Thanks Nwools for a great program.
My pleasure!
I have a couple of questions regarding this though. I'm totally new to Bitcoin so please forgive my ignorance.
I was a Bitcoin noob a few months ago and still am in many regards - no problem
1) What does the 'Desktop' button do?
This passes in the flag -D to the underlying miner (bfgminer or cgminer). This overrides whatever intensity you have supplied and makes the miner "ease up" and let the user have available computing resources. Think of it as "I want to use my Desktop".
2) What does the 'Utility' column tell me?
This is the ratio of the shares your devices are processing per minute. This is returned by the underlying miner, either cgminer or bfgminer.
3) What does the 'Profitability' column tell me (it currently says 100 for all CPU's)?
It's the profitability of the coin, as a percentage, compared to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is always 100%. The app uses information from
CoinChoose.com.
4) Is there a way to determine whether all CPU's are working on the same coin or not?
The coin being mined by each device is shown under the Coin column. I'm not quite sure I understand the question here.
5) Is there a way to see the progress of each CPU/coin (ie. 60% done)?
There's no "done" concept when mining. You just keep on mining
6) Is it possible to run install multiminer on other rigs and manage them by SSH or in a single remote GUI instance (without using a phone app)?
Not right now unfortunately. You can use
VNC or
TeamViewer or some other form of remote, visual desktop control. I use VNC myself. And then there are the
mobile apps.
I do plan on implementing what you are asking at some point in the future. Basically you would install MultiMiner on each of your computers and they would all "see" each other on a local network (using something like Bonjour or UDP). Then you could monitor and control other instances of MultiMiner on your local network from any of your rigs.
That's honestly quite a bit of work though, and I think the current setup does 95% of that between automatically handling crashes, sick devices, mining the most profitable coins, and providing remote monitoring and control with emails and push notifications for offline machines and offline or hot devices.