*BTC Poolwatch* - no new dev for now

[rearwheels]

Hi all,

I will be stopping all development and changes for a while (8 months at least).

I've been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, and have just gone through 1st round of chemo therapy.

I'll be going for another round of chemo therapy, and than bone marrow transplant (thank god my sis is a match), and i'll take at least 6 months to recover from the transplant.

At this point, btc-poolwatch.com will have to take a backseat. I'll keep the service running.

I'll be back.

Regards,
Koo

Hi guys,

This is something that I've been working on to solve the pain of having to check multiple pools. (Currently supports 18 different pools)

www.btc-poolwatch.com

Sample:
1. If you only entered 2 API tokens, you will see only 2 pools information.
2. Green means the miner is alive. Red means it's not responding.



One step process to get this working. Enter your API key from the pool website.



What does it do?
This will be an aggregator for information from all the mining pools you have signed up. If you want to check on the statuses, you only have to hit one webpage, instead of visiting all the different websites.

How is the info gathered?
The mining pools would have json information which the pool will provide you with a "API Key" or "API Token". API stands for Application Programming Interface. Basically you will enter this key once and subsequent requests to the server will use this key to pull the information.

Is this safe? Should I pass other people this key?
This API key can only be used to pull data. It cannot be used to login to your account, or change information on your account.

Why is there no login/password?
The API keys are stored as cookies on your browser. This simplifies the login/forgot password process. Thus if you clear cookies on your browser, you will have to fill up the API tokens again.


Features
1. Currently supports the following pools

• ArsBitcoin
• BitClockers
• Bitcoin Pool
• Bitpit
• BTC Guild
• BTC Mine
• Deepbit
• Eclipse Mining Consortium
• Eligius
• Mainframe Mining Cooperative
• Mineco.in
• Mt. Red
• NoFeeMining
• Ozco.in
• PolMine
• rfcpool
• Slush Pool
• TripleMining

2. Allows multiple tokens for 1 pool.
Just separate each with a comma.

3. Shows pool stats where available.

4. Shows your rewards where available.

5. Auto detects mobile device and display nicely. Sample view on ipod touch



6. A Pools' Stats page displays stats of 14 different pools.



7. Auto refresh the main monitoring page every 5 minutes.

No Registration/Login required! No email and password to lose/get hacked!

To-do
1. Add more pools

Please let me know what you guys think.

Regards,
koo


ps: please be gentle.

[irishmick]

So is this totally a teaser? No website or api calls available yet? It looks cool, but I'm bummed I can't use it...

[Anonymous]

Its a bitcoin version of isitdownforyouorjustme.com   

[RyNinDaCleM]

I think this would simplify the process. I'd try it out!

[rearwheels]

I'm still finishing up the programming, and also doing my sums of getting extra server space or run it off a shared server, getting ssl cert, etc.

I'm thinking of not displaying too much info.

Would you guys want to know the blocks proccesed  and other details or just the hash rate of each worker?

[rearwheels]

Updated with colors to indicate status of workers, reduce information displayed (less is more).

Most important....added total hash rate.

[rearwheels]

updated.

pls test it out. 

[ElectroGeek007]

Very nice! If only I had more miners to fill the page with...

[aBitcoiner]

Can we get a page with overall starts per pool?

[rearwheels]

Can we get a page with overall starts per pool?

Hmm..not all the pools provide this information. I'll see what can be done.

[rearwheels]

Updated with Pool Stats for btc guild and btc mine. I'm trying my best to keep the information displayed to a minimal.
Less is more.

For now, I only look at total hash rate, as a significant drop means one of them has hung. And of course, all miners should be green.
(FYI, dead/non-responsive miners will be in red)

Deepbit only provide your miner's info, so I can't grab and display the info.

[zimpixa]

Cant u grab some info directly from their page?

Anyway it looks brilliant, but have no use for me, since I have only 1 miner now. For others its really useful. GREAT WORK.

[littlesnail2]

I get this error when adding only deepbit token.

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: payout_history
Filename: models/api_model.php
Line Number: 279

But it still works, I get the same info as on deepbit.

Is there anyway to get the Mh/s on each worker ?

[rearwheels]

Cant u grab some info directly from their page?

Anyway it looks brilliant, but have no use for me, since I have only 1 miner now. For others its really useful. GREAT WORK.

I could grab and scrub the html, but the html page is not intended to be used that way...anyway I don't look at that information.

Thanks for the compliment. I've spread my 3 miners across 2 pools, in case a pool goes down or if there's network problem to that particular pool.
I found it a hassle to goto different pools' webpage to look at the status of my miners so I did this for my own use, but made slight modifications so anyone can use it.

I hope it's useful to the community.

[rearwheels]

I get this error when adding only deepbit token.

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: payout_history
Filename: models/api_model.php
Line Number: 279

But it still works, I get the same info as on deepbit.

Is there anyway to get the Mh/s on each worker ?

Can you give it a try again? I was updating the files just now. Please let me know if you get the error again.

Deepbit don't give information on individual Mh/s of each worker in the JSON API, so that's nothing I can do. On the other hand BTC Guild provides that information (you can see it in the screenshot in my first post), so I can display it.

[rearwheels]

updated with minor UI change, and added mtgox pricing.

[jme621]

updated with minor UI change, and added mtgox pricing.

can you add the current price at time of page load, like the calculator does? that would be cool.

[rearwheels]

updated with minor UI change, and added mtgox pricing.

can you add the current price at time of page load, like the calculator does? that would be cool.

The mtgox pricing should be displaying the current price. If not just refresh and the system will pull the latest price from mtgox again.

[rearwheels]

Added bitcoinpool to be monitored.

[rearwheels]

Added simplecoin.us to the pool monitor.