Topic: MultiMiner: Any Miner, Any Where, on Any Device (Free, Open Source, Cross Platform) - page 179. (Read 827303 times)

the commands im using in cgminer 3.3.1 for it to show my miner is


for some reason now bfgminer wont run my asic miner n just runs my gpu so im not worried to much about bfgminer as i usely use cgminer for the most part and as for cgminer -d it says i only have the gpu but i know my miner isnt set on a com port like all the walkthroughs . when i mine using above settings it shows up at amu in my miner which is what the block erupters are set as in the new cgminer 3.3.1

edit. after uninstalling all drivers for it and rebooting and then reinstalling the zdiag it shows up in cgminer as amu when doing the cgminer -d? command. but still doesnt show up in multiminer

edit 2. i rechecked multiminer and i had it set to bfgminer so i switched it to cgminer and it now shows there.

What command lines are you passing in to cgminer and bfgminer when they succeed for you?

Can you also try running:


and:


These commands should list your USB miners. Please paste the output back in here. Also note that the USB miner will not be detected if it is in use by something else (zombie miner process).

i unno why but if i use just bfgminer or cgminer they see my block erupter but if i use multi miner it wont see it. i currently have both of them drivers installed as well. and my block erupter is seen as usb to uart bridge in my device manager as well as my saftely remove your device menu. also i should say im using windows 7 ultimate x64.

My bad I missed this part before. When you register MobileMiner you are sent an Application Key via email. You then need to enter that email address and Application Key into MultiMiner in the Settings dialog.

If that is not working can you tell me a little more? What do you mean by a blank page? I just tested this on an iPhone 4S and everything worked as expected.

The steps you must take depend on whether you are using bfgminer or cgminer. If you are using bfgminer you must install these drivers and reboot. If you are using cgminer you must use this utility to setup your Erupter.

not sure whats going on but for some reason multiminer wont see my usb block eruptor. it see's my gpu but not my asics. anyone can tell me how to get it to see my asic's


also i have version 1.0.13 i also had same issue on 1.0.11

MobileMiner for iOS version 1.1 is now available on the App Store, including the following changes:

• Delete machines by swiping (they will reappear if they submit data)
• Show the date data was fetched on main screen
• Refresh data older than 15 minutes when navigating
• Hide blank hashrates on the main screen
• Show the network activity indicator when fetching or updating data

It's not in there yet. I want to add it but that's the sort of feature where, once I start to think about it, I start to think about all the crazy directions I could go with tracking the history etc., get overwhelmed, and move onto something else 

For now I'll at least get a simple log in there like you are requesting. I've bumped up the request and will try to get that into the next version.

wanted to try out your mobileminer but all i get on my iphone 4s is a blank page anything i need to add anywhere besides my email and api code?
also was this ever added couldnt find it if it  was ?
and if i may suggest adding the price nothing worse then mining it at 150 ish over btc and converting it at under 100

Something simple like:
from 7:33 till 9:56 mined X coin @ (price)
sorry for all the questions couldnt find a readme 

Totally agree. It's something I want too and is already on my list, but I bump up priorities when other people request it too. Expect it in the next build or two. Thanks!

Hey, so this build has been working amazing since last night. All devices happily mining.

An interface tweak that I'd like to see would be the ability to move pools up and down in the list in the Configure Coins dialog box. As in quickly prioritize pools without having to lose the configuration by removing the pools and then re adding them in the desired order.

MultiMiner version 1.0.13 is now available for download from the GitHub releases page. Changes include:

• Improved support for detecting multi-core FPGA devices
• Fixed support for detecting more than ten devices
• Handle duplicate keys for device information coming back from bfgminer RPC API
• Support launching miners without specifying a password for the pool

A very big thank you to purelithium for taking the time to help me track down these issues! 

I've seen it but right now I have code that is compatible between both cgminer and bfgminer. I'll make changes as soon as I have to. I'd rather not add more code when it isn't necessary. I'm on the dev mailing list for bfgminer and I talk to Luke off and on so I am testing these things before they are released and break anything. He had me test the Unicode changes in 3.1.4 on OS X before releasing it. I do appreciate the heads up though.

Happy mining! 

hehe i did not look into the releases on github i stay away from git hub as far as possible

did you see the command change for bfgminer or was my little hint not visible [ -S erupter:all ] seems the be the new improved command for usb gear

for reference look the bfgminer 3.1.4 thread

The link goes to the GitHub releases page here (https://github.com/nwoolls/MultiMiner/releases) which has binary downloads for Windows including an installer, a zip file, and a debug zip file. Or are you referring to a different link? Please let me know where the broken link is.


Glad to hear you got it working! 


For each different coin you can add one-or-more pools. Click the Coins button to configure the coins and pools. MultiMiner uses the default multipool strategy that cgminer and bfgminer use. If you check the documentation here and search for "multipool" you should get to the documentation. If you'd like to use a different strategy, such as "failover only", add the corresponding argument in the Settings dialog of MultiMiner, e.g. --failover-only. You can see an example of that here:

Euhm first of all on the site you have posted download windows version from above link but there is no link where a precompiled version can be downloaded

Second  i won from windows 8 at last with bfgminer and it is now working with both types of usb miners.
The solution had todo with the installed usb drivers,  that if you ever had installed zadig you need to delete all drivers which point to winusb
To do this without getting problems you need to remove all usb devices if possible
Internal devices such as hubs will reinstall themselfs
Now on itself it sounds simple but it can be a pain to get them out if you need usb for keyboard/mouse
I also found out that windows simply reinstalls them if you did not disconnect the devices from the usb ports, or that if reconnected it finds the old installed drivers which causes this issue in the first place.

So after i checked with USBDeview and saw not one of them had the zadig drivers anymore
I took the next step and installed the silicon labs CP21x drivers again.

Then started multiminer and choose bfgminer
On the options commands inserted the new bfgminer command -S erupter:all and turned off gpu mining
Then i choose safe and start
And poof it is working

This does not mean there are no issues with running cgminer and bfgminer under windows 8.

I am missing an option to choose between the following options with multiple pools
For instance which pool to mine at.
And maybe a choice to either choose balanced, failover-only and so on, ofcourse if this gets implemented you need to add some way to select which pools it has to use. I see people mining at over 5 pools at once.

No not exactly, though that is a requested feature for MultiMiner that I may add in the future.

MultiMiner is a UI for cgminer or bfgminer. You run MultiMiner directly on your dedicated ming rig instead of cgminer or bfgminer. MultiMiner will keep the miners running, restart if needed, and optionally mine the most profitable coin.

MobileMiner is (currently) a smart-phone app. Right now there is an iOS app available with Android soon to follow. An HTML5 and Windows Phone app will come later. With MobileMiner, you can monitor and control the mining happening on many remote machines and devices from your smart-phone, as long as you are using a compatible miner. Right now MultiMiner supports MobileMiner, and the API is a very simple, open REST API that is documented here. Asteroid for Mac is in beta and also contains support for MobileMiner.

I hope that clears things up. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Can i use this to remotely control my dedicated miner? so i install this on any PC and communicate with my miners through API?

This is exactly how MultiMiner works, and has worked since the beginning. My primary rig has 4 GPUs and 2 ASICs. You can see that in the screenshots for MultiMiner. I am able to use MultiMiner on there just fine mining both SHA-256 coins and Scrypt coins. MultiMiner will only use SHA-256 coins for ASICs automatically. That is what it was designed to do. MultiMiner is not going to spin up an instance that tries to use all your devices. It uses the -d parameter to have each instance of bfgminer use the correct devices.

Here's an example of that rig using cgminer:


And with bfgminer:


As you can see MultiMiner automatically uses the -d parameters to direct cgminer or bfgminer to use the proper devices with the proper coins, supplying -S all to bfgminer (--scan-serial all) in order to detect USB devices.

If you could copy & paste the arguments you are seeing from MultiMiner like I did above that would help me.


Totally understandable and optional. TeamViewer does allow you to see what I'm doing and to take control back over etc. Also note that, while I am an Internet stranger, I do have a very accessible and verifiable identity as a professional software developer and consultant. If you click the website link on the left by my forum info it will take you to my website where there's links to other social networks, resumes, etc. No scamming here! But again totally understandable and smart to be cautious.

The thing is that I have GPU's mining scrypt in one instance of bfgminer and the ASIC and FGPA devices mining SHA-256 in another instance. I would like to keep these in separate instances on the same machine. I think you would need to do that anyway. So to use the GPUs in MM, i would have to have MM to NOT use -S all, because I want those reserved for the other instance.


I could definitely try that, I would just have to look into the security first. Having an internet stranger poke around in a computer is kinda scary.