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.

For more details check this blog post.

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: 80
• MaxHash = maximum allowed hash rate range (in Mh), or 0 if any, ex: 100
• RebootAfter = number of ethminer restarts before rebooting the rig, or 0 not to reboot

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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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