bitHopper: Python Pool Hopper Proxy

[ed64]

Updated AltSliceScheduler to allow for round time biasing. Available at:
https://github.com/echiu64/bitHopper

Tested for a few hours, everything looks like it works. Tested with startLP enabled.

New options:
 --altsliceroundtimebias Bias slicing slightly by round time duration with respect to round time target (default false)
 --altsliceroundtimetarget Round time target based on GHash/s (default 1000 Ghash/s)
 --altsliceroundtimemagic' Round time magic number, increase to bias towards round time over shares (default is 10)

[1714099599]

1714099599

[1714099599]

1714099599

[1714099599]

1714099599

[1714099599]

1714099599

[1714099599]

1714099599

[c00w]

v0.1.8 is tagged. It should be quite stable and the auth bug is fixed. --p2pLP is still a mess.

[joulesbeef]

lots of no json can be decoded errors.. from a multitude of sites.

otherwise running fine

[organofcorti]

http://www.abcpool.co/

no fee PPS with instant payout. Currently 118 Ghps.

Use 'em as backup before they fold!

[joulesbeef]

not bad and they pay full share value.. pretty surprising..ars does as well but they are bigger.

[organofcorti]

In relation to that joulesbeef - can you explain why some SMPPS doesn't pay full share? I thought the payout might take longer but you always got the full amount eventually (if the pool doesn't fold). But from what I've read lately this might not be the case. Is that right?

BTW, another plus for abcpool is that it looks like there's no wait for confirmations of the block, although I don't see how that would work.

Edit: and they pay for stales, too, and specifically welcome hoppers. I hope they survive their first round of bad luck! Upside is they've gone from 90 to (now) 120 Ghps overnight.

[r2edu]

Witch Switches/parameters do I need to start BH in a "optimal" state?

At the moment (0.1.8-8) I got: --auth user,pass --startLP --p2pLP
(& suppose nothing for --scheduler means "DefaultScheduler", or is better to set it with "OldDefaultScheduler")

 

[organofcorti]

optimal for efficiency, variance, or the best of both? Also what size pools are you using and how many of each?

[organofcorti]

@spiccioli:

The following url has a great list of pools and their hashrates. The site itslef aslo does a great job of tracking you use of pools and is something every hopper needs to use:

http://btc-poolwatch.com/poolstats

It's a little slow and can be a bit patchy, so if you find it useful please donate to the owner - he might be able to get better hosting if more people donate  

[cirz8]

Feature Request: presentation on the stats-page of sharestats of the current round and not just totals

[spiccioli]

http://www.abcpool.co/

no fee PPS with instant payout. Currently 118 Ghps.

Use 'em as backup before they fold!

Truly,

its one of the best ones, even without hopping

spiccioli

[flower1024]

but it does not work nice with bithopper yet.
lags out fast and you get many invalids...

but i still think its their fault

[joulesbeef]

Feature Request: presentation on the stats-page of sharestats of the current round and not just totals

I like the idea even if it is a tad more work than it sounds, as it is user specific and not all sites offer user stats via json, which would mean the hopper would have to login under your credentials some how.

but if it is possible it would be nice to show current round and previous round, for easy eff, and while your at it.. bring in payouts too.

[cirz8]

A "simple" and crude way would just involve a share-counter that would reset when bh detects that the pool has a new block.
This wouldn't work reliable over restarts of bh though.

[joulesbeef]

what did yall just do to the hopper?

Code:

D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper>bitHopper.py --scheduler OldDefaultScheduler  --startLP --p2pLP --port=8339 --debug
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\bitHopper.py", line 266, in <module>
    main()
  File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\bitHopper.py", line 227, in main
    bithopper_instance = BitHopper(options)
  File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\bitHopper.py", line 42, in __init__
    self.pool = pool.Pool(self)
  File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\pool.py", line 21, in __init__
    self.loadConfig(bitHopper)
  File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\pool.py", line 55, in loadConfig
    self.servers[pool] = dict(parser.items(pool))
  File "D:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 613, in items
    for option in options]
  File "D:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 649, in _interpolate
    self._interpolate_some(option, L, rawval, section, vars, 1)
  File "D:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 681, in _interpolate_some
    option, section, rest, var)
ConfigParser.InterpolationMissingOptionError: Bad value substitution:
        section: [eligius]
        option : url
        key    : user
        rawval :
15:59:31] 94037.96
raceback (most recent call last):
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\bitHopper.py", line 266, in <module>
   main()
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\bitHopper.py", line 227, in main
   bithopper_instance = BitHopper(options)
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\bitHopper.py", line 42, in __init__
   self.pool = pool.Pool(self)
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\pool.py", line 21, in __init__
   self.loadConfig(bitHopper)
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\pool.py", line 55, in loadConfig
   self.servers[pool] = dict(parser.items(pool))
 File "D:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 613, in items
   for option in options]
 File "D:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 649, in _interpolate
   self._interpolate_some(option, L, rawval, section, vars, 1)
 File "D:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 681, in _interpolate_some
   option, section, rest, var)
onfigParser.InterpolationMissingOptionError: Bad value substitution:
       section: [bitparking]
       option : url
       key    : user
       rawval :


:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper>bitHopper.py  --startLP  --threshold=0.80
16:00:17] Updating Difficulty
16:00:17] 1805700.8361937
16:00:17] Updating NameCoin Difficulty
16:00:17] 94037.96
raceback (most recent call last):
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\bitHopper.py", line 266, in <module>
   main()
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\bitHopper.py", line 227, in main
   bithopper_instance = BitHopper(options)
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\bitHopper.py", line 42, in __init__
   self.pool = pool.Pool(self)
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\pool.py", line 21, in __init__
   self.loadConfig(bitHopper)
 File "D:\Users\joulesbeef\Desktop\currentminer\githopper\pool.py", line 55, in loadConfig
   self.servers[pool] = dict(parser.items(pool))
 File "D:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 613, in items
   for option in options]
 File "D:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 649, in _interpolate
   self._interpolate_some(option, L, rawval, section, vars, 1)
 File "D:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 681, in _interpolate_some
   option, section, rest, var)
onfigParser.InterpolationMissingOptionError: Bad value substitution:
       section: [eclipsemc]
       option : api_address
       key    : eclipsemc_apikey
       rawval : &action=poolstats

got rid of eligious, eclipsemc and bitparking and now it is working.. and suddenly i have a crap load of disabled pools showing up

[paraipan]

and another one here...

Code:

[23:46:17] Updating Difficulty
[23:46:17] 1805700.8361937
[23:46:17] Updating NameCoin Difficulty
[23:46:18] 94037.96
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bitHopper.py", line 266, in <module>
    main()
  File "bitHopper.py", line 227, in main
    bithopper_instance = BitHopper(options)
  File "bitHopper.py", line 42, in __init__
    self.pool = pool.Pool(self)
  File "/home/alex/forks/_bitHopper/pool.py", line 21, in __init__
    self.loadConfig(bitHopper)
  File "/home/alex/forks/_bitHopper/pool.py", line 55, in loadConfig
    self.servers[pool] = dict(parser.items(pool))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 647, in items
    for option in options]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 683, in _interpolate
    self._interpolate_some(option, L, rawval, section, vars, 1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 715, in _interpolate_some
    option, section, rest, var)
ConfigParser.InterpolationMissingOptionError: Bad value substitution:
	section: [swepool]
	option : api_address
	key    : swepool_user_apikey
	rawval : 

[joulesbeef]

oddd swepool works for me.. tell me did you have it # out in user.cfg?
the only ones broken on mine are all #'s out.. but a few of my #'s out are working.. just wondering if it is a common theme..

I may try uncommenting them and see if it works fine after that.


So I take it were are supposed to do the info pools again?

[murfshake]

For the page http://localhost:8337/stats you need to move the "backup" servers to the top of the page, right under the "mining" servers.  It is so horrible that I can't see the servers that I actually care about without scrolling through a ton of crappy servers that I disabled and don't even want to look at.

Please make the http://localhost:8337/stats page go something like...

Mine
Mine_slush+deepbit etc
Backup
Info
Disabled

Thank you.

_______________________________________________


*Working as of newest version.
Also, something is broke with the "pools.cfg" and this.

[swepool]
name: SwePool.net
mine_address: swepool.net:8337
api_address: http://swepool.net/json?key=%(swepool_user_apikey)s
api_method: json
api_key: round_shares
api_key_hashrate: pool_speed
api_key_duration: round_time
api_key_duration_sec: (\d+)
url: http://swepool.net/profile

With this in the pools.cfg, I crash no matter what.  When I delete it, I have no problems.

Not working in Windows 7.

[paraipan]

oddd swepool works for me.. tell me did you have it # out in user.cfg?
the only ones broken on mine are all #'s out.. but a few of my #'s out are working.. just wondering if it is a common theme..

I may try uncommenting them and see if it works fine after that.


So I take it were are supposed to do the info pools again?

sdogi is already looking in to this, seems like it happens on *nix os only (windows too)  edit: fixed

@murfshake posted on git https://github.com/c00w/bitHopper/issues/221  

[joulesbeef]

backup_latehop doesnt seem to be working properly either.. jumping to my backup with the least shares each time