Topic: Mine Time - A windows Scheduler for Multi-Coin Mining - CPU ONLY - For Newbies! (Read 1226 times)

If you are like me and mine various coin types (LiteCoin, BitCoin, CasinoCoin, MemoryCoin, etc) on a Windows box you're probably stopping one miner before starting the next one.  Well I got sick of doing batch files so I created a Windows GUI which does most the work for me.

MineTime is great for anyone new to mining CryptoCoins because the archive contains the Windows GUI and a copy of CPUMiner (distributed with the kind permission of the author: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/an-even-more-optimized-version-of-cpuminer-poolers-cpuminer-cpu-only-55038).

All you need to get started is a Coin Address for receiving your new coins and choose a P2Pool. The GUI is designed to make life as simple as possible and supports the kinds of pools that only need you to pass your coin address as your username. There is also support for Pools which require a Username, Worker, and Password as of version 1.4 (18 May 2014).

I'm not a serious miner and only do CPU mining. I've seen many people asking questions about CPU Mining on this forum, questions that often don't get direct answers or they get told "CPU Mining is a waste of time". This GUI allows CPU miners to have a go with ease! If they like mining after trying perhaps they will migrate to some better equipment.

MineTime supports Scrypt and SHA256D type coins only.

Download from the "MineTime" Home Page (32 or 64bit)

http://minetime.craigedgar.com

Direct Download

32Bit Version http://minetime.craigedgar.com/minetime32.zip
64Bit Version http://minetime.craigedgar.com/minetime64.zip

Install Instructions

Extract the archive to a folder of your choice and run minetime.exe. Right click in the top box to start adding Coin types.

Uninstall Instructions

MineTime makes no changes to your registry or system so to remove it just delete the folder and it's all gone.

Setup, Edit or Delete a Miner

Right click in the box at the top of the Windows. Select, Add, Edit or Delete.

Give your coin a name, enter your coin address, enter the URL for your chosen P2Pool and click save. To start mining, just press "Start".

If your Pool requires a Username, Worker and Password, tick the box on the edit window and fill in the details.

Multiplier

There is only one schedule shared by all miners and it's represented in blocks of 15 minutes. If you want each coin to mine for 4 hours set the schedule to 240 (minutes) and all your miners will mine for 4 hours each and then cycle through the list again.  If you want one of them to mine for only 2 hours set the Multiplier to .5. For 1 hour, set it to .25! Hope that makes sense.

Mine Time really is for people who are new to mining CryptoCoins and gets them mining with little fuss or work. No need to know about command line parameters or anything like that. Just enter your miners and go.

How I use Mine Time

I have 5 or 6 different coins set up, each run for a few hours. In the morning I update my wallets to check the previous nights haul. Difficult coins, like BitCoin I get a couple of shares, easier coins I get a few thousand shares.  If I were using batch files I'd have to choose a coin to mine over night and then change it the next day, so now I can just cycle through each of them all night at regular intervals.

Force MineTime to Mine Automatically

Create a shortcut for the MineTime application. Edit it's properties and add a "/s" (without the quotes) and save. If you have Miners configured MineTime will auto start mining when the application loads.

I hope this freeware application is useful to someone, it has helped me and I hope it helps you.

There is no official support! I've been running it without any issues for over a week on Windows Server 2003 (8 Cores), Windows 7 32Bit (4 Cores), and Windows 7 64Bit (2 Cores). It works for me and I hope it works for you - if it doesn't work for you - oops!

Many thanks to Pooler for CPUMiner, it's a top CPU Mining tool that has never given me a moments trouble.

Versions up to 1.1 (32bit version only) I might have forgotten to include the minerd.exe file. Please download again. I am very sorry, it was a screw up on my part.