Well, just had another play with this program,
Seems that it just pulls the profit calculations from whattomine and the rates from coinbase.
I didn't know that,
I had assumed that if you were mining on just one pool, it would mine the most profitable coin on that pool.
I'd imagine you would have to have all the pool options selected for the average profitable coin to be in concurrent agreement with whattomine site (and really? why them, it has to be the most inaccurate place to get that info)
Also why coinbase for exchange prices, surly a better average price would be from coinmarketcap, cryptofinance, or even google.
That was probably the reason for identical miners being so different and one steadfastly selecting Lara2 despite me unselecting it in three seperate places in the program.
Anyhoo. after much messing about it seems I can just set up a ManagedMiner and once "makepredefinedpoolsavailubleeverywhere" is selected, can switch to the algo I want dependant on actual profits on the pools I use easily.
It's a shame it's such a winXP program with little thought to modern user interface, and only really understood after many weeks of use, I'm still totally unhappy with how the profit switching is difficult to parse and see what's going on, so I'll just use it for single Algo mining until I have a folder of miners and batch files, which will serve the exact same purpose.
Shame these type of programs can/could be rather useful, but it's grown into such a behemoth full of quirks and settings that only the programmer know how they interact with each other. So many tooltips trying to explain what a setting does - when it should be self evident. So many places for the same things, three different ways to deselect an algorithm in Algos in profit profiles, in managed miners - it's dam near crazy.
If you use this, just make sure you test pools and miners directly occasionally to make sure you are getting the best profit for your hashrates - stay safe out there.
To the programmer/owner, no offence meant, this is just a frustrating program, and I imagine you are insanely busy with helping people, answering the same questions over and over, and trying to track down issues in the code, let alone new feature requests, and certainly have no time for improvements in the UI, all the best, just thought I'd give you an overview of a random persons impression after a month using AM.
I agree that AM shows values that have nothing to do with real income usually you get 5 times less in payment from that pool than the value that AM shows to you and that is inflated a lot, even if you have 24hr average and compare values shown by AM with whattomine website you will see that AM inflates the values by 40% all the time, probably the reason is to cheat the users to use this software.
Also on top of above issue the biggest one is that the values have nothing to do with real pool reward. You will see that the income changes drastically when the new statistics are downloaded every 15 minutes (or configured value) instead of taking realtime pool reward that at least will be more realistic.
PATRIKE, You can implement a NodeJS server with WEBSOCKETS and send realtime correct values to all users.
A NodeJS instance can handle 100.000 simultaneous connections that are notified instantly with used pools profitability instead of having 100.000 users to download statistics that are delayed sometimes with even an hour compared to realtime revenue that you can provide with websockets. What is the point to see that you make $200/day/rig shown and being lied by AwesomeMiner and in reality you are being paid by the pool with 10 times less ?
It is very important for every user that has installed AM to compare the real daily payment from the pool with the value shown in AM to understand where AM does a lot of mistakes and also we have to ask Patrike to fix the issue because you will loose lots of money otherwise.
Who thinks the same as I do, that Websockets implementation is 100 times better than this year 90's implementation of request based implementation ?
