[ANN] CryptoSwitcher - Automatically mine the best coin.

[RicRock]

The money must appear in some way on Cryptsy, right?
So only one possibility I see for this without enetring wallet addresses in script, is to enter criptsy's deposit wallet addresses directly in the pools and mine to them. But this is forbidden.
So... ? 

Mining at a "normal" pool, you are able to use a cryptsy address for payout

[bananahunter67]

No, that's the point, it is forbidden as funds come from address 0, you need to forward them at least once trough another address. So how is this supposed to happen?

[RicRock]

No, that's the point, it is forbidden as funds come from address 0, you need to forward them at least once trough another address. So how is this supposed to happen?

Not sure what you mean.

As long as you are not mining at a P2Pool, you can use a cryptsy address.

I've been doing it for quite some time.

[Helium3]

Ola all.

I got CryptoSwitcher running over the weekend on a test machine. Is there a simple way to add Dogecoin (which seems the most profitable atm)?

He3

[salfter]

I got CryptoSwitcher running over the weekend on a test machine. Is there a simple way to add Dogecoin (which seems the most profitable atm)?

It's been a while since I've touched the code, but there are (IIRC) three places that you'd need to edit to add a coin.  It should be fairly obvious, as each is a block of mostly-similar statements that describe the coins that are already supported.

[tfbpa]

A couple of days or so ago, I merged some pull requests that had been sitting around a while.  I also included a PHP script that uses the cgminer API to switch pools.  Others have posted about using just one cgminer.conf with every pool and issuing a switchpool call.  My script takes a pool URL, miner name, and password, adds them to the current list of pools, and (optionally) removes all of the other pools.  In your pool-switching shell script, you then call my script once for each pool you want to use for a coin, with the "clear" parameter included on the first call. This allows you to have multiple pools configured for a coin as a backup.

Thanks for the script, much appreciated.

At the moment the regular setup is working, but I would like to make sure cgminer doesn't need to restart when switching pools by using the above method, but unfortunately I don't understand what exactly needs to be done.

I am guessing that the PHP script is https://github.com/area/CryptoSwitcher/blob/master/switchpool.php but I still don't understand what exactly needs to be done.

- Where to specify all pool urls's and miner name/password?
- How to call this script with "clear" parameter included on the first call in the pool-switching shell script?
- I am guessing that I have to remove line 4 and 5 from pool-switching shell script https://github.com/area/CryptoSwitcher/blob/master/litecoin.sh.sample in order to make sure cgminer isn't restarted every time. Is that correct?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[Wayne187]

veeeeery nice tool   thank you very much indeed!

After hours of configuration it works very well.
But can somebody tell me how to add more sites like coinchoose?

I've tried the last hours to code it by myself but all was only worst of time.

API:
http://sancrypto.info/api/json/15/

Code:

# sancrypto
        if x=='sancrypto':
            try:
                fullstr = prestr + "sancrypto"
                print fullstr + (79-len(fullstr))*" " + "\r",
                req = urllib2.Request("http://sancrypto.info/api/json/15/")
                opener_sc = urllib2.build_opener()
                opener_sc.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'CryptoSwitcher')]
                f = opener_sc.open(req, timeout = 5)
                data_sc = simplejson.load(f)
            except:
                pass

Code:

            if x=='sancrypto':
                try:
                    for item in data_sc:
                        if item['symbol'].lower()==abbreviation:
                            coins[item['symbol'].lower()].ratio = float(item['ratio'])
                            coins[item['symbol'].lower()].source = 'sc'
			    success = 1
			    break
                except:
			print "ERROR"
			continue

I dont know what the problem is. So, if anyone could - please help


EDIT:
Got it, thanks anyway. I did it by myself with a detour. python export now the json into a txt file, add a few thinks like "CoinTag" and it works very well.

[Sanasol]

veeeeery nice tool   thank you very much indeed!

After hours of configuration it works very well.
But can somebody tell me how to add more sites like coinchoose?

I've tried the last hours to code it by myself but all was only worst of time.

API:
http://sancrypto.info/api/json/15/

Code:

# sancrypto
        if x=='sancrypto':
            try:
                fullstr = prestr + "sancrypto"
                print fullstr + (79-len(fullstr))*" " + "\r",
                req = urllib2.Request("http://sancrypto.info/api/json/15/")
                opener_sc = urllib2.build_opener()
                opener_sc.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'CryptoSwitcher')]
                f = opener_sc.open(req, timeout = 5)
                data_sc = simplejson.load(f)
            except:
                pass

Code:

            if x=='sancrypto':
                try:
                    for item in data_sc:
                        if item['symbol'].lower()==abbreviation:
                            coins[item['symbol'].lower()].ratio = float(item['ratio'])
                            coins[item['symbol'].lower()].source = 'sc'
			    success = 1
			    break
                except:
			print "ERROR"
			continue

I dont know what the problem is. So, if anyone could - please help


EDIT:
Got it, thanks anyway. I did it by myself with a detour. python export now the json into a txt file, add a few thinks like "CoinTag" and it works very well.

what about sharing result?

[jmlindn]

Looks neat, will try whenever I get home.

[_Crash_]

I tried but it says the config file' syntax is old or outdated then immediately closes.

[salfter]

I am guessing that the PHP script is https://github.com/area/CryptoSwitcher/blob/master/switchpool.php but I still don't understand what exactly needs to be done.

- Where to specify all pool urls's and miner name/password?
- How to call this script with "clear" parameter included on the first call in the pool-switching shell script?
- I am guessing that I have to remove line 4 and 5 from pool-switching shell script https://github.com/area/CryptoSwitcher/blob/master/litecoin.sh.sample in order to make sure cgminer isn't restarted every time. Is that correct?

Everything is passed in as arguments.  Here's what I'm using to switch over to Bitgem mining...write this to bitgem.sh:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
source miners.sh
for i in $miners
do
  php switchpool.php stratum+tcp://bitgem.dyndns.org:3333 salfter.${i} x clear ${i} 4029
done

miners.sh just declares a variable with the hosts to be switched:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
miners="miner2"

Going back to switchpool.php, the arguments passed to it are as follows:

• pool URL
• pool worker name
• pool password
• "clear" (to remove all other pools from the current config) or "" (to not do that, if you're using multiple pools for a coin)
• cgminer/bfgminer hostname
• cgminer/bfgminer RPC port number

[mhkso2]

so cryptoswitcher is like multipool but locally? What advantages does that have
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[nocroom]

any self hosted php/mysql script auto switcher i can use?

[geometric_series]

Can it mine coins that are not listed on exchange?

[lakala]

Cryptsy changes the URL for their API.  I wonder if that needs to change.