Thx for questions MarkAz,
Hey tytanick, are you always going to require control via your website? If so, that's a dealkiller for me - I can't have my ability to control my devices reliant on a 3rd party site. In a perfect world, I could designate one machine to be the 'master' and run the admin portion, and just have all the miners point to it. If I could run it on something like an RPi, even better.
Yeah i know, banks, even exchanges are centralised and soner or later they can be hacked.
I am open to suggestions but the main idea wat to be simple and manage all rigs from one place.
I understand that you can install it on raspberry, but it would be only you and meaby 2 other people.
Rest poeple are not admins/programing guys so the idea is also not so good.
Anyway i will implement one feature in some time that will protect unauthorized updates even if my website would be hacked.
More and more protections will be implemented over time. Now i am foucusing on system being usable as most as possible.
And i am aware that there is no system that would be hacker proof. Lets look at twite,r amazon, apple and other hacket comapnies
Still if anybody have an ideas how to make it buletproof then you are welcome to PM me.
I have myself few ideas but i cant do all those things at one time
I have my own company which takes more than full time job and i also try to do this as a hobbie becasue i like it
For big farms i am doing completly different thing and yeah, the miner are not pointed to my simplemining.net but to their own server.
Anyway if we could figure out how secure all te process co only miner would have access to his rig then it would be nice.
But idea of autoupdates is also main fundament or my soft. But if you have specific ideas then i am open to listen and think.
On the pay side of things, I look forward to seeing what you end up charging - I would have zero issues with paying for something that simplifies the process. Pay per machine is probably the best way, although if it requires something beyond activation per rig, then it would also be a dealkiller for me - I've seen enough people complaining about ethOS to not want to go down that path - I have no issues with using your site to do a one-time activation per machine, so you're getting paid for them, but having them potentially go down later is a no go again (at least for me).
First i was thinking about taking some little fee like 2-3%, but then i relised that i should not talk about money when the product is in beta.
Product must be more stable and offer much more features before i could ask for fee.
Anyway i realised also that fee would be bad idea becasue people want to use it on different pools etc so it would be very hard to get my fee and i dont think restarting miner from time to time to get portion of my fee would be a good idea.
So i will propobly end up with 1-3$ per rig/month (depending on GPU number or not ... i dont thing much about it becasue its not really a time for it
The only other feature I would ideally like to see is the ability to schedule both stopping of mining, and shutdown of the device - where I'm at I have a power plan that is time of use (TOU), and in the summer the peak hours are high enough it's cheaper to just shut down the miners. Typically I kill claymore about 5 minutes before I shut down the machine - this way the cards have time to cool down before the machine (and fans) are turned off.
Meaby laaaaater,... I am focusing on my needs and needs most of people.
I cant do low required things - thats why i was thinking about making something like vote pool with features.
Will see.
Final question - how does it doe with 7 card rigs? The rig I would ultimately test it on has 7 cards, and it's the template for most of my builds going forward.
I tested only with 6 gpus becasue i dont have bigger motherboard but anyway it should not be a problem i suppose.
Even if in R OS it wont work then report it to me and i will fix it. In RX OS it should work out of box.
Anyway, I understand if these aren't on your path - but if it is, then please let me know so I can set aside time to install it on one of my systems and eval it. I've been keeping an eye on what you've been doing since you started, and must say I think you're doing a great job - just hope I can use it!
I must say that my path was little diffrent and its changing based on demands of people.
I didnt wanted to make custom options in miner becasue i wanted to redirect power to MY pool and take in some time fee from that.
But too many people pushed and wanted more customization so i changed my thinking.
Also i dont like being atacked becasue i am closing and rejecting all ideas.
But when you ask me in a kind way like YOU do, then i am ready to talk and think. (yeah this i my bad attribute - like many IT guys)
I have no problem modifying concept if most people agrees to it.
I already know that i wont earn with my soft much but it will be at least my new hobbie
And just to be clean, i am using this soft for my rigs so i am also like doing this for me
So if you guys hav eideas, go and tell me, i am writing them to my list and doing when i can but trust me i am really busy so i cant do this at once.
As now i will be focused on zcash as many people are, it should be well made before start.
Propobly i will end up with few different gpu miners as i see it
becasue there will be few different GPU miners for zcash
