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

[omshree]

Is it possible to add more profit switching pools , like Multipool, to be able to watch the current profitability?

[patrike]

How to get information from Awesome Miner Remote Agent? Nothing said about it on the help page

Is your question about adding it in the user interface of Awesome Miner? Or to actually get data from it to built something to connect to it?

[patrike]

Hi
I am a new user of Awesome miner, just purchased profi edition for testing.
I try to add a new user defined coins like XMG and Bitconnect

My question:

How can i configure a Bitconnect coin for Profit switcher if this coin change difficulty after each block?
I cant find any place in program where i can put a link to Bitconnect API from https://www.blockexperts.com/bcc/api

By XMG coin problem is bigger, this coin change difficulty and block reward after each block.

maybe it is a good idea to implement in next releases functionality for reading coin APIs

Or i do something wrong?

Regards

Hi,
Most Block explorers use different API's, making it impossible for Awesome Miner to be compatible with everything out of the box.

There are some people that write their own C# scripts inside Awesome Miner to connect to custom API's and then set the coin profitability in Awesome Miner based on the data.

[patrike]

Hi patrike,

Here are some of my issues and development suggestions:

   1. Profit switching should also depend on the profit change % (e.g. Nicehash uses %10 to switch to another algo). If any drops happen over this value it should stop and change the miner.
   2. While stratum connection fails for some reason for a long time it should not try infinitely to connect (sometimes you get banned or server could be down), it should switch to the second or third best alternative after some tries (e.g. 5, 10 depending the user input)
   3. For non-homogeneous systems (e.g. with different gpu's with different settings), card by card benchmarking should be available (like nicehash). And depending on the best profit result, every card or card group could mine the best profitable one on itself (e.g. nicehash redirects my 3 asus dual's to dual mining, 2 msi's to equihash, 3 evga's to .... )
   4. When I try to assign the hash rate value coming from the mining process (incremental value in a specific time), it overrides the single card value and writes over the sum of the hash rate onto the current single card's benchmark value. I do not know if it changes the profit calculation but it should be corrected.
   5. Algo/gpu dependent benchmarking could be available. As in nicehash example, it benchmarks every miner with every gpu. It tries both excavator and ewbf for zcash mining; claymore and ethminer for ethereum mining; alexis and tpruvot for keccak etc. and selects the most profitable one while mining. It is done at first while benchmarking.
   6. There is some problem with the alexis version of ccminer. I tried both manualy and with awesome miner but it gives error with my gpus.
   7. Switching to ewbf is not easy, it is getting opened and closed too many times in a short period of time in order to start mining. When I try manually from the bat file it goes perfect.
   8. In longer times, second or third instances of ccminer could start. Both of them mines while lowering the performance of themselves. Third instance is generally passive.

Thanks

Thanks for the feedback, I will use this as input to future improvements.

[patrike]

Does anyone else have it that pools which are configured with privileged api access are gone after a while or after poolissues / miner-reboot ?
It randomly goes back to the config which is set in the webinterface of the miner.

It all relates to the default pools of the Antminer. An Antminer can have up to 3 default pools, and they cannot be set over the API (even if you have Privileged API)

However, Awesome Miner do support setting default pools on the Antminers over SSH, so please use the feature in Tools -> Antminer -> Default Pools for this.

[patrike]

Can I use awesome miner to profit switch on a Baikal miner?

I don't have any reports from users of Baikal miners on this, so I actually don't know. If the "Prioritize" button is working when you select one of the pools on the miner, the External Profit Switcher will work as well. Setup instructions:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/profitswitching.aspx#externalprofit

[patrike]

Im having a problem when using profit switching and it tries to switch to cryptonight (SG Miner 5.5.4), the miner keeps crashing.
I'd like to use SG Miner instead of claymore as it performs better with my cards.

The miner starts, and immediately closes once it reads config (doesnt even proceed to the 2nd screen).

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

You can change the priority of the software used if you go to Options dialog, Profit profile section, edit either AMD or nVidia profile. If you select Claymore and click the down arrow you can make it lower priority.

[patrike]

Please add in pool view duration since last submited share or time counter how long miner work on this pool since profit switcher has switched to this pool.
Please add information about actual mined share difficulty.
Please add in miner view actual RPM for miner fans. This is very important information for Antminers.

Regards

Hi,
1) On the Summary tab you have "Last Share Time", but unfortunately no indication about how long the miner worked on the pool.
2) The difficulty information is currently only available if you right click on the miner and select "View Details". Here you will find a lot of details from the miner.
3) Fan RPM is already listed on the ASIC tab

[patrike]

Is it possible to add more profit switching pools , like Multipool, to be able to watch the current profitability?

If it's for single coin mining it will work as long as the coin is already listed on WhatToMine.com.

[patrike]

Awesome Miner version 4.1

- Profit switcher
  * GPU Clocking profiles configurable per Profit profile and per algorithm for the profit switcher
  * Set worker name and wallet address per Managed Profit Miner when using custom pools with the profit switcher
  * View profit switching decisions for External Profit Switcher in View Details dialog
  * Configurable pause time between stop and start of mining software by the profit switcher, via Options dialog Advanced section.
  * Added GranatGas and HashRefinery to the profit switcher
- Configuration
  * Pool configuration via built-in web interface
  * Pool permissions configurable per user group
  * Worker name for pools can use alias "[ComputerName]" to be replaced by the name of the computer running the mining
  * Webhook can be customized per notification action, to override global webhook settings
  * Added pool setting to ignore worker name specified on miner
  * New setting to include revenue per month in group summary in Miners tab
- Notifications and rules
  * Notification operations available for non administrators via the built-in web interface, only operating on the notifications for the specific user
  * New trigger to detect low device count for a miner, to find out when a GPU is missing
  * New trigger to detect low fan speed, to find failing GPU fans
- User interface
  * Show more devices temperatures in the Status column
  * Show Bitcoin values with more decimals when needed
  * Filter Online Services based on selection of Profit Profile
- Hyperbit BWL21 ASIC miner support
- Ethminer (nVidia) can be monitored as External Miner by selecting Claymore Ethereum Miner as software
- Claymore Ethereum Miner 10.1
- CcMiner 2.2.2
- Correction to the profit switcher, Coinwarz API and a several minor corrections

Important: Make sure you upgrade Remote Agent to the same version as well
Important: CcMiner 2.2.2 requires nVidia GPU drivers 384.xx or later for Cuda9 support.

[cc_entrepreneur]

Does Afterburner itself work well with all the GPU's? Can you overclock all 9?

No I can't overclock the 9th GPU. Every other GPU works fine but I found something weird about afterburner. For some reason, it shows 11 GPUs. 10 would still make sense, since I've enabled my integrated GPU but 11? It shows one more 1080 TI even tho there is not 11th 1080 TI.

Kinda weird...

Maybe I should reinstall windows on that miner.

Afterburner does not work (does not open)  in my 13gpu 1080ti system, I use Asus GPU Tweak 2 and can make OC to all the gpus without any problem. Maybe it should be integrated into Awesome Miner, too. Another option could be nvoc utility (https://github.com/deathcamp/NVOC) to oc mem and core; "nvidia-smi -pl xxx" for the power. A bat file could be created from all of these.

[ojmalik]

Afterburner does not work (does not open)  in my 13gpu 1080ti system, I use Asus GPU Tweak 2 and can make OC to all the gpus without any problem. Maybe it should be integrated into Awesome Miner, too. Another option could be nvoc utility (https://github.com/deathcamp/NVOC) to oc mem and core; "nvidia-smi -pl xxx" for the power. A bat file could be created from all of these.

Seconded. Afterburner just crashes with 12 GPUs, works fine on my 8 GPU rigs. I too have resorted to using NVOC and nvidia-smi -pl to set my rigs with a bat file. This works fine for regular managed miners as they have the ability to run command before starting to mine. It's more of an issue for the profit switching miners, would need some way to run different command per algorithm.

[bensam1231]

You guys are just asking for trouble with the giant rig systems, then want people to fix it when you are using something borderline experimental.


In other news, Patrik a little quality of life fix, please sort profiles based on last used instead of alphabetical. It would make it a lot easier to sort through templates when you have a lot of them.

[xChackOx]

Hi!

It seems like AM is doing wrong calculations in coin prices for Nicehash

https://i.imgur.com/QepAJ17.jpg

That or someone crazy is paying a lot for Lyra2REv2. Probably Scrypt is wrong too.

[patrike]

Hi!

It seems like AM is doing wrong calculations in coin prices for Nicehash

That or someone crazy is paying a lot for Lyra2REv2. Probably Scrypt is wrong too.

Hi,

Yes - Nicehash changed their profit reporting for Scrypt and Lyra2REv2 today. Awesome Miner 4.1.1 was released earlier today and adjusts to those changes. I will post the change log for it here as well.

[patrike]

Awesome Miner version 4.1.1
- Adjust to recent change for Nicehash Scrypt and Lyra2REv2, where profitability is specified in TH/s instead of GH/s
- Correction to profit switcher dual mining scenario where it could crash on some configurations.

[Kronny]

Awesome Miner version 4.1

- Configuration
  * Worker name for pools can use alias "[ComputerName]" to be replaced by the name of the computer running the mining

Ty Patrike! Must I write [ComputerName] in the pool configuration page? like "address.[ComputerName]"?
can not write in miner propriety?
2 question, i can not understand how to change pool, if i click on one of my miner->switch pool->click on another pool (same algo) the miner do not change.
Ty

[patrike]

In other news, Patrik a little quality of life fix, please sort profiles based on last used instead of alphabetical. It would make it a lot easier to sort through templates when you have a lot of them.

Thanks for the suggestion. What I also had in mind was a filter function, because I've been getting a few of those requests. The idea would be that you enter a few characters in a text box to filter away all non-matching items, making it easier to find compared to scrolling in a very long list. I know this isn't exactly what you are asking for, but could this partially solve your problem as well?

[patrike]

Awesome Miner version 4.1

- Configuration
  * Worker name for pools can use alias "[ComputerName]" to be replaced by the name of the computer running the mining

Ty Patrike! Must I write [ComputerName] in the pool configuration page? like "address.[ComputerName]"?
can not write in miner propriety?
2 question, i can not understand how to change pool, if i click on one of my miner->switch pool->click on another pool (same algo) the miner do not change.
Ty

1) Right now it's only for the pool, but if needed, I can add it to the "Add to worker name" part of the Managed Miner as well.

2) What kind of miner and mining software is it?

[derkos]

Did AM ever get support for the eBit miners?