Topic: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners - page 464. (Read 703512 times)

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.

Yes, please follow these instructions:

http://awesomeminer.com/help/uploadsoftware.aspx

You could try to add the -p d=64 or whatever difficulty parameter you wanted in the Command Line tab of your managed Profit Miner settings.

Yes, go to the Command Line tab in your managed miner settings and there is a section to run a batch file before starting the miner.

I agree with the above suggestion. Perhaps to enhance the dashboard with more pertinent information.
 
- include 30 minute / 1 hour running hash rate average in both the dashboard and miners view (place it below the 5 second average). Could also have it as an option that users can choose a selected interval
- option to save algorithm hash rate every X minutes based on a current running average. With 10+ miners it gets busy trying to save average hash rates manually.


List miners view
--option to add the pool name directly under the miner name/local (as someone who mines multiple pools it is the only reason I select the miner pool tab)
--option to add windows uptime directly under the status where the algorithm uptime is displayed (only reason I select the miner summary tab)

Yiimp pools
any way to automatically pull in each fee per algorithm for profit switching

Naming workers: How can identify separate miners in Yiimp dashboards that use the same bitcoin address for a worker name? I assume I have to adjust the stratum configuration so it would display the text under the extra column in the worker dashboard yiimp uses.

Keep up the good work. After 1.5 weeks of using the program, I paid for the professional version.

Edit profit profile, scroll down and you should see the new miner. Click configure, add the path. You also have to place the miner up in priority using the arrows above any other miner that has that same algorithm enabled.

Can someone specify how to add mining software for awesome miner to use?  I downloaded version of ccminer that uses Xevan,  I put in appdata/local/awesomeminer and I added a user defined managed software, but nowhere can I find where you specify the path to the software so it knows to use it.

You know I rather like this product so far, but one thing that bothers me is that as a pay product, I would expect that the algorithms would be fairly up to date.  Someone shouldn't be buying the product and then having to go through multiple pools and adding in algorithms in 3 different places.  I also think there should be a database built into the product to specify the card or cards you are using so you don't have to go to each algorithm and put in a power figure. 

Finally and maybe I just can't figure it out, but why does the dashboard not show profit after power costs like the miner screen does? and it would also be nice if it could calculate how much you might make per day between the different algorithms it has mined instead of just showing whatever is currently being mined.

Just my suggestions.

Thanks

Is there a way to set the initial difficulty in managed profit miner? Some pools accept this value in the password but there is no password entry in managed profit miner.

It's totally up to you to decide, it really depends on your own mining strategy.  Some people will say you should mine the current hottest coin, as you stand to gain the most if you can get it exchanged fast enough.  If you have a very large amount of hashrate, then this may work.  But if you think about it... it's probably not going to work.

Let's say you switch to mine a coin that has a 2 minute block time on say Zpool.  You mine your share, and you get a percentage of the reward for that block.  But now, you have to wait for say 10 confirmations to mature before it's sent to the exchange.  That's now 20 minutes you are waiting for the coin to mature before it gets sent to the exchange.  Now, let's say it's a mildly popular coin, and it's gets sent to the exchange... minimum 2 minutes of that coin's block time if Zpool has enough of that coin built up to make it worth their while to send to the exchange.  We are up to 22 minutes.  That transaction is going to take another 10 confirmations before the exchange makes it available to trade.  We are now up to 42 minutes.

What are the chances that your coin is worth the same amount when you started mining it until it reaches the point where it can be traded on the exchange 42 minutes later?  Not very likely.  There are thousands and thousands of miners that use auto-switching algorithms and were mining the same coin you thought was hot in that moment.  That shoots up the difficulty, and the massive dump on the exchange(s) sends the value of the coin down.

A 24 hour profitability evens out those nuances, and I would even argue that a longer period is necessary.  You want to be mining a coin that is consistently in the top spot... not in the moment.

But, this is my opinion... there are other perspectives.

Do most people use 24 hour profitability under statistics or current profitability for deciding when to switch?

Awesome! This could be great idea of having a powerful miner.

I had looked at that, but I just checked it again and that helped. I got it working thanks!