I was having some issues this week with some pools and decide to rewrite the code for pool check in watchdog, it was supposed to be in v19-2.0 but we let it slide for that time.
It works almost same as network check but instead of checking for network it checks for pool and wait if its unreachable to prevent miner restart and eventually rig restarts.
Then After I wrote it I thought why wait and waste time when we can switch to an alternate pool
So I rewrite it again to add an alternate pool in 1bash whether its supported by the miner or not.
What left to do is to check the first pool and switch back as soon as it becomes available.
So here is my question:
How important it is for you guys to have an alternate pool?
And how important it is to switch back to main pool?
I'm asking this because I wrote the code for myself and to make it work with rest of miners and coins it needs more changes so I don't want to work on something not so useful
It works almost same as network check but instead of checking for network it checks for pool and wait if its unreachable to prevent miner restart and eventually rig restarts.
Then After I wrote it I thought why wait and waste time when we can switch to an alternate pool
So I rewrite it again to add an alternate pool in 1bash whether its supported by the miner or not.
What left to do is to check the first pool and switch back as soon as it becomes available.
So here is my question:
How important it is for you guys to have an alternate pool?
And how important it is to switch back to main pool?
I'm asking this because I wrote the code for myself and to make it work with rest of miners and coins it needs more changes so I don't want to work on something not so useful
It's clear that luckpool has had a lot of hits this week. They probably have lower fee than elsewhere but their servers seem unstable, so I decided to go elsewhere, even if it costs me a little more fee.
When I look at MPH and the number of pools they have and I have never had a single break with them, all I can switch home, I rock it.
I also had troubles with Nicehash who all of a sudden Wednesday night began to refuse my connections to their servers ... So I created a ticket home and removed nicehash from my list of WTM switch ...
Your proposal to send to another alternative pool is a good idea, but I have another one: Why not try the second corner directly in the WTM list.
Obviously this only works for those who use WTM_Switch, but it must be possible to combine both a second pool and a second coin with or without the SWITCH WTM.
I would love to have it now because ZPOOL is down and my riggs shouting at me.
I'm sorry Rumo, but you should wait a bit longer, as its better to wait and have a bug free code than get it sooner with some bugs that could cause problems.
The code is almost done, I'm working on an update script so users dont need to redo their 1bash and the update script do it for them, and thats writing a script to edit so many coins so its a long long update script
But I will send you a pre-release so you can test it when its done.
Cool Stuff. Thanks.