Greets to all! I just started using AM recently and have added pools from Mining Pool Hub instead of just ticking the MPH box in Profit Switching. I wonder if there's any use in adding pools from other sites like Suprnova and Yiimp? For example, I've got info on the ZEN and BTG pools from MPH, should I add ZEN and BTG pools from Suprnova?
If Awesome Miner gets stats from WhatToMine anyway, how will it determine whether to use the MPH pool or the Suprnova pool?
You can add any pool to Awesome Miner and the profit switcher, although the coin needs to be known for the profit switcher to work (listed on WhatToMine.com). In case you use Nicehash, MPH and similar, Awesome Miner will get the profit information directly from them. For MPH, that's only applicable for their multi-coin pools. If you mine a single coin on MPH, then the stats are still from WhatToMine.com.
If you manually add a MPH single coin pool like ZEN, and then you add Suprnova ZEN, you will have two pools with the same profitability. From a profit switcher point of view they are identical and it's not possible to tell which one will be selected.
Please also see this guide about how Awesome Miner get profit information:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/coinstats.aspx