I test your WinMiner apllication around 2 weeks... I like active developement on your product and support... But it need some improvement in few things...
1.) REQUEST: Profitability switching isn't good enought. For example if I mine single coin(XMR) all day I earn around 20-70% more $ per day compared to automatic option... Coin swithcing is done to fast and this lead to losing money, because miner start mining and then switch to other coin... There must be done some application options like:
-General coin option(For all coins) to set periodic benchmarking. For example checkbox for automatic(your logic) or custom(user can configure timeout in minutes/hours). For me 1x per day is enought.
-General coin option(For all coins) to set periodic profitability check(Check which coin profit is best). For example checkbox for automatic(your logic) or custom(user can configure timeout in minutes/hours). For me 1x per 2/4 hours is enought.
-General coin option(For all coins) to set profitability current/average of coin. For example checkbox for current(check which coin is curently best profitable by price, difficulty...) or average. On average must be two options automatic(your logic) or custom(user can configure hours/days which are used to calculate average of coin profitability).
-General coin option(For all coins) to set minimum difference in coin price beetwen old mining coin and new minning coin to switchower. For example checkbox for automatic(your logic) or custom(user can configure earning price difference in currency which have selected in settings example 1.50 USD).
2.) BUG: I see that service WinMiner_Service stop sometime(version 1.74x maybe this is fixed in 1.75 it is to soon to tell)... Maybe add some watchdog to check if service is running and start/restart it if not running but must running...
3.) REQUEST: Option to disable automatic update
4.) REQUEST: Settings for EACH coin miner intensity settings. For example checkbox for automatic(your logic) or custom(user set for XMR Intensity=18 all other are auto)
5.) BUG: WinMiner update, kill WinMiner but leave icon in tray. You need to clean them else there are a lot of WinMiner icons...
6.) BUG: Live statistic usualy need refresh on first open to show data of miners.
7.) Add some other coins like FTC, SIB ...
8.) BUG: When I have enabled mining oly XMR coin sometime I receive message that there is no job from server...
9.) BUG: Live statistic - Removing Miner do not work. It show "Please wait" and then is remove button back. Logout/Login do not help.
10.) BUG Whe exit application(Tray icon is also removed) Service still running.
Thank you so much for taking the time to review and test WinMiner and to send us such a detailed and well thought list of issues, requests and ideas.
We take great joy when something we create is being so warmly embraced and even more so receiving great feedback, the warm words of support, but no less, the wise advises, ideas, bugs to be fixed you guys are our rock stars!
(1) Profitability ideas:
- We continue working on the switching mechanism in an effort to optimise its performance.
- We know there is still room for performance optimization - but 70% difference in performance sounds more like a bug - please send us logs so we can take a look
- Your ideas are great and we surely explore them further in our continuous effort for max profits.
(2) Watchdog
- WinMiner_service is a watchdog
(3) Auto update
- We might add an option to disable auto update BUT even then some updates will have to be automatic and mandatory - e.g. when client-server protocol changes mining will not be possible without an update..
(4) Intensity settings per each miner
- That would be cool. This would probably take the form of adding an additional command line for each miner/algo. The thing is that at the moment the command line for each miner may take a totally different form which is not convenient.. We are thinking on how to solve this in the best way. Stay tuned..
(5) Cleaning WinMiner icons in tray
- Dev team is looking into this. Thanks for reporting.
(6) Live dashboard, required refresh
- Work on getting this page to perform as we want it to is still in progress...sorry for the inconvenience...we will get it right
In the meantime you may want to wait a bit before refreshing, sometimes it takes a few seconds for the data to flow..
(7) Additional coins
- We are adding coins all the time and we have noted your request for FTC and SIB. Keep in mind that due to the one click nature of WinMiner adding a coin means apart from the right miner, the right configuration etc. also the entire food chain that follows including the exchange handling etc. but hey, we never complain about hard work
(8 ) No job on server for XMR
- Please send logs (and make sure "enable debug log" option is checked) so we can nail this down.
(9) Live dashboard removing miner does not work
- Noted. Thanks for reporting. On dev team to do list..
(10) Exit yet service is still running
- This is not a bug, it is the watchdog which is a Windows service aimed at bringing the main WinMiner app to life if for any reason it crashes or is unresponsive for any reason. It should not be taking up any resources, and being in the background waiting for the moment WinMiner is launched means the best possible watchdog performance.
Great points! Great effort! keep on sending!
