Awesome Miner

Been using it for about a year now i like it a lot ....

Main site
http://www.awesomeminer.com/

were you buy it , yes it's not free but is if you want very base usage . I'm not trying to sell it or spamming it . just stating it is well worth the money if you go beyond the free version ...


btc forums thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.0

we always must pay for the quality...

I found it to be worthless myself.

The pool setup allows for OPTIONAL naming place, but no where does the program use that OPTIONAL name to distinguish the settings of the pool entry.

I could setup 3 pools for prohash, 1 for auto switching, 1 for solo mining coinA, and 1 for static pool mining coinB.
Only problem is they all called themselves by the pool URL name, so now all I have is 3 pools called PROHASHING.COM and no way to tell any of them apart. So now I can switch from PH pool to PH pool to PH pool with no clue which one had what settings, and hovering over the pool doesnt give any info.

NAMING FAIL. All they had to do was show the name of the pool as the OPTIONAL name place they give you to use so you could tell them apart and this program would actually be useful for swapping 20 miners around with a simple drag and drop. But since I only have the 1, and I have to retype and edit the pools since I cant tell them apart anyways, all this program is now is a monitor for how much you are making. Its great to swap pools, but you cant tell the difference between different settings on the same pool, i.e. multiple setups on the SAME pool. To check the prices and make sure it always mines the best site, thats nice if you had a bunch, but with multipool hopping that doesnt work either, so again, little value.

I can log into the pool I am on and see that info.

AppleMiner wrote:I could setup 3 pools for prohash, 1 for auto switching, 1 for solo mining coinA, and 1 for static pool mining coinB.
Only problem is they all called themselves by the pool URL name, so now all I have is 3 pools called PROHASHING.COM and no way to tell any of them apart.

That is not even remotely true. As someone with 43 pool entries in Awesomeminer, 28 of which for only two mining pools, I can 100% tell you that either you did it wrong, or maybe were using an older version.

Awesomeminer is a fantastic tool that allows me to swap pools on 17 different rigs multiple times a day in only a couple minutes, rather than the 15+ minutes it took before that when I had to log in by IP address for every individual rig.

You used a mining farm management tool for 1 rig. Outright, you weren't using the program as intended, and as a result saw zero value in it. Combined with your mystifying problem with the pool list that defies any semblance of reality, now you are here bashing a program you barely understand.

Nice to meet you, new PH mod. Good start.

I've looked into it, because I'm looking for easy remote management on some ASIC units, but I'm confused - do I have to purchase both a lifetime license for Awesome Miner *AND* a monthly cloud subscription in order to have access to that functionality?
Basically I want to be able to get on my mobile device, check the status of the miners, and either alter their pool information, or reboot/etc the machines via that medium. Does this allow it, and if so - how exactly?

Ewil wrote:I've looked into it, because I'm looking for easy remote management on some ASIC units, but I'm confused - do I have to purchase both a lifetime license for Awesome Miner *AND* a monthly cloud subscription in order to have access to that functionality?
Basically I want to be able to get on my mobile device, check the status of the miners, and either alter their pool information, or reboot/etc the machines via that medium. Does this allow it, and if so - how exactly?

monthly cloud subscription is optional, Awesome Miner has its own internal web server if you enable it. You can switch pools via this web interface if you like.
Note you will have to set up port forwarding on your router and point port to your Awesome Miner machine
Screen shot http://joxi.ru/8236OB4i6Oo7Zm

more info on optional cloud service
http://www.awesomeminer.com/cloud.aspx

Been playing around with it (got the paid one) and it's a learning curve lol. FAQ/Help page isn't much to work with, so lots of trial and error - but so far liking it a lot. Just wish it was clearer about the ASIC board statuses rather than just reporting the per-board speed (chip errors, etc).

Things they didnt tell you, you have to change the root/root login on the L3+ for the awesome miner to update and save the pool info you change your pools to on the machines themselves. So if the awesome miner PC and all the miners reboot, the miners will still use the pool settings from the last time Awesome miner saved them there.

How is awesome miner if you have some miners in a datacenter and some at home? Can that be easily configured as a part can only be controlled with vpn?

You would need to run it on 2 PCs...if thats even allowed under their license or you would need to buy 2 copies.

1 for the data center and 1 for the at home rigs.
It needs a PC to run on to control the rigs, so you would need a PC running at the data center that can access your miners on the network.
VPNing in gives you a direct access to each of your machines, but wont allow awesome miner to access it unless its on the same network as far as I know.