I had some discussion with another user about Baikal miner and I think the conculsion back then was that the Baikal miner didn't support chaning algorithm at the same time the pool was changed. Since then I've also seen discussions about updated firmware for Baikal that could address this.

What happens if you manually try to do 'Change pool' from a X11 pool and to X13 pool using Awesome Miner, while the mining is running? Does that operation work on the Baikal?

Hi,

For most miner types (zcash just happens to be an exception right now), you have access to the 'Advanced' settings for the miner, where you specify a 'Worker suffix' that will be appended after the worker name. So if the pool is configured with a worker name 'MyWorker', and you give a miner the suffix '1' and another miner the suffix '2', the worker name being used for the miners will be MyWorker.1 and MyWorker.2.

For the Zcash miner type that just was introduced, I do see that the Advanced section of the miner configuration is disabled, simply because most settings doesn't apply. What I will look at for next release is to move this setting to make it more visible and also accessible for zcash mining. Thanks for the feedback

First of all, there are two types of Remote feature. Remote Agent and Remote Service. More info here: http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/remoteagent.aspx

The option 'Autostart miner' should automatically start a Managed Miner as soon as the Remote Agent/Service is started. However, if you are using the Remote Agent option, you need to have automatic login configured in Windows, otherwise Remote Agent will not start, and the mining will not automatically start. You find information about this on the link above.

Awesome Miner Version 2.1
- Zcash mining with Claymore's Zcash Miner 4.0.
- 'Generic Miner' is a new type of miner for mining software that doesn't provide any API. Allows the mining process to be started and stopped from Awesome Miner, but no statistics will be provided.
- Chip temperature for Antminer is now presented in ChipTemp1, ChipTemp2 and ChipTemp3 to better support latest batches.
- Zcash coin added to statistics
- X14 algorithm added to profit switcher
- Claymore's Dual Ethereum Miner 7.3

Awesome Miner v2.1 includes support for management and monitoring of Claymore's ZCash Miner

The Zcash profit calculation requires the latest development version of Awesome Miner. But I will release all Zcash features as part of Awesome Miner 2.1 within a few minutes.

If you go to the Options dialog in Awesome Miner, and navigate to the Pool sections, you can add, edit and remove pools. Was it this feature you were looking for?

Hi,
The latest batches has changed how some of the Antminer statistics are reported. There are some improvements made in the latest development version of Awesome Miner, and these changes will also be included in Awesome Miner 2.1 that soon will be released.

If you see any inconsistency in the new version, please send me an API report from Awesome Miner (toolbar: Tools -> API Report)

The "Channel faulted" is an indication of communication problem between the application and the remote miner.
Are the miners on the same network or really far away?

In the past the timeout for uploading software was really low, so it would fail if it would take more than 10 seconds. That was however changed to 60 seconds since version 2.0. Could this still be a problem, that the actual software transfer is too slow?

Awesome Miner development version 2.0.7 upgrades the Claymore's Zcash miner to version 2.0.

Thanks for your comments! If you switch between pools that can be handled by the same mining software, you can simply use the Switch Pool feature you are referring to.

If you require multiple mining software types because of very different algorithms, you either need to make the change you describe, or simply add another Managed Miner with this configuration. Then you can stop one Managed Miner and start another one to switch between very different configurations.

The pools can actually represent not only a single pool, but also a group of pools in different combinations. Each miner can have a unique set of pool settings, and it's mainly the miner, not the pool, where most operations are performed and statistics collected. This is the main reason why the miner entity is the main concept in Awesome Miner.

Thanks for the feedback toptek & FlensGold.

Awesome Miner development version 2.0.6 makes these changes:
- Claymore's Zcash Miner 1.1 supported
- Device Profiles works with with this miner
- Awesome Miner will no longer write to config.txt, but the way Claymore's miners work, it will not be used when started from Awesome Miner, because Awesome Miner needs to be able to set command line arguments when starting the miner, and as soon you have one specified argument, the file config.txt is no longer used by Claymore's miner.

The result of the above is that if you need custom command line arguments to the miner, don't set them in config.txt, but set them in Awesome Miner instead (Managed Miner -> Command Line). It's also important to specify a pool for the Managed Miner. Awesome Miner will, just like int the case of using Claymore's Ethereum miner, only modify the epools.txt file.

If you run into any problems starting the miner, could you please send me the Awesome Miner log file (can be accessed from toolbar: Tools -> Log File). Thanks!

It looks like the Device Profile selected for this Managed Miner is configured with some ethereum specific settings (etha = Ethereum Algorithm mode). Can you try to not select any Device Profile for this Managed Miner? I will make sure those settings are not passed to the mining software in next release.

Thanks for the feedback!

Awesome Miner development version 2.0.5
- Update to display the correct Zcash profit from both WhatToMine and Coinwarz.
- Zcash: Support for switching between multiple pools (although the mining process is being restarted).

There was also a request for the MSI installer for the development version of the Remote Agent (now also 2.0.5):
http://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMinerRemoteService.msi
If it's not possible to upgrade the remote miners with the Upgrade feature in Awesome Miner, the link above can be used to manually perform an upgrade.

Awesome Miner development version 2.0.4 is available. This version includes initial support for Zcash mining using Claymore's Zcash Miner.

A known limitation is that currently only one pool can be added to the miner.

To get access to development versions of Awesome Miner:
1) In the Options dialog of Awesome Miner, in the General section, enable "Check for development versions". Save.
2) Go to Menu -> Check for updates

Development in progress - Awesome Miner with Claymore's Zcash Miner:

Yes, just started to look into it. I will keep you updated on the progress

No, it's a scam. I will report it although the post was made a long time ago - thanks for letting me know.

Hi,
The MSI installer for the development version of the Remote Agent:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMinerRemoteService.msi

However, in most cases it should work to simply select the miner in the list and click the Upgrade button to also upgrade the Remote computers.

In the Options dialog of Awesome Miner, in the General section, you will find a checkbox "Check for development versions". If you enable that one and then go to Menu -> Check for updates, you will be able to download the development version.

A new development version is available

Version 2.0.3 (Development)
- 'Generic Miner' is a new type of miner for mining software (like most Zcash miners) that doesn't provide any API. Allows the mining process to be started and stopped from Awesome Miner, but no statistics will be provided.
- Chip temperature for Antminer is now presented in ChipTemp1, ChipTemp2 and ChipTemp3 to better support latest batches.
- Zcash coin added to statistics
- X14 algorithm added to profit switcher
- Claymore's Dual Ethereum Miner 7.3

For those of you who customized the Progress Field to show the individual chip temperatures for Antminer S9 is required to change the expression to:

On previous batches of Antminer S9, it was ChipTemp 1, 3, 4 that was used, but that is no longer valid for the latest batches. Because of this, I've changed the implementation in Awesome Miner to always report it as 1, 2, 3 no matter which batch is being used.