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Feedback requested: Monero and Electroneum Setup Assistants

Oliver 6 years ago updated by delone70 6 years ago 11

The Monero and Electroneum Pool Pages have had their setup instructions replaced by a Setup Assistant. Opinions? 

electroneum work fine right now :)

TL;DR: Cool, but I want the old one back.


It's a nice idea, but it's not that easy to access in my opinion. I think that you should bring the old wiki-style instructions back, possibly alongside this new setup assistant.


So you'd have a noob friendly "setup wizard", and a slightly more detailed (while a little less friendly) guide. The old instructions are useful because they give you a reference for whatever you want to mine, with all the hardware and OS options laid out nicely one after the other.

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Interesting. But don't you think that experienced miners just need the stratum urls to change their existing and proven setup instead of sifting through all the instructions for different miners?

I am not an experienced miner, but I am quite proficient in Linux administration and advanced computer usage in general. For me, and for people like me, the assistant gets in the way, mostly because of the amount of selections you have to make to get to the information you need. I think you should leave either a link or a tab to the old wiki style instructions.


Besides, why not having both? The same way you did with the dashboard, I only use the mini dashboard, but occasionally I do open the full version to get a little more info.

If you'd seen the amount of mistakes people make configuring their miners that I've witnessed inspecting the logs :) There are some poor souls that keep trying to mine with incorrect configs for months now, only to have their miner's login denied by the pool. Among them even some ASIC miners. Because of this, it was simply necessary to reduce the barrier of entry to help the pools grow.


I've already beefed up the Stratum Configuration sections for all pools and will continue to do to ensure that power users will have all the information they need to get up and running as quickly as possible. 

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The setup wizard seems like a good idea. Wish I'd had access to it back when I was a noob... which was about 10 days ago! I guess that still makes me a noob.



I think the "beefed up" instructions could do with an extra paragraph where the blue arrow points to show a more common config i.e. one WITHOUT the payment id shown. Making the 'without' example slightly more prominent (and perhaps pointing out it will do for most people) than the 'with' too should help cut down on noob issues.


This pool page here helped me a lot. Scroll down a bit for examples.

Good suggestions. Will implement.

I tried to use the new assistants and found that it needs VC runtime installed. Any chance the assistant detect the existance of VC runtime? btw, it is ok to use the old xmrig? xmr use both CPU and GPU and I just want to use CPU for mining while I am working on my PC

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xmr-stak can run with CPU, AMD GPU and NVIDIA GPU and any mix. If you only want CPU mining your command line would look like this (I'm assuming running in Windows);


xmr-stak.exe --noNVIDIA --noAMD

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@anacel: The setup assistants run sandboxed inside your browser and have (fortunately) no access to your system files. Therefore it cannot detect such dependencies. I think I'm going to add back the old guides in addition to the new assistants. So, yes xmrig is still fully supported.