Thanks for providing this input. I will implement support for this in Awesome Miner.

You can try the feature in the development version 1.7.8. You can enable download of development versions in Options -> "Check for development versions". Then you close the Options dialog and go to Menu -> "Check for updates".

You will find the Antminer Fan settings next to the existing Antminer frequency settings (In toolbar: Tools -> Antminer).

I'm still not sure if the Fan feature actually is working on all Antminers. If you experience any problems, set the fan speed back to Default, and Awesome Miner will revert all changes.
I did have one user that couldn't get this feature to work, but I don't have all details on that case yet.
Please share any findings on this.

The C# scripting feature don't have access to the Antminer Frequency command in the current version. However, I just added support for it, so in next version (that will be available quite soon) you will be able to write scripts like the following:


You can of course access all C#/.NET features like reading from file in these scripts, so the value "675" in the example could be read from a file.

I will also update the documentation for the C# scripting API when the new version is available (not yet):
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/script.aspx

Not at the moment. Do you want to develop your own external application and connect to a REST API provided by Awesome Miner?
Awesome Miner also has a built in C# scripting feature, but this is not what you are looking for I assume?

This is something I've had plans for, so is there is an interest in providing this, it could be added.

I would like to see what Claymore's Etheruem miner is reporting over the API on Rig 14 compared to one of the other. Could you please generate an API report for Rig 14 and Rig 1 for example? You find this feature in the toolbar: Tools -> API Report. Please send the information via PM or by e-mail to info[at]awesomeminer.com
Thanks!

Hi,
I've actually never tried CPU mining with Awesome Miner. Which CPU mining software are you using? Some of them have cgminer like API's that can be enabled that Awesome Miner can connect to.

First about your initial question about Zpool. It should work with Awesome Miner. On their web site I can see the following instructions:
stratum+tcp://<algo>.mine.zpool.ca:<PORT> -u <WALLET_ADDRESS> [-p <OPTIONS>]

In Awesome Miner this should be added as a Pool with the following settings, where I will use X11 algorithm as an example:
Server URL: stratum+tcp://x11.mine.zpool.ca:3533
Worker name: (your bitcoin wallet address)

Auto profit switching is not supported for Zpool. I couldn't find an API on their web site, which would be required in order for Awesome Miner to support it.

To answer your question about ASIC / GPU and so on. Awesome Miner doesn't care too much about this as long as you use it together with a Cgminer style miner API (or Sgminer, Claymore's Ethereum, ccMiner). You can for sure connect to many different systems and get a good overview of the mining from a single user interface.

Please try the free version of Awesome Miner to see if it works well for the features you are looking for.

I agree, so I reported that post to a moderator and it has been removed now.
I don't recommend anyone to download Awesome Miner from strange web sites. It probably contains all sorts of virus and ransom-ware.

Please make sure that you only download Awesome Miner from the official web site.

Thanks for your comments on this. Hopefully they will run a standard compliant Cgminer API that will just work out of the box with Awesome Miner.
If anyone get access to this miner, please give it a try with Awesome Miner and send me an API report if there are any issues. Thanks!

If I manage to get the fan speed feature to work, it will be verify similar to the frequency feature and will probably be in the same dialog. I will also require the Professional Edition.

These changes requires a restart of the cgminer/bmminer process on the miner for the changes to take effect, but it's not a complete reboot of the entire miner. You will get a 30 second interruption in the mining progress, but if you do it only a few times per day, it no big deal.

I have two ideas on the fact that miners revert back to Restricted mode.
1) I'm working on a feature where Awesome Miner automatically will detect Antminer S7 and S9 in Restricted mode and automatically configure them for Privileged mode. It doesn't matter if you reboot the miners, restore firmware or simply buy and connect new miners - as soon as Awesome Miner see that they run in Restricted mode, they will be automatically set to Privileged mode.
2) I think some Antminer versions have a firmware default configuration file. It could be an option to investigate if Awesome Miner can work on that one as well, so a simple reboot doesn't revert backt o Restricted mode. I'm not sure if I want Awesome Miner to interact with this part of the Antminer.

I think I have an idea how to implement fan speed control in Awesome Miner as well, without too much effort. I'm not sure which versions of Antminer it will actually work on, but please let me know if you would be interested in trying a development version of the feature within a week.

Hi,
There is a guide on the web site how to setup scheduling of Antminer frequency changes:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/antmineroperations.aspx

Changing fan speed is currently not supported, but could possibly be added if there are any interest for it.
How is the S7 reacting to a lower frequency - will it automatically lower the fan speed because of the lower heat?

Hi,
Thanks for all feedback. For this specific request, you can try the following expression:

Future versions of Awesome Miner - please leave feedback

I receive many good feature suggestions from users of Awesome Miner. I take note of all feature requests and the most popular and realistic requests are implemented first. Features that can be used by many users are of course prioritized.

There are four large concepts that I would like to receive feedback on. Would you use any of these features if they are introduced in future versions of Awesome Miner? Which one is most important?

Feature #1 - Public cloud service for monitoring

Today
Today Awesome Miner has a built in web interface that can be used for monitoring and perform the most common operations. The web engine is running inside Awesome Miner, and can be accessed from any computer / tablet / phone on the local network. However, in order to access it outside the local network, you need to configure your firewall for port forwarding.



Future?
Awesome Miner could push all statistics to a public cloud service, providing a web interface that can be accessed from any Internet connected device (computer / tablet / phone). Of course you need to enter you username and password in order to get access to the information.

Optionally, this could also be enabled:
- Allow certain operations to be performed from the public web (like switching between the predefined pools, change pool priority, reboot, ...)
- Allow you to create guest accounts for your mining friends, and give them a monitoring view of only a selected group of miner

A cloud service like this would not be for free, and could for example require you to have one of the following: 1) A yearly subscription or 2) Enterprice Edition or above.

The cloud web is not a replacement for the existing Awesome Miner application, it's just an addon like the current built-in web is. The amount of features will initially be mainly about monitoring, and not for configuring the system.

I've started a proof-of-concept implementation of this a year ago, but the development was put on hold as it will require a significant effort to complete, and I would like to know how many that would actually use a feature like this. I've seen a few "cloud based mining monitoring" projects being introduced in the past, but they have closed down after a while.



Feature #2 - Multiple users and improved management
Any user with access to your computer and Windows account can play around with Awesome Miner. To make it work better in multi user environment, the following could be implemented:
- Require password to open the Main window and Options dialog of Awesome Miner
- Make it possible to define multiple user accounts for the built-in web. Give access to only specific operations or miners for those user accounts
- Maybe support for connecting the Awesome Miner UI to Awesome Miner on another system to manage it

Feature #3 - Linux support for Managed miners
There are no plans to run the entire Awesome Miner UI on Linux and it's important to point out that Awesome Miner can already today connect to the API of Linux based miners using the External Miner feature.

The new feature would instead be to develop a Linux based version of the Remote Agent used for Managed miners. This would give Awesome Miner full control of the mining, and provide features like start mining, stop mining and process monitoring.

Feature #4 - "App Store" concept: Share pool settings, rules and scripts
Awesome Miner also have the feature to import and export entities like pools, rules and scripts. To take this to the next level, an "App Store" concept could be introduced where users can upload pool settings and scripts to a public service, and all other users of Awesome Miner could browse, read the description and install these entities on their system. A user could then for example import the Bitcoin pool BTCC and only have to enter a worker name.

The main concern here is security. For pools it would probably be fine, but importing scripts from someone else is not good from security point of view. Then a review concept would be required first.

Because of the security concern, this feature may not be realtistic - but hopefully it can trigger some other innovative ideas for future development.



Please let me know your comments on the above, and also let me know if there are any other areas where you think Awesome Miner could expand.

I've just implemented a feature in Awesome Miner that can fix the API privileges automatically. Awesome Miner will be able to detect S7 and S9 miners in Restricted API mode, and simply reconfigure them over SSH to Privileged API mode. It will look like pure magic in action. You will be able to reboot, reflash, reset configuration, add new miners and Awesome Miner will sort it out.

This feature will of course not be enabled by default, but it will be possible to configure this behavior in the Options dialog.

Thanks for the information.
In addition to all general monitoring and management features, Awesome Miner can also setup privileged API access for all your Bitmain Antminer ASIC's at once. Awesome Miner also provides other Antminer specific features like set and schedule frequency changes, display of both Antminer PCB temperature and chip temperature, plus customizable rules that can be triggered based on these temperatures. You will find more details on the web site.

Hi,

Awesome Miner (web site, forum thread) is of course my recommendation. It can manage and monitor a large number of miners.

Will it be a large amount of Antminers?

If you first make sure you run the absolutely latest version of Awesome Miner, currently v1.7.6 (download page), you can actually use the Awesome Miner software to do this.

Simply follow these instructions to let Awesome Miner configure the Privileged API access for all your Antminer's:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/antminerapi.aspx

It's a very boring and time consuming task to manually configure this over SSH on all your miners. Awesome Miner can setup this for you on all Antminer's at once.

If an application isn't installing/upgrading properly, it's often a good idea to first make sure to uninstall it (if already installed) from Control Panel -> Programs and Features. Next step is to reboot the computer. Then you can try to make a fresh installation again.

In 99% of the cases all installers works fine the first time without any reboots or problems. However, every once in a while, especially when there are pending Windows Update installations that are waiting for the next reboot, Windows can prevent installers from executing properly. This is why a reboot can solve the problem by letting Windows Update finish.

I'm not sure if the above is the case for you, but at least it should be worth a try.

Those instructions are related to Managed Mining, and doesn't apply for External Miner feature that is used to monitor ASIC miners.

Are you using Antminer? S7 or S9 maybe?

Just a minute ago, I released Awesome Miner v1.7.6 with some corrections to the API Access feature where Awesome Miner can connect to S7 or S9 and enable Privileged mode.
The feature is available in the toolbar: Tools->Antminer ->Configure API access
I will write a guide for this on the web site, hopefully it will be finished tomorrow.