Sorry I think I confused the issue. I was talking about the conf. in the wallet. I have several types of ASIC miners and have no issues with them. It is about the conf. file in the wallet & how to tell if the daemon is running. Many debug consoles have staking info. This debug console only has 'getmininginfo' & it doesn't show if the daemon is set true or 1, false or 0. I have set daemon in the config file to 1 & rpcallowip=127.0.0.1.
Do you want to stake with the daemon but you don't know how to check whether the stake miner is active or not?
If the daemon is respond to your commands, then it works.
If you start the daemon but forget to unlock it for staking, the search-interval in 'getmininginfo' will be zero (otherwise: 1).
"search-interval" : 0
- works until the first wallet lock.
Thanks Lasergun. Surprising how many **getmininginfo** variation there are. Looked in there & saw stakinginterest 0, was not sure if this was the indicator I needed. The search-interval=0 did not mean anything to me.
All good now. Many thanks.