I think I'm done with Winminer for a few days till they sort out idle business. GTX1080 rig, gone idle. I can't keeping manning rigs to make a buck..
You have several posts to try and responded to so I'll try and help as much as possible.
For the idle mining can you verify what mining mode you are running under, automatic, manual, farm. Automatic mode will mine as long as it detects that your system is idle for the allotted time, default 5 min. If it's a dedicated rig this in my experience is the worst mode to run in. Manual mode you hit start and it will mine until you hit stop, for mixed use machines this is the ideal mode in my experience. Farm mode is the best for running a dedicated mining rig.
You stated you were getting disconnect messages. Did you have the option to show command screen enabled and received the error there? If yes do you know what coin it was mining? Did you send an email to support at WinMiner.com to alert them of the outage? If/when a pool goes offline the system will retry automatically and move to a new pool after x number of attempts. If you are like me, you are impatient and don't want to wait for the x number to happen. In this scenario it's best to go into the coin tab and choose manual and deselect the coin that is currently offline, don't forget to re-enable it after the pool is back up though. If you sent an email to support they normally respond to let you know the pool is back up and thank you for reporting it.
I can't give you any advice on why you can only mine for 10-15 min as we have many machines that have been running WinMiner for months without issues. I'd see if you can narrow it down to a specific miner, coin, or if it's a process running on your computer.
very interesting post. Still, Idle mode is a bit of a hit and a miss. My laptop has a built in i7 GPU by Intel which is the one I use for everything except games and the 1050Ti and sometimes I am using the computer -though not the 1050Ti 'cos it is not the main GPU- and it is when it works in a more stable manner. As soon as I get away from the computer, most of the time it just remains iddle.
Some extra suggestions... Aside from the fact of having the possibility to choose your favourite coin to mine by device (CPU and GPU, or even amongst GPUs -but maybe that's just complex-), which I consider a MUST have...
It would be nice to have the programs main Settings function of the actual app in the web, so you can choose the coins manually on the web dashboard, switch from Idle to Manuel or Farm mode, etc etc