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

[patrike]

Awesome Miner version 4.4.4

- Improved failure detection for pools included in the profit switcher, to faster detect failures between the profit switching intervals
- Possible to manually reset the list of failed pools for a miner, to have the profit switcher consider them again. The feature can be access from the View Details dialog where the failed pools are listed.
- Excavator miner will only connect to a single pool (or two pools for dual mining)

[patrike]

I have been checking out awesomeminer and like what i see.

However, the implementation for Excavator is not optimal. For all the supported excavator algos, except neoscrypt, excavator should run with two threads. The current implementation only runs with one thread leading to lower than optimal hashrates.

Is there a way for me to edit the way awesomeminer generates the .json file for excavator?

The Excavator miner uses a configuration file instead of command line parameters, forcing Awesome Miner to generate this configuration file and leaving very little flexibility for the users of Awesome Miner to override the behavior. I can look into making some kind of template configuration file available to open up for customizations, but that feature is not yet available.

According to the Excavator documentation, it should be one worker for almost all configurations - but that might of course not be true for all scenarios:
https://github.com/nicehash/excavator/tree/master/nvidia

[streaml1ne]

Is there a way to change the exchange rate coin that shows in the Dark Tables dashboard? It's showing Bitcoin for me but I usually exchange in Eth, I've tried switching around the coins in the status bar and looking in settings for an option but don't see one.

[Zaffor]

Is it possible to set intensity of a miner for only 1 or 2 algorithms instead of all of them.
I added --intensity on the edit profit profile page

[puch0021]

Is it possible to set intensity of a miner for only 1 or 2 algorithms instead of all of them.
I added --intensity on the edit profit profile page

Managed software -> select miner -> user defined command lines per algorithm that you can customize intensity. Note you must add the algorithm name into the command line to start the user defined command line.

E.g. default X17 algorithm starts with x17. In the user defined command line, you also have to start with x17

[puch0021]

Awesome Miner version 4.4.4

- Improved failure detection for pools included in the profit switcher, to faster detect failures between the profit switching intervals
- Possible to manually reset the list of failed pools for a miner, to have the profit switcher consider them again. The feature can be access from the View Details dialog where the failed pools are listed.
- Excavator miner will only connect to a single pool (or two pools for dual mining)

One suggestion - is there a way to have a batch file run before each algorithm switch when using a managed profit miner (similar to a managed miner)?

[ruplikminer]

I am having a problem with CCminer and CCminer Aleixis.

Basically when I launch them they freeze. No error message. Just freeze and sit there not mining forever  ---> http://prntscr.com/ife51p

This is the diagnostic log: http://prntscr.com/ife67s  (in diagnostic mode seems to start but in "normal mode" no).

On that rig I have a fresh installation of win 10, 5 1070ti and swap file is 8000 - 50000

Out of 10 times I try, 1 or 2 it starts and when it starts it works correctly. The other 8/9 it freeze there at the start forever.

Any help would be really appreciated.

[eminer001]

Cool that it supports the latest excavator, but this really brings out a huge weak point in this software - the benchmarking and software selection system is the worst and requires so much manual labor to do something that can be easily handled via software.

It would be great if there was a way to automate selecting which mining software is enabled or disabled per profit profile depending on benchmarks. Right now it benchmarks exactly one mining software per algo, based on which I've alreeady selected. This is backwards, because I don't know which mining software I want enabled until I benchmark it. The right answer is always whichever software puts out the best number.

Instead of making me click through a million menus to test equihash with dstm, ewbf, ccminer, excavator and everything else - the software should just test everything and pick the best. And preferably remember the results per software, so when a new version of the software is released, it only needs to test the new software.

Example workflow:

I enable ewbf, ccminer, claymore, excavator for 1080 Ti profile.

Results:

Equihash ewbf : 11mh
Equihash ccminer: 12mh
Equihash excavator: 13mh
Ethereum ccminer: 25mh
Ethereum claymore: 32mh
Ethereum excavator: 31mh

1080 Ti profile automatically set to use excavator for Equihash, claymore for Ethereum.

Then new ccminer comes out. Benchmark tests only ccminer:

Equihash ccminer: 14mh
Ethereum ccminer: 30mh

Now profile set for ccminer for Equihash, but still claymore for Ethereum.

You are right , I also did this to find the fastest miner for an algo, by moving up or down in the list the miner and benchmarking again.

Now that excavator was introduced, I benchmarked excavator on all agos that are enabled on excavator and I noticed that excavator is faster on 5 algos than all the other miners. I enabled only that 5 algos for excavator and and disabled all the other algos from excavator with less hashrate.

The advantage is that I know that any time in the future, when I would benchmark I will always have these 5 algos faster for excavator and it is not necessary to benchmark with the same algo all the other  miners again like NiceHash does. You might notice that Nicehash Benchmarking is 10 times slower (takes a lot to benchmark rigs with 8 or 16 GPUS copared to AM ). So, the suggestion you have will increase a lot the benchmarking time (that is really not optimized right now, because it should have a different execution time for different algos).

I do not think that I have to wait every time 5 times more time to know each time that the order is the same and only the best hashrate is saved, but indeed I really think it would be useful to have an option like "Test all miners and pick the fastest miner for each algo", right ?

Now, the question remains what do we do when we benchmark today and we have  the values saved and when we benchmark again 2 weeks later the values are different. The values also lead to wrong algos ordering because new hashrates changed the ordering, making some algos more profitable.

What do you think ?

 

I do not think that I have to wait every time 5 times more time to know each time that the order is the same and only the best hashrate is saved, but indeed I really think it would be useful to have an option like "Test all miners and pick the fastest miner for each algo", right ?

Now, the question remains what do we do when we benchmark today and we have  the values saved and when we benchmark again 2 weeks later the values are different. The values also lead to wrong algos ordering because new hashrates changed the ordering, making some algos more profitable.

It is also useful to have the latest benchmark date saved and schedule periodic benchmarks. I noticed that benchmark hash rates varies for the same RIG when benchmarking again after 1 week.


Any ideea ?

[Freight]

I do not think that I have to wait every time 5 times more time to know each time that the order is the same and only the best hashrate is saved, but indeed I really think it would be useful to have an option like "Test all miners and pick the fastest miner for each algo", right ?

Now, the question remains what do we do when we benchmark today and we have  the values saved and when we benchmark again 2 weeks later the values are different. The values also lead to wrong algos ordering because new hashrates changed the ordering, making some algos more profitable.

It is also useful to have the latest benchmark date saved and schedule periodic benchmarks. I noticed that benchmark hash rates varies for the same RIG when benchmarking again after 1 week.


Any ideea ?


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I also would be interested in automated benchmarking every so often to guarantee the best profits.

[wildzer0]

Can't benchmark any dual algorithms. I'm getting "No pools specified" every time. Benchmarking single Ethereum works.

Found out why this happens - when you disable Ethereum for Claymore Dual. It still shows up in the benchmarking window, but benchmarking any dual algorithms then fails because it disables the Etherum main pool. Strangely benchmarking single Etherum still works though (even though it shouldn't even display the miner when its disabled).

[eminer001]

Can't benchmark any dual algorithms. I'm getting "No pools specified" every time. Benchmarking single Ethereum works.

Found out why this happens - when you disable Ethereum for Claymore Dual. It still shows up in the benchmarking window, but benchmarking any dual algorithms then fails because it disables the Etherum main pool. Strangely benchmarking single Etherum still works though (even though it shouldn't even display the miner when its disabled).

For me it does not save any hashrate from the 2nd ALGO. So if I want to mine with "Claymore Dual 11" the best combination like Etherium+Blake2s it is not possible because on benchmark this combination is saved with $0.00 additional for blake2s.


Can this be fixed ?

[Storx]

What is the command to single out a single GPU on Excavator, i found it does Neoscrypt 2x higher than my ccminer, so wanted to use it as part of profit switching, but want to be able to specify which GPU's to use it on only like i do on ccminer (-d 1) in command line

[Mr.Spider703]

What is the command to single out a single GPU on Excavator, i found it does Neoscrypt 2x higher than my ccminer, so wanted to use it as part of profit switching, but want to be able to specify which GPU's to use it on only like i do on ccminer (-d 1) in command line

--cuda 0 1 2

[moppidoo]

Can't benchmark any dual algorithms. I'm getting "No pools specified" every time. Benchmarking single Ethereum works.

Found out why this happens - when you disable Ethereum for Claymore Dual. It still shows up in the benchmarking window, but benchmarking any dual algorithms then fails because it disables the Etherum main pool. Strangely benchmarking single Etherum still works though (even though it shouldn't even display the miner when its disabled).

For me it does not save any hashrate from the 2nd ALGO. So if I want to mine with "Claymore Dual 11" the best combination like Etherium+Blake2s it is not possible because on benchmark this combination is saved with $0.00 additional for blake2s.


Can this be fixed ?

If you mean 2nd Algo by meaning the 2ndary algo from dual mining, then just to confirm you are doing the following:

To benchmark:
1. Enable Claymore EthDual in the profile
2. To benchmark, you only need to tick "Ethereum" and it will benchmark all the supported Dual algos too
3. To save the result however, you need to tick all the algo's that has "Benchmark result", so in this case, tick all (blake 2b, blake 2s, Decred, LBRY, Pascal, SHA-3), the "Configured hashrate" should then be updated.

Of course, if this is what you did and it still failed to save, then shoot Patrike a message and see if it is indeed buggy.

[Seanklei10]

I frequently use the JSON from WTM for pulling statistics. However, I have found quite a few new coins that do not show up in WTM. I'd like to still pull in the difficulty data for these coins, is there a way to actively do this? I understand how to create a coin, but that just statically sets the difficultly.

[ojmalik]

I frequently use the JSON from WTM for pulling statistics. However, I have found quite a few new coins that do not show up in WTM. I'd like to still pull in the difficulty data for these coins, is there a way to actively do this? I understand how to create a coin, but that just statically sets the difficultly.

I usually dont have to do anything special besides adding the json url into statistics tab for coins to show up. They dont appear right away, but after a few statistics update cycles they do.

The only time they dont is if the algorithm hasnt yet been added and enabled in awesome miner. Both in the algorithm tab as well as adding and enabling the miner propely in the managed software tab (not 100% sure this second point is necessary, but it's what i've always done). Good examples of this are Cryptonight-light, polytimos, HSR or TimeTravel10. Once the algo is added the stats from whattomine show up in the coins tab.

[wildzer0]

He's talking about coins that aren't listed on WTM.

[ojmalik]

He's talking about coins that aren't listed on WTM.

Shoot, i misread that, my bad.

[ojmalik]

I frequently use the JSON from WTM for pulling statistics. However, I have found quite a few new coins that do not show up in WTM. I'd like to still pull in the difficulty data for these coins, is there a way to actively do this? I understand how to create a coin, but that just statically sets the difficultly.

There was reference to be able to do this in 4.4 changelog. Havent investigated further yet:

- Awesome Miner API method to set coin properties, for setting profitability of custom coins from external applications

[MarkR8673]

Please add native support for PhoenixMiner.

Thanks!