Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

[Biodom]

I have seen Evga issue new 980tis. So I suspect amd makes new rx 470s and new rx480s

Definitely later than June of 2017.
I bought a couple of MSI armor 470 8gb at the Microcenter in Sept and the manufactured date for both is 1707, which is July 2017.

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[JaredKaragen]

@phil and wheelz

I have a new miner batch script that allows manual updates/changes to algo/mining remotely;  and without logging into the individual machines themselves.  For windows machines.

I got my batch to be able to control other apps and be more versatile, In the future  wanted to be able to swap between different sites if need be...  I need to figure out if the nicehash miner has an auto-start function (im sure it would) so that its process can just be called and cancelled as necessary from the batch requiring no user intervention.... as well as add other major pool settings/configs...  I finally got the auto-updating to work properly, and have the right amount of recursiveness in it. 

One of my next major hurdles is making the config in one big file, and making the batch able to retrieve multiple variables from the single file;  rather than the individual files I am using now.

Premise:
upload a text file to a URL that contains one word;  the instruction for the miner to follow.
The miner app fetches the contents of this file and uses it as commands for what to do.
It also can update itself on the fly; as-in delete/add any missing/unnecessary miner apps missing from the system;  as well as update itself (its own batch code) as features are added.

For Wheelz:
I've been doing well with Lyra2v2, NIST5, Xevan, Skien, and equihash coins FWIW.

[philipma1957]

@phil and wheelz

I have a new miner batch script that allows manual updates/changes to algo/mining remotely;  and without logging into the individual machines themselves.  For windows machines.

I got my batch to be able to control other apps and be more versatile, In the future  wanted to be able to swap between different sites if need be...  I need to figure out if the nicehash miner has an auto-start function (im sure it would) so that its process can just be called and cancelled as necessary from the batch requiring no user intervention.... as well as add other major pool settings/configs...  I finally got the auto-updating to work properly, and have the right amount of recursiveness in it.  

One of my next major hurdles is making the config in one big file, and making the batch able to retrieve multiple variables from the single file;  rather than the individual files I am using now.

Premise:
upload a text file to a URL that contains one word;  the instruction for the miner to follow.
The miner app fetches the contents of this file and uses it as commands for what to do.
It also can update itself on the fly; as-in delete/add any missing/unnecessary miner apps missing from the system;  as well as update itself (its own batch code) as features are added.

For Wheelz:
I've been doing well with Lyra2v2, NIST5, Xevan, Skien, and equihash coins FWIW.

I can’t write scripts but if you need help with this let me know.

I can set up one pc with one or two 1080tis at my house for you to access.

I  can access wheelz two rigs with smos and switch algos for him.

I built two rigs for him with smos and use my email account with smos to change them.

If you can develop this with win10 it would be nice.

I can also ship a 1080 ti for you to play with.

Oh coins have topped 11k

[JaredKaragen]

... this is what I get for being up all night last night... couldn't sleep.. ended up falling asleep around 3PM, and woke now near midnight for some reason?

It is working;  But the batch is based around zpool only ATM.  I know the masses want options for ZEC/ETH at the minimum.  Me personally, I have always shied away from them.  I really need to clean up the code,   I could probably cut 1/4 out of it and still have it function as it should since it no longer needs to be notated and easy to modify like the manual batch is.

I would have to get together the best miner app(S) for the major algos, as well as pools other than zpool;  especially for things like zec, zcl, cryptonight, etc.

I would also need to go against my personal grain and buy a few RX series cards and get the script supporting those.  Don't wanna, but gotta for the sake of everyone.


The new mminer works pretty well;  Works just like my manual batch, but it has the new updating feature.   Right now its set up to just mass update from my URL, with my updates, etc....  But I am working on a way for people to do their own deployments with it, and easily push the updates that I release manually themselves.   This way there is no broken link of trust between the miner app creator, and the miner themselves.

In all reality;  if a massive amount of people start using my mminer batch;  and lock to my update location;  I could theoretically push updates to them to have them do my bidding from wherever/whenever....   Not something I would ever do, but its possible for someone to do such a thing.   This is why I want to get my source onto github, because at lease a history of changes and updates will be kept that (hopefully) can't be tampered with.

And yep;  I am building and testing this inside windows 10.   I have already tested ~10 different update pushes to one of my personal miners; and so far, no hiccups.

SMOS's remote login/modify feature is nice;  I had no idea it had this ability....    Mine isn't be email based as email requires a service that is a lot less available/free than web-file hosting in a manner of speaking when it comes to user-control-ability.  If you have a dynamic DNS tied to one of your locations; and put a Pi up to service the updates and "control '.txt' files";  It would be easy for you to host the updates and control schism yourself =)   In my example/batch, i'm still using a tripod/lycos homepage URL from the 1990's.  But I do have a Pi in the position mentioned that acts as my personal VPN already =)

The thread about the new batch is in my sig;   If you have suggestions on miner app versions; the algos those versions support, as well as what pools to support or features to add to mminer;  post em up in that thread, that way its kept with the project and easier than scrolling to this thread for the list, or loosing a text file among the 10's of terabytes stored at home....

I don't really need a card for testing that I know of;  I can always yank one of these 960's out of my rackminer for a separate test machine, or something along those lines... but usually the rackminer is my test case itself.  If you have extra ti's that you wish to offload, well, I can try and work out a way to buy one....  Probably wanna keep that part in PM.  But at first thought, its not necessary as I don't want to be taking your profits unnecessarily

*sorry if i seem jumbled right now;  I just woke up as mentioned above*
The past few days I have been juggling selling two cars, and buying an engine and trans for the F250 I was given.... on top of my needy chameleon keeping me occupied.

[philipma1957]

Jared


sent you a pm

[MagicSmoker]

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The thread about the new batch is in my sig;   If you have suggestions on miner app versions; the algos those versions support, as well as what pools to support or features to add to mminer;  post em up in that thread, that way its kept with the project and easier than scrolling to this thread for the list, or loosing a text file among the 10's of terabytes stored at home....

I haven't seen a batch file this complicated in 20+ years... Not since the bad old days of having to tweak himem and qemm to get DESQview to work (in other words, pre-Windows 3.0)!

My first suggestion would be to provide some explanation as to what this batch file does* if for no other reason than so we can know what to expect from its operation, and when to intervene if something seems amiss. I'm not saying write a detailed "click on this button; press this key" type of description - mining is not for the moronic, after all** - but an overview would be nice.

My second suggestion upon cursory reading of the batch file is to ditch lbry - it is no longer practical to mine with a GPU due to the Baikal ASIC miner. Pascal, Sia, & Decred have also been ASIC'ed.


* - the readme.txt file included in the zip is empty, so perhaps there already is an explanation, it just got lost in transit.

** - except for NiceHash; it doesn't take much brains to get it running. No offense to NH users; I occasionally use it myself, too.  

[MagicSmoker]

Question for fellow Onda D1800 users: I just found out that AMD cards don't get along with the integrated GPU if the latter is enabled, but I've also read of quite a few horror stories about the external GPUs not outputting video if the iGPU is disabled on the Onda boards. Any advice on how or whether to proceed would be appreciated as my plan was to make one of these D1800 into a dedicated Cryptonight miner and I've already acquired (4) RX 560 for that purpose.

[citronick]

Question for fellow Onda D1800 users: I just found out that AMD cards don't get along with the integrated GPU if the latter is enabled, but I've also read of quite a few horror stories about the external GPUs not outputting video if the iGPU is disabled on the Onda boards. Any advice on how or whether to proceed would be appreciated as my plan was to make one of these D1800 into a dedicated Cryptonight miner and I've already acquired (4) RX 560 for that purpose.

The D1800s are quite easy to deploy, I have older reference 580s, 1050tis, 1060s on XMR/Cryptonite with SMOS booting up without touching them BIOS settings, in production right now. The one condition that I discovered discussed here many posts ago was the first GPU must be a non-mining card (with video output), remaining cards can be mining cards.

[MagicSmoker]

Question for fellow Onda D1800 users: I just found out that AMD cards don't get along with the integrated GPU if the latter is enabled, but I've also read of quite a few horror stories about the external GPUs not outputting video if the iGPU is disabled on the Onda boards. Any advice on how or whether to proceed would be appreciated as my plan was to make one of these D1800 into a dedicated Cryptonight miner and I've already acquired (4) RX 560 for that purpose.

The D1800s are quite easy to deploy, I have older reference 580s, 1050tis, 1060s on XMR/Cryptonite with SMOS booting up without touching them BIOS settings, in production right now. The one condition that I discovered discussed here many posts ago was the first GPU must be a non-mining card (with video output), remaining cards can be mining cards.

Yes, I should clarify that my two D1800 have been working quite well - one filled out with GTX 1060's and the other getting filled out with RX 560s - but a comment made in another thread got me to do some more poking around and it turns out my RX 560s aren't working quite as well as they could (actually, I already knew that, but just assumed I got unlucky in the silicon lottery).

To make a long story short, MSI AB was claiming it was changing the clocks of my RX 560s to 1200/1900, but GPU-Z was reporting they were still at the stock settings of 1295/1750. Inserting an HDMI dummy plug on the first card caused the desired clock values to show up in GPU-Z, Cryptonight hashrate increased by 11% overall (with most from the card with the dummy plug) and Ethash hashrate increased by 8% on the card with the dummy plug while remaining the same on the other 2.

I bought the one dummy plug for my first RX 570, but it didn't appear to need it so this may be specific to Baffin cards or because of the iGPU on the Celeron or even the Onda BIOS. Dunno, and since the dummy plug is a cheap solution I'm not going to worry too much about it.

[philipma1957]

Question for fellow Onda D1800 users: I just found out that AMD cards don't get along with the integrated GPU if the latter is enabled, but I've also read of quite a few horror stories about the external GPUs not outputting video if the iGPU is disabled on the Onda boards. Any advice on how or whether to proceed would be appreciated as my plan was to make one of these D1800 into a dedicated Cryptonight miner and I've already acquired (4) RX 560 for that purpose.

The D1800s are quite easy to deploy, I have older reference 580s, 1050tis, 1060s on XMR/Cryptonite with SMOS booting up without touching them BIOS settings, in production right now. The one condition that I discovered discussed here many posts ago was the first GPU must be a non-mining card (with video output), remaining cards can be mining cards.

Yes, I should clarify that my two D1800 have been working quite well - one filled out with GTX 1060's and the other getting filled out with RX 560s - but a comment made in another thread got me to do some more poking around and it turns out my RX 560s aren't working quite as well as they could (actually, I already knew that, but just assumed I got unlucky in the silicon lottery).

To make a long story short, MSI AB was claiming it was changing the clocks of my RX 560s to 1200/1900, but GPU-Z was reporting they were still at the stock settings of 1295/1750. Inserting an HDMI dummy plug on the first card caused the desired clock values to show up in GPU-Z, Cryptonight hashrate increased by 11% overall (with most from the card with the dummy plug) and Ethash hashrate increased by 8% on the card with the dummy plug while remaining the same on the other 2.

I bought the one dummy plug for my first RX 570, but it didn't appear to need it so this may be specific to Baffin cards or because of the iGPU on the Celeron or even the Onda BIOS. Dunno, and since the dummy plug is a cheap solution I'm not going to worry too much about it.

cause you run windows.  those boards are not good for windows  if you want windows on slot boards use the 8 slot onda b250.

the d1800  is a great board  for smos

it is a less then great board for windows.

the d1800  cost 99 bucks in bulk buys of 10 or more

it can do 5 1080ti hybrids  use a 4gb stick  and a 1000 watt corsair  rm1000x

do smos  set cards at 170 watts

or get a 1200 watt psu set cards at 190 watts


Using the d1800 for windows  is making a lot of difficulty

I look at it like this

100 for the board
 35  for a samsung stick of 4gb ram
140 for a corsair rm1000x psu

and the five hybrid cards  of course.
if you get the 1200 watt corsair  it will let your run the hybrids at 190  

I truly like the d1800  it allows cheap  setups for the 1080ti

you can get 3x of any aircooled 1080 ti

and push them hard like 210 watts

cost is

100 mobo
35 ram
111 corsair 850 watt psu  http://www.corsair.com/en-us/rmx-series-rm850x-850-watt-80-plus-gold-certified-fully-modular-psu-na-refurbished

246 run 3  of any 1080ti  cards harder  at 210 watts


all of this  kind of sucks with windows  and runs very good with smos.

here is a 3 card  smos d1800 with a 1080ti a 1080 a 1070

these rigs are flawless and run for weeks on end

[MagicSmoker]

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To make a long story short, MSI AB was claiming it was changing the clocks of my RX 560s to 1200/1900, but GPU-Z was reporting they were still at the stock settings of 1295/1750. Inserting an HDMI dummy plug on the first card caused the desired clock values to show up in GPU-Z, Cryptonight hashrate increased by 11% overall (with most from the card with the dummy plug) and Ethash hashrate increased by 8% on the card with the dummy plug while remaining the same on the other 2.

I bought the one dummy plug for my first RX 570, but it didn't appear to need it so this may be specific to Baffin cards or because of the iGPU on the Celeron or even the Onda BIOS. Dunno, and since the dummy plug is a cheap solution I'm not going to worry too much about it.

cause you run windows.  those boards are not good for windows  if you want windows on slot boards use the 8 slot onda b250.

the d1800  is a great board  for smos

it is a less then great board for windows.

I've given SMOS a good hard look and I've concluded it isn't right for me at this time. This is because I am trying out lots of different things with two very different rigs to gain (hopefully valuable) experience and SMOS just isn't that flexible. It seems more suited to multi-rig farms where most if not all of the rigs are assigned one particular coin (or, at least, algorithm) and pretty much left on auto-pilot. Me, I've just got 5 rigs and 3 of those only have a single GPU, so I have to be a lot more nimble about what I am mining at any given time and I am still very much "learning on the job" here, as evidenced by my posts above!

I will definitely try out SMOS in the near future, but can't see deploying it in set-and-forget mode for several months, at least.

[citronick]

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To make a long story short, MSI AB was claiming it was changing the clocks of my RX 560s to 1200/1900, but GPU-Z was reporting they were still at the stock settings of 1295/1750. Inserting an HDMI dummy plug on the first card caused the desired clock values to show up in GPU-Z, Cryptonight hashrate increased by 11% overall (with most from the card with the dummy plug) and Ethash hashrate increased by 8% on the card with the dummy plug while remaining the same on the other 2.

I bought the one dummy plug for my first RX 570, but it didn't appear to need it so this may be specific to Baffin cards or because of the iGPU on the Celeron or even the Onda BIOS. Dunno, and since the dummy plug is a cheap solution I'm not going to worry too much about it.

cause you run windows.  those boards are not good for windows  if you want windows on slot boards use the 8 slot onda b250.

the d1800  is a great board  for smos

it is a less then great board for windows.

I've given SMOS a good hard look and I've concluded it isn't right for me at this time. This is because I am trying out lots of different things with two very different rigs to gain (hopefully valuable) experience and SMOS just isn't that flexible. It seems more suited to multi-rig farms where most if not all of the rigs are assigned one particular coin (or, at least, algorithm) and pretty much left on auto-pilot. Me, I've just got 5 rigs and 3 of those only have a single GPU, so I have to be a lot more nimble about what I am mining at any given time and I am still very much "learning on the job" here, as evidenced by my posts above!

I will definitely try out SMOS in the near future, but can't see deploying it in set-and-forget mode for several months, at least.

My group's GPU farm is set on algo mining --- so MPH and NH are ideal for this strategy. SMOS works very well and stable with both pools. The customization and tweaking actually lies mainly at function and features of the miner app (Claymore, tpruvot etc.) and not SMOS. But then again, the farms are now 96 x rigs strong and perhaps SMOS may not appear attractive if your have only a few rigs.

At a single click I can divert my entire NVIDIA farm to mine a single coin using MRR's proxy server - for example - this achieved with MRR and the miner app, SMOS is just the rig mgmt system.

[philipma1957]

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To make a long story short, MSI AB was claiming it was changing the clocks of my RX 560s to 1200/1900, but GPU-Z was reporting they were still at the stock settings of 1295/1750. Inserting an HDMI dummy plug on the first card caused the desired clock values to show up in GPU-Z, Cryptonight hashrate increased by 11% overall (with most from the card with the dummy plug) and Ethash hashrate increased by 8% on the card with the dummy plug while remaining the same on the other 2.

I bought the one dummy plug for my first RX 570, but it didn't appear to need it so this may be specific to Baffin cards or because of the iGPU on the Celeron or even the Onda BIOS. Dunno, and since the dummy plug is a cheap solution I'm not going to worry too much about it.

cause you run windows.  those boards are not good for windows  if you want windows on slot boards use the 8 slot onda b250.

the d1800  is a great board  for smos

it is a less then great board for windows.

I've given SMOS a good hard look and I've concluded it isn't right for me at this time. This is because I am trying out lots of different things with two very different rigs to gain (hopefully valuable) experience and SMOS just isn't that flexible. It seems more suited to multi-rig farms where most if not all of the rigs are assigned one particular coin (or, at least, algorithm) and pretty much left on auto-pilot. Me, I've just got 5 rigs and 3 of those only have a single GPU, so I have to be a lot more nimble about what I am mining at any given time and I am still very much "learning on the job" here, as evidenced by my posts above!

I will definitely try out SMOS in the near future, but can't see deploying it in set-and-forget mode for several months, at least.

My group's GPU farm is set on algo mining --- so MPH and NH are ideal for this strategy. SMOS works very well and stable with both pools. The customization and tweaking actually lies mainly at function and features of the miner app (Claymore, tpruvot etc.) and not SMOS. But then again, the farms are now 96 x rigs strong and perhaps SMOS may not appear attractive if your have only a few rigs.

I have a few windows rigs but the smos is as high as 20 rigs and 100 cards.

No way am I doing 20 windows rig.

[citronick]

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To make a long story short, MSI AB was claiming it was changing the clocks of my RX 560s to 1200/1900, but GPU-Z was reporting they were still at the stock settings of 1295/1750. Inserting an HDMI dummy plug on the first card caused the desired clock values to show up in GPU-Z, Cryptonight hashrate increased by 11% overall (with most from the card with the dummy plug) and Ethash hashrate increased by 8% on the card with the dummy plug while remaining the same on the other 2.

I bought the one dummy plug for my first RX 570, but it didn't appear to need it so this may be specific to Baffin cards or because of the iGPU on the Celeron or even the Onda BIOS. Dunno, and since the dummy plug is a cheap solution I'm not going to worry too much about it.

cause you run windows.  those boards are not good for windows  if you want windows on slot boards use the 8 slot onda b250.

the d1800  is a great board  for smos

it is a less then great board for windows.

I've given SMOS a good hard look and I've concluded it isn't right for me at this time. This is because I am trying out lots of different things with two very different rigs to gain (hopefully valuable) experience and SMOS just isn't that flexible. It seems more suited to multi-rig farms where most if not all of the rigs are assigned one particular coin (or, at least, algorithm) and pretty much left on auto-pilot. Me, I've just got 5 rigs and 3 of those only have a single GPU, so I have to be a lot more nimble about what I am mining at any given time and I am still very much "learning on the job" here, as evidenced by my posts above!

I will definitely try out SMOS in the near future, but can't see deploying it in set-and-forget mode for several months, at least.

My group's GPU farm is set on algo mining --- so MPH and NH are ideal for this strategy. SMOS works very well and stable with both pools. The customization and tweaking actually lies mainly at function and features of the miner app (Claymore, tpruvot etc.) and not SMOS. But then again, the farms are now 96 x rigs strong and perhaps SMOS may not appear attractive if your have only a few rigs.

I have a few windows rigs but the smos is as high as 20 rigs and 100 cards.

No way am I doing 20 windows rig.

Phil, remember the days before SMOS... I cannot imagine getting a good night sleep if not for SMOS -- after 15 rigs, I switched all to Linux/SMOS - have never turn back since. I forget now how Windows looks like LOL.

[philipma1957]

2012. 33 gpus Mining  about 10 gh for. Btc on bitminter.

Earning 1 to 3 coins a day

No such thing as a powered riser.

So I had to check gear ten times a day .

I never ran more then six days with out a few boots.

Broke my ass.

Fought with my wife.   But. Even then I made a bit of money.

[Elder III]

What do you guys think of Awesome miner for a farm of 15 rigs with 96 GPUs total? Linux is not an option for various reasons that are unique to us, so all systems are Windows based. Based on what I can see Awesome miner looks like it would be very handy for us and it appears to be fairly newbie friendly (important since the person that checks things the most is not very technically experienced with troubleshooting hardware/software).

[philipma1957]

What do you guys think of Awesome miner for a farm of 15 rigs with 96 GPUs total? Linux is not an option for various reasons that are unique to us, so all systems are Windows based. Based on what I can see Awesome miner looks like it would be very handy for us and it appears to be fairly newbie friendly (important since the person that checks things the most is not very technically experienced with troubleshooting hardware/software).

I paid for a license just no time to really work with it.  It does seem to be able to do what you need.

[crazydane]

I'm up to 15 GPU rigs and 2 S9's.

I started out using nvOC, but the lack of central management really started bothering me once I got past 10 rigs.

So I got Awesome Miner and played with it for a while and purchased a license good for 20 miners.  At first I kept the rigs themselves on nvOC (Ubuntu) and then configured each miner in Awesome Miner as an external miner.  In this mode, Awesome Miner can only monitor the rigs and not actually change coins, or OC settings or anything like that.

Next I started to convert my rigs over to Windows, which meant getting more powerful CPU's and larger SSD's for some of my rigs.  It was a pain, but once done, I now had full control over all the rigs and could switch pools/coins with a couple of clicks across some or all miners.  The dashboards are very nice looking and I'm able to apply OC setting on a large scale.   I also like that Awesome Miner can manage my S9's.  Granted I only have 2 of those and they pretty much mind their own business, but having all my profit generating devices in a single dashboard is kinda cool.  I also have some servers with powerful 14 core CPU's that produce a decent return on Cryptonight.  I can manage those within Awesome Miner as well.

Then a couple of days ago I decided to upgrade nvidia video drivers on all the rigs and what a royal pain that was across 15 windows boxes.  Some of them didn't take and I had to haul a monitor around to connect to them to see what was going on.  This was the case on my Onda and Colorful boards, and one of my Asus PRIME Z270A boards too (this particular one had 9 1080Ti's on it).

So I decided to check out SMOS, and I'm impressed with it so far.  It is a lot more limited in functionality compared to Awesome Miner, but the fact that the actual rigs are running Ubuntu over windows is a huge plus.  I don't like that the only control option is via the cloud dashboard.  I wish there was an option to run it on a local server.  I can VPN into my network from anywhere if need be.  The SMOS dashboard is no where near as comprehensive as what you can do in Awesome Miner, but it covers the basics.

To me the perfect system would be a feature rich front end like Awesome Miner, with linux based backend GPU rigs.

Next time I go on vacation, all my rigs will be on SMOS, that's for sure.  To switch I just pull the Windows SSD, insert SMOS USB, switch mobo to use internal graphics, and off I go.  Going back to windows is a simple matter of reversing the process.

[philipma1957]

I'm up to 15 GPU rigs and 2 S9's.

I started out using nvOC, but the lack of central management really started bothering me once I got past 10 rigs.

So I got Awesome Miner and played with it for a while and purchased a license good for 20 miners.  At first I kept the rigs themselves on nvOC (Ubuntu) and then configured each miner in Awesome Miner as an external miner.  In this mode, Awesome Miner can only monitor the rigs and not actually change coins, or OC settings or anything like that.

Next I started to convert my rigs over to Windows, which meant getting more powerful CPU's and larger SSD's for some of my rigs.  It was a pain, but once done, I now had full control over all the rigs and could switch pools/coins with a couple of clicks across some or all miners.  The dashboards are very nice looking and I'm able to apply OC setting on a large scale.   I also like that Awesome Miner can manage my S9's.  Granted I only have 2 of those and they pretty much mind their own business, but having all my profit generating devices in a single dashboard is kinda cool.  I also have some servers with powerful 14 core CPU's that produce a decent return on Cryptonight.  I can manage those within Awesome Miner as well.

Then a couple of days ago I decided to upgrade nvidia video drivers on all the rigs and what a royal pain that was across 15 windows boxes.  Some of them didn't take and I had to haul a monitor around to connect to them to see what was going on.  This was the case on my Onda and Colorful boards, and one of my Asus PRIME Z270A boards too (this particular one had 9 1080Ti's on it).

So I decided to check out SMOS, and I'm impressed with it so far.  It is a lot more limited in functionality compared to Awesome Miner, but the fact that the actual rigs are running Ubuntu over windows is a huge plus.  I don't like that the only control option is via the cloud dashboard.  I wish there was an option to run it on a local server.  I can VPN into my network from anywhere if need be.  The SMOS dashboard is no where near as comprehensive as what you can do in Awesome Miner, but it covers the basics.

To me the perfect system would be a feature rich front end like Awesome Miner, with linux based backend GPU rigs.

Next time I go on vacation, all my rigs will be on SMOS, that's for sure.  To switch I just pull the Windows SSD, insert SMOS USB, switch mobo to use internal graphics, and off I go.  Going back to windows is a simple matter of reversing the process.

 I have more then one rig in my home  that can do just that.And I set the omen gamer pc's up with smos and this usb stick



https://www.walmart.com/ip/Samsung-32GB-USB-3-0-FIT-Flash-Drive/46802252?

it is small and I don't worry about breaking it off accidentaly

[P00P135]

I'm up to 15 GPU rigs and 2 S9's.

I started out using nvOC, but the lack of central management really started bothering me once I got past 10 rigs.

So I got Awesome Miner and played with it for a while and purchased a license good for 20 miners.  At first I kept the rigs themselves on nvOC (Ubuntu) and then configured each miner in Awesome Miner as an external miner.  In this mode, Awesome Miner can only monitor the rigs and not actually change coins, or OC settings or anything like that.

Next I started to convert my rigs over to Windows, which meant getting more powerful CPU's and larger SSD's for some of my rigs.  It was a pain, but once done, I now had full control over all the rigs and could switch pools/coins with a couple of clicks across some or all miners.  The dashboards are very nice looking and I'm able to apply OC setting on a large scale.   I also like that Awesome Miner can manage my S9's.  Granted I only have 2 of those and they pretty much mind their own business, but having all my profit generating devices in a single dashboard is kinda cool.  I also have some servers with powerful 14 core CPU's that produce a decent return on Cryptonight.  I can manage those within Awesome Miner as well.

Then a couple of days ago I decided to upgrade nvidia video drivers on all the rigs and what a royal pain that was across 15 windows boxes.  Some of them didn't take and I had to haul a monitor around to connect to them to see what was going on.  This was the case on my Onda and Colorful boards, and one of my Asus PRIME Z270A boards too (this particular one had 9 1080Ti's on it).

So I decided to check out SMOS, and I'm impressed with it so far.  It is a lot more limited in functionality compared to Awesome Miner, but the fact that the actual rigs are running Ubuntu over windows is a huge plus.  I don't like that the only control option is via the cloud dashboard.  I wish there was an option to run it on a local server.  I can VPN into my network from anywhere if need be.  The SMOS dashboard is no where near as comprehensive as what you can do in Awesome Miner, but it covers the basics.

To me the perfect system would be a feature rich front end like Awesome Miner, with linux based backend GPU rigs.

Next time I go on vacation, all my rigs will be on SMOS, that's for sure.  To switch I just pull the Windows SSD, insert SMOS USB, switch mobo to use internal graphics, and off I go.  Going back to windows is a simple matter of reversing the process.

Have you checked out HiveOS?