Hello Patrike,
Thanks a lot for adding ability to update softwares using local network shares. It works perfectly !
I would have another request regarding benchmarking. Most of the softwares allow AM to read power consumption from graphic cards.
Could you add the possibility for AM to read this power data during benchmarking and save it at same time it save hashrate ?
I know it's not representative of the global power used by a rig but it could be enough to compare profits between algorithms...
Thanks for the update.
The feature to include power usage for benchmarks should be possible to support on nVidia systems in the future.
Thank you patrike!
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TL;DR
Could you give the consideration to offer (for a price where you see fit) periodic data collection into AM Cloud that includes data like http://mypc:17790/api/miners, and future, power consumption when integrated) please?
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More feature suggestions - (likely suggested b4, but let's see if it can be pushed up the development plan)
I think by now, most ppl gotten into mining "seriously" (ones that can call collection of home rigs "mini farm" and has to fork out electricity cost from own pocket) are starting to realise that mining is hard work and not immediately profitable or "lucrative", as of this time with BTC hitting almost yearly low and Altpocalypse, a good portion of the mining community has already switched off their rigs / sold their equipment...etc. It probably makes good sense to implement a "real" performance analysis feature and there's no better time than now when everyone start to realise the pick and shovels are quite costly to run and work their magic.
Right now, I haven't came across (granted, haven't tried much) any software that seriously takes the cost factor into performance report/analysis. like @trucobit says, it's a feature that is becoming very sought after (see how desperate he is
). Everything involved in profit switching decision making is revolved around no more than 24 hours of data and can only provide estimate with limited samples, this is true not just for AM, but almost every collective mining management software out there.
IMHO, there really is no "performance analysis/report" when this performance doesn't take into account of cost, AM already has historic hashrate performance logging, but that means little on it's own if power consumption / monetary profit statistics cannot be used in conjunction with this data. Especially when hashrate differs from profit switching perspective and the data on its own has very little to no usefulness.
Might I humbly suggest, that since AM already has cloud service integrated. Is it possible for now, that you could provide some options to collect (as much in detail as possible) mining data like how @Finnsk3 does (
http://stats.finnsk3.com/) periodically (1min is cool).
I understand implementing anything useful for representation / analysis will take huge amount of time (like @Finnsk3 said, he collected all the data, but he also lacks time to have it integrated in his own site for reporting), but at least it would be nice to have a way for us non-programmers to have these historical data collected and available for future use. and you could work this one out progressively to provide extra add-on services for the AM Cloud feature like how @trucobit suggested @Finnsk3 (at a cost of course, I know @trucobit and I for 2 are willing to pay for the reasonable add-on price for additional features ;p, i'm not inciting business competition between you and your customer(s), but who'd know AM better than you and already has a working cloud platform to run the services?)
Wouldn't be useful if there's no data to analyse, so better late than never, to start collection process now, and gradually expand the aspects of report analysis. This not only give insight to past performance, future estimates, but it could provide a nice foundation for "Intelligent Profit Switching" decision making etc.
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One thing I'm doing (extremely slowly) is that while people are requesting ability to record and find out the optimal "intensity", I'm trying to find the optimal Hash/W at given BTC/Fiat in order to find the best Profit/W, by adjusting Power Limit instead of adjusting intensity, in theory and probably easily (but not for me, my mathematics sucks), there is an optimal given BTC price where benefit of increase in power consumption still results in more increase in profit and conversely in some cases, benefit (profit) of reducing power usage (hence increase H/W) actually is better when say, in a prolonged bear market like this year.
This for me (and my level of crappy maths) involves benchmarking at various PL (currently, i'm doing in 10% increments) and record them in different profiles, then later trying to figure out the correct formula, so I can say (in English/common language) and make rules that's like (for a very concise example):
When USD/BTC is > 10000 and/or mbtc/MHs (for particular algo) is > xxx, then use high PL profile, or else, use low PL profile.
this would come into very handy to find an optimal value for USD/BTC and mbtc/MHs (once I figured out the formulas or...if you could make AM do it, saves me the headache
) used for the trigger, especially when you also have a comprehensive "historical" data to compare.
Best Regards,
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P.S. I just tried minerstats.com's msOS, and the comprehensive reporting doesn't have what I wanted above, and AM is far more superior and versatile in terms of profit switching (and self managed), so for a price of paying for the kind of services like minerstats, minerboard, hiveOS, i'd rather have to just pay AM and have less complicated operation.
Although I quote you (@moppidoo) here, the answer below is of course for @trucobit as well.
First of all, I fully agree with your points that the current performance history feature and the insight and statistics of what you have been mining isn't as good as it could be. I've had a number of comments on this so it's on the list of feature to add.
Your insightful feedback is valuable and is interesting as it also brings up the concept from a Cloud Services point of view. May I ask what your view is on if the existing Performance History feature is improved, without the use of Cloud Services? For example that Awesome Miner wouldn't only include hashrate and temperature, but also pools, algorithm, mining software, power usage and profit? Of course a way to analyze and get a summary of this would also be required.
I do see both benefits and drawbacks with including Cloud Services in the concepts here so any additional comments on this topic is of course valuable.
Thanks for the great comments.
