Topic: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners - page 463. (Read 703113 times)

Patrike can speak to the exact reasons, but Claymore is a popular miner for Ethash, and has a very good API for AM to get statistics from.  You could always try to add Ethminer in as a custom user-defined miner and see if it performs as well as Claymore.

It's fine.  You should do some experiments to see what switching interval works well for you, or if just mining a single coin is better.  There are many schools of thought on this subject, and I've shared mine several times in this thread, so I won't bore anyone with it again.  



Interface offline just means that the remote agent hasn't responded in the last polling interval.  It's usually temporary.  Could be that your CPU on the rig was taxed.

I see it's possible to use webhooks with device with JSON API enabled, but this is for monitoring. How can i make a button, or an option in rightmouseclick menu for power off/on device via remote relay? Is it possible?

Do you really want your nvidia cards mining Eth or dual mining Eth/Sia?  I can't see how that would ever be profitable compared to the dozens of other algorithms that nvidia cards are better at.  You might just want to disable those algos so they don't switch to it.  Are you sure you benchmarked your cards correctly?  What kind of rigs are you running?

There's no native support for MQTT, but you could construct some interface for AM to use.  When it comes to rules actions, you have a few options like a custom C# action, email, SMS, telegram, executable, SSH, or webhook.  You might be able to piece something together from an If This Then That website with the webhook option.

Is there some reason why Ethminer is not included in AM? Or is it just not as good as Claymore for Ether?

Hi All

New to mining and been using Awesome Miner for nearly a week and I really like it. I have it set for profit switching against Zpool and MPH so at times I see it switching between the two pools every half hour. Is this the best way to set up Awesome miner for profit switching? I don't want to cause any problems for the pools or other miners, is it better to just stick with one?

Also, the software has been stable until today when I added a 5th GPU where I have now had "interface offline" messages a couple of times. I stopped and started the miner and it worked again is there anything in the software i need to be aware of or tweak for stability? The rig has all GTX1060 6GB's, overclocking is applied through Afterburner.

Many thanks

I should have clarified this is with Managed Profit Miners that have been fully benchmarked and had their profit profiles customized accordingly. AM has been switching to Eth/Sia dual mining multiple times on my 2 Nvidia rigs over the last couple of days from its standard Equihash/Neoscrypt/Skein algos based on the profitability bouncing. With a Managed Profit Miner where do I adjust the dcri value since Pools don't appear to apply to MP miners? I could add it to the Command Line params but as you said that would apply even when it switches to Ethereum solo mining which it has done a couple times as well.

Guys, is there some way to integrate MQTT devices in AM? We have some MQTT powered SONOFF POW switches for power control and rigs monitoring, it would be great if we have power consumption information in progress list and a buttons  "Power on"/"Power off"

Device Profiles are really only if you are using SGminer.  So, you don't need it.  But in your profit profile, you can add the DCRI value in the command line parameters, or preferably, I would put it in the secondary pool's command line parameters, so that it only applies when you are mining dual coins with claymore.

By the way... it seems you have nvidia GPUs... they are not very good at dual mining with ethereum, or even that good at mining with ethereum at all.  There are much more profitable algorithms that nvidia do much better like equihash, neoscrypt, xevan, lyra2z, nist5 and more.

I'm having an issue using a Nvidia Device Profile to set the DCRI value to 40. I think I've done everything needed but it's not applying the value from what I see when dual mining with Claymore. Please let me know if I am missing something?

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Thank you so much for your very detailed explanation.

This is normal.  AM depends on the remote agent to be installed on your rigs in order to control them, otherwise it can only monitor them.  Since the remote agent is Windows only currently, all you can do is monitor your ethos-based linux rigs.  AM needs to know what mining software you are using on that external miner (DSTM vs. ccminer) in order to interpret the API data coming from the external miner.  If there was an API standard that all mining software used, it would be a lot easier... unfortunately, there isn't.  Someone should propose and have all the miner software authors adapt to it.



Unfortunately no, as I detailed above.  If you were to switch your rigs to Windows based ones and install the remote agent then yes, AM can do this automatically.  It will download the mining software to the rig for you, configure the mining software and mine for you.  In addition, it has better control over the rig, using rules to watch for specific triggers and take some action like restarting the mining software or rebooting the rig just for starters.



Yes, you could do it this way.  Just remember that AM is licensed on the number of miners you run whether they are external, managed, or profit miners... so make sure you have enough license to monitor all the duplicates.



I like to think of Awesome Miner as "software-defined" mining.  It takes all these concepts of hosts, mining software, pools, pool groups, services, etc and makes them a software object where you can piece them all together to make your rig do what you want it to do.  It's kind of like when you use VMware virtualization... you define objects in a console to run virtual machines like virtual NICs, virtual hard drives, virtual DVD drives, etc.

But to answer your question, a "miner" in AM's nomenclature is an object that brings together a host, a pool, and mining software to do something on your rig.  The "miner" is very flexible, you can add your own command line parameters to do extra features with the mining software that don't come out of the box.  You can initiate GPU profiles to set over/underclock settings with Afterburner to set specific clocks to match the algorithm you are mining at the pool, and a ton more.

It truly is the one program that brings all these advanced concepts under one roof.  Once you start to "get" how it works, and that everything is software defined, it truly shines.  I'm a huge advocate.

When you go into the options in AM, and look at the Managed Miners tab, you will see a list of your rigs, if you open up the settings for your rig, does it say it is a Managed Profit Miner or a Managed Miner in the title bar?  Either way, you need to assign a profit profile to the miner which shows what your rig is capable of doing.  You need to benchmark your rig and save the numbers in order to get accurate numbers in the profit profile.  AM uses the information in the profit profile to make decisions on when to switch algorithms when you are using a Managed Profit Miner.

I have a few rigs working great in awesome miner  (professional) and getting stats from DSTM-Zcash.  All managed by ethos. I also have a few asics.

The problem I have, when I switch my remote miners to ccminer - I have to edit each miner in AM and tell it to monitor ccminer port instead of DSTM-Zash. Bulk Edit doesn't give me an option to change all GPU rigs from ccminer to dstm-zcash.


1. Is there a way for this to happen automatically

2. Should I just create duplicates of each miner?
- Rig 1 has an entry for ccminer, and another for dstm-zcash and so on?

3. Or do you all think of miners as the programs, where I think of miners as the actual rigs and what they are doing.



If this has been answered before, kudo's to your forum search skills, mine must be lacking.

Thats pretty low for a 1060. My friend's 1060 makes like $2 a day by just mining on Zpool using profit switch enabled. Make sure to enable all your pools in your algorythms section and do a precise benchmark (dont forget to save the results). Dont be an idiot and jump from one site to another because their pool is like 4x more for like the next half and hour or so, otherwise you'll never turn a profit. Choose a site and stick by them. I recommend Zpool, because they pay out on a minimum of 0.0025 BTC which can be mined in a week or so using a 1060.

Good luck.

I did that but when specify user defined there is no place to add path

I'm assuming you are using a profit miner and not a regular managed miner?  You haven't disabled Skein as an algo in the options?  Did you benchmark your cards so that AM has some numbers to work with to make the decision to switch between Blake2s and other algos?

I see.  You need to setup ccminer for Xevan on the Managed Software tab in the Options.  There is a section for User Managed software.  Then you need to disable the Xevan algo for any of the built-in ccminers above, and make sure that Xevan is only enabled for your user managed version of ccminer.

I"m sorry, but that isn't helping,  I have ccminer for Xevan and I just want it to work with managed profit switching.