Quote from: PaulC2K on October 22, 2013, 06:54:25 PM

Could someone with a bit of knowledge of this pool explain to me a little about the API?
Im trying to monitor the generated BTC once an hour, and unlike most pools i'd use theres no total paid out value in there, and im struggling to understand which specific stats i want to be using to get an accurate measurement of income.

Currently im using 'confirmed rewards', and im running a check on the last db entry to see if that figure has decreased then it must have meant a payment has been sent, in which case i increase the db's total payout to += 'send_threshold'.

I thought that would be correct, however about 2hr ago my db stats went from:

16:00 UTC
Confirmed: 0.31413209
Total Payout: 0.00000000
Hourly update: 0.00000000 (no block solved)

17:00 UTC
Confirmed: 0.04204677
Total Payout: 0.25000000
Hourly update: -0.02208532

18:00 UTC
Confirmed: 0.13160902
Total Payout: 0.25000000
Hourly update: 0.08956225

Now, this has happened because rather than simply paying out based on the threshold, its paid more (0.31), however there doesnt appear to be anything in the API which tells me there has been any payment, and it means my attempt to code something in to respond to the fact that there isnt a total paid out statistic, is completely useless because if it sends 0.31btc i only know this by manually looking, and i have to go fumbling through the database to fix this.
Has anyone found a solution which allows for the funds to be properly monitored, i genuinely thought with the 'send_threshold' it'd work, but its not much use really, its just another snippet of information rather than being a valuable means of circumventing the lack of 'total_payout' on the account & API.

Threshold means nothing different but threshold. You couldn't suppose the payout amount will be equal to that number. When the threshold level is crossed, all confirmed reward is paid out.
You have probably lowered the threshold value manually at the beginning of your experiment, when there was 0.31 btc confirmed reward already, so that amount has been all paid out. No wonder. Everything is OK.