instance'. Could be pretty easily jerry-rigged to work without much work. I'm guessing he's realized this actually makes him more money so he's not all that inclined to change it. If licensing was more expensive, I'd still be willing to pay, but not on a per 'miner' basis.
I very much appreciate the feedback you provide - and I'm always trying to make the product more attractive based on user feedback. I also replied earlier that the next major version will have some new concepts that will reduce the number of licenses needed in these particular GPU mining scenarions, in order to address the license issues you describe. There is absolutely no reason at all for you to continue on these license complaints over and over again and say that I'm not inclined to change because it makes money. It's not true and it's not constructive. Please continue to suggest features, ideas to improve and so on - but please do it in a good way. Thanks! |
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Continuing thoughts into what Avalon's display https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.msg17968629#msg17968629 and followup https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.msg18027671#msg18027671 as massively spikey 5-sec hash rates, wonder it is from how/when the 1 controller is talking to the 3x 721's chained off of the 1 USB/I2C adapter coupled with how Canaan's (legal) fork of CGminer reads that? Looking at what Canaan's GUI displays they must be smoothing out a lot of samples... Perhaps for several sec or more there is nothing to report to AM followed by a massive data burst as the miners in unison report findings/request more work? I can easily see that the light on the adapter only flashes with a burst of activity for a couple sec maybe 5x a minute. Thanks for all info on the Avalon hashrate you have provided. Based on your previous posts, it looks like the 5s hashrate is reported with a large variation. Awesome Miner is currently not smoothing any values - everything is displayed exactly as reported by the miner API's. It would probably be possible to add some smoothing to the graphs in Awesome Miner, but the question is really if you want to see a pretty graph or a graph showing what's actually reported. |
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I want to give web monitoring access to some users, for this I will have to forward port to my micrserver which is sitting in the same LAN as S9-s.
As I see there are some options you can change via web monitoring.
Is there any way to restrict these and make it read only mode ? Update: I figured it out, now when I access web interface from global it only shows the stats and it's impossible to change anything, I think now it is more secure.
And is it possible to add multiple emails in receiver address ?
Are there any error definitions ? I can't figure out what Accept progress means (
With the Enterprise Edition there is actually a feature when you can define multiple users accounts, and they will all have different login credentials to the web interface. It's also possible to define per user account which miners they should be allowed to see and what they are allowed to do (control the mining or only view the statistics). See: http://awesomeminer.com/help/security.aspxAccept progress is basically that the statistics that show as "Accepted" (in contrast to Rejected shares) will increase over time. You can compare to ensure that in a 5 minute interval, the Accept value should increase. Update: For multiple e-mail receivers, you simply separate them with either a comma or semi-colon. |
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At the farm itself I don't have any kind of host, how safe it will be to redirect ports and from home server use external IP address to access my miners? Or will it be better to bring there an old PC and install your software there?
Also the temps in status window aren't the hashing board temps, are there any possibilities to show the hashing board temps?
Although it's possible to setup port forwarding (redirects), it's also a security risk. At least if you enable full API access on the miners, that would allow for changing pool and more. It's more secure to setup some kind of VPN solution. I don't know what your router supports, but an option is always to have a PC on the site running VPN software like Hamachi LogMeIn, and then have Awesome Miner running at your location. As you point out, you can also run Awesome Miner directly on this PC on the site and connect via Remote Desktop, or use the Awesome Miner built-in web interface to monitor from your location. I'm assuming it's Antminers for the moment, because you ask about hashing board temperaturs. Please correct me if I'm wrong. You can actually configure the Progress field in the Miner tab to display Antminer chip temperature. See the last example on this page: http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/customizefield.aspx |
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devs willing to answer our questions ?
soft is good so far but no any kind of support!
I did just notice that you sent me a private message two days ago that I didn't respond to. I will get back to you with an answer on this. I try to answer questions as soon as possible, but sometimes there can be many questions from users, especially now when the Bitcoin price is high and more people are getting interested in mining. |
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Is this software legit?
As several users responsed already - yes! Please let me know if you have any further questions. |
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Alright, well I'm going to assume that the UI design and hierarchy of AM is just a bit off and that it's not based on a licensing strategy. I assume if this competes with the business model AM will never be improved, but as it currently stands AM is borderline unusable for GPU miners. For ASIC miners it's probably great as each 'instance' correlates' to one machine. Your income is not constricted by the use of the product.
AM is supposed to be a all inclusive miner management system. As it stands right now there are some flaws in how AM is designed, what it does, how it does it, and of course the UI itself. Some of what I'm suggesting here isn't new stuff, it's simply restructuring what's already done in the product. This is not meant to rub AM the wrong way, even if it seems this way.
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First of all, thank you for providing all these comments. There are for sure some good point being made, but some of the requests will require significant development. Although I think Awesome Miner is the best option for miner management already (I don't know any other tools with the same amount of features and support for management of very large number of miners), any product can of course get better. I do take note of almost every feature request I get, and I typically implement the features based on what the demand looks like. However, the world of mining is changing all the time with new software and concepts, so I would never claim that Awesome Miner can solve all use cases for all users across all kind of mining setups. I do however promise to continue to make the product better. I do have some concepts in mind for the future releases that will address parts of what you are reporting. |
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Anyone have ideas on why Awesome is displaying Avalons as I showed in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.msg17968629#msg17968629 ? More to the point I guess is, are the miners *really* hitting those blistering speeds even if only for a brief time? I've seen spikes as high as 60TH from the trio of 721's. Since the real throughput as shown by the Avalon GUI and confirmed by CKpool stats is 18-20THs it would be nice if Awesome graphing could reflect that... Is the numbers you see in the main window of Awesome Miner also jumping like that? So there is a variation on the 5s hash rate value if you look at it for a couple of minutes? |
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The rig in the list just sits at 'starting' and doesn't do anything else. What's wrong?
What kind of mining software is it? Can you please select the miner and click the Diagnostics button in the toolbar to get more details? Why can't you remove miners after you add them to the miner list?
You can add, modify and remove miners from the Options dialog, if you select the "Managed Miners" section in the list on the left side. If you use External Miners later on, they are found in "External Miners" section of the Options dialog. Edit: For some strange reason, the service wont start the miner, but will connect to the management console. After restarting the management console and the service over and over again, sometimes it will start a miner. Really weird. It seems to work better when connecting to IP instead of host name. Still doesn't reliably work.
Running Windows 8.1 x64 on both machines. Also why is 'host' and 'new host' even a option? This should be configured in the actual properties of the miner. There is no way to edit current hosts or delete them, they just pile up.
As you pointed out in a later post, you can add, modify and remove hosts from the Options dialog, "Managed Hosts" section. Apparently somehow my installation got corrupted after updating to the newest version and was causing the connectivity problems. Reinstalled and deleted the app data and was able to connect to the miner correctly.
Hosts can be edited in the options. When you add hosts via the properties page, there is no way to edit them there. That's what was confusing me (not sure why you still can't edit them there or it takes you to the options panel for pools).
A Host is basically only a server name and not changed that frequently. That's why you can only add them from the miner properties, but have to go to Options dialog, Managed Hosts section to modify or remove. There doesn't seem to be anyway to manage a repository of miners (once you transfer them to the miner). You can go into the properties on the miner > path browse there, but that doesn't allow you to easily manage distributions across multiple miners.
Is the scenario that you want to define configuration for both Sgminer and Etheruem Mining, and be able to start one and stop the other in an easy way? Right now that will require you to define two Managed Miners for the same Host. So I'm curious, after some playing around. Is the coin, pool, and miner management so messed up so it encourages people to make more then one miner per rig and thus increase the license they purchase?
I'm trying to figure out how to manage multiple coins and the only way to do it is by creating a new group with the same rig in it with different mining software and pool parameters. Since GPU mining is complicated and requires multiple different mining distributions to mine different algos. Each 'miner' NOT rig is seen as a 'instance' and therefore requires a mining 'instance' spot in the license. This balloons exponentially with the amount of rigs you have and the coins you mine (it multiplies). So if you mine equihash, ethereum, and lbry on three rigs, you basically require nine 'instances'. If you mine more (and there is a lot more algos, coins, and miners) it's going to expand out even further. The only way to address this is to tediously edit each 'instance' and change everything manually, which is really no different then editing rigs manually without software.
I had already made a post addressing a lot of the bugs, UI issues, and problems with the miner which I haven't posted yet as I'm still figuring things out, but if this is by design this is absolutely unacceptable.
Maybe this is a misunderstanding and this is designed more for ASICs where there isn't multiple miners per 'computer/device/workstation'?
The increase in number of mining software the last year is probably one of the reasons for this. In the past GPU mining was basically Sgminer and that you change coin by simply defining many pools and do a Change Pool operation. This way you always had one Managed Miner and you could change between all popular algorithms by changing pool. Over the last year, I've added support for Claymore's miners, now a total of 3 of them. Because it's different mining software with different behaviors, you need to define a Managed Miner for each of them you want to use. For the next major release of Awesome Miner, there will be a new profit switching where you can have a single Managed Miner, but it can easily change between multiple mining software. This will reduce the number of Managed Miner instances needed, and should address the issue you describe. You are correct about the ASIC scenario - that one is easier because there is no concept of changing mining software. I appreciate all the feedback you are providing. I'm always taking notes based on these kind of comments in order to improve the future releases of Awesome Miner. Thanks! |
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We are using Awesome miner in our facility and it works really good. Support is also excellent.
I wonder if the Baikal Giant-A900 is or will be supported?
Thanks for the feedback. That miner will probably work, as all standard compliant miners works with Awesome Miner. |
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The latest version of Awesome Miner supports the Antminer L3 miner, including the feature to configure privileged API access.  |
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Awesome Miner Version 2.3- Added support for temperature and device display for Antminer T9 and Antminer L3
- Added support for Claymore's CryptoNight GPU Miner (Monero)
- The rule for Offline Detection adds configuration of offline duration before the rule is triggered.
- Sgminer 5.6, including Pascal algorithm
- Claymore's Zcash Miner 12.0
- Several corrections
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do you know if awesomeminer can change the frequency of the S9 witohut restart it?
just curious....
but maybe i'm sayng bullshit..
i immagine to slow down frequency if the room temperature is too high.
First of all, the change frequency changes may not work correctly on the latest S9 batches because those miners handle the frequency configuration in a different way. Both when makng frequency and API Access changes, Awesome Miner will only restart the mining software process on the Antminer. It's not a complete reboot. |
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Hello, The summary display seems to be a bit off if you are using CM's Cryptonote miner. It just appears that the field isn't setup to be long enough and it covers up the uptime value as per the image. http://imgur.com/a/dNyXAGood catch - thanks! This miner reported a very long software string, so I will make some user interface adjustments to make it look better. Please continue testing the new development version of Awesome Miner and provide feedback! |
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Finally I have managed to buy an old PC for my farm and now looking for simple monitoring solution.
There are 13xS9 (further expansion is planned) and the needs are very simple.
I want to monitor them, hashing power, temperature, uptime maybe and etc. and also to be able to monitor this remotely, with app or other remote PC/Server, if not then e-mail notifications maybe ?
Thanks in advance
Awesome Miner can do all that, including remote monitoring via a web interface and e-mail notifications. The web interface works well with both smart phones and desktop web browsers. There are many happy users out there running Awesome Miner with Antminer S9. |
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