Thanks for doing all those calculations. I've had terrible payouts when using zpool as well.

I had the same issue, tried multiple times, tried launching awesomeminer as administrator and tried updating again, etc..  nothing worked until I rebooted and tried again. So maybe see if a reboot helps.

Is there a way to configure AwesomeMiner, so if a miner fails multiple times and AM restarts it but it doesn't recover, that AM will then try to reboot the PC (but keep track of this so it doesn't go in a loop and reboot over and over, maybe a way to limit the number of reboots)

What have people's experience been with MiningPoolHub (as the profit switching pool)?

I've had a similar experience. I don't know if the hashrate was the actual problem but the income was much lower (lower than half) of what it should have been with my hashrate (the estimates seemed OK but they didn't work out, I assume a zpool issue but not sure what the actual problem was)

I'm not convinced that there isn't a problem either. I love the concept of zpool but every time I've tested it I get really disappointed.

I tested it yesterday for 12 hours, pointed 2 rigs to it. The estimated earnings should have been close to $25-30 total for those 12 hours. I stopped last night and waited until today to confirm (once all earnings cleared as last night some were still immature or on the exchange) and my unpaid balance today is only worth around $12, so less than half of what estimates were.

Pool was seeing my correct hashrates each time I checked yesterday, the coins it was mining were in the range for the payout I expected and as far as I know none of those coins tanked before being exchanged.

Does anyone have an example .bat file for MSI AFTERBURNER to apply a particular profile (ie - Profile1, Profile2, etc)

I want to try to find a way to have this command line (.bat file run) before a certain miner software is used (ie - Claymore ETH miner would apply the best profile settings for ETH before mining, ZEC miner would apply a different profile before mining). I'm not even sure this is possible but would like to find a way to do this.

Did you install and run the remote agent?
It listens on port 9630

Make sure this port is also open in Windows Firewall.

That already exists in the Managed Miner options, unless I'm not understanding your request.

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Thanks puwaha.  The context for that question/suggestion was in regards to setting up a "Managed template" that would be applied to several miners at once. As this appears to be setting in the Pool and if I choose the same pool for more than 1 rig it will take whatever name is configured in the pool settings.  Or do I have that wrong?

Thanks

I have a question about this (well about pools in general), in terms of the "worker name".  Does it matter if I have more than 1 rig using the exact same "Worker Name"  (does the pool care? Does it only matter if one rig has much less hashpower than the other as the amount of shares might not be optimized on one of the rigs then)

When I define a pool I can give an optional "Add to worker name" to append, but if I use the same pool (or same Managed Template) with more than 1 rig I don't see a way to set different worker names.

One idea I had is maybe if you configure the "Add to worker name" to take an optional variable that maybe would take the name of the miner or something (like %minername%), so those who want to use it can do that to have each rig append a different name to the worker name.

Just curious about what others experience... 

I know AwesomeMiner gets the PER DAY estimates from whattomine (so I don't fault AwesomeMiner for its estimates) but just wondering if my experience is similar to others. It seems the actual daily revenue is usually much less than the estimates, as much as 20-35%.

Is this what others find as well?

I did save my hashrate and whattomine shows the same estimate, so not at all saying it's an AwesomeMiner issue.  But wondering if I'm just using bad pools or bad settings somewhere - or if realizing a much lower revenue than the whattomine estimates every day is normal.


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When using the Managed Profit Switcher, is there some way to configure it so that *if* the miner starts mining ETH,  that instead of using (zpool or miningpoolhub) it will instead use the custom pool also defined on that page for ETH?

I'm assuming I can just uncheck Etherium from the Profit Switching Profile to prevent it from mining ETH, and then if I also check the box for 'Custom Pools' and add my ETH pool there (ethermine.org),  but my question then is when it uses my custom pool (ethermine.org) will AwesomeMiner still be able to Dual-Mine?


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There are no fees, only a software purchase cost if you want something more than the free version.  This may still use miners which have fees (like Claymore), but honestly, if one miner is much better than the others I don't mind paying the dev for his work.  I happily pay Claymore.

For now to mitigate the problem I posted above (the automated profit miner switching to something very unprofitable), I edited the profit profile the miner is using and unchecked all but the algo's my rig should be good at, to prevent it from going to one of the other algos.

I'm having an issue with Claymore however, when the profit miner tries to use Claymore (for ETH or ETC) it complains that -epools is missing.  But the profit miner should just be using zpool.ca, so I don't know what the problem is there.


BTW is Skein supported? I don't see that listed in the Algos.


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I'm not sure if I'm not setting this up correctly or how I can set this up better.

I really like the idea of an automated profit-swiching miner, but my tests haven't been good so far.  Here is a good example...



At one point it was mining Equihash for $56/day:

http://i66.tinypic.com/jtt72g.jpg



Then it switched, to NeoScript at only $29/day

http://i65.tinypic.com/v2tzet.jpg



If this is supposed to be fully automated/managed by AwesomeMiner, why does it switch to (and stay on) something making half the profit?


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A couple of requests for the Web server/site:

1) I enabled authentication (so it's password protected).  Is there a way to set a longer timeout until the session expires? On my cell phone when I check the web page I don't want to have to enter my username and password again.  Maybe every 24 hours is OK? Not sure what current timeout is but I believe I checked it on my cell this morning, and then about 6 hours later and it asked for a login.


2) Can the website also display the current pricing of BTC, ETH, etc like the app displays at the bottom?



Thanks for the consideration.

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You question on Afterburner is good, and I do understand the need of this scenario. I already have that one on my list of things to implement, because it makes perfect sense. Today you can still use the command line parameters to the Claymore miners for example, to do GPU clocking operations on start. However, this can get complex with command line parameters when you start using other mining software as well, and they all have different or no support for clocking. This is the reason why it makes sense to define "GPU Clock Profiles" in Awesome Miner in the future.
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Another idea maybe for now, I haven't tried it and maybe if anyone is doing this they can post their ideas too, but I think there is a command line tool for NVidia cards... so maybe we can create a batch file with the commands for that tool to set the cards to our prefered mem/core/power settings,  and link that .bat file to the particular mining profile as a .bat to run before starting the miner?  Would this work?

Hi

I bump bensam1231's suggestion about having a way to identify a failed miner (not only if .exe stops running). 


I have a different question, about the ability to use the MSI Afterburner remote server.  How would you set it up for a scenario where if you mine for ETH it sets certain power/memory/core settings, but if you set your ZEC miner it sets a different set of power/memory/core settings.

Is that possible to do? I have very GPU different settings for ETH and ZEC.


(p.s - I really love the software so far, I purchased the Premium edition today and now I have email notifications and a web server

Thanks, yes hopefully someone can advise about this, I think switching every 30 minutes is too short if you're on a PPLNS pool, I don't know if the solution is to increase this (and to what, 24 hours?), or if the solution when using profit switching is to ONLY use PPS pools.

For those using the Profit Switching feature in Awesome Miner, correct me if I'm wrong, but should we only use pools that payout via PPS (versus PPLNS) when doing profit-switching?

From what I gather, PPLNS rewards you in the longer-term (how long I don't know.. is it days, weeks?),  and that if you are mining on a PPLNS pool and you stop mining before a block is found you will gain much less payout. It seems for shorter bursts of mining on a pool PPS is better.


Can anyone provide some guidance on this please? It seems most pools gave a PPLNS system only.  Dwarfpool has a PPS payout .  For those of your using profit switching what you are using and how often do you have it configured to switch (I think we can adjust that time period so then it might make sense to increase the time it checks for more profitable coins.. but what is an appropriate time in the case of PPLNS?)


Thanks!