EtherMineSafeRunner
Watch utility for the ethminer - Ethereum GPU mining worker software.
Description
This is a watch utility to provide steady operation of the ethminer - Ethereum GPU mining worker software.
This program was designed to do the following:
- To recover from crashes in the ethminer by restarting it.
- To restart ethminer if the hash-rate is outside of the provided range.
- To restart ethminer if the mining pool hasn't accepted hashes for a while.
- To reboot the mining rig after a certain number of restarts of the ethminer.
- To maintain the diagnostic event log of the operation of ethminer in a persistent text file.
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Release Build
Is available here.
Basic Operation
Usage:
EtherMineSafeRunner MinHash MaxHash RebootAfter "path-to\ethminer.exe" miner_commad_line
MinHash= mininum allowed hash rate range (in Mh), ex: 80MaxHash= maximum allowed hash rate range (in Mh), or 0 if any, ex: 100RebootAfter= number of ethminer restarts before rebooting the rig, or 0 not to reboot
Examples:
EtherMineSafeRunner 80 100 32 "path-to\ethminer.exe" -P stratum://0xETH_PUB_KEY:x@us2.ethermine.org:14444
Build Instructions
Use Visual Studio 2019, Community edition. Build as Release configuration.
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