Topic: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners - page 365. (Read 703512 times)

Don't to take it bad, but all your problems are not Awesome miner related, but come from lack of knowledge and skill from your side...
If you want to mine without further knowledge, you should start mining with nicehash and their own software.
If you want to take the less easy road with AM, you should start with those steps :
- create a profit profile according to your mining rig.
- for your profit profile, select all mining software compatible.
- then select all online services just temporary to have access to a large panel of algorithm and make a benchmark.
- at this stage, all algorithms will be tested with all compatible software selected. When finished, AM will chose the best software for each algorithm

After that you can chose online services you want to use, or/and define specific pools for specifics coins.
Choose 24h average in statistics for less switching and more stable income.
Then enjoy ! ... or not... but don't blame AM as it only do what you ask him to do...

hello

i got a problem suddenly i cant use the deactivate button on my gpu tab in awesome miner anymore.
the deactivate button sjust stayes grayed out regardless which gpu ive selected.

anybody got a clue why thats happening since i used that to just toggle the one gpu i use for gaming so that i can still mine with the other 2 of my 3 cards

Make your order in the program !!!

There are several mistakes that need to be corrected.
1 - when updating the program, new miners are not loaded, the program must be completely deleted and the installation must be performed again.
2 - some miners are in the program and do not run for testing, for example, a claymore for dual mining refers to a port which is not on the pool ...
3 - update excavator to version 1.1.5, parse with dual mining! Pre-installed versions that are in the program do not start at all. The User defined mining software window - why it is needed at all, if you can not add your own program for mining to it, but you can only add from the above listed ones. After the addition, they are not tested and do not work. A new ccminer has been released.
4 - in testing not all selected algorithms fall into the test list. The necessary pools that are needed for testing are included.
5 - When do you understand the order of displaying video cards? The numbers of video cards are mixed and do not correspond to the chosen group of the miner.
For example, I have 4 pieces 1070 and 8 pieces 1080 on one Riga, I divided them into two groups 1070 and 1080. In the GPU tab, when selecting a group of cards, they are displayed incorrectly when the Display system monitoring option is off ....

Test the miners and put things in order with the display of video cards, deal with the overclocking without afterberner, since he does not see many cards, there is a more alternative option. Some miners can themselves accelerate themselves, such as an excavator.

Proshol already a year, nothing on these errors is not done and are not corrected .....

A note for those who are concerned about hitting minimum payout thresholds - Hash Refinery now support LTC payouts. We're not mining that coin but will buy on exchanges to keep the balance topped up.

Remember to use 'c=LTC' in the password field along with your Litecoin wallet address as your username to use this option.

Cheers

Found one more bug.

It happens at benchmarking ehen you have AfterBurner remote support installed and configured.

When benchmarking AM sendd to AB remote server "last used algo" setings for all algos you benchmark.

This is not ok. because SW then gives wrong benchmark results or crashes cards.

You must remove the AB remote server info, then benchmark, then add it again.

 

Just wanted to toss another request in, I asked a few days ago but it looks like it might have gotten buried.

Can an option in the 'detect pool' rule be added to only check the 'current pool' rather than 'all pools'?

Can we also get a detect (current) algorithm rule?

Thanks!

can you paste the diagnostics please? AM v4.7.4 updated CastXMR to 0.9.5, and with all the CN variants messing around, likely some parameters were parsed incorrectly.

Have to go with the latter, the Online Services for user defined are confined to what AM has in the list of supported pools, and custom ones are limited to Yiimp pools at least for now.

For sumo, somehow while listed in the main json on WTM, it doesn't seem to get parsed to the coins list, I guess just have to add this manually into AM via:
http://whattomine.com/coins/196.json

other less known coins you'll still have to use the coins plugin since there are no source of data that's compatible with AM for automatically update profitability.

Help!

I've been using Awesome Miner for months.  All of a sudden, after the latest update, I can't get cast xmr to start on any of my Vega rigs.

The window pops up briefly & disappears.  If it I run it manually, it works fine, but something is killing it in awesome miner.

is there any way to go back to the previous version to see if that fixes?  nothing else has changed.

Diagnostics mentions app may have incorrect config.

@moppidoo  Would I add pools from https://cryptoknight.cc/ to online services? Or just add all the pools i want and create a group then add group in profit switching.   looks like i also have to add some coins since for instance SUMO not showing in AM.

If just for the API, right now may not be the good time. But you can get around this with Yiimp pools that offer dedicated stratum ports for each coin. By setting up user defined Online Services, this works great at pools such as BSOD.pw...that way it grabs profit data exactly same as how it does with zpool and the likes but only focuses on the one coin. This is also much simpler while you still can diversify your holdings from mining.

For example, I'm doing this with SHIELD (XSH) x17 sand blake2s on BSOD, since it's multi algo and the coins plugin by @soothaa don't work with it due to inability to identify individual algo's difficulty from block explorers.

You simply need to extend this method to coins that interests you, remember this only works when the coin has its own dedicated stratum port at the Yiimp pool.

Well thanks for the long explanation i still dont know if its worth upgrading tonthe professional version

patrike: is it by design that appearance -> miner view -> list is not saved when miner is in Performance mode?

I guess it depends on what your mining habit/goal is and whether you are more into micro-managing/risk taking. If all is just for simplicity and just like NiceHash, where all your coins are converted to a few currency of your choice, then I believe the above setting would be a good starting point, using 24h Actual will provide perhaps most stable coin-flow of course, the statistics from the pool gets even more accurate especially the pool itself has found many blocks across the coins it supports (but whether that's good for decentralization, is another matter lol).

However, if you are a coin collector/speculative miner and you don't mind the initial setup process + a bit more of ongoing micromanagement, then definitely use Yiimp pools other than the ones in the predefined online services in conjunction with @soothaa's plugin (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/awesomeminer-coin-updater-version-100-plugin-2979494) and setup your own pool groups for profit switching. I have detailed reason to stay away from pre-defined pools in posts in the previous page if you wish to go down this track, I do not know if that's going to be fixed or it is remain to be working as intended.

Just remember if you are the latter type, you need to make sure either you run nodes/wallets yourself or you are able to find exchanges that can accept direct mining to exchange wallet from pool. and a few points to look out, most importantly, if PPLNS/PPLNT pools, you need to check the pool's average block extraction time vs PPLNS/PPLNT window, if the window is > time to find block, no problems, you will get credited for most if not all the shares you submitted. Otherwise, you'd be better mining on pools with PROP, RBPPS type of payout scheme even if fees are 1 percent or 2 higher. Note, most Yiimp pools are PROP, Mining-Dutch is PROP (if you setup miner there, watch out for the port, use vardiff normal diff port, not the high diff port), cryptoknight.cc is PROP (but most of your GPU won't need to mine cryptonight coins for extended time as they yield less than AMD counterparts). Minerpool gives lots of ethash PoW coins and uses PPSW (dunno what that is, I assume a form of PPS), good to setup there since your cards won't mine ETH/ETC with much profit and the 2 3GB cards are troublesome too with current epoch > 170...even with Claymore's -eres workaround. However, other coins like UBIQ, PIRL, ELLA can still be profitable at times. Also minerpool have good hashrate so finding blocks is regular thing. I haven't found good PROP Equihash pool...so staying with AikaPool, they are PROP but hashrate is low on many coins (though much better than Pool.Sexy) so it could be a few days to find block on unpopular coins there, same goes for Equipool.1ds.us, which is also PROP.

Regardless what you use, just remember to use AM's rule to avoid getting caught by sudden spikes in profitability in all cases so minimal time are wasted mining temporary super profitable coins that aren't profitable at all.

i see you experiment many types.I have 15x1060 (2 of them are 3gb) and 9x1070 rigs, what will be your advise to me?Should i select 24 hour estimate ,uncheck adjust and switch 10m %5?

That's complicated lol, luckily, Patrike already is laying the foundation by collecting hourly profit data from the Yiimp pools, current form probably only eases out spikes, but surely it can be expanded based on the same dataset (not sure needed more regular collection interval though) and implement something similar to Nemos or the likes. Give it time, I'm sure Patrike can comeup with something surprisingly good (already, there's almost no doubt he's working on it! IMHO)

The difficult thing to achieve in your case is that you wants to ride the difficulty dips, but the profit reported by the pools have a majority factor based on already achieved luck + difficulty which gets oversimplified before it gets fed into AM as just a simple profit/hashpower figure. so agreed with you that a workaround like you suggested could possibly be in place until something awesome could be implemented

Yeah the 24 hr actual will switch less, but I want to ride the difficulty dips.  Sometimes it works great if the pool finds a few blocks during those dips, and sometimes it doesn't if the dip is short-lived, but I've generally had good results if I keep my switching % threshold high enough.  Some other tools have interesting compromises:
- NemosMiner Plus uses a trust mechanism that combines the 24 hr actual with current estimates
- Crypto GUI Miner seems to store avg difficulties over different time thresholds (i.e. 1 hr, 3 hr, 6 hr, etc.), although their calculator has other problems

I would love it if AM could incorporate one of these ideas, or even just add that "Don't switch pools on same algorithm" checkbox

Ahh, so you're meaning same algo but between different multipools. This is harder, but to mitigate the issue, make sure you use 24h actual for statistics. I personally found that both 24h Estimate and of course, Current, skews the profit/MH figure, and ended up with unnecessary switching.

Most Yiimp pools, depend on if they can normalize and if the normalization is applied optimally. they base the 24 Estimate on the recently found blocks, so if they got lucky and hit 2 blocks in a row in a relatively short time, that is usually enough to skew the reported profit to AM and cause you to switch. By the time you switched to them, you usually ended up on the unlucky round(s) as per Murphy's Law...and as a result, not earning as much as you would've expected according to what is being reported.

at least the 24h actual uses much longer period for averaging the reported profit and hence, less swing on the profit rate and less unnecessary switching.

If I have your equipments and wish for simplicity, I would do the following:
Use 24h Actual, check Adjust, Use NiceHash (especially for your VEGA rig), there are almost no cryptonight autoexchange pools, so unless you want to get messy in the current foreseeable fork mania on the CN coins then check out https://cryptoknight.cc/ (I'm not endorsing them, in fact haven't used them but planning to include when I gets the chance, they seem pretty active tracking the
CN coins situation), else, MPH only does XMR which doesn't leave much room for optimization, but stable enough income should be generated from the VEGAs. Again, MPH and NiceHash for Ethash if you don't want to go through the hassle of getting messy with the different coins out there (and no AutoExchange)

you'll not have much problems reaching payout on any of the other predefined pools, so depends on how much you like each and everyone of them...zpool at least offer Equihash pool, I had issues with MPH (along with some other users) on Equihash that they sometimes block a few of my machines from their equihash pools ending up with wasted mining effort, some misconfigured connection/DDoS protection maybe.

Thanks - that's sort of what I'm talking about.  I actually don't mind using auto-exchange to BTC, but it's really not even perfect for that because there's still down time and ramp-up time with the miner.  For example, I watched earlier today where I was mining X17 on ahash, then it switched to X17 Zerg, then back to X17 on ahash all within 5 min. 

It would be really nice if there was a checkbox in the Profit Switching tab that said something like "Don't switch pools on same algorithm".  Doesn't seem to me like it would be that difficult to implement.