[ANN] Miner Control 1.6.1 - Auto profit switching miner controller - page 53.

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Quote from: DemosMirak on October 08, 2014, 05:12:42 AM

I just noticed, but the wafflepool X13 price keeps being 0, leading to the rest of the calculations being 0 as well. Am I the only with this?

I see that too and it is coming in as zero from the API. I'm not sure if WafflePool is starting up or shutting down support for X13 as they have instructions for it on their website but it does not show up in the top line stats on the site.

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I just noticed, but the wafflepool X13 price keeps being 0, leading to the rest of the calculations being 0 as well. Am I the only with this?

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Quote from: Travis9x on October 07, 2014, 04:13:13 PM

I also just noticed that CoinKing is finally responding to your API requests. And, Miner Control is getting attention in the ccMiner / CUDAmining thread as well. This excellent tool and your hard work is being recognized!

Many pages back I posted on that thread when I first put NiceHash Control out being that at the time it was about the only way to algo switch on NiceHash with nVIDIA cards. I still keep track of that thread but not often enough. When I went over there now I was over 10 pages behind but I did see the discussion. Thanks for carrying the torch.

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I also just noticed that CoinKing is finally responding to your API requests. And, Miner Control is getting attention in the ccMiner / CUDAmining thread as well. This excellent tool and your hard work is being recognized!

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Quote from: StuffOfInterest on October 07, 2014, 07:58:36 AM

Quote from: DemosMirak on October 07, 2014, 07:56:39 AM

Guys, what do you think is a good weight for Wafflepool, due to the 24 hour average stats? I myself chose for 0.8, but should it be higher/lower?

0.8 is about what I was thinking. So far, even at 1, it hasn't been my top very much since I started testing last night. 20% penalty for out of date information seems reasonable.

I agree. Though even with no weight adjustment, WafflePool hasn't risen to my top at all since it was added.

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Quote from: DemosMirak on October 07, 2014, 07:56:39 AM

Guys, what do you think is a good weight for Wafflepool, due to the 24 hour average stats? I myself chose for 0.8, but should it be higher/lower?

0.8 is about what I was thinking. So far, even at 1, it hasn't been my top very much since I started testing last night. 20% penalty for out of date information seems reasonable.

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Guys, what do you think is a good weight for Wafflepool, due to the 24 hour average stats? I myself chose for 0.8, but should it be higher/lower?

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Quote from: DemosMirak on October 07, 2014, 06:42:48 AM

The donation miner, does it mine against the same address as to which we could manually donate, or is it a separate address?

Same address. For TradeMyBit, it mines against an account named "MinerControl". Both are listed in the sample config file now. I've seen some credit going into all of the pools since yesterday so a few people are definitely doing the donation mining!

I try to keep the MinerControl income and my personal mining income segregated.

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The donation miner, does it mine against the same address as to which we could manually donate, or is it a separate address?

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MinerControl 1.2.2 has been released and is available for download.

This is just a fix for a problem with the cumulative running time for a service not showing in the service grid.

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Quote from: StuffOfInterest on October 06, 2014, 05:17:15 PM

OK, as promised, time to put the dirty laundry out for all to see. As of version 1.2.0, Miner Control is now open source. You can see all of the ugliness over at the GitHub repository.

For now I'll keep offering binary downloads from my site but sooner or later I'll transition to hosting both source and binary packages only from GitHub. If there wasn't some odd issue with Bitcointalk not being able to proxy image links from GitHub I'd host the screen shots there to.

Consider using the issue tracker for any bugs you find. This thread will probably remain the main place for support but for things that require code fixes it would be nice to have the issues documented in the repository.

If you are a coder, pull requests will be considered. There are certainly a few features left to add in.

Awesome! I have some tests and important papers to write for my classes right now, but I'll be sure to examine your code in the next week or two, and submit some feature suggestions for your appraisal. Keep up the great work! Grin

PS: Nice to see WafflePool added, despite their lack of a real-time API. I wish CoinKing was more willing to work with you on their APIs. Tongue

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MinerControl 1.2.1 released.

Adds support for WafflePool.

I don't like that their API for earnings only goes to the day level rather than a sliding window of a couple of hours but this will have to do for now.

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OK, as promised, time to put the dirty laundry out for all to see. As of version 1.2.0, Miner Control is now open source. You can see all of the ugliness over at the GitHub repository.

For now I'll keep offering binary downloads from my site but sooner or later I'll transition to hosting both source and binary packages only from GitHub. If there wasn't some odd issue with Bitcointalk not being able to proxy image links from GitHub I'd host the screen shots there to.

Consider using the issue tracker for any bugs you find. This thread will probably remain the main place for support but for things that require code fixes it would be nice to have the issues documented in the repository.

If you are a coder, pull requests will be considered. There are certainly a few features left to add in.

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Awesome, just finished upgrading all the miners!
People increase the donation percentage, it's a small fee compared to what you get for it.

DemosMirak

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Upgrading as I type. Thanks for all the work!

AL23

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Thank you. Just upgraded to 1.2.0. Keep up the grate work. Would love to see more pools added when you find once that work with MC.

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Just released version 1.2.0. The only significant change is to finally add donation mining. By default MinerControl will mine for 2% of the time every 4 hours to my accounts. You can adjust these parameters or if you don't want to do donation mining just set the "donationpercentage" property to 0.

As always, a big thanks to those who have chosen to donate in the past. If it hadn't been for those small (and some not so small) encouragements I probably wouldn't have taken MinerControl as far as I have so far.

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Quote from: Travis9x on October 01, 2014, 02:42:35 AM

Quote from: polanskiman on October 01, 2014, 12:49:01 AM

Also. I have noticed that since I have been using MinerControl, Nicehash seems to be reporting less hash power than when I used ccminer alone. Any ideas why?

Here are the stats. https://nicehash.com/?p=miners&a=4&d=7&addr=1F1DChiJvjyZymecjFY4JwTjrbkaeVZNKj
Notice the right side of the graph. Average hash is lower than all the left part where all the hash is more compact and miner was not constantly switching from one algo to the other.

It's probably because your miners are switching to other pools some of the time, so your total hashrate for NiceHash per hour is lower. Just my guess.

I just noticed something else about this. The NiceHash graphs only show your hashrate PER ALGORITHM, not your total hashrate for the whole pool in general. So of course if you compare your hashrate on ONE algorithm, when you were using ccMiner alone, to mining on MULTIPLE algorithms with MinerControl, then the graph for that ONE algorithm is going to look broken and sporadic, because MinerControl switches you to other algorithms when they're more profitable for you. In addition, MinerControl also switches you to entirely different pools, if they're more profitable (and also only if you've set them up), so that will break up your hashrate with NiceHash as well. But all-in-all, since MinerControl has you mining with whatever pool & algorithm is most profitable at the time, your total income/profit is going to be higher per hour per megahash, than it would be if you were only mining a single algorithm on a single pool.

In short, you have to take the data from those graphs IN CONTEXT. You can't just glance at the surface, and make a judgement from that.

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Quote from: Travis9x on October 01, 2014, 02:42:35 AM

Quote from: polanskiman on October 01, 2014, 12:49:01 AM

Quote from: StuffOfInterest on September 30, 2014, 09:37:06 PM

Quote from: polanskiman on September 30, 2014, 09:31:36 PM

How's the work coming along for WafflePool??

Waiting for them to produce a realtime API.

Ok. Hopefully they will soon

By the way, I see you use 0.90 as weight in your .conf file. Why would one not trust the reported price of the pool?

If I don't want to put any weight, I simply use 1 as value, right?

He weights NiceHash slightly lower, since both NiceHash and WestHash provide exactly the same payout, and he is geographically closer to WestHash (thus the tiny weight difference will usually only make NiceHash reported profitability slightly less than WestHash, but not affect the value of WestHash against any other mining pools). I use a weight of 0.99 on NiceHash for the same reason.
And yes, you can just put 1 for no weight, or remove that line entirely.

Quote from: polanskiman on October 01, 2014, 12:49:01 AM

Also. I have noticed that since I have been using MinerControl, Nicehash seems to be reporting less hash power than when I used ccminer alone. Any ideas why?

Here are the stats. https://nicehash.com/?p=miners&a=4&d=7&addr=1F1DChiJvjyZymecjFY4JwTjrbkaeVZNKj
Notice the right side of the graph. Average hash is lower than all the left part where all the hash is more compact and miner was not constantly switching from one algo to the other.

It's probably because your miners are switching to other pools some of the time, so your total hashrate for NiceHash per hour is lower. Just my guess.

Quote from: polanskiman on October 01, 2014, 12:49:01 AM

Finally, what is the purpose of providing the hashrate, power and exchange values? Are they only used as visual reference in the GUI or are they used to calculate something?

Sorry if all these questions sound dumb but I'd rather ask than remain ignorant!

They are used to calculate the profitability of each algorithm/pool, yes. The "Net" column indicates this. (ie, hashrate x price = earn, and earn - fees - power = net…not precisely how the calculations work, but it should help you get the general idea) This is how the tool knows which algorithm/pool to mine, by judging which is most profitable from these numbers (the one with the highest Net).

Thanks

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Thanks, that makes sense I thought it was a user parameter. Yes it's a dedicated rig

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