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MinerGuardDog

Miner watchdog for Windows, compatible with

Mining with AMD GPUs in Windows could be a PITA. You have always to check if everything is running fine and sometimes cross fingers.

This watchdog comes in help:

Checks if miner process is running and responding, otherwise the watchdog restarts it
Checks if video cards are present (sometimes a Vega "disappears" from system), otherwise the watchdog reboots System
Checks for hashrate drops, otherwise the watchdog restars the miner
Checks temperatures of your cards, in case temperature raises above limit you set it pauses miner, reboot or shutdown system according to settings
Auto detect cards, run devcon disable/enable, and applies Overdriventool profiles. You can schedule to apply profiles after miner is started. See example INI file for better explaination
Auto disable Crossfire and Ulps in Registry
Round-Robin rig sharing in xmr-stak (see Example INI file)
Send Telegram Notifications

Installation

Place files minerguarddog.vbs and minergguarddog.example.ini in your miners directory.
Place your miner(s) in a subdirectory where the script is contained.
Place overdriventool.exe and devcon.exe in the script directory.
For temperature monitoring place openhardwaremonitor in scriptdir/openhardwaremonitor
Run Openhardwaremonitor and Configure HTTP Monitoring: Set port in Options->Remote Web Server->Port, and run web server Options->Remote Web Server->Run. Close Openhardwaremonitor in order to save configuration.
Rename minergguarddog.example.ini in minerguarddog.ini
Edit minerguarddog.ini to suit your needs, configuration is well commented so it's easy
Run minerguarddog.vbs as Admin or schedule at user logon with task scheduler, making sure the process is started as admin

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