[Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners

[Rodrigo8]

Thank you!
Everything is working as expected. One of the problems was Windows Firewall.
The concept of profit switch is very crazy, in a few minutes I have mined more than 7 different coins. I set to update profitability every 1 minute for testing. If the numbers I am seeing are true my profit will go up ~10%. I do not understand why the big miners do not do it.

I caution you to be careful about your estimations.  I know you are just testing with a 1 minute profit switch, but you have to realize that you are only mining a profitable coin at that instant.  By the time you go to exchange with your accumulated coins they will not be at the same level of profitability.  If you are just accumulating various coins to exchange later when the exchange rate is high, that's fine.  But... If you are depending on pool auto-switchers, or pool threshold minimums sending to an exchange, then you will more than likely miss your "peak profit window" unless you have a large group of miners to accumulate enough coins to get there in time.

Also, you probably already know this, but a profit switch time of 1 minute is too low.  You will lose valuable time in that 1 minute window while the software is switched, and the GPUs ramp up.  Depending on the algo and software, it can take 30 seconds or more to really ramp up, so you could be losing 50% of your potential earnings by ramping up every minute.

As always, do your own real-world tests, but I think you'll find what I'm saying is true.  Most large farms don't switch so often, and go for consistently strong coins most of the time or diversify across a set of the most profitable.

yep I know about it, I would like to see if changes and not freeze. I set 30 min to see, I will change to 24Hs, but I still deciding what to do

I am seeing many inconsistencies, I have other rigs with high profits that AM is not replicating.
Mining interface offline happening very often, this ends with the calculations
Every time I do a coin benchmark, this coin begins to be mined. But not necessarily is the most profitable.

I do not know if I'm correct, but is it mandatory to benchmark one or all of the GPUs so that the profit profile correctly chooses the best ratio?

I would say yes, because the default values that come in the built-in profit profiles are very rough estimates.  There are many factors that will cause your GPUs to be higher or lower than the default values... GPU silicon lottery, over/underclocking, and general system performance to name a few.  You want your real-world values to be in the profit profile, otherwise AM can make a wrong decision for you.  FOr instance, if you don't set your true dual-mining Dcred value, then AM may decide that your ETH+Dcred values are very high and start mining with it... thinking it is the most profitable when it probably isn't.

benchmark should be mandatory soon setting up a new miner for each gpu

It is possible in the next versions to include Ratio counter: x.xxxx BTC/Day because this is the only way to make profit comparisons between rigs and GPUs of different currencies and MHs, Hs, Sols, GH / s

Can you explain this a little more?


Exemple of one of my rigs
https://image.ibb.co/eNxv4F/Capture.jpg

When mining with EWBF Zcash, the interface (my miners) goes offline but still mining, I do not know if this is a bug but it always happens.

I've seen this happen from time to time as well.  I haven't verified this, by my suspicion is that the rig may be taxed a bit when this happens.

now it's happening a lot, I'm mining ETC and LBC at Nicehash as exemple

Thanks for the feed back, I will continue with the tests here

[Jup1t3rR]

maybe a noob question but can i directly mine using this software or is this just a monitoring application ?

[puwaha]

maybe a noob question but can i directly mine using this software or is this just a monitoring application ?

Yes, you can directly mine using Awesome Miner.  It has a lot of the most recent mining applications built in like the various flavors of Claymore, EWBF, CCMiner, Excavator, sgminer and more.  It will also allow you to add in your own custom mining software if needed.  You can also monitor and control some "external" miners, which are applications or rigs that are not directly controlled by Awesome Miner... like if you have an ASIC miner or a linux based miner.

[Rodrigo8]

Please someone could refer an IOS app for the use of the AM API?

Thanks

If you are using the web server feature of AM, then any web browser will do.  If you mean a true app that interfaces with the AM API, I'm not aware of any.  If you are a good IOS or Android app developer, then I'm sure that would be a neat revenue stream for you.  Patrike encourages other developers to create bolt-ons.  I'm considering diving into a bolt-on for data mining analysis.

It's correct that the mobile web is the only option right now, as there are no mobile apps. As puwaha pointed out, anyone can develop applications and apps on top of Awesome Miner using the API:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/api.aspx

The Awesome Miner web interface is built on top of this API.

Thanks again,
If I have a fixed IP it's easy with DNS, I do not like the idea of having to install a DNS ip monitor. At the moment i'm using TeamViewer isn't good to manage it
I'm sure have seen app that work with API, I have to find them again.

[plbartie]

Any possible way to run Awesome miner (not Remote agent) on 2 different pc's with exact same config and sort of sync with each other?

That's unfortunately not possible. You can copy the configuration file (%AppData%\AwesomeMiner\ConfigData.xml), but the file is only read when the application is starting.

Thanks for the reply.

I will only be running 1 instance at a time, can maybe put config on shared drive.

Can we change the location/path of the config file? Maybe in registry somewhere?

It's not possible to change the location. It will always be in your user folder.

All good, I understand. thanks

[Rodrigo8]

Sorry guys I'm just trying to improve your product which is already pretty good.

I would like to bring your attention to improving the auto profit switching for the most profitable currency in a 24 hour time frame. Why, Nicehash has this time frame to make the payment (also Whattomine have this time frame) then if the most prof. coin X is mined in 24 hours the payment related to that time frame/coin will be done. So the profit can be reviewed every 24 hours, I do not know if I explained my self clearly probably not. Is just an idea, this not mean i'm right.

ps: What I see in my tests for some reason the auto profit switching for the most profitable currency some times getting stuck in the previous currency when clearly Nicehash and Miningpool pools already has other more profitable coins, even after long periods of 24 and 48 hours. ( I set to check every 30 min)

[Rodrigo8]

I imagine that mining is not possible with AMD and Nvidia in the same Rig correct?

https://image.ibb.co/ixSrda/Capture2.jpg

[tf2addict]

I imagine that mining is not possible with AMD and Nvidia in the same Rig correct?

Yes you can mix cards.  I am currently running two 570s, two 580s, a GTX 1070 and a GTX 1060 in one rig.  The only problem I had was with each RX card I added I had to uninstall and reinstall the AMD driver before Windows would work with all the AMD cards.  Nvidia cards are so much nicer, they just work, no BIOS modding or anything.  If 1070s were < $300 that's all I would use.

[tf2addict]

Well the ALLCOINS and ALLPOOLS settings in the Claymore section isn't working again.  This is really annoying.

[Rodrigo8]

I imagine that mining is not possible with AMD and Nvidia in the same Rig correct?

https://image.ibb.co/ixSrda/Capture2.jpg

Yes you can mix cards.  I am currently running two 570s, two 580s, a GTX 1070 and a GTX 1060 in one rig.  The only problem I had was with each RX card I added I had to uninstall and reinstall the AMD driver before Windows would work with all the AMD cards.  Nvidia cards are so much nicer, they just work, no BIOS modding or anything.  If 1070s were < $300 that's all I would use.

With Nicehash software there is no problem, so my be is not s a driver problem.

https://image.ibb.co/eNxv4F/Capture.jpg

[patrike]

Well the ALLCOINS and ALLPOOLS settings in the Claymore section isn't working again.  This is really annoying.

Can you let us know in more detail what isn't working here. If you click the Diagnostics button, can you see that Awesome Miner pass this information to the Claymore miner? Or is it passed to Claymore, but it still doesn't work?

[patrike]

I imagine that mining is not possible with AMD and Nvidia in the same Rig correct?

Yes you can mix cards.  I am currently running two 570s, two 580s, a GTX 1070 and a GTX 1060 in one rig.  The only problem I had was with each RX card I added I had to uninstall and reinstall the AMD driver before Windows would work with all the AMD cards.  Nvidia cards are so much nicer, they just work, no BIOS modding or anything.  If 1070s were < $300 that's all I would use.

With Nicehash software there is no problem, so my be is not s a driver problem.

The list on the GPU tab is what the mining software is reporting. That one is not from Awesome Miner (although Awesome Miner tries to fill in information about GPU name, clocking and more). Select this miner and use the toolbar: Tools -> API Report. Please let me know what the first ~15 lines say.

About your question of showing profit in mBTC/day as Nicehash. Awesome Miner is only showing the profit information in USD/day. This can be changed to other local currencies or to Bitcoin in Options dialog, Coins&Profit section. However, it will only show the profit information in one currency (USD or BTC or something else), not two or more.

[The Cryptophilanthropist]

Question regarding upgrade to VER 4.0 :

I used the update/upgrade button within the UI which had a notification about update.

When it performs the upgrade (which looked like it happened) the update notification is still present. Should I install from direct download?

And if I do , should I uninstall current version first?

Also, do I need to manually update the agent software for each rig? I did not see an update option from the agent task button.

Please advise the proper way to update my version (Enterprise last release) I did check FAQs before posting and didn't see anything.

Thank you very much!

UPDATE:
I installed the update using website download and it is working now did not update remote agents yet

[s3c70r]

us-east.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com was down today, awesomeMiner doesn't support automatic failOver ?

Please add automatic failover, it's so basic for a successful mining software.

[Jup1t3rR]

maybe a noob question but can i directly mine using this software or is this just a monitoring application ?

Yes, you can directly mine using Awesome Miner.  It has a lot of the most recent mining applications built in like the various flavors of Claymore, EWBF, CCMiner, Excavator, sgminer and more.  It will also allow you to add in your own custom mining software if needed.  You can also monitor and control some "external" miners, which are applications or rigs that are not directly controlled by Awesome Miner... like if you have an ASIC miner or a linux based miner.

oo nice thanks for the clarification

[zeewor]

I tested the new version 4 and was going to buy it until i discovered i cant switch pools etc from the GUI using ccminer. It is greyed out and it says "Basic" connection. I also hope it is possible to use different gpu settings per ccminer based rig. Did i miss something obvious or is these function not going to work for people mining with the environment in mind(since amd almost doubles electicity usage)? Or is there a workaround somehow?

Please explain this so i can buy it. Im excited to set it up and watch the dashboard..

[puwaha]

I tested the new version 4 and was going to buy it until i discovered i cant switch pools etc from the GUI using ccminer. It is greyed out and it says "Basic" connection. I also hope it is possible to use different gpu settings per ccminer based rig. Did i miss something obvious or is these function not going to work for people mining with the environment in mind(since amd almost doubles electicity usage)? Or is there a workaround somehow?

Please explain this so i can buy it. Im excited to set it up and watch the dashboard..

Did you setup a Managed Miner in AM, so that it downloads the CCminer to the rig and then controls it?  Or did you setup an external miner to look at your already installed/running ccminer?

If you created a Profit Miner, you can't manually change pools, the logic in AM will do it for you if you've setup a pool grouping and told AM to use it for profit switching.

[puwaha]

us-east.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com was down today, awesomeMiner doesn't support automatic failOver ?

Please add automatic failover, it's so basic for a successful mining software.

Yes, it does support pool failover, but you need to create a pool group so that it knows what to fail over to.  Then in the pool group you set your priorities so it knows which one you prefer over the others.

[Kortazh]

Having some issue in AM. Just mentioned that secondary pool for Claymore in profit switching stopped to work. But in online services it still included
https://image.prntscr.com/image/R6ZbE0eFQRew026d3rNGtQ.png
Diagnostics looks like:
Starting Diagnostics
Starting Mining Software
Setting up Miner Engine. Instance: 1
Engine Type: EthClayMiner, Auto Download: True, EnginePath: H:\path\Claymore's Dual Ethereum9.7\Claymore's Dual Ethereum+Decred_Siacoin_Lbry_Pascal AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v9.7\startAM.bat, Subtype: Disabled
Added rule for: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AwesomeMiner\EthDcrMiner64_1\Claymore's Dual Ethereum+Decred_Siacoin_Lbry_Pascal AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v10.0\EthDcrMiner64.exe
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AwesomeMiner\EthDcrMiner64_1\Claymore's Dual Ethereum+Decred_Siacoin_Lbry_Pascal AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v10.0\EthDcrMiner64.exe  -wd 1 -r -1 -mport 4028 -logfile C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AwesomeMiner\claylog.txt -allcoins 1   (WindowMode: ConsoleFormat, EngineType: EthClayMiner)
Configuration:
POOL: stratum+tcp://europe.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020, WALLET: user.user, PSW: x, ESM: 2, ALLPOOLS: 1

Secondary:

Mining Engine Process started, PID: 4348

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08:26:13:709   1228   args: -wd 1 -r -1 -mport 4028 -logfile C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AwesomeMiner\claylog.txt -allcoins 1
08:26:13:712   1228   
08:26:13:714   1228   ����������������������������������������������������������������ͻ
08:26:13:717   1228   �     Claymore's Dual ETH + DCR/SC/LBC/PASC GPU Miner v10.0      �
08:26:13:719   1228   ����������������������������������������������������������������ͼ
08:26:13:722   1228   
08:26:13:925   1228   ETH: 1 pool is specified
08:26:13:928   1228   Main Ethereum pool is europe.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
08:26:13:931   1228   DCR: 0 pool is specified
08:26:14:061   1228   OpenCL platform: NVIDIA CUDA
08:26:14:064   1228   AMD OpenCL platform not found
08:26:14:364   1228   CUDA initializing...

08:26:14:371   1228   NVIDIA Cards available: 3
08:26:14:374   1228   CUDA Driver Version/Runtime Version: 9.0/8.0
08:26:14:383   1228   GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, 3072 MB available, 9 compute units, capability: 6.1

08:26:14:387   1228   GPU #1: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, 6144 MB available, 10 compute units, capability: 6.1

08:26:14:391   1228   GPU #2: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, 3072 MB available, 9 compute units, capability: 6.1

08:26:14:393   1228   Total cards: 3
08:26:18:399   1228   No AMD cards in the list, ADL library will not be used.
08:26:18:405   1228   NVML version: 9.384.94
08:26:18:754   2d80   ETH: Stratum - connecting to 'europe.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com' <139.162.131.165> port 17020
08:26:18:808   2d80   send: {"id": 1, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": []}

08:26:18:812   2d80   send: {"id": 5, "method": "mining.extranonce.subscribe", "params": []}

08:26:18:814   2d80   send: {"id": 2, "method": "mining.authorize", "params": ["Kortazh.kortiti","x"]}

08:26:18:817   2d80   ETH: Stratum - Connected (europe.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020)
08:26:18:847   1228   No pool specified for Decred! Ethereum-only mining mode is enabled

08:26:18:850   1228   ETHEREUM-ONLY MINING MODE ENABLED (-mode 1)

08:26:18:852   1228   ETH: miner-proxy stratum mode
08:26:18:855   1228   "-allcoins" option is set, default pools will be used for devfee, check "Readme" file for details.
08:26:18:858   1228   Watchdog enabled
08:26:18:860   1228   Remote management is enabled on port 4028
08:26:18:863   1228   

08:26:18:862   2d80   got 162 bytes
08:26:18:868   2d80   buf: {"id":1,"result":[[["mining.set_difficulty","deadbeefcafebabebce4000000000000"],["mining.notify","deadbeefcafebabebce4000000000000"]],"000082db",4],"error":null}

08:26:18:871   2d80   parse packet: 161
08:26:18:873   2d80   new buf size: 0
08:26:19:526   2d80   got 36 bytes
08:26:19:529   2d80   buf: {"id":2,"result":true,"error":null}

08:26:19:532   2d80   parse packet: 35
08:26:19:534   2d80   ETH: Authorized
08:26:19:537   2d80   new buf size: 0
08:26:19:727   2d80   got 267 bytes
08:26:19:730   2d80   buf: {"id":null,"method":"mining.notify","params":["905e","0x363ea70db1d4487b23ba8d2500ab810b92e07f5a1a12b09a3e34f9b5aa5e6a6a","0xa91b532dbccf95bab5809616107474f25559efebc2974e2b22acae346634b49a","0x00000000ffb34c02420e9948eacd78cf33b059a88ade1ff0614f7f3c303cf3a7",true]}

08:26:19:733   2d80   parse packet: 266
08:26:19:736   2d80   ETH: job changed
08:26:19:738   2d80   new buf size: 0
08:26:19:767   2d4c   Setting DAG epoch #142...
08:26:21:545   2d4c   Setting DAG epoch #142 for GPU2
08:26:21:548   15b0   Setting DAG epoch #142 for GPU0
08:26:21:551   2e20   Setting DAG epoch #142 for GPU1
08:26:21:554   15b0   Create GPU buffer for GPU0
08:26:21:556   2d4c   Create GPU buffer for GPU2
08:26:21:559   2e20   Create GPU buffer for GPU1
08:26:28:944   2e20   GPU1 DAG creation time - 7227 ms
08:26:28:947   2e20   Setting DAG epoch #142 for GPU1 done
08:26:30:152   2d4c   GPU2 DAG creation time - 8343 ms
08:26:30:155   2d4c   Setting DAG epoch #142 for GPU2 done
08:26:30:462   15b0   GPU0 DAG creation time - 8823 ms
08:26:30:465   15b0   Setting DAG epoch #142 for GPU0 done
08:26:31:280   2d80   got 267 bytes
08:26:31:283   2d80   buf: {"id":null,"method":"mining.notify","params":["905f","0x7235baaf41773ba0dbd7a77351aeea42ccfa2214ea4db05e1dc1e3d586faa332","0xa91b532dbccf95bab5809616107474f25559efebc2974e2b22acae346634b49a","0x00000000ffb34c02420e9948eacd78cf33b059a88ade1ff0614f7f3c303cf3a7",true]}

08:26:31:286   2d80   parse packet: 266
08:26:31:289   2d80   ETH: job changed
08:26:31:292   2d80   new buf size: 0
08:26:31:295   2d80   ETH: 09/12/17-08:26:31 - New job from europe.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
08:26:31:298   2d80   target: 0x00000000ffb34c02 (diff: 4300MH), epoch 142(2.11GB)
08:26:31:301   2d80   ETH - Total Speed: 60.485 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:00
08:26:31:304   2d80   ETH: GPU0 17.417 Mh/s, GPU1 24.364 Mh/s, GPU2 18.704 Mh/s

====================================================================================================
Stopping miner process ...
Stopping Mining Software
Diagnostics completed

Also in profit profile algo blake2b checked.
Any ideas?

[zeewor]

I tested the new version 4 and was going to buy it until i discovered i cant switch pools etc from the GUI using ccminer. It is greyed out and it says "Basic" connection. I also hope it is possible to use different gpu settings per ccminer based rig. Did i miss something obvious or is these function not going to work for people mining with the environment in mind(since amd almost doubles electicity usage)? Or is there a workaround somehow?

Please explain this so i can buy it. Im excited to set it up and watch the dashboard..

Did you setup a Managed Miner in AM, so that it downloads the CCminer to the rig and then controls it?  Or did you setup an external miner to look at your already installed/running ccminer?

If you created a Profit Miner, you can't manually change pools, the logic in AM will do it for you if you've setup a pool grouping and told AM to use it for profit switching.

Thank you for your response. I will try it out later today. It sure sounds like I have some things to learn about this software. I like that.
Much appreciated.