[ANN] Miner Control 1.6.1 - Auto profit switching miner controller

[jkminkov]

MC got caught on nicehash spike, then price went 0 and it never switched back

2017-05-03T11:57:25, Start, Automatic, NiceHash, keccak, , , hashrt:156375.00, tpavgsp:0.00, plfee:3.0 %, price:0.009900, earn:0.001548, fees:0.000046, power:50.0000, netearn:0.001502, avgearn:0.001505, balBTC:0.000000, servbal:0.003278, runtime:00:05:22

03.05.2017 г. 12:01:40 ч.
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Type: DivideByZeroException
Message: Attempted to divide by zero.
Stack trace:    at System.Decimal.FCallDivide(Decimal& d1, Decimal& d2)
   at System.Decimal.op_Division(Decimal d1, Decimal d2)
   at MinerControl.MiningEngine.RunBestAlgo(Boolean isMinimizedToTray)

above repeated every second until I stopped it.

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[boo50]

which pools are the best to use with MC ? I mean what it's more effective to use PPS pools when switching.
or mine small coins with small block time.
I'm use yiimp at the moment, maybe anyone can recommend another?

MPH use pplns and show usually higher price, which I seems not adequate.

[hashrefinery]

which pools are the best to use with MC ? I mean what it's more effective to use PPS pools when switching.
or mine small coins with small block time.
I'm use yiimp at the moment, maybe anyone can recommend another?

MPH use pplns and show usually higher price, which I seems not adequate.

yiimp based pools such as Hash Refinery, Zpool, etc do two things when a block is found:

1) Divide the block reward proportionally among users valid shares (minus fees)
2) Delete valid shares on the algo older than 5 minutes (default value)

This is neither PPS or PPLNS, but a custom approach that suits multi-algo mining.

If you're mining an algo where blocks are found frequently it will take 5 minutes for your percentage of the shares to come up to the full value as older shares are aged out.  Similarly when you stop mining you'll keep getting some block rewards for the next 5 minutes + 1 block.
If you're mining an algo where blocks are found infrequently, its effectively PPS, but if you're mining in the 5 minutes leading up to a block being found you'll have some shares carry over into the next round.

Hope that helps.

[jkminkov]

bullshit, neither yiimp or zpool are configured to work like that, they are simply prop, so was original yaamp pool!

[hashrefinery]

bullshit, neither yiimp or zpool are configured to work like that, they are simply prop, so was original yaamp pool!

You can check the source code if you like: https://github.com/tpruvot/yiimp/blob/next/web/yaamp/core/backend/blocks.php

Lines 14-18 find all the valid shares for the current block
Lines 20-56 credit the earnings to each miner holding valid shares
Lines 58-64 delete all the shares from the algo, except those generated in the past 5 minutes

Code:

$delay = time() - 5*60;
$sqlCond = "time < $delay";
if(!YAAMP_ALLOW_EXCHANGE) // only one coin mined
$sqlCond .= " AND coinid = ".intval($coin->id);
dborun("DELETE FROM shares WHERE algo=:algo AND $sqlCond",
array(':algo'=>$coin->algo));

If you meant this line:

If you're mining an algo where blocks are found infrequently, its effectively PPS, but if you're mining in the 5 minutes leading up to a block being found you'll have some shares carry over into the next round.

That was indeed an error - I meant to say PROP instead of PPS.

[zorvalth]

Can you point me how is the best way to configure dual mining: Ether on pool and only change pascal/decred/sia on nicehash for best profit?

[QuintLeo]

@Giraudy, any way you could add coins from the Coins section in WhatToMine.com?  Specifically the Skein algorithm based coins?  They have JSON access just like the main list, here:

Skein is highly profitable for 1070's normally peaking the charts, not sure why its not on the main list.

 shhh, we want to keep those under the radar....

[jkminkov]

nicehash fee is 4%, is it hardcoded to 3%?

[Giraudy]

nicehash fee is 4%, is it hardcoded to 3%?

No, it is not hardcoded. Can be changeable via config "fee" key.

[Giraudy]

As far as the last beta looks to be rather stable, decided to public a release 1.7.0.

Compiled Windows build is available per links as usual:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz8-ln3QUcV4U3kzVXFzMUI0VUE

https://mega.nz/#F!rhAFCbIa!F4XoHfIYoPYgJ-V1TUyP2A


Source code for release can be found here:

https://github.com/PaulGiraudy/MC


Work on further improvement still goes on.

[jkminkov]

nicehash fee is 4%, is it hardcoded to 3%?

No, it is not hardcoded. Can be changeable via config "fee" key.

if used on another pool, will it override what is provided by api?

[Giraudy]

nicehash fee is 4%, is it hardcoded to 3%?

No, it is not hardcoded. Can be changeable via config "fee" key.

if used on another pool, will it override what is provided by api?

Fee can be set in config, but if pool provides its value in API, it will be overwritten. Nicehash doesn't have fee in API reporting, so it should be set manually.

[jkminkov]

manual fee should override api data.

"devfee" does not work if set, it even multiplies fees by 0.

edit:
found another bug, default settting "avgspeedticks":10, 10 is low enough to cause trouble with etherium or clones when miner had not submitted a share miner is declared DEAD, but MC does not try to shut it down, instead it launches another miner and trying to mine something else while etherium miner is still running causes next miner to be declared dead and it all runs in a spiral of rig lock up...
edit2:
 how to disable or increase those 20 minutes when miner is declared DEAD?
edit3:
 seems trying to add musicoin @ MiningPoolHub was a total failure...

[shubaduba]

First of all, thank you for this great MC tool. It saves a lot of time.

I've tried to add solo-mining coins to mine.
It works if launched manual, but MC doesnt show price, diff or Earn columns.

Here is my code:
 "SOLO-SIB": {"pricemode": 0, "cweight": 1, "fee":0,
        "algos": [{"active" : true,  "cname": "sibcoin", "priceid": "168", "tag": "SIB",  "algo": "sib", "folder": "_APARAM1_", "command": "_APARAM2_", "arguments": "_APARAM3_ 192.168.2.231:9335 -u 1 -p 123 -i 22" }]

WTM is enabled in "general" :
 "wtmbuffer": true,
        "wtmsyncperiod": 2,
        "wtmextracoins":true,
        "wtmurl": "http://whattomine.com/coins.json",

Did I miss something?

[Giraudy]

First of all, thank you for this great MC tool. It saves a lot of time.

I've tried to add solo-mining coins to mine.
It works if launched manual, but MC doesnt show price, diff or Earn columns.

Here is my code:
 "SOLO-SIB": {"pricemode": 0, "cweight": 1, "fee":0,
        "algos": [{"active" : true,  "cname": "sibcoin", "priceid": "168", "tag": "SIB",  "algo": "sib", "folder": "_APARAM1_", "command": "_APARAM2_", "arguments": "_APARAM3_ 192.168.2.231:9335 -u 1 -p 123 -i 22" }]

WTM is enabled in "general" :
 "wtmbuffer": true,
        "wtmsyncperiod": 2,
        "wtmextracoins":true,
        "wtmurl": "http://whattomine.com/coins.json",

Did I miss something?

Everything looks normal, but change the name "SOLO-SIB" for "WTM-SIB". It is key word for any manual-configured pool with price to be taken from WTM.

[Giraudy]

manual fee should override api data.

"devfee" does not work if set, it even multiplies fees by 0.

edit:
found another bug, default settting "avgspeedticks":10, 10 is low enough to cause trouble with etherium or clones when miner had not submitted a share miner is declared DEAD, but MC does not try to shut it down, instead it launches another miner and trying to mine something else while etherium miner is still running causes next miner to be declared dead and it all runs in a spiral of rig lock up...
edit2:
 how to disable or increase those 20 minutes when miner is declared DEAD?
edit3:
 seems trying to add musicoin @ MiningPoolHub was a total failure...

1) I'll check miner's devfee more precisely.
2) "avgspeedticks" is just averaging period for worker speed, it shouldn't cause "dead" status. As for me, met similar signs with Claymore miners. Usually folks set retries amount for each miner in "aparam3":, ccminer -r 1, claymore  -r -1. It is solving the start of many instances of miners.
3) should be "deadtime" key in config. I've changed anything for this, it stayed from previous releases, let me know if something works incorrect.
4) MUSIC for MPH and Genoil { "active" : true, "cname": "musicoin", "algo": "ethash", "tag":"music", "folder": "_APARAM1_", "cweight": 1,  "fee": 0.9, "command":
"_APARAM2_", "arguments": "_APARAM3_ -S _SPARAM1_:20585 -O _ACCOUNT_._WORKER_ _SPARAM2_" },

[jkminkov]

well it doesn't work, after 20 minutes it says DEAD, deadtime is the time after pool is declared dead to try to switch back to it.

pool is fine, MC says it's DEAD after arround 20 minutes.

[Giraudy]

well it doesn't work, after 20 minutes it says DEAD, deadtime is the time after pool is declared dead to try to switch back to it.

pool is fine, MC says it's DEAD after arround 20 minutes.

As I see from the code  if (!_process.IsRunning() && _currentRunning != null) the string becomes dead, if it is started, but now miner instance (as system process) running or being crashed. If you try the pool without MC, from ordinary bat file for example. Is it OK?

[jkminkov]

find it, it was missing “cname”, "tag" was not enough, works now

p.s. btw for Expanse use ''-allcoins exp'' instead of "-allcoins -1" and "nofee -1" for musicoin as after an hour miner restarts itself and MC can't shut it down afterwards

[joeyjj]

First of all: thank you for the time and work, devs! Such a great tool.

I've been using MC for about a week. After a couple of days straight running, MC starts to really slow down periodically. The UI will freeze up for 20 to 25 seconds, then it will work normally for a minute or so, then it'll freeze up again. It does seem to coincide with price updates. After closing the application and opening it agian, it pauses for, I'd say, about 1 second. MAYBE 2 seconds.
I have a 7700k and 32GB of RAM; I'm not used to that happening! RAM usage gets up to between 700 and 800 MB, varying up and down. The miner itself seems to keep mining away just fine--it's only the GUI that has an issue.
I have most, but not all, of the config's included pools set up and running.
Is there something I can do to prevent the slowdown? I'd rather not have to babysit it if I can help it.

Any help will be appreciated!