MSI Afterburner profile auto profile selection at certain times

[portreathbeach]

Hi,

I am running my GTX 1060 3Gb at 65% and getting about 270 H/s out of them. I played about with the power settings and did an Excel spreadsheet working out H/s per watt.

As I have a 4KW solar array on my roof, the power during the day is free (unless it is very very overcast) so I would like to know if there is a way to auto switch the current profile in Afterburner. I was thining about having a profile for best H/s per watt for when it is dark and have them running at higher power when the solar panels are producing.

I know that in MSI Afterburner you set hotkeys to automatically jump to and apply a profile, but are there any Windows apps that can send keystrokes to MSI Afterburner at specified times. I know this is possible as I used to do a lot of programming in Windows, but I moved over to Macs about 10 years ago and have lost most of my knowledge on Windows coding.

Anyone else done anything like this

[cryptikco]

I haven't figured out to do this, so I'll be watching here...    great suggestion / question!

[portreathbeach]

After spending a while looking into downloading Microsoft Visual Studio and re-learning a lot of programming I think I may have a solution.


If you type...

"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\MSIAfterburner.exe" -Profile1

into the start menu in Windows, it will load Afterburner and apply profile 1


If Afterburner is already running, it will not try and load Afterburner again, it will apply profile 1 to the current open window of AfterBurner


So, my thoughts are to set up two profiles, one for cost effective mining (Profile 1) and then one for a more aggressive mining when my power is free (Profile 2).
I will then use Windows TaskSchedular to run Afterburner profiles at various times, a bit like a central heating controller. Say, at 8am, run Afterburner profile 2, then at 6pm, run Afterburner profile 1.

To get a bit more complicated and in case of a power outage during the day, I may setup Afterburner to always load Profile 1 on startup and have an hourly task in TaskSchedular to run Afterburner at the correct profile.

Anyway, I'm just tinkering as we speak and will report back.

[portreathbeach]

TaskSchedular is way over the top for what I need, so I downloaded the free version of System Scheduler by the company Splinterware. This is much more basic version of TaskSchedular and seems to working very well...


Here's a picture of my rig viewed remotely using TeamViewer with System Scheduler running. It will run automatically minimized on startup too.

http://www.csmithsoftware.com/Misc/SystemScheduler.jpg

[cryptikco]

Nice job!  This was really helpful.  I might end up doing something similar.