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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: Phoenix Rising: Front End GUI to Phoenix Miner
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lvlrdka22
on 12/06/2011, 16:55:38 UTC
Wow, what a great tool! Thank you!

Two things:
— There are some moments when OSD is constantly blinking almost every second (no matter is click-through on or off), which is kinda annoying. Didn't figure out what causes this. Windows 7, aero disabled.
— I'm sure you know that device finder doesn't really show the correct device numbers Smiley

And minor things:
— It would be good if password was stored like this: "*************".
— Maybe would be also good to let the user to hide OSD when he needs to. Like, some checkbox "show OSD" or something.
— Desktop lag is more significant compared to the usual phoenix with the same settings.
The blinking part is when its redrawing the text. It might be hardware acceleration-prone, not sure. I can turn down the refresh rates a bit so the blinking isn't as severe.
I'll get around to those eventually, still messing with ADL Undecided.

Or, and some more: is it possible not to switch focus to the new phoenix window? I mean, can it be done without losing focus to the application I'm currently in? Sorry for weird words, don't know how to correctly say that.
Yeah, it's not as seamless as I liked, even when launching phoenix without the cmd window ever showing. I can set it to retrieve last-active application, and reactivate that after launching though.

Sorry for almost-quadruple-posting, but this is really important.
How long does it take to switch to the backup pool? I can't figure it out myself.
Considering some pools are experiencing ddos nowadays (especially deepbit), it becomes crucial to switch to another, backup pool at the right time.
Once I noticed that switching happened after one minute of idling. But now it takes much longer for some reason.
I would really appreciate if you, lvlrdka22, let users change this amount of time in settings.
If miner idles (hashrate~0 or phoenix hasn't sent out text updates, which it does every time it refreshes hashrate/accepted/rejected, etc.) more than the set time and not responsive to pings.
I'll eventually add an option to use x accepted shares in y minutes, unless someone has better ideas.

I did finally figure out how to initialize ADL (finally!).