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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 26/07/2025, 04:07:08 UTC
Feature Request: Highlight a column with a specific color. Such as a highlighter. Very useful for when you have a lot of units and you're trying to keep track of which ones are problematic, in maintenance, need to work on, or organize.

Might sound kinda dumb, but think it would help a lot.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 20/07/2025, 01:42:26 UTC
Appreciate the continued updates.

Feature Req: Top bar for the group moves when you scroll down, so it's always at the top till you get to the next group, which bumps it out.

Feature Req: When you select multiple miners, the top bar is replaced with only the selected miners. Showing relevant data for only those, such as averages
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 09/06/2025, 23:51:22 UTC
Kind of a big deal here Patrike, it appears as though rules apply through disabled connections.

So if you disable connections rules don't respect the disabled state of miners.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 28/05/2025, 16:41:50 UTC
Got it, not quite intuitive.

So to use it you go Managed Hosts > Local (which is your local client) > Auto discovery.

I was under the impression it was a standalone feature that just works on the client, but management is on a intranet level and you're looking at 'sites' under Managed Hosts, Local being the local client site.

I assume remote proxies would also show up in this list if I had any, which are other sites?
Thanks for the feedback.

Are you running a client-server setup, where you connect with only the client user interface from another computer? In the Options dialog, Managed Hosts section, the entry "Local" is referring to the Awesome Miner server in this case. The client application doesn't connect to any miners, proxies or anything else. It's just a view of what's on the server. For this reason, "Local" is referring to the server.

In case you run Remote Proxies for distributed sites each of them are represented as a Managed Host. Each of these hosts (including Local) can be configured with auto discovery. Each of the hosts can be responsible for management of all miners of a site.

Got it.

Check your DMs.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 24/05/2025, 12:19:58 UTC
Got it, not quite intuitive.

So to use it you go Managed Hosts > Local (which is your local client) > Auto discovery.

I was under the impression it was a standalone feature that just works on the client, but management is on a intranet level and you're looking at 'sites' under Managed Hosts, Local being the local client site.

I assume remote proxies would also show up in this list if I had any, which are other sites?
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 16/05/2025, 22:08:33 UTC
I guess I don't fully understand the context.

The Automatic Miner Discovery should just add new miners, right? But in order to use it, you have to click Add > then fill out criteria as if you were manually adding a new miner. You can't leave the remote agent IP address/hostname blank for instance. But that should be added, when automatically discovered? And would be different for each miner being added.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 13/05/2025, 13:04:22 UTC
Hey Patrike, I appreciate you adding the ability to auto-add miners and perform a perpetual scan... Some things I've noticed, it appears as though it doesn't work properly? It's arranged under adding a new miner and you have to add criteria for miners you add? It feels as though this should be it's only function unrelated to manually adding a miner and maybe add custom criteria to incrementally change miners added, then permanently adjust them if they're ever changed via MAC address (so AM always knows which is which).

Also, while this has some technology overlap, when using MAC address identification please have the software set the IP address and remembered settings of the miner when it shows up again. Such as if the software or firmware changes. I understand you could use static addresses on your router, or with a active directory, however this combines the functionality all in one place and ties it specifically to AM. Makes overall management easier.

Using the autoscan and add function, you could also immediately assign a new miner to a IP range specifically for miners and have them statically present. Routers are not smart enough to understand what devices are being added to the network.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 12/10/2024, 03:53:00 UTC
Couple things that still haven't been added to AM that it could really benefit from.

A way for AM to access a basic external API and retrieve/send data to use in variables. Very important for triggers or automating work. AM has it's own API, but can't communicate with external ones.

A 'WAIT' event for Triggers in rules. This allows you to set an amount of time in which rules need to be true (or false) before it triggers. Right now there is no way to do this and it just triggers.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 07/10/2023, 04:35:43 UTC
Hey Patrike, running into some weird issues with Rules > Action > Wait. It seems like it doesn't trigger the first action and WAIT based on where it is in the list, it instead WAITs prior to doing any actions, at least with changing variables.
Thanks for your report. I've been trying to reproduce this without success. What I tried is the following as actions:
Set global variable value: 1
Wait 10 s
Set global variable value: 3
Wait 10 s
Set global variable value: 5

When I trigger this rule I can look at the global variable and see that it changes to 1, then 3 and finally to 5 - just as expected.

Wanted to make sure I had this figured out. So the computer I have AM running on is relatively overloaded, it looks like if your CPU is near 100% AM doesn't always function correctly and things are delayed or possibly aren't executed. Setting AM to high priority fixed this and haven't had a issue since doing this. I believe this issue can be duplicated by overloading the work system.

Could a option be added to run AM as high priority on startup (or whatever the person wants)?
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 15/09/2023, 23:15:38 UTC
Hey Patrike, running into some weird issues with Rules > Action > Wait. It seems like it doesn't trigger the first action and WAIT based on where it is in the list, it instead WAITs prior to doing any actions, at least with changing variables.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 16/08/2023, 03:02:34 UTC
Please consider adding a 'wait' period to rules, triggers. So it'll wait before checking the next trigger if you have multiples. Right now for instance, if I have a variable setup and checking for hashrate for 60s, as soon as the variable is true (or whatever you have it setup to be), the other trigger is true and it'll immediately trigger instead of waiting to check hashrate despite wanting the hashrate check to happen after the variable changes.

It's available under actions, but not triggers.

Thanks.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 09/08/2023, 06:00:44 UTC
Sometimes posts get eaten here, thought you might have moderated rights to the thread.

TLDR:

Here

1. Not true, there seems to be a problem with localization and while it's not the 0 position it's probably a issue with 12/24 hour format as it also has problems with the date, where it seems like it's not organized properly. Some parts of the world are DD/MM/YY, where the US is MM/DD/YY.

https://i.imgur.com/aMdiLL1.jpg

2. Static IPs are a lot of tedious work, especially as your network grows. The solution would be to run a active directory, which entails a lot more work. This is something that should be built into AM as AM is made to make mining easier, not harder, and I don't believe it's beyond scope.

3. Bandaid fix and not something you want in a mission critical environment. I have something similar already setup, but you have to manage each installation and make sure they're identical at all times or bad things happen.

Don't play dev when you're not the dev. Ideally we should be working to improve a piece of software, not come up with arbitrary rules as to why things can't be fixed or improved upon.

2. I'm running into a issue where IPs are changing on ASICs and the AM client doesn't update the current listing to reflect this. They can easily be found by scanning the network, but obviously not good. This is generally being caused by my router resetting then occasionally the miners resetting.

Could you add a Rule Action that runs a network scan and readds the miners replacing their original entry? They are uniquely identifiable at least by their MAC address.
a) A partial solution is to configure the DHCP lease time on your router to be much longer than the default. Set it to something like 10 years and it will not change IP address of a miner simply because it's down for a short while.

b) A more complete solution is to make use of a Remote Proxy that is responsible for an entire IP address range. Using the Automatic Discovery feature it will automatically find new miners and add them. You can also enable MAC address identification and it will keep track of MAC addresses to handle the case when an ASIC miner changes IP address. Awesome Miner will simply update the IP address of the existing External Miner entry to point to the new IP address.

See the article below and also the final section about MAC address identification.
https://support.awesomeminer.com/support/solutions/articles/35000085994-environment-setup-remote-proxy-for-distributing-load

1. I didn't think of setting up longer leases (already done), although another bandaid I'll see if it helps. Ideally you don't want really long leases or you end up with devices that are no longer on your network eating a IP. Weirdly enough, the only time I've seen asics pull another IP is when the rule reboots them when they're locked up. They almost never pull new IPs or change.

2. Proxy looks to be a solution, although I feel as though this functionality should already be built into AM in some way. I intended on using a action to scan for new devices after the lockup rule goes off and readding them.

I already have MAC tracking turned on. For some reason after I readd them to AM they don't take over the original entry and are added as a new entry in the list.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 07/08/2023, 14:15:51 UTC
Did my post get moderated or did it not post?
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 02/08/2023, 03:35:37 UTC
Hey Patrike, considering how integral AM is to a lot of us at this point, could you look into adding failover. Like another installation of AM that will take over if the primary one goes down on your network.
Thanks for your feedback. This could be something to consider. In some cases this could be mitigated by using a virtualized environment (VMware), but their failover solutions requires quite expensive licenses so it isn't really for home use.

We might get into this in the future but there is another concept that is prioritized right now and that's the ability to separate the AM into a client-server solution where you can have multiple clients (user interfaces) connected to the same server. This way you will also be able to have the client running on one computer and simply point it to different AM servers if you have more than one (primary and backup). This client-server feature is a quite significant change and is planned to be released later this year.

Appreciate looking into this, would this allow for a backup server then? Right now the client is the server and if the server goes offline, the problem still remains.


Couple other bugs I'm running into.

1. Tools > activity log > all

Appears as though the list isn't sorted or doesn't properly support 12 hour sorting. Also dates don't seem to be sorted properly due to them not properly parsing times that would have a 0 in front.

2. I'm running into a issue where IPs are changing on ASICs and the AM client doesn't update the current listing to reflect this. They can easily be found by scanning the network, but obviously not good. This is generally being caused by my router resetting then occasionally the miners resetting.

Could you add a Rule Action that runs a network scan and readds the miners replacing their original entry? They are uniquely identifiable at least by their MAC address.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 26/07/2023, 03:41:10 UTC
Hey Patrike, considering how integral AM is to a lot of us at this point, could you look into adding failover. Like another installation of AM that will take over if the primary one goes down on your network.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 16/07/2023, 02:11:37 UTC
Thanks
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 21/04/2023, 04:51:48 UTC
It seems as though there is a bug with the Time Rule Trigger. If you select a month range that is lets say late in the year till the next year, it doesn't properly read it. Like 10-04, so from Oct to April. It works fine in the opposite direction. So 1-8 or 4-12, but not 5-1 or whatever range you want that moves across the year till next year.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 06/04/2023, 02:04:04 UTC
Aye... Thanks.

Errr... I don't think the variable change thing really solves the original problem. The problem was it would constantly trigger if conditions were met, not only once when they're first met.

So I have two different variables, and a rule that triggers turning miners off if one variable is true. Then I have another rule when both variables are false that turns things back on. However, if it's setup normally the miners will keep resetting (turning off) as long as one of the variables is true and with the 'detect change' wont be able to know the correct state that both need to be in to turn things back on.
Thanks for the feedback.

If I understand correctly, your rules looks something like this today.
Rule#1: If Var1=true or Var2=true -> Stop miners
Rule#2: If Var1=false and Var2=false -> Start miners

Do you think this concept could work?
Rule#1: If Var1=true or Var2=true -> Set Var3=true
Rule#2: If Var1=false and Var2=false -> Set Var3=false
Rule#3: If Var3=true and Var3 has changed -> Stop miners
Rule#4: If Var3=false and Var3 has changed -> Start miners

This way the actions for Rule#3 and #4 should only run once.

This does work, I feel as though the 'detect change' or 'comparison' should instead be checkboxes, instead of radial buttons and could eliminate this, while being more intuitive and simplistic. So it could do both in one or either/or.

I don't know if you can do anything about the rulespam, but the comparison activates every 6s and keeps hitting the logs, which buries anything of value.
Thanks for the feedback.

Is it entries in the Awesome Miner log file you are referring to? I did find a few related to triggers but not many. Can you give an example and I will look into it in more detail? Thanks!

Tools > Rule History

Maybe it's not a normal log that gets saved, however with variable triggers it only keeps about a hour worth of data before it gets pushed out due to the variable activating every 6s.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 03/04/2023, 02:40:45 UTC
Aye... Thanks.

Errr... I don't think the variable change thing really solves the original problem. The problem was it would constantly trigger if conditions were met, not only once when they're first met.

So I have two different variables, and a rule that triggers turning miners off if one variable is true. Then I have another rule when both variables are false that turns things back on. However, if it's setup normally the miners will keep resetting (turning off) as long as one of the variables is true and with the 'detect change' wont be able to know the correct state that both need to be in to turn things back on.
Thanks for the feedback.

If I understand correctly, your rules looks something like this today.
Rule#1: If Var1=true or Var2=true -> Stop miners
Rule#2: If Var1=false and Var2=false -> Start miners

Do you think this concept could work?
Rule#1: If Var1=true or Var2=true -> Set Var3=true
Rule#2: If Var1=false and Var2=false -> Set Var3=false
Rule#3: If Var3=true and Var3 has changed -> Stop miners
Rule#4: If Var3=false and Var3 has changed -> Start miners

This way the actions for Rule#3 and #4 should only run once.

This does work, I feel as though the 'detect change' or 'comparison' should instead be checkboxes, instead of radial buttons and could eliminate this, while being more intuitive and simplistic. So it could do both in one or either/or.

I don't know if you can do anything about the rulespam, but the comparison activates every 6s and keeps hitting the logs, which buries anything of value.
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Re: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners
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bensam1231
on 29/03/2023, 14:18:11 UTC
Aye... Thanks.