Since posting here seemed to be getting noticed at KalyHost, I'll try again:

Support Ticket #1098 (follow up to the previous  #1064) is still not resolved, and replies from support (if any) are taking extremely long. Please escalate this issue now.

Please help, even after around a month this request is still not completely resolved. Merci!

Please help, this request is still not completely resolved. Thanks!

I know you guys are busy over at MtGox, but maybe someone could have a look at Request #1064? Thanks

(edited after some more testing)

Thanks a lot for this update!

@ the last item in the Change Log: I hope you got a bit more rest now... I know how it is with coding projects, can forget almost everything around one ;-)

I ran into that one monitor bug, but it was already fixed before I could report it - Great!

Apart from that, some more small comments as feedback (setting up new, not over old installation, Win7 x64):

- I first set up the profiles (great feature! Love it), then went on to set up monitoring. As soon as I activated "Ensure miner stays running unless paused..." cgwatcher tried to start cgminer. While that was a bit unexpected I guess it's fine and well in line what this option says hehe

edit: actually I am afraid thats a small bug: the option says "unless paused or stopped", but the miner was stopped at that time. Duplication should be like this: 1. new cgwatcher "installation" 2. set up existing cgminer and save 3. enable this option -> It will try to start the miner, even the miner has not been started yet.

The actual issue for me was that it complained that it was supposed to keep cgminer running but could not do so because the miner path was not set up (only popup, not logged - so I can't tell the exact message, sorry). While I went to the settings page to double check if I remember correctly this message popped up once more. Then, while checking the settings and seeing that the path is indeed there, suddenly cgminer was started and everything was fine. I hope I can duplicate it better when I update some more machines.

edit: could duplicate, same way as described above

- With solo mining Terracoin I get (almost) no "accepted shares" during normal operation. While I am not sure that this is 100% correct cgminer setup and/or behavior (I do get the expected amount of mined blocks, so i didn't check further into this), at least for me that means that the option "Restart Miner if accepted shares stop increasing for..." is not applicable, while the old option checking total shares was useful. Since most people are pool mining anyway (as I should probably, my total hash rate is not huge) this should not be much of an issue to many people, if any. I just wanted to have this mentioned here, just in case anyone else might be affected and is looking at this thread.

edit: one more idea

I find myself only having the "log" page open, to see if everything is running smoothly or if there were any restarts. So it might be a good idea to display some info about the last time(s) that cgwatcher restarted cgminer on the status page.

That could be simply the last time and maybe reason cgminer was (re)started. Or it could be a counter how often cgminer was restarted, maybe even with some signal color/icon if there were any restarts necessary, plus a button for clearing that counter and status (like "yes I saw it, its fine, now start counting from 0 again). Highest end solution would be statistics about numbers, times, reasons of restarts... but I would guess that's by far not worth the effort.

If you think about making a bit of money with this app, how about creating CGRemote for iphone/android (including push notifications or at least alerting through some instant message service like in Akbash watchdog) and make the full version of that, like for more than 1 miner, pay only. There are several tools, like for example the language learning program ANKI, that are free, but have paid mobile apps to cover the costs. I guess that model works, because people are willing to spend money on convenience If you can't code for mobile devices you could use some of the donations to pay someone for example on a freelancer website...

Ouch, that sucks. LTCmine will run OK by itself for a while, but health is very important - Wish you get well soon!

Similar thread, hope that helps: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=176170.msg2072131#msg2072131

Quick feedback after a few days testing on Win7 64bit:

Works great

Small issues:

- When restarting the system, the message "do you really want to close CGwatcher..." prevents successful restart. You have to click it away, else it won't restart.

- Once a miner was out of action for a few hours. I have to look at the logs to see what exactly happened, but basically CGWatcher was trying to restart CGMIner again and again because the total shares didn't increase. But it kept restarting, and the restarted CGMiner would just hand. Reason was that in the background a CGMiner window was still open, but stuck/hung.

- HW errors seemingly were not reported in CGWatcher, even CGMiner showed a lot (I can try to duplicate this if it helps)

And one idea:

- restart card and/or cgminer if temperature suddenly drop significantly. I am not sure if this is maybe already covered by the "total shares not increasing", but I had a situation right now where everything looked fine, just the temperatures n all cards in a miner rig dropped - as if the cards suddenly were not really working much any more.

FirePro W8000 in a Fujitsu Workstation

Bitcoin/Terracoin ~ 550MH/s

I couldn't get more than 400kH/s with Scrypt, so I am using one for Terracoin/SHA256 now with said ~ 550MH/s.

cgminer solo mining Terracoin on Win7 64bit
Engine overclocked to 1050, Memory 1375, Voltage Stock 1.02, Power Tune 20
Diablo kernel, Intensity 14, Vectors1, Worksize 256
Driver "9.003.3-121120a-151975C-Fujitsu_Technology_Solutions" (only one I could get to install on there)

Sounds familiar... the reason could be Win7 plus newer drivers.

Here is a shorter version based on this post how to get most cards working at once:

- Install Win8

- or, if applicable: Wipe any old drivers off with amd_cleanup_util_1.2.1.0.exe (google)

- Install drivers 13.1 plus OpenCL included with it

* You may now have 5 GPUs working with one with an error code 43 inside the Device Manager.

- Open Drivers 12.6 and install only to the point where it extracts stuff into C:\AMD\Support\. Do not actually install drivers. We just need to extract.

- In device manager, on the card with the "!" manually install the extracted driver from C:\AMD\Support\12-6_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc_whql\Packages\Drivers\Display\W76A_INF

* It should now proceed to downgrade from 13.1 to 12.6, which is the highest version driver that allows an extra GPU.

Note: You screen may flicker MANY times, and your device manager may appear to freeze/hang. Just let it do it's thing. It may take upwards of an hour or longer. You may get a BSOD too. Just go with it. If you're coming on 2 hours or longer, try doing a hard reset. You -should- now have all 6 GPU installed OK in device manager and detected in OpenCL. If not, reboot again (just in case).

Not to forget that we are currently living in the year 102 of the Republic of China... with "Republic of China" referring to the tiny yet democratic island of Taiwan by the way, not to be mixed up with the giant communist thingy called by almost the same name, only with an added "People's". Which uses 2013. And by a freak chance it is also the year 102 in North Korea, simply by the coincidence of  Kim Il Sung's birth having been in 1912, where in China the new era of the republic had started (and lasted till 1949,when the communists had won the civil war aka the next revolution). Oh, and the Japanese Taisho period also had the same numbering of years.

Which leads me to my point, finally: since the creator(s) of Bitcoin chose a Japanese pseudonym, numbering years in Japanese ways might be a way to honor this aspect of Bitcoin's "birth". Similar to the Chinese, to my understanding Japanese traditionally counted years from the start of a new era. This era in our case could be the start of the Bitcoin network in 2009. Of course this obvious counting method has already been suggested. I am simply trying to point out one possible reason supporting this kind of counting.

To identify the era name, obvious choices would be Satoshi, Nakamoto or Bitcoin. So the current year could be called S5, N5 or B5.

A reason for not using S5 could be that it could refer to year 5 of the Showa period (1930). In this period the then militaristic Japan caused huge grief and suffering throughout Asia.

A reason for not using S5 or N5 would be that Japanese era names are not referring to the names of the respective emperors or events, but to a description of that era.

So B5 would be one possible choice in my opinion. Or if you want to go all Japanese style, ビットコイン5... or even replace the "5" by Japanese/Chinese numerals, resulting in ビットコイン五 - although probably most Westerners without Chinese/Japanese reading skills could not identify the numeral, except probably those few who play Mahjong and recognize the numbers from the WAN tiles

af_newbie, thanks a lot for pointing out the other tools. I would have been surprised if anything like this hasn't been tried a few times before. Knowing other tools seems good both for reference as well as people looking for other functions/priorities. Both tools you mentioned look very useful, and Anubis even seems open source by virtue of being a PHP script (unless it's obfuscated or something like that, didn't check yet).

I guess CGWatcher still would have its place in this world, though, even if it was 100% redundant in functionality to those two tools: With a GUI (no frightening  console app) and no messing too much with config files, PHP etc., it seems especially Windows newbie friendly. Which is not to say that to many, including me, a non-GUI tool is absolutely fine, if not preferable.

Thanks also for pointing out some of the general but very critical issues you encountered while writing your tool. Since milone admitted being very new to this topic, hints like that might save him lots of grey hair hehe. At least it's good to know about possible limitations and previously found issues as well as potential work ahead... in case milone wants to go the whole nine yards.

May I suggest including all your donation addresses also here in your signature, not only on the website?


Anyway, sent you BTC0.1 for this great tool. Thanks a lot, this is indeed helping a lot to earn more money by mining and spending less time worrying - increasing quality of life  

And it will become even more awesome once the remote part is done. Fortunately donating with BTC is so easy. I hope many people honor your great work, for which probably many people would charge.

PS: one very minor issue I found is that when using 6 GPUs not all temperatures are shown. Sometimes the first 5 are shown, with "..." below them, sometimes only the "...". Just for info, not bothering me at all

I really wonder how brute force attacks on a website can actually work nowadays... if you have the parts of the data base with the hashes passwords and you try offline, sure. But actually brute forcing using the website's own login mechanism? That should be too easily prevented by allowing only so-and-so many attempts before adding captchas, delays, blocking IPs etc. Or was that using a distributed botnet attack from many IPs?

Aaaah, thanks a lot! So my assumption would be that "discarded work items" have not actually been worked on, so they are nothing to worry about much - it's not lost computing time.

I hope someone can chime in and confirm whether or not that is correct.

First of all thanks a lot for creating this tool. Especially for LTC mining, where I get a lot of times sick/dead GPUs, this might turn out handy If I end up using this tool productively, for sure some donation will come your way...


Maybe a newbie question, but what do those "discarded" shares that are also shown on the status page refer to?

I was not aware that CGMINER shows any discarded shares. Except for the ill-named "SS" of course, which according to the documentation refers to "stale shares detected and discarded before submitting". But in my case the "SS" value in CGMINER shows 0, while the discarded value in CGWatcher shows something like 15-25%... o it can't be the same I guess.

Any hint how this value relates to the info available in the CGMINER text interface?

Thanks a lot for posting your suggestions here, any knowledge sharing is highly appreciated. Maybe one more hint in case anyone runs into similar issues as I did:

I had ~4% to ~10% rejects on cgminer (a wild mixture of graphics cards on several systems). Setting expiry to 30 unfortunately didn't help. The reason turned out to be connected to the fact that the miners are on a relatively slow internet connection. After I disabled the stratum proxies and CPU miners on two of the systems, reducing network load, everything seems to be fine now

If it's the server hardware (eg. Motherboard or related) and you need some hardware expertise, please let me know. Glad to share a bit of knowledge if it's helpful.

Small hint: There seem to be some messages still in russian, even if you set English...

- When trying to manually withdrawing funds, the popup is in Russian

- After changing the address for payments it seems the manual wthdraw is frozen for 24hours... But you just see "Ocтaлocь 23h 38m 48s дo paзблoкиpoвки вывoдa cpeдcтв." instead of the withdraw button, no English explanation

Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer. So if this has no negative impact on the pool I'll probably go for higher difficulty and see how the hasrates react...

Or do you have any suggestion for me which difficulty would make sense?