Topic: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners - page 409. (Read 703512 times)

Hello!

First of all, thanks for your great work on adding additional coins and statistics to Awesome Miner with your scripts.

I do have some good news for you. I've implemented support for adding and removing user defined coins via the API . There will be a new development release with support for it in a few days from now.

Add user defined coin with profitability
Similar to the API call to set coin profitability, a new user defined coin can automatically be added if no coin with the specified short name exists. The name and algorithm parameters must be specified for the coin to be added. If the coin already exists, the name and algorithm parameters will be ignored and only the profitability will be updated.

Example:

Delete user defined coin
Example:

What I've not finalized yet is a way to set other parameters like coin difficulty and so on. I can add that quite fast if there is a need for it as well - just let me know. Any feedback is of course welcome.

Difficulty changes all the time. Also I don't know about everyone else, but the temperature in NY changes week by week. A few weeks ago it was 62 in my apartment (I don't use heat just miners) and 5 degrees outside with all windows closed. Now it's 75 in my apartment using window fans and 72 outside. That makes a difference too. I rebenchmark every once in awhile already so it would be cool if the program did it for me, and choose the best time to do it when profits are low already. Even a 1-2% increase in profits on one or 2 algorithims could be alot of money being left on the table. It would be an option of course, and like I said, you could just select the top contenders ie:results of 620s 650s 660s 661s 662s, you could check off the 660, 661, and 662. Maybe the next week (or set it for a month, or even 2) the mining software that was registering as 661 is now doing 607, and the one that was 662 is coming up at 659 now.

I don't understand the need for all of this benchmarking. Unless new software comes out your hashrate for a given algo on a specific mining software will always be a constant.

Hello. Thank you for a great program, and even more so because it is constantly evolving with the great suggestions of actual miners. I'd like to second (or third, or fourth, who's counting?) the suggestion of benchmarking every algorithm with every mining software available. Also I was thinking about the periodic re-benchmark feature. My little contribution to that would be if you could set it to let's say "Benchmark approximately every 7-10 days" "Benchmark approximately every 15-20 days", etc, then, the cool part would be that the program runs the benchmark when it detects (for instance) the current profitability is at it's lowest point in the last period. (like run the benchmark sometime between the 7th and 10th day or the 15th-20th day using stats from the period in the example) Also it would be cool to select which mining software re-benchmarks, so you could deselect mining software that isn't even in the ballpark, and only re-benchmark serious contenders. Just a couple ideas that could help, since it seems we're always chasing that 5 or 10 percent that we've lost in profitability. Also, maybe this is obvious, but for re-benchmarking it would be great if it could be  ran on only one GPU if they are all the same model to reduce downtime. And once again, thank you for all you do!

I agree and understand.

I have been collecting coin stats, and trying to make a profit switch algorithm.  It is really hard.  You get a current difficulty, or a 24h average, or 2, 4,8 h... this is by no mean, an indicative of future performance.  Take for example DNR, whose difficulty swings wildly in -1000% to + 1000% from an avegare.  Even if someone figure out how to do this, there is still the price.  Some coins have a high volatility in exchanges.  

I will try to use machine learning in order to predict a little better future performance, based on past and current data, but there is no garantee it will work.  

I agree, this would be AWESOME

Because this eminer likes to be babysitted.  Because he likes to complain and offend others.  Because he thinks patrike has a telephatic connection to him, so every simple custom feature he thinks is usefull and "urgent", should be implemented right away.

Eminer.. why dont you hire someone to make your own profit switch software?

I am a computer programmer for the last 32 years.  Tired of this kind of user.

I agree with you on those suggestions. I dream of a precise benchmark that would do as follow :
- For each algorithm, test all compatible software and select the best one as the one to use ! For example an equihash test on nvidia card would select the best software between ccminer, EWBF and DSTM.
- Once the software is selected, then make another test to determine for each algorithm what would be the best intensity.

On top of that, if AM would be able to make similar profit calculations as Nemosminer can do, we could have the best managing sofware for miners !

There's an announcement on Ahashpool about them changing the unit for "scrypt" to mBTC/Gh/day (from previously mBTC/Mh/day) to match other pools.
Does Awesome Miner need to update for this to keep the calculations correct?

Is there a way to reverse an update, recent update has kinda broken my profit switching on my rigs... I have rigs attempting to mine algo's that are not even checked in the profit profile they are using, i even set the hashrate to 0 to attempt to deter the rig from trying to mine this algo, but it seems to be bugging/glitching out, because its seeing profit calculations in the 10k's.... i even tried unchecking them under options, algo and the algo was still being switched to.. the only way i was able to stop it from occurring is go into software and disable the algo on that miner software...

I also would be interested in automated benchmarking every so often to guarantee the best profits.
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Is Patrike alive ? It seems other software will soon be better than Awesome Miner if AM is not maintained and improved every day.

I strongly advise that AM should have an option for "precise benchmark" that should also test various intensity settings for each GPU and each mining software and save them. Right now AM leaves intensity settings to default miner's values that results in 20% lower income from the miners just because of lacking the usage of the intensity with the best results.

What news do we have about better results with pool statistics to avoid issues with spikes ?

BTW, did you see the features other software offers that is missing from AwesomeMiner ?
https://github.com/nemosminer/NemosMiner-v2.5

NemosMiner
Uses calculations based on 24hractual and currentestimate ahashpool prices to get more realistic estimate.
  Includes some trust index based on past 1hr currentestimate variation from 24hr.
  AND is NOT sensible to spikes.
  This shows less switching than following Current Estimate and more switching that following the 24hr Actual.
  Better profitability.

It is great to see pool owners collaborating with Patrike and I do think this is the best solution for both AM and pools and of course for miners that want to have a reliable profit.

Absolutely.

The current estimate is based on all the information the pool has currently, such as difficulty of the coin(s) being mined and the latest exchange rates to BTC (if applicable). That information will be out of date very quickly because both difficulties and exchange rates change constantly but the pool will continually adjust the current estimate using the latest info.

The 24hr value is an aggregate of estimates that older than the current one and up to 24 hours old. It is specifically NOT taking into account current difficulties or exchange rates.

This is a simplistic example that assumes difficulty does not change:

The pool might be mining two coins on the same algo - A and B.
A is the most profitable coin and is mined most of the time, but B is popular with payouts and left on the pool primarily for that purpose.
The value of A is normally 2x the value of B.
Perhaps there is some scandal involving coin A and the exchange rate drops dramatically making B the more profitable coin on that algo.
The current estimate will immediately drop by 50% because the pool is now mining B.
The 24 hour estimate will gradually drop over the next 24 hours until it also reaches 50% of the starting value.

If the mining software is choosing the pool/algo based on the current estimate it would probably swap to something else within a few minutes. If it were using the 24h figure it may take several hours before the average value drops to a point where the rig switches.


I won't dispute your findings - let's just agree there are a lot of variables


This is actually a separate issue but one worth mentioning - a big enough spike of new miners connecting can absolutely break or degrade a pool. There is nothing in the API currently that indicates the how busy the pool is as a percentage of total capacity or similar. The Awesome Miner dev is putting in some features which should help detect when this is occurring and temporarily disable to pool until it recovers.

I posted this back a month ago in this thread in reply... maybe this will help again?



What are you trying to mine at nanopool?  I'm assuming it's either Monero or Electroneum since you are asking about XMR Cast Vega.

Cast XMR is built into AM, so I would try with this mining software first.  When you setup your pool information in AM for nanopool, the server URL should be:

xmr-us-east1.nanopool.org:14444

Change the "us-east1" part to your region's server URL.  See here for the other region server names:  https://xmr.nanopool.org/help

If you are mining ETN, then lookup the server and port name here:  https://etn.nanopool.org/help

The worker name that you put into the pool definition for AM is going to be different depending on what kind of wallet you are mining to.  The easiest to setup looks to be to your local wallet.  It has the format of ADDRESS.WORKER so your worker name would be your Monero or ETN address only.  On the Managed Miner is where you tick the box to append the worker name to the pool worker name.  So if your worker name in the pool definition is ABC123, and the appended worker name in the Managed Miner is RIG1 then AM will put those two together to be ABC123.RIG1 which is the format that nanopool is expecting for mining to your local wallet.

If you are mining to an exchange or a local wallet that requires the payment ID, then you append that to your wallet address in the pool definition.  So, the pool definition worker name  would look like:  ABC123.PayID  And then you still append the worker name from the Managed Miner of RIG1 so that AM will put it all together to be ABC123.PayID.RIG1

If you need to add an email address, then you put that in the Managed Miner worker name appending.  So if you had the pool definition worker name of ABC123.PayID  and then your Managed Miner worker name was RIG1/[email protected] then AM will put that all together as ABC123.PayID.RIG1/[email protected]

The pool password doesn't seem to matter so you can put an x.

Are you able to share your python script?  I'd be interested in what you are doing. 

Other than chainz.cryptoid.info is there any other place to pull in balance info? For example, I'm looking to setup ZCL.

Yo Patrike, any chance on an update on this? I'm starting to release my plugins for your product and it will really help to have this feature to reduce people's setup time.  

Also some users have mentioned that when using the BTC/MHs per day option they lose price quotes because AM obviously does not get the pricing info. It would be realllyyy helpful if I could just send the coin details (price, diff, etc) over the API so they don't lose that. 

Thanks!

Yes. I have released the program. Can be found in my signature. If you'd like to incorporate some of your ideas into it shoot me a PM. Happy to talk to other developers.

I have writen a python script to get stats from whattomine.  They have data for 206 coins, but only has details for about 70, and use only about 50-55 in their calculator.  I still miss some coins, such as those listed on crypto-coinz.net.  Are you getting coin difficulty, block-time, global-hashrate, from any other source?

Hi, can someone help to config awesome miner in nanopool? please ... in the Pool section - Desc- OK, Server URL -ok , Worker -? pass - ? wallet - ?
on this pool there is specific wallet address like examp so where to wright this option in awesome miner ? cast_xmr miner and cryptopia - on cryptopia there is wallet+ID , i tried to put wallet.ID on wallet space for the pool but nothing happens , miner working but where ? i don't know . nothing showing in nanopool statistic