Topic: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners - page 605. (Read 703766 times)

When the Claymore Miner is hanging at startup, has it initialized the API or is it indicated as "Interface offline" in Awesome Miner?
If the API is up, you should be able to use rules like "Accept progress" to detect that Accepted shares doesn't increase.
If the API isn't running (Interface offline), you have a rule for "Offline detection". That one should be able to detect disconnected API's on a Managed Miner that is indicating "Mining - Interface offline". If the interface is offline for more than 2 minutes - it could be a sign that the miner isn't working as it should.

Awesome Miner will support ASIC's with network API's like Antminers S1-S9 and also GPU mining. For Gridseed 5, that one requires cgminer to be running on your computer to control it - right? Awesome Miner doesn't give much help here, other than allowing you to select cgminer as mining software and then you have to put in the command line yourself. Once cgminer is running, Awesome Miner should be able to monitor it using the API

Hello patrike,
thank you for your response. Unfortunately I have not found a good way yet, so let me describe more detailed what happened.
I do start Claymore Miner (CM) using Awesome Miner (AM), I did this without additional parameters (set by me).
Normally the software starts hashing, but often not all GPUs can be initiated and fail on OpenCL initialization. Since CM has a watchdog by default it restarts the software.
When this happens it comes to the screen posted before, it gets stuck on starting CM even before one single package has been submitted. Actually I do not think that this is a state I can access the rules with, right? If there is a way please let me know, this would be my preferred way.

Downloading now, If I get some time this evening I will install and test on some older gear including USBs, S1 and GPUs. Does it support both LTC and BTC mode on the Gridseed 5 chip miners, I have one of those aswell - if it does dual mining that would be cool as.

Thanks! Please let me know your feedback once you started using the application as well.

Thanks for your feedback.

I agree that it would be nice to have all features built-in without any third party software. I also think we can agree on that it would require a significant effort in terms of implementation hours to do this directly towards both the nVidia and AMD SDKs/drivers, and keep up to date with all new drivers and new GPU's. Using MSI Afterburner for the purpose saves at least a month of implementation time that can be spent on features that more users are requesting and are willing to pay for. So for the users that do want to use this feature, it's only one more application to install - not a billion. And it's probably the only case where you manually need to install external software to get access to a feature in Awesome Miner, so it's not a general problem.

When developing software, it's always about priorities and making as many users as possible happy. I do hope that you still find this new feature useful, especially because you already have MSI Afterburner installed.

I do appreciate your honest feedback, and I do take notes of all requests I get. This is valuable input when I prioritize the features to work on.

Wow, I will definately be trying out your program over the next week when I get some time off work. Very slick looking! Great work!

Yup, didn't think it would be something you're super familiar with, but a possibility in the future if you're looking to expand into different areas.

I use MSI afterburner currently on all of my rigs to OC, so it's definitely a option. As I mentioned before I would consider staying away from third party software if possible. Both AMD and Nvidia have built in overclocking through their APIs within their drivers. That's what afterburner accesses. Nvidia inspector is a popular program which also accesses this. Limiting dependencies and possible things that can go wrong is definitely a good idea. You shouldn't need to install a billion programs to get full functionality out of AM. I know it's more work for you, but it makes for a better full flushed out product.

It's a good place to start, not somewhere where you'd want to finish though.

Awesome Miner development release v2.9.4 (preview of v3.0)

Read this post about the v3.0 previews in general:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18621070

Please make sure to run the same version of both Awesome Miner and the Remote Agent.

New in v2.9.4:
- Large scale GPU overclocking and configuration settings for remote systems without dependency on mining software having to run

Awesome Miner can change GPU settings, including GPU core speed and fan speed. The operation can be performed on a large scale - on many miners at the same time. This feature is available on all computers where Awesome Miner or Awesome Miner Remote Agent are running, and available without having to run any mining software. Instead, Awesome Miner uses MSI Afterburner to perform the operations where all common nVidia and AMD graphics cards are supported. Read more on the web site.

From an Awesome Miner point of view, you should be able to use the Rules (Options dialog, Rules section) for this. If no GPU at all is hashing it would be possible to use the "Accept progress" rule that takes care of the scenario where the number of Accepted shares isn't increasing. If only a few GPU's are hashing, it should be indicated on the hashrate in some way. You can then use the Check Statistics trigger with property "Hashrate 5s" to define multiple checkmarks for the hashrate. If current, 1 min ago, 2 min ago hashrates are all below a certain level you could trigger an Action. The action can be a reboot.

When looking at the statistics reported to Awesome Miner, how do you see that Claymore isn't operating as it should? Is it only that the hashrate is lower than it should?

Thanks for your feedback.

It's in interesting idea, but I have to say that I'm not too familiar with solo mining and pool software at the moment. I had another idea in the past of integrating a stratum proxy that you could control from Awesome Miner, but that's of course another use case.

I have another feature in the pipeline that you might like. Large scale GPU clocking without using mining software, but instead doing remote control of MSI Afterburner. I will post information about that one within the next hour.

I have asking this already in Claymore Thread, but did not get a useful response so far. Maybe someone here has an idea how to solve my problem with Awesome Miner:

I do have some Rigs running Windows 10 and I do access them via Teamviewer. Sometimes the rigs (randomly from my point of view) stop hashing and when I connect to it it looks like this:


Since this happens quite often I had the chance to see what happens before: For some reason Windows 10 shows an error claiming that Windows blocks access to (I think it was) Radeon settings which causes Claymore Miner to stop (or maybe stop GPU working so the watchdog restarts Claymore).
I did try different driver versions as of right now I am using the recommended 16.2.2.

In those cases I have to reboot the rig, but unfortunately sometimes not all GPUs start hashing after start of CM. CM states that the GPU hangs in OpenCL call and watchdog restarts CM which can also lead to the screen above.
I do have this problem on all my rigs, so I would appreciate any idea that might help.

It would also be an option if Awesome Miner could monitor the miner if it is still hashing and, if it is not, reboot the whole Rig (since this seems to be the only way to solve this I think). Currently I am rebooting manually, up to 10 times until all cards are hashing and I do not get a watchdog restart due to the watchdog.

Thank you!

Good job with some of these changes, definitely shaping things up. I have another weird idea that people would pay money for, but is a niche and not exploited right now.

If you're looking at add a addition to your software consider adding a easy to setup localized pool for solo mining. Right now some coins don't work well or at all solo mining with the wallet QT so you have to setup pool software to make it work. There are a few different distributions available online, making it easy to use and setup is definitely a feature I'd be willing to pay extra for and I'm sure some others would as well. It would also help you to sell larger licenses with added 'solo coin pool' support.

Definitely something to think about to add robustness to your software.

Thanks for the feedback.
The new System tab also gives you this GPU and CPU monitoring information even when no mining is running, which is another benefit compared to getting the information from the API of a specific miner. It will however only be available for Managed Miner, as the External Miners only is based on the miner API.

"Update mining software definitions".
worked for me ,
I love the other new feature "System" lots of info without the need for API access, wish it worked some how with Linux for networked miners, ....other wise it's great !! .. works better to me then API access for managed miners for info if you use Claymore's software but it would be nice if claymore would give us better API access, Ive tired to get him to do it ,, he ignores me ..sigh ...

For those of you running the latest development versions (v2.9.2 or later) - you will now have the possibility to try the new feature "Update mining software definitions".

Claymore Ethereum Dual Miner version 9.3 was just released, and without having to upgrade the version of Awesome Miner, you can now get access to this software via the automatic download feature.

First make sure you have enabled "Check for new version of mining software for automatic download" in the Options dialog, General section. Then click on Menu -> Update mining software definitions. Done! Next time you start a Claymore Ethereum miner, it will automatically download and run version 9.3 for you.

Awesome Miner development release v2.9.3 (preview of v3.0)

Read this post about the v3.0 previews in general:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18621070

New in v2.9.3:
- Redesigned user interface for algorithm and hashrate configuration
- Antminer L3+ support
- Performance and stability improvements
- A few minor corrections and improvements

Please make sure to run the same version of both Awesome Miner and the Remote Agent.

Thank you I knew it there are some tweaks i never made... Also i think to switch to Awesome miner in the future and did find already how to set password to remotes and now i am happy

This is because of the remote port in Claymore Miners:

After disabling this port you will most probably also not be able to administrate it via Awesome Miner.

Thank you very much for answer I managed to delete it so i successful added managed miner... But now some more curiosity pop up in my head... I see when i add IP contains claymore miner it can restart it or something and also managed miner dont have any security... How can i prevent someone to get in ?