Topic: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners - page 583. (Read 703113 times)

There are several factors that will determine what a Profit Miner will mine.

• 1. Profit Switching interval
• 2. Algorithms selected in the Algorithms tab
• 3. Mining software set to mine those algorithms
• 4. Profit switching profile set to use those algorithms and mining software
• 5. Profit switching profile set with correct hashrates and power for the cards
• 6. Profit Miner set to the correct profit switching profile
• 7. Finally... what the Online service would say is the current most profitable at that check time/interval

All these factors have to line up for AM to switch, and many times is just the luck of the draw when it comes to the interval and what the pool says is most profitable.  I've watched AM and MPH for a while to see what happens, and many times, you just miss the most profitable coin because it changes so quickly before the next interval.


Now... on the Profit Switching interval:  This is how often AM will check the most profitable coin.  If you look at the Online Services tab, and then uncheck the pools you are not using in the Display Services dropdown... then you will see just the coins being presented as minable.  You also need to change the profit switching profile dropdown to show the profile you will be using.  Now, here's where it gets interesting.  If you set the interval too low (like your 5 minutes), you could potentially have lots of switching.  But, it's only if the pool switches.  If you leave it at 30 or 60 minutes, then you will most likely get less switching.  This interval is important to think about.  If you use something low like 5 minutes, then you could potentially be wasting time during the switch.  It could take 30 seconds to a minute to switch to a different miner and ramp up to your normal hashrate.  Then just 4 minutes later you could be switching again... loosing another 30 seconds to a minute.  You could be wasting 20% of your hashrate during these switches because you are changing too often.

A second issue with a fast profit switching interval is the instability of the top coin.  If you've ever watched a pool's profit switching algo, or Whattomine then you will see that these coin switches also happen a lot.  A coin will hit the top spot, then thousands of profit switching algos will kick in and drive the difficulty up, knocking that coin down the list again.  The problem is, you will be stuck mining that coin until the next interval or check that AM does.  An even greater problem is that your profit pool still has to go out and exchange that coin to BTC, and it will do that at the spot price at the time of conversion.  It will not happen when that coin was profitable for a few minutes or even an hour or two.

Let's say a coin shoots up the list and is now worth $1 per coin.  Your profit switcher changes to it, and you mine a whole coin (possible if you have a lot of hashrate to throw at it)... then after a couple of minutes, the coin drops down the list because of difficulty from all the other miners switching to it... say to $0.50 a coin.  When the pool sends it to the exchanges, you will get at best $0.50 minus all the fees the pool charges for the upkeep of the pool, the exchange fee, and then maybe even a transaction fee.  You will get a lot less than that $0.50.  So really... was it profitable to switch to this coin?

Now imagine you are doing this every 5 minutes... you won't make much profit.  You can combat this by increasing the profit switching interval to a much higher number.  30 minutes is probably the minimum you should look at.

In my opinion, it's actually better to look at the trends of the coin, rather that what is most popular at that instant.  I would prefer to see AM use a weighted measurement average to determine the most profitable coin.  For instance, if you set the interval to 30 minutes, it should check to see what "place" it's in.  If the coin is in the top spot, it should get a "1".  If it's in second place a "2".  Then average that number with all the other interval checks over say the past week... and the lowest average number is what you should be mining.  That will reduce switching to coins that will not perform well, and will bring more profit.  It takes into effect the time it takes for the pool to accumulate coins, send them to the exchange, and then pay you the spot price in BTC.  I think a weighted average will give you a lot more consistent profit.  I'd love to see this feature Patrike!

Does anyone have an example .bat file for MSI AFTERBURNER to apply a particular profile (ie - Profile1, Profile2, etc)

I want to try to find a way to have this command line (.bat file run) before a certain miner software is used (ie - Claymore ETH miner would apply the best profile settings for ETH before mining, ZEC miner would apply a different profile before mining). I'm not even sure this is possible but would like to find a way to do this.

I have an issue using Miningrigrentals.com and awesome miner.

I connect to the same address for all algos and use different usernames. So whatever coin I specify for any rig using miningrigrentals.com turns all of them to that coin. I find this odd because you have them listed as an online service.

The Managed Profit miner is not auto-switching for me. It stays on the same algo that it starts with.

I followed your guide and setup a profit profile with 6 different algos, all using the same miner and with just zpool enabled, and 5 mins for the interval.

If I stop and restart the miner, it will sometimes pick a new algo, but it won't switch unless it is stopped.

Should it switch automatically? Also what data does the app look at to determine the most profitable algo?

Thanks for this great tool. "Awesome" is right.

Edit: After many hours the miner has not auto-switched. I still love this software. It saves me a lot of time and helps increase earnings. If auto profit-switching was working the software would be perfect.

And yes its set to coinbase.

I haven't changes it from any default settings.

I included the full screen as you can see the data/time it last updated at the bottom.

If I click update now it updates but stays the incorrect price, some times it changes to the correct prices and another click of update now will revert it to the wrong prices...so not really sure what's going on

Stop the miner, right-click on it and choose "diagnostics".

That will start the miner but will also show you the actual command line that is being passed to the miner.

With that you can compare the command line that AM is doing to the one you are doing manually that is working, and edit the AM pool or AM miner config until they match.

Can Body help me?  when i starts the clamor on a remote Rig
The claymor says no pool specified

but i am sure i ve specified the pool....

when i goes direkt to the rig and yousr the awesome miner , the claymore starts without problems

It looks like it's the exchange rates (listed in the status bar) are a bit old. In the Options dialog, Statistics section, do you use Coinbase as source? What if you change to Bitstamp?

For the first problem you describe, I would need an API report (toolbar: Tools -> API Report) to figure out the scenario.

There can be other Equihash coins not listed in Awesome Miner that has higher profitability, and for Nicehash, there can be hashrate buyers that pay even more. For that reason, Equihash can be more profitable than any individua coin.

hi, I'm getting an issue with pricing of coins be very far out and updating coins some times fixes it but rarely does.

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any thing in the works to fix this? it kinda breaks quite a lot if you cant rely on the price being correct.

Thanks

Boysie

For the profit switcher you can only use one version of ccminer. Either you use the built-in ccminer, or you configure your profit profile to use your custom ccminer-alexis. You cannot use both at the same time in the profit switcher at the moment, but this will change soon if I add support for ccminer-Alexis as well.

Device profile settings cannot be set per pool, but you can configure device profile settings for each mining software being used by the profit switcher if you edit your Profit Profile.

In your first scenario that you talked about, where you were looking for the EWBF miner, it's important that the EWBF miner was started with API enabled and on a port that is within the range you scan in Awesome Miner.

In the new scenario where you want to add your Remote Agent, you should select "Awesome Miner Remote Agent" in the network scan dialog. Also uncheck the option "Ping first" if you experience problems in finding your miner.

If it still doesn't work, you can verify that you don't have any firewall or similar blocking the connection to the Remote Agent. You can also try to manually add the Managed Host from the Options dialog, instead of scanning for it.

1) Benchmarking is on the list of features to implement, but it will not be available within the next month because of many other priorities. It's still possible to configure the hashrates manually for the profiles in the Option dialog.

2) The latest Excavator will be supported later on. The API for this miner has changed significantly recently so it's difficult to keep up with. I've not yet decided which overclocking settings to support, but it's likely that overclocking using Excavator will be supported in addition to MSI Afterburner.

So far the Excavator minor hasn't been that popular, which is the reason I've put it a little lower on the list of features to add.

So you have more than one miner group created already? When you drag and drop, it can be a bit sensitive where you actually drop it if you don't have any other miners in the group. Try to drop it in the status or progress column instead of the first column.

Is there a way to have the miner auto-restart if it crashes? A lot of the time ccminer crashes and I have to manually restart it. When I remote in, it says that cc miner has stopped working and asks whether I want to send a report to Windows. Is there a way for this to be auto-detected and restarted?

I haven't had time to read this thread but thought I'd take a second to share how I solved this exact same issue I was having on some of my rigs (but not others?) after the latest patch...

Created a shortcut pointing to the remote executable and put it here:
C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Now it is auto-starting again.

Having it enabled in the startup items in Windows 10 was NOT working but this does work.

Hope this helps.
cheers,
Edward

All good noob mistake not upping the virtual memory, fixed problem immediately.

Thanks for answer. I just installed remote agent in rig and enable service.

Then I try to search in different PC with awesome miner and didnt find it. Im forgetting anything?

I will try to check the ports are opened. Thanks

@puwaha, thank you very much for the steps you did.. im pretty sure im following those exactly like your saying.. but when i get back home from my 4th july travels..what ill do is screen record a video of me setting it up the way your telling me, then ill run it live on the video so you can see what im talking about..

In regards to the external miners, i managed to capture it using the remote miner software to add it to my managed miner list, but i was unsure what to do with it from there.. as the miner was already running and i didnt know how to see the results being reported from it through awesome miner.. to be honest with you, i didnt spend a lot of time on this before having to leave to hit the road, so will play with it more when i get home.. Nemo miner used 4 different miners across all the Nvidia algo's it supports during the multi-switch

Here is a quick picture of one of my 4 x 1080ti rigs...