The ruled based action "Stop miner" does not work as expected on any AntMiner S9 in my farm after it has been triggered. The S9 miner simply performs a
reboot and begins hashing again about 2 minutes after it was (very briefly) "stopped."
Will someone please provide information as to how I can get this action ("Stop miner") to actually stop the miner, and not simply perform a reboot? Is it possible to stop an S9 miner (using Awesome Miner) at a certain time and then create a second rule to restart the S9 miner later?
I see instructions precisely for this purpose for GPU mining, but not for ASIC, posted here:
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/rules.aspx (
See: "Example: Run GPU mining during a specific time"). Thank you.
Antminers have a specific behavior when the mining process is stopped. A fail-safe feature on the Antminer will detect that no mining is going on and restart the mining process automatically. For this reason, Antminers cannot really be stopped by telling them to stop. What most users do to prevent an Antminer from mining is to create a dummy-pool in Awesome Miner where the pool URL is invalid. Then you can perform the Change Pool command instead of stop, and the Antminer will be instructed to work on an invalid pool - resulting in no mining will happen.
To get started with the mining again, you either change to a valid pool, or simply perform a restart or reboot of the Antminer.