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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [Awesome Miner]- Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 5000 miners
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bensam1231
on 06/06/2017, 03:42:02 UTC
Looking pretty good, bought a large license so threw some money your way today.

Still needs some polish, specifically with adding devices.

-When you add a device through scanning the network it shouldn't add the device based on IP, it should be based on computer name. Almost all miners will have dynamic IP allocation and adding IPs is a fools errand.

-You should be allowed to mass add devices through the network.

-Adding a 'host' still shouldn't be a thing, the device name should be the hostname. Perhaps allowing you to custom overide it. Right now you have to click through adding a hosts dialogue box which is a waste of time.

-Installing the remote service should immediately start it, for some reason you have to manually start it the first time it installs.

-If you add more then 10 devices it should display a warning and tell you that you should probably enable performance mode (AM basically becomes unresponsive at that point).

-With the addition of GPU OCing through AM via Afterburner there needs to be a distinction between what the miner is reporting and what the system sees as devices. As you know a CUDA or OCL device may not be directly named the same as the way the system sees it. I see that you allow people to change the order of the devices through map to system monitoring. I'm not sure what's being reported by the miner, through CUDA/OCL, and through the system. Trying to figure out what connects to what is very convoluted.

--With some trial and error AM could auto-detect what's connected to what with some simple testing. For example having Afterburner set the TDP to minimum for 20s and see what GPU loses hashrate, then adjust it accordingly.

-For some reason powertune stats aren't being displayed on the GPU tab.

-For some reason you have to click on map to system monitoring > display system monitoring data in the GPU tab in order for the GPU tab to actually become active (why is this a option?)

-CPU monitoring doesn't seem to work. That can be monitored through Afterburner as well. AB has built in monitoring for that.

-In the compact list view when you're looking at GPUs it only displays the temperature of one GPU, instead of this you could simply seperate all the GPUs with a comma so you can display all the GPUs from a system there for easy to read access.

-Uploading software is still a PITA. There should be a upload manager for all systems, where it simply syncs the upload folder with the systems that are managed by AM. You could manage this on a per rig level with overides if need be.

-There needs to be a warning in case Afterburner is offline or the remote service is offline so you restart it.

-With GPU overclocking you need to be able to manually enter in a number instead of using sliders. Text entry next to the slider?

-For some reason clicking on 'GPU settings' under 'Tools' gives me the AB/AB service is not installed instead of displaying AB for all systems.

--With a bunch of rigs running it's impossible to see where AB remote is down which goes back to the suggestion earlier.

-Managing dual mining with Claymore is a huge PITA to the point at which it doesn't seem to be manageable by AM. This is due to the way AM manages miners, pools, and mining software. There is way too much overlap between categories. My post a couple months ago outlines how to deal with the logistics of managing all of the above.

-Modifying a template that is currently in use should present a warning and apply it to all existing hosts. Those that are in use should have it applied and restart.

-GPU Overclocking does not display Thermal Throttle Temp. This is important for adjustment (may need to add tic box for locking TDP and Thermal Temp).