RainbowMiner/RainbowMiner v4.6.4.3

RainbowMiner v4.6.4.3

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Update release

Miners

• update miner Lolminer to v1.12 (amd,nvidia)
• update miner Nanominer to v1.12.0 (amd,nvidia)
• update miner NBminer to v33.3 (amd,nvidia)
• update miner Teamred to v0.17.7 (amd)
• update miner CpuminerVerium
  • new linux compile (fixes libcurl.3 not found)
• update miner CcminerTpruvot
  • blake2b for TNET only
• update miner SrbminerMulti
  • blake2b for TNET only
  • don't add --cpu-affinity, if more than 64 CPU threads
• update miner Wildrig
  • blake2b-btcc for TNET only

Pools

• update pool MiningRigRentals
  • add parameter "UseHost" to pools.config.txt:
    • Force use of a specific host (use eu-de01, eu-ru01, us-central01 ...)
  • move pings to job
• update pool EthashPool
  • remove GRIN
• add pool Hiveon
  • mining ETH and ETC (issue #1225)
  • ETC wallet is not yet implemented. If you want to see your ETC balance, please open an issue on github with your ETC wallet address.

Core

• update algorithms.json
• update coinsdb.json
• update cpu-tdp.json
  • add AMD EPYC processor TDPs
• update ethdagsizes.json
• update minersha256.json
• update mrrpools.json
• update poolsinfo.json
• update regions.json
• add parameter "ShareCheck" to miners.config.txt
  • If set, the miner will restart, if the last found share is older than that (units allowed, e.h. 1h=one hour, default unit is s=seconds)
• move all psm1 modules into path Modules
• use threading, where ever possible
• optimized syntax in API and AsyncLoader
• fix alias scope
• remove VEIL fork code
• fix affinity calculation for very many CPU threads
• fix bigint / affinity again
• fix windows system log messages (issue #1226)
• beautify and move one function from include to core
• fix some minor things
• code cosmetics
• avoid some ExpandProperty
• reset OHMonitor
• fix error message
• update Cleanup.ps1
• fix error messages and CPU miner crashes, in case of empty CPUMiningAffinity (issue #1229)

Hints for Networking

Choose one PC to be the Server (it may be a dusty old notebook). No need to let it mine, just let RainbowMiner start in paused mode. Select all other Rigs to act as Clients. All pool API communication will then be managed by the server: no more being blocked by the pools due to excessive use of their API

There is a Network setup build-in the configuration (press [C], then enter [N]) to help with the setup.

If you want it quicker, just run one of the following init scripts for very convenient pre-setup:
InitServer.bat / initserver.sh : make this rig a server
InitClient.bat / initclient.sh : make this rig a client
InitStandalone.bat / initstandalone.sh : make this rig a standalone machine

Of course you may also edit the Config\config.txt directly.

If you change the RunMode of a rig, RainbowMiner needs to be restarted.

Setup as Server

• one PC takes the role as Server
• it will act as gateway to the pool APIs for all Clients
• enable auth: choose an username and a password.
• the server will be running on the API port
• optionally provide individual config files for each client

These are the server-fields to fill in the config.txt (or use the initscripts or the build-in config)

  "RunMode": "server",
  "APIport": 4000,
  "APIauth": "1",
  "APIuser": "serverusername",
  "APIpassword": "serverpassword",

Setup as Client

• all other Rigs shall be clients
• if you have enable auth at the server: set the username and password.
• the RainbowMiner running on the server will tell you the machinename, ip address and port
• use either the machinename or the ip address of the server as servername
• optionally select to download config files from the server

These are the client-fields to fill in the config.txt (or use the initscripts or the build-in config)

  "RunMode": "client",
  "ServerName": "machinenameofserver",
  "ServerPort": 4000,
  "ServerUser": "serverusername",
  "ServerPassword": "serverpassword",
  "EnableServerConfig": "1",
  "ServerConfigName": "config,coins,pools",

If "EnableServerConfig" is set to "1" (like in the above example), the Client will download the config files defined with the list "ServerConfigName" from the Server. In the example: config.txt, coins.config.txt, pools.config.txt would be downloaded automatically.

Note

As usual: press [U] to update, or exit RainbowMiner and start "Updater.bat" (or let RainbowMiner do the work, if you have set "EnableAutoUpdate" to 1)

If the automatic update fails for any reason, please do a manual update:

• exit RainbowMiner window
• if exit fails press to close the RainbowMiner window
• now start "Updater.bat" (in RainbowMiner directory)
• now restart RainbowMiner

If the manual update failed, too, please go the hard way:

• exit RainbowMiner
• if exit fails close the RainbowMiner window
• download the actual release's zip file (name is like RainbowMinerVx.x.x.x.zip)
• extract the zip file into your RainbowMiner directory, overwriting all files
• now restart RainbowMiner