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

[puwaha]

I want them mining what is currently most profitable on MPH. Looking at the View Details > Profit Switching tab showed Eth (incld. Blake 2b) as most profitable when it was switched to it. 90% of the time they are doing Equihash / NeoScrypt / Skein from what I've seen over the last couple weeks. Ethereum surged in price recently though and took over during dips in the other algo coins which is why it became most profitable I assume?

Rigs are running 8x1070 GPUs and I'm not sure about your question about correctly benchmarking? It seems relatively straightforward. Tools > Benchmark > Precise benchmark with all Algorithm's selected. Is there something else I need to do?

That's odd.  What is your benched hashrate for Ethash vs. Equihash for those 1070s?  I just ran another benchmark for my 1070 rig and I have 21 Mh/s for Ethash, and 412 sols/s on Equihash.  Now, granted, I have my 1070 rig's power limit and underclock tuned for low-wattage Equihash, but there's no way those  numbers would make AM switch to Ethash.

[soccerjt]

any way to add time to dstm miner i feel like im missing where to put --time

[potison]

Is there a way to setup awesomeminer to exclude some coins from mining on pools with auto switch ? I have a rig with nvidia 1060 x3 and one 970 card, so 970 is kinda sucks with ETH and ETC mining, it gives only 7MH/s instead of 24MH/s but it's good with young ether forks. So now i have to completely disable ethereum algo from mining for this rig because if Ethereum is most profitable coin for now then my rig working on it only with 70MH/s instead of 90MH/s.

So how to disable 2 specific coins for that rig ?

[soothaa]

Patrike, can you point me in the right direction? I'm trying to update a custom coin with the C# scripting interface and I am unsure how to save my updates back (or if It even functions like this)

Code:

public class ActionScript
{
	private ContextProvider Context = ScriptManager.Context;

	
	public bool Execute(List<IMinerBase> list)
	{
	
		Muncoin bob = new Muncoin();
		bob.SetProperties("", 0, 0, 0);
		return true;
	}
	
}

public class Muncoin : ICoinStatProvider
{
	public string coinShortName;
	public double difficulty;
	public double reward;
	public double valueBtc;
	
	public Muncoin()
	{
	}
	
	public void SetProperties(string _coinShortName, double _difficulty, double _reward, double _valueBtc)
	{
	 coinShortName = "MUN";
	 difficulty  = 10;
	 reward = 10;
	 valueBtc = 10;
	}
	
}

I REALLY need some way to automatically update custom coins..

[robl450]

Does anyone know why ccminer alexis is showing Gpu0 invalid argument when ccminer 2.2.3 works fine for Nist5?  I'd rather use the alexis version as its much faster.  It works fine in multipool miner.

[intacto1]

How do we run the c# scripts? Should we put them in a specific directory to be interpreted by awesome miner or should we develop an executable using those interfaces? If second option, which dll's should we reference?

Ok, I solved it by adding reference to am executable.

[soothaa]

How do we run the c# scripts? Should we put them in a specific directory to be interpreted by awesome miner or should we develop an executable using those interfaces? If second option, which dll's should we reference?

Ok, I solved it by adding reference to am executable.

Were you actually able to get that to work? I was not successful.

[intacto1]

How do we run the c# scripts? Should we put them in a specific directory to be interpreted by awesome miner or should we develop an executable using those interfaces? If second option, which dll's should we reference?

Ok, I solved it by adding reference to am executable.

Were you actually able to get that to work? I was not successful.

Yes, just add a reference to AwesomeMiner.exe and import required namespaces like "AwesomeMiner.Infrastructure.Contracts.Miner" and "AwesomeMiner.Components.Intelligence.Scripting".
But apart from that it didn't fulfill my expectations because the interface does not contain methods like creating a new pool.

[soothaa]

How do we run the c# scripts? Should we put them in a specific directory to be interpreted by awesome miner or should we develop an executable using those interfaces? If second option, which dll's should we reference?

Ok, I solved it by adding reference to am executable.

Were you actually able to get that to work? I was not successful.

Yes, just add a reference to AwesomeMiner.exe and import required namespaces like "AwesomeMiner.Infrastructure.Contracts.Miner" and "AwesomeMiner.Components.Intelligence.Scripting".
But apart from that it didn't fulfill my expectations because the interface does not contain methods like creating a new pool.

Thanks for the info. Yeah I'm finding I cannot create new or update custom coins via the API which is extremely frustrating and disappointing.

[proteus7]

Yes, the version Awesomeminer downloads is broken. You need to get Alexis from elsewhere..best place I found is to extract from the bin directory on multipoolminer or Nemo, then just copy it back to awesomeminer (under %appdata%)

Does anyone know why ccminer alexis is showing Gpu0 invalid argument when ccminer 2.2.3 works fine for Nist5?  I'd rather use the alexis version as its much faster.  It works fine in multipool miner.

[evolart]

I want them mining what is currently most profitable on MPH. Looking at the View Details > Profit Switching tab showed Eth (incld. Blake 2b) as most profitable when it was switched to it. 90% of the time they are doing Equihash / NeoScrypt / Skein from what I've seen over the last couple weeks. Ethereum surged in price recently though and took over during dips in the other algo coins which is why it became most profitable I assume?

Rigs are running 8x1070 GPUs and I'm not sure about your question about correctly benchmarking? It seems relatively straightforward. Tools > Benchmark > Precise benchmark with all Algorithm's selected. Is there something else I need to do?

That's odd.  What is your benched hashrate for Ethash vs. Equihash for those 1070s?  I just ran another benchmark for my 1070 rig and I have 21 Mh/s for Ethash, and 412 sols/s on Equihash.  Now, granted, I have my 1070 rig's power limit and underclock tuned for low-wattage Equihash, but there's no way those  numbers would make AM switch to Ethash.

Ethereum 31.55 Mh/s
Equihash 426 H/s

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Afterburner:

Core Voltage +0
Power Limit 75%
Core Clock: +99
Memory Clock: +650
Fan Speed: Auto

https://imgur.com/AEyKO5D

[evolart]

Is there a way to setup awesomeminer to exclude some coins from mining on pools with auto switch ? I have a rig with nvidia 1060 x3 and one 970 card, so 970 is kinda sucks with ETH and ETC mining, it gives only 7MH/s instead of 24MH/s but it's good with young ether forks. So now i have to completely disable ethereum algo from mining for this rig because if Ethereum is most profitable coin for now then my rig working on it only with 70MH/s instead of 90MH/s.

So how to disable 2 specific coins for that rig ?

You can disable entire algorithms (Ethhash for the two coins you mentioned). Right-click your rig, select Edit Profit Profile, uncheck Ethereum, click Ok.

[robl450]

Yes, the version Awesomeminer downloads is broken. You need to get Alexis from elsewhere..best place I found is to extract from the bin directory on multipoolminer or Nemo, then just copy it back to awesomeminer (under %appdata%)

Does anyone know why ccminer alexis is showing Gpu0 invalid argument when ccminer 2.2.3 works fine for Nist5?  I'd rather use the alexis version as its much faster.  It works fine in multipool miner.

This is what I don't understand, I really like this program, but it shouldn't be this hard to setup.   I shouldn't have to go in and put in different software that just works with multipool miner.  I shouldn't have to configure algorithms and add them in.  How hard is it to look at the 4 or 5 pools this thing works on and add the algorithms in with each new release?  Further I shouldn't have to go in and disable ccminer so that it will use cc miner alexis, it should bench both and use the best one.

Not trying to be a jerk, but when you have software that you pay for, you expect that you shouldn't have to do all this work to configure.  What happens when  miner changes?  We do this all again?

[pythus24]

I have been mining for a while and noticed that miners are restarting roughly every 2 minutes. I am running GPU mining on Nvidia 980, and it doesn't matter which miner program is running, ccminer/ewbf/excavator, after 2 minutes of mining, the process would stop and restart immediately. I even tried CPU mining, it would run through the same stop/restart cycle.

This is what I found in the logs, showing only when the stop restart happens (the time it takes for each stop/restart cycle is exactly 02min 24sec):

Code:

28-Dec-17 10:11:35 AM.612 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Mining Engine Process started, PID: 4264
28-Dec-17 10:11:37 AM.619 [001] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Interface connected
28-Dec-17 10:14:02 AM.173 [005] [W][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] process not running. Restarting...
28-Dec-17 10:14:02 AM.173 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Stopping...
28-Dec-17 10:14:03 AM.176 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Performing stop
28-Dec-17 10:14:03 AM.176 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Stopping Mining Software
28-Dec-17 10:14:03 AM.176 [005] [S]  Process already closed
28-Dec-17 10:14:05 AM.184 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Starting...
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28-Dec-17 10:14:07 AM.208 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Mining Engine Process started, PID: 10812
28-Dec-17 10:14:09 AM.620 [001] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Interface connected
28-Dec-17 10:16:33 AM.784 [005] [W][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] process not running. Restarting...
28-Dec-17 10:16:33 AM.784 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Stopping...
28-Dec-17 10:16:34 AM.786 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Performing stop
28-Dec-17 10:16:34 AM.786 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Stopping Mining Software
28-Dec-17 10:16:34 AM.786 [005] [S]  Process already closed
28-Dec-17 10:16:36 AM.793 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Starting...
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28-Dec-17 10:16:39 AM.005 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Mining Engine Process started, PID: 1904
28-Dec-17 10:16:41 AM.655 [001] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Interface connected
28-Dec-17 10:19:03 AM.542 [005] [W][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] process not running. Restarting...
28-Dec-17 10:19:03 AM.542 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Stopping...
28-Dec-17 10:19:04 AM.546 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Performing stop
28-Dec-17 10:19:04 AM.546 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Stopping Mining Software
28-Dec-17 10:19:04 AM.546 [005] [S]  Process already closed
28-Dec-17 10:19:06 AM.547 [005] [S][ManagedMiner#5 - gpu miner] Starting...

I do not have any rules setup, in fact I have disabled any rules from the settings. Profit switching interval is set to 30 minutes

How can I get the miners to keep mining without the stop/restart every 2 minutes?

Thanks for your help.

"process not running. Restarting..." is typically an indication that the mining software has crashed and Awesome Miner detects that the process is no longer running and initiates a restart of it. What is a bit strange here is that it happens so frequently and always 2 - 3 minutes in between. Is this with only Awesome Miner itself or is a Remote Agent involved as well? Could you click the Diagnostics button in the toolbar just to verify that the output from the mining software is OK?

the restart was happening almost like clock work, and only when mining using Awesome Miner. However, recently I tried something which for some reason caused the miners to run stably without restart. In Options, Profit Switching, I ticked Profit Switching Threshold and set it to 10%.. Then after a day of running with no restarts, I removed the the tick, and the miners still running without restarts. Not sure why this fixed it. So far no restarts or errors for last 48 hours.

Thanks.

[puwaha]

any way to add time to dstm miner i feel like im missing where to put --time

You would add things like this in the command line parameters.  Where you add that depends on what you are trying to accomplish.  I usually only add custom command line parameters at the pool level, unless it's something to do specifically with that rig, then I add them at the managed miner or profit miner level.

[puwaha]

Is there a way to setup awesomeminer to exclude some coins from mining on pools with auto switch ? I have a rig with nvidia 1060 x3 and one 970 card, so 970 is kinda sucks with ETH and ETC mining, it gives only 7MH/s instead of 24MH/s but it's good with young ether forks. So now i have to completely disable ethereum algo from mining for this rig because if Ethereum is most profitable coin for now then my rig working on it only with 70MH/s instead of 90MH/s.

So how to disable 2 specific coins for that rig ?

You can't exclude specific coins out of the box, because that's not how pools like Zpool work.  You can exclude whole algorithms though.  You can uncheck the Ethash algorithm from your profit profile, then it will not switch to that at all.

Now, there is a way to exclude specific coins, but you have to manually setup each individual coin's pool URL and port in individual stand alone pools, then bunch them together in a pool group... then tell AM to use the custom pool group to profit switch against.  It's a little bit of work to setup the individual coins as individual pools... which is why sites like Zpool make it easier to just mine the algorithm... and AM just leverages this auto-switching ability.

[puwaha]

Yes, the version Awesomeminer downloads is broken. You need to get Alexis from elsewhere..best place I found is to extract from the bin directory on multipoolminer or Nemo, then just copy it back to awesomeminer (under %appdata%)

Does anyone know why ccminer alexis is showing Gpu0 invalid argument when ccminer 2.2.3 works fine for Nist5?  I'd rather use the alexis version as its much faster.  It works fine in multipool miner.

Or you can upload your corrected version of Alexis as a user-defined managed software.

[tf2addict]

Trying auto profit switching for the first time.  It's generally working well but when I enabled zpool it switched to Lyra2 and the profit was less than half what other algos are paying.    Any idea what happened there?

[puwaha]

Yes, the version Awesomeminer downloads is broken. You need to get Alexis from elsewhere..best place I found is to extract from the bin directory on multipoolminer or Nemo, then just copy it back to awesomeminer (under %appdata%)

Does anyone know why ccminer alexis is showing Gpu0 invalid argument when ccminer 2.2.3 works fine for Nist5?  I'd rather use the alexis version as its much faster.  It works fine in multipool miner.

This is what I don't understand, I really like this program, but it shouldn't be this hard to setup.   I shouldn't have to go in and put in different software that just works with multipool miner.  I shouldn't have to configure algorithms and add them in.  How hard is it to look at the 4 or 5 pools this thing works on and add the algorithms in with each new release?  Further I shouldn't have to go in and disable ccminer so that it will use cc miner alexis, it should bench both and use the best one.

Not trying to be a jerk, but when you have software that you pay for, you expect that you shouldn't have to do all this work to configure.  What happens when  miner changes?  We do this all again?

I think you are looking at this the wrong way.  Awesome Miner makes it easy to make one change, then apply it to 12 rigs with minimal effort.  What would you do if you weren't using AM, and discovered a problem with a version of some mining software and you needed to manually update 12 rigs one at a time?

Plus, AM offers some of the most popular mining software out of the box.  It's not AM's fault if the mining software has faults.  If you discover something wrong, then just report it Patrike... he usually fixes it the next release.

[puwaha]

Trying auto profit switching for the first time.  It's generally working well but when I enabled zpool it switched to Lyra2 and the profit was less than half what other algos are paying.    Any idea what happened there?

Did you benchmark your rig and apply an updated/benchmarked profit profile to the managed profit miner?  You can right-click a running profit miner and select View Details to get insight into why AM is making decisions about switching.