You can manage your Antminer KA3 miners’ batch operations with BTC Tools. This is the user manual for you, which is clear and in-depth.
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Table of Contents
The Features of BTC Tools
- Scanning the miners belonging to multiple network segments in the LAN. showing the miners’ basic data, including hash rate, temperature, fan speed, pool, worker name, etc.
- arranging miners according to each field, such as temperature, worker name, hash rate, etc. With low hash rates or high temperatures, for example, you can quickly identify abnormal miners.
- With the feature called “Monitor Miners”, Information about miners can be updated continuously by BTC Tools. The abnormal miners that combine the feature with sorting are easy to locate.
- Adding worker names (sub-account.miner-postfix), passwords, and mining difficulty to your miners in bulk. Either all miners or just a few of them can be configured.
- grouping miner restarts. You can restart every miner or just a few of them.
- (New) firmware updates are applied in bulk to all or specific miners.
- (New) Batch controlling miner’s power consumption in LPM or Enhanced LPM (only suits for Antminer firmware which has “Low Power Mode” & “Low Power Enhanced Mode” options on configuration page )
- (New) Batch controlling miner’s frequency in Overclock or Underclock Mode( Only availabe for Antminer firmware with “Mode” or “Work Mode” droplist on configuration page)
- Supporting most of Antminers and a part of the Avalon miners, including AntminerS17,T17, S9, S7, T9, etc., and Avalon’s A8, A7, A6, etc. (Rebooting feature is available only with Antminers, scanning and configuration are available with both Antminers and Avalon Miners.)
How to Use BTC Tools
1. Extract the compressed package you downloaded, and then double-click the extracted “BTC Tools.exe”.
2. BTC Tools will automatically import the current network segment of the computer as the IP range of scanning. If the IP range is correct, you can click the “Scan Miner” button to start scanning your miners.
3. If the IP range is not correct, you can double-click or right-click the item in the “IP Range” box to make changes. You can also click “+” to add a new IP range, or click “-” to delete.
- Filling the IP range is easy. You only need to enter the start IP and the end IP, such as “192.168.1.100~192.168.1.200”. The end IP need not be finished, but the start IP must. The start IP’s initial portion will automatically fill the end IP’s empty space.
- Groups are used to manage IP ranges. You can add two or more IP ranges within a group, and you can name a group (as “Comment”, optional) for helping remember.
- If you don’t want BTC Tools to scan a particular group or IP range, uncheck the checkbox next to it. You can add every IP range that might exist and only check the ones you need before scanning. The checkbox in front of the “IP Range” label is a “Check All / Non” box.
4. Click the “Scan Miner” button and wait for the scan to complete. In a table, BTC Tools will show the miner’s IP, miner type, hash rate, temperature, fan speed, elapsed time, pools, and worker names if it finds a miner.
- By default, BTC Tools only shows details about the miners it has been able to successfully identify. If you want to display the information of each IP address it has scanned, uncheck “Only Success Miners”.
5. The table’s columns can all be sorted. To sort in ascending order, click the column header. Click again and sort in descending order. (The temperature is sorted by the maximum of the multiple values, and the fan speed is sorted by the average.)
6. The value of the miner is outside of the normal range if you see a highlight (red) item in the table.
- There are three cases that will be highlighted:
- The temperature is more than 90°C or less than 0°C (A negative temperature often means that the temperature sensor is faulty).
- different worker name from the miner’s IP. Example: miner IP is “192.168.1.101” but the worker name is “subaccount-name.1×102”. Only the name matching the format of “subaccount-name.number.number” is checked.
- A miner’s real-time or average hash rate is too low.
- You can click the “Settings” button to adjust the highlighted value range, or turn off the highlight.
- The hash rate is highlighted based on the type of miner. You can see the list of “miner type – lowest hash rate” in the “Settings” window. The value can be changed, or a new miner type can be added.
7. If you right-click any of the table’s items, a context menu will appear. There are two options: “Copy” and “Open Control Panel”.
- Click “Copy” and it copying the content to the system clipboard.
- Click “Open Control Panel”, it open the miner’s control panel in a browser with trying auto login (auto login only available for Some browsers have poor compatibility with the feature; they only show a blank page. Please set the alternative browser (like IE, Chrome, or Firefox) as your system default browser if you experience the problem.
8. If you want to modify the pool of a miner or all miners, just fill in the pool address, sub-account name (ending “.” Can be omitted; the software will automatically add them for you) and password (can be left empty). Additionally, choose Postfix as the worker name type. Then click the “Config Selected Miners” or “Config All Miners” button.
- When using the “Config Selected Miners” feature, you need to select the miners. You only need to select one cell in the miner table; you don’t need to select the entire row. When you click any cell in the miner table, it turns blue and indicates that you have selected the miner for that row.
- Drag the mouse to select several miners in a row. Or hold down the Ctrl key and click multiple discrete mines.
- Click the start miner, hold down the Shift key, and then click the end miner to select multiple consecutive miners in a different way.
9. If you need to restart the miners, click the “Reboot Selected Miners” or “Reboot All Miners” button. At present, BTC Tools can only reboot Antminers, rebooting Avalon miners is in development.
