Awesome Miner 3.0 - Development preview release (v2.9)Awesome Miner version 2.9.X is a development preview of version 3.0. Version 3.0 is expected to be finalized and released in May 2017, but you can try many of the features already today.
• Profitability Switching
○ Easy to use profitability switching feature that supports switching between all popular mining software and algorithms. Just enter your Bitcoin address and get started.
○ Multiple profit switching profiles to manage profitability switching across a wide range of miner configurations
○ Supports NiceHash, Zpool and any custom pool where the coin being mined is known
• GPU Mining
○ Large scale GPU overclocking and configuration settings for remote systems without dependency on mining software having to run
○ Display of GPU and CPU monitoring (temperature, clock, load and more) from remote systems without mining software having to run
○ Mining software versions for automatic download can be updated without upgrading to a new version of Awesome Miner
○ Scan for Awesome Miner Remote Agent installations on the network and configure all of them for standard mining or profit switching
○ EWBF Zcash miner supported for nVidia GPU
○ X11Gost algorithm supported
• ASIC Mining
○ Show ping information for disconnected External Miners
○ Set default pools for Antminer
○ Antminer L3+ supported
• Configuration
○ More display currencies supported. In addition to USD, an additional 11 currencies are now included.
○ Usability improvements in the configuration dialogs and wizard
• Rules
○ Rules can be applied to a miner group in addition to multiple miners
○ New rule to trigger based on pool URL
• Many general improvements
Instructions how to use the new profit switching feature:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/profitswitching.aspxInformation on upgrading: • Awesome Profit Switching was previously defined as a rule. Awesome Profit Switching is now enabled per External Miner. The general settings for Awesome Profit Switching are located in the Options dialog, Profit Switching section.
• Algorithm hashrate settings was previously defined as a factor with relative numbers between algorithms. This has been replaced by a concept where hashrate is specified. In addition, multiple Profit Switching Profiles can be defined to support different kinds of devices.
• Downgrade is not possible. After upgrading to Awesome Miner 2.9 or 3.0, it's not possible to downgrade to 2.4 without all settings being lost. Do not install version 2.4 after running version 2.9 or 3.0.
• If you need direct access to the MSI-files for the development preview, use the following links:
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http://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMiner.msi ○
http://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setupdev/AwesomeMinerRemoteService.msiHow to install?To get access to development versions, go to the Options dialog and enable "Check for development versions". Then you can go to the Menu and select "Check for updates".
Please try out the new features and give feedback. There will be a few more features added before the final 3.0 release.
(Updated with 2.9.4 features)