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[patrike]

Installed new version of AM and added excavator. Benchmark runs fine but when I start the rig on multipool hub it seems to show several algos in blue with speeds all 0.00000

What did I do wrong?

I just learned that Excavator and Mining Pool Hub doesn't work together. After doing more research, it looks like the Excavator miner is explicitly blocking connections to Mining Pool Hub because of some disagreements between Nicehash and Mining Pool Hub.

I will have to implement something in Awesome Miner that prevents the profit switcher from selecting the combination of Excavator and MPH. For the moment, please disable one of them.

[patrike]

Mine stops. Picture below.

Please make sure you select "Excavator (latest)". By the look of the command line, it looks like it was prepared for the old Excavator miner

[patrike]

Here is a small update about what's in the pipeline and the plan is to include it in a new release within the next 24 hours.

* Claymore 11.0 with the new dual mining algorithms
* Excavator 1.4.3 supported as Managed Miner and Managed Profit Miner
* A new profit switching feature where the profit switcher looks at the accepted shares of the mining to try to figure out if the current pool is failing. If there are no accepted shares for 8 minutes (configurable), the pool will be ignored by the profit switcher for 5 hours (configurable). The feature will be disabled by default.

Please note that if the pool is reporting that the shares are accepted, but still fail in some other way (payouts not as good as expected, shares not counted although reported as accepted, ...) it will be impossible for Awesome Miner to detect. Awesome Miner will not be able to solve all pool issues, but hopefully help a bit.

The release will contain more than the items above, but I think these three items are the most requested and discussed right now. Thanks for all feedback.

I can also point out that Bminer probably will be the next mining software for me to explore.

Thanks for the improvements.

The problem was that accepted shares that was reported by ccminer was between 19000 and 53000 and the method you described won't work, because accepted shares on pool's reports was zero, see this : https://www.dropbox.com/s/4obw9jkx0s8l84g/Screenshot%202018-02-09%2011.53.34.png?dl=0
 
I opened www.zpool.ca/api/walletEx?address=WALLET_ADDRESS and the miner's array are not uniquely identified by AM with ID fields from miner's array (you leave it empty) and also accepted field from each miner remained to zero even if AM was mining for 3 hours.  

So from my point of view you are not reading and you are not using the real values from the pools that are the most important, because only the registered hash-rate on the pool's side is that transforms to payments.  

The implementation is simple and will fix a lot of issues all caused by the fact that you read what miners are reporting (that many times miner lie and report misleading values to hide the developer / or hacker's stealing fee) instead of reading values recorded from the pool that many times, with many miners are lower.

I also think that you should use total_earned field from /api/walletEx?address= and add checks like :
1) if value decreased it means you were mining an orphaned fork - this happened last week, and was reported on this forum and also we saw that on all pools 8 hours of income vanished because all MA users with 24 hours statistics were mining on ahashpool orphaned CRC coin . Also AM could cause 51% attack and soft fork that means all AM users will loose all the money on that branch (I hope you know what I am talking about).
2) if the value increases you have the difference and you will have to show a new column for each miner with pool's earnings reports the statistics with income per unit of time (make the difference between 2 requests from the pool in seconds and if the reports are not identical (because pools refresh statistics every few minutes) divide the income to the number of seconds and you have real income from the pool in $.
3) Add in rules triggers and actions (a very useful part of AM, congrats for that, btw) new items based on the accepted and total_earned fields from pool's statistics (all you need is some associative arrays to store values for each pool. New rules will be much better than flawed "accepted" rules we have now.

Am users will compare values from the pool with values from the statistics and will notice that :
1) the miner is stealing and reporting inflated hash rates that is a practice these days and you are ignoring it;
2) a specific pool is stealing or is not functioning correctly for any reason (errors, restart, ddos).
3) AM users will really appreciate you because they feel you are on their side, because they have together millions of dollars on your hands and you have a huge responsibility to protect their inestment

So, do you understand, Patrike ?

Do you understand ?

Yes - I see your point.

[patrike]

Hi Patrike
please add in your system this wonderful multipool service: d3pool.eu
Its realy good pool with low fees.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try to find a good solution for supporting yiimp-based pools like this one in general, so any of these pools can be supported.

[Zaffor]

Installed new version of AM and added excavator. Benchmark runs fine but when I start the rig on multipool hub it seems to show several algos in blue with speeds all 0.00000

What did I do wrong?

I just learned that Excavator and Mining Pool Hub doesn't work together. After doing more research, it looks like the Excavator miner is explicitly blocking connections to Mining Pool Hub because of some disagreements between Nicehash and Mining Pool Hub.

I will have to implement something in Awesome Miner that prevents the profit switcher from selecting the combination of Excavator and MPH. For the moment, please disable one of them.

Thanks for the prompt response

Shame, Excavator is a good miner for Neo and a few others and I was going to try out Multipoolhub to see if it was any better than ahashpool. Will reconfigure Awesome to go back to KlausT and DSTM for npw.

[patrike]

Installed new version of AM and added excavator. Benchmark runs fine but when I start the rig on multipool hub it seems to show several algos in blue with speeds all 0.00000

What did I do wrong?

I just learned that Excavator and Mining Pool Hub doesn't work together. After doing more research, it looks like the Excavator miner is explicitly blocking connections to Mining Pool Hub because of some disagreements between Nicehash and Mining Pool Hub.

I will have to implement something in Awesome Miner that prevents the profit switcher from selecting the combination of Excavator and MPH. For the moment, please disable one of them.

Thanks for the prompt response

Shame, Excavator is a good miner for Neo and a few others and I was going to try out Multipoolhub to see if it was any better than ahashpool. Will reconfigure Awesome to go back to KlausT and DSTM for npw.

I’m exploring if there are other solutions around this.

[cashen]

Mine stops. Picture below.

Please make sure you select "Excavator (latest)". By the look of the command line, it looks like it was prepared for the old Excavator miner

I'm pretty sure it calling the latest version. 1.4.3a

I'll keeping messing around with it. Thanks for the quick response.

UPDATE

Not sure what I did wrong. I got it working.

Side Note, HSR is much faster for me. I have all  1060s now.

[yrk1957]

Mine stops. Picture below.

Please make sure you select "Excavator (latest)". By the look of the command line, it looks like it was prepared for the old Excavator miner

I'm pretty sure it calling the latest version. 1.4.3a

I'll keeping messing around with it. Thanks for the quick response.

Change 'Generic Miner" to "Excavator (Latest)".

[cashen]

Mine stops. Picture below.

Please make sure you select "Excavator (latest)". By the look of the command line, it looks like it was prepared for the old Excavator miner

I'm pretty sure it calling the latest version. 1.4.3a

I'll keeping messing around with it. Thanks for the quick response.

Change 'Generic Miner" to "Excavator (Latest)".

I didn't have it there. I had to add it. I think you're right thought and thats what did it.

[DumaxFr]

After activation of the disconnected pool feature, i wanted to add some "manual" pools in my current pool group.
But I can't figure out how is elected my "main" pool.
In pool group, i have 3 pools enabled to mine LUX coin + other pools on differents algos.
They appear in the following order : altminer, omegapool, yiimp.
I'm currently mining LUX (PHI1612) with ccminer 2.2.4 (NVIDIA).

Here is an extract of the log before and while profit switching :

Code:

10/02/2018 23:32:38.164 [023] [S]Profitability information:
  MiningPoolHub [Equihash], Url: stratum+tcp://europe.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17023, Profit: 0,000435629468392073, Priority: 0
  LUX omegapool [Luxcoin (LUX)], Url: stratum+tcp://omegapool.cc:8003, Profit: 0,000354745416248024, Priority: 0
  LUX yiimp.eu [Luxcoin (LUX)], Url: stratum+tcp://yiimp.eu:8333, Profit: 0,000354745416248024, Priority: 0
  LUX altminer.net [Luxcoin (LUX)], Url: stratum+tcp://eu1.altminer.net:11000, Profit: 0,000354745416248024, Priority: 0
  ZEC miningpoolhub [Zcash (ZEC)], Url: europe.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20570, Profit: 0,000336345959479845, Priority: 0
  ZCL miningpoolhub [Zclassic (ZCL)], Url: europe.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20575, Profit: 0,000333913463019581, Priority: 0

10/02/2018 23:42:38.340 [023] [S]Profitability information:
  LUX yiimp.eu [Luxcoin (LUX)], Url: stratum+tcp://yiimp.eu:8333, Profit: 0,000353680232150969, Priority: 0
  LUX omegapool [Luxcoin (LUX)], Url: stratum+tcp://omegapool.cc:8003, Profit: 0,000353680232150969, Priority: 0
  LUX altminer.net [Luxcoin (LUX)], Url: stratum+tcp://eu1.altminer.net:11000, Profit: 0,000353680232150969, Priority: 0
  ZEC miningpoolhub [Zcash (ZEC)], Url: europe.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20570, Profit: 0,000336397033044581, Priority: 0
  ZCL miningpoolhub [Zclassic (ZCL)], Url: europe.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20575, Profit: 0,000333668779143475, Priority: 0
  MiningPoolHub [Equihash], Url: stratum+tcp://europe.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17023, Profit: 0,000284502342642016, Priority: 0

Typically, i wanted to get altminer pool as main and then omegapool and yiimp as backup. But Yiimp seems to be the only one elected.
Is this possible with latest version of AM ?

Patrike, I saw you were eventually planning to manage yiimp clones. Will this include a profit factor per algo like MPH, NH and others ?
Or maybe a profit factor on every configured pool ? (This could act like a kind of priority management)

[yrk1957]

I didn't have it there. I had to add it. I think you're right thought and thats what did it.

Yeah, sometimes options don't show after upgrade. You need to fiddle a bit or start template/pool creation from scratch.

[leonikus]

Hello, In Awesome ver. 4.4.2 is not working DUAL mining Ethereum - it never turn on.
Always turn on work only in single mining mode.
In Awesome ver. 4.4.1 was worked OK.

[eminer001]

Hi Patrike
please add in your system this wonderful multipool service: d3pool.eu
Its realy good pool with low fees.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try to find a good solution for supporting yiimp-based pools like this one in general, so any of these pools can be supported.

Would be a brilliant ideea to have the ability to add any yiimp based pool in an automatic way.

It is really needed to spread the huge number of AM users to various pools, maybe also having some more good ones there by default, because pools are not responsive when all AM users try to connect to the same pool at once because all AM users have the same statistics.

[Letitbebitcoins]

AM good service but it will be more better  .
Today is more new coin which isn't in coinwars or whattomine. I add new coin manually, but there is only static diff which I need change manually too.
All coins have API with dynamic diff changes. It is possible get dynamic diff via this
https://explorer.alqo.org/api/difficulty

Please add this features to coin properties.

[legendary13]

Hi Patrike
please add in your system this wonderful multipool service: d3pool.eu
Its realy good pool with low fees.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try to find a good solution for supporting yiimp-based pools like this one in general, so any of these pools can be supported.

it would be great! So many new good pool yiimp based!

[Neo-Geo]

Future patch suggestion request:
Dark mode, for both Windows program and cloud/web services.

Examples:
YouTube's dark mode
CryptoCompare (turn lights off)
Already exists for one section of Awesome Miner: Windows application Dashboard when Dashboard chart isn't enabled.

I get why most web sites started out with black text on white backgrounds, because for centuries we were staring at black text printed on white paper. But when you're staring at 50+ watts of white light for more than a minute, it grows increasingly uncomfortable. And when you're in my situation and staring at multiple displays for most of the day, dark mode becomes a huge boon to your eyes, energy savings, reduced heat output, reduced stress and cortisol levels, etc. x1000.

Signed: Neo-Geo, Enterprise Edition + Cloud Services subscriber

[D3Pool]

Hi Patrike
please add in your system this wonderful multipool service: d3pool.eu
Its realy good pool with low fees.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try to find a good solution for supporting yiimp-based pools like this one in general, so any of these pools can be supported.

Hello. Thank you for noticing. We would be very happy if we get listed into your program. If you need our developer team at any point we are opened for any help. If you need any modifications from our pool for example additional API requests or any kind of server based script we can make it work.

[patrike]

Awesome Miner version 4.4.3

- Improved compatibility for the Excavator mining software
- Improved support for running the PhoenixMiner software as user defined Managed Software using API compatibility with Claymore Ethereum miner
- Device profile configuration added for the new dual mining algorithms in Claymore Ethereum miner 11.0
- Correction to the profit switcher for selecting dual mining pools correctly

[GoRdiE]

Hi, how to enble secondary mining in excavator?

https://i.imgur.com/e3n4Z5q.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7wUsfTr.jpg

[iceman2k2]

Awesome Miner version 4.4.3

- Improved compatibility for the Excavator mining software
- Improved support for running the PhoenixMiner software as user defined Managed Software using API compatibility with Claymore Ethereum miner
- Device profile configuration added for the new dual mining algorithms in Claymore Ethereum miner 11.0
- Correction to the profit switcher for selecting dual mining pools correctly

Just installed and updated remote agents.
When it tries to start claymore cant find on remote miners.
Is there anything i have to do to push new software on the remote miners?