I bought the MultiMiner app a few months back but never had time to configure it, thus wasted purchase.
MultiMiner is and always has been free and Open Source. Not sure what you mean there.
ugh, I just uninstalled it out of frustration.
Am I just slow or is this thing incredibly hard to understand? Makes me so mad that it isn't what it could be, so much potential.
I'd recommend posting in the thread that is dedicated to MultiMiner if you are looking for quick assistance. That's where other folks who use the app are looking / chatting.
If you need to restart with the setup wizard, close out of MultiMiner and delete the settings (found by typing %appdata%\MultiMiner into Windows Explorer).
There is nowhere to "add" miner IP addresses because it is not needed. MultiMiner automatically finds devices on your network if you let it run for a couple of minutes. You do have to configure those devices to allow RPC API access, which is different for every machine and outside the scope of MultiMiner. For instance for an AntMiner S1 you will need to SSH into it and edit a config file for CGMiner.
I'm sorry you are frustrated. Every release of MultiMiner aims to make it more usable and more powerful. Other apps don't have any sort of Getting Started wizard last I checked, for example. In the future you may face less frustration by using the official support threads at
http://thread.multiminerapp.com and
http://talk.multiminerapp.com.
Mobile Miner for my Windows Phone was $2.99 and I forget what I paid for my iOS version, pretty sure it wasn't free though. I was optimistic and bought the mobile apps before even looking at the Windows software.
On a technical level you built something impressive, and you should get praise for this innovation. However, the tool is made by an engineer and for an engineer, which is typical in the Bitcoin world, and most interfaces implemented without a UX designer producing an initial vision. Until or unless there is a better UX I'll have to sit out. This could be a really cool thing but the steps sound too involved for me to bother.
My expectations were likely unrealistic. I accidentally skipped the getting started wizard and couldn't get it to appear again, despite trying my ass off, is this a dead-end where canceling accidentally makes the tips gone forever?? Thanks for the reply, I'll try to keep a passive eye on it. Best of luck!
