Kano, wanted to see how hard it would be to setup an email notification when a block is found, or shortly after that includes something like Ghash does. Would be nice to see so your not checking the stats page several times a day. Example below
Hello Miner
We have solved the block #354533 (25.2432 BTC) in 12 hours at 13783.91 Th/s and done 140637624683 total work.
Your shares: 86401760/25000048254 (0.35%)
Payout: 0.08724205 BTC
On that note, how about also getting an email when a worker has not submitted shares for say 5 or 10 minutes, that would be nice to get alerted from the pool. Not sure how much coding this would be but just wanted to put it out there. Maybe have a place to enter an alert email address which is different then your account email, so one can enter a SMS email address to get txt vs emails.
Thanks in advance!
Well there is a web site already that will send you block notification of the pool.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10261674And one (or more?) people created apps to do that also.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11091187I'm not sure if either of them have idle worker notifications, but the pool API includes when the last share was submitted for each worker in the API "work" reply.
Block notifications and idle notifications are on the todo list, but I've avoided doing them so far for a reason.
The main issue is that they represent bulk email.
In the last few years it's become ever so easy to have an email server blacklisted due to sending out email and then it can be up to days to clear it up and remove it from the blacklistings.
The worst example of that is yahoo that doesn't have a way of removing a blacklisting - my mail server was blacklisted there once due to someone who uses my mail servers getting a virus and sending out spam - once we tracked it down and stopped it, I of course had to then remove a bunch of blacklistings - but there was no option to do that with yahoo and I ended up telling everyone who uses the mail server that until further notice assume you can't send email to anyone on yahoo - which IMO was not really that big an issue since yahoo isn't very big any more - but still annoying.
Try the above (links) and send them a donation if they can do what you want - or ask them to add a "lastshare" notification
Everyone has a smartphone these days ... so the App would probably be your best solution if it can do both.
I'll PM them both a link to this message also.