Start Miner After Inactivity

[DrVendetta]

I have been running running GUI Miner to mine Litecoins when I am not using my computer, which has primarily been whilst sleeping and at school. I know there is a lot of time that I could be mining if I wasn't letting my computer idle when I forget to switch GUI Miner on. So I was wondering, is their any way to set a miner to start after 15 minutes of inactivity? I'm using Windows 7 by the way.

[NerdNinja]

My guess would be to make a program that checks when there is no mouse activity for, lets say a half an hour then it runs your mining program. Then you manually close the program when you want to use your computer. I'm not a programming expert but it's an idea.

[paulsterio]

I'm really showing my age here, but back in the days of Windows 98, there was an option to set the computer to launch a program when the screensaver came on. Now screensavers are pretty much a thing of the past, but maybe modern Windows still have that feature. 

[helping]

you could probably do it with macro/scripting software and set an event trigger for away or whatever mode and have it do a set procedure to activate miners. 

[Vitalius]

Task Scheduler can be used for this.

Open the Start Menu
Type "Task Scheduler" Note: It will take a moment to open. Give it time. 
Click Task Scheduler Library
Click "Action" in the top right corner
Click "Create a Task"
Name it whatever you want
Click the "Triggers" Tab
Click New...
Click the drop down box beside "Begin the task:"
Change it to "On Idle"
Click Ok.
Click the "Actions" tab.
Click New...
Click Browse...
Navigate to your miner or batch file directory and select the miner.exe or your batch file. Whichever works. 
Click Ok.
Click Ok.
Close Task Scheduler.

And that's it. You can get fancy with it and make it quit the program when it sees activity, but this should suffice since you can just quit it yourself when you get on the computer.

[DrVendetta]

Task Scheduler can be used for this. [editting in progress for steps to do it]

I found this too. It looks like to continue using GUI Miner I may need a script. But I believe if I had a .bat file for cgminer it would be really easy.

[Vitalius]

I found this too. It looks like to continue using GUI Miner I may need a script. But I believe if I had a .bat file for cgminer it would be really easy.

You can use a .bat or a .conf file for your cgminer. 

The difference is that you would use the normal cgminer.exe all the time, rather than a .bat file. They do the same thing. The advantage of a .conf file is that it makes the information more neatly organized. That's about it.

You can make cgminer make it's own .conf file from your settings (once you've ran the bat) easily. Press S for Settings, Press W for "Write Config File" Press Enter so it uses the default cgminer.conf name. 

Also, I suggest using sgminer. It's more updated than cgminer.

[roid]

I found this too. It looks like to continue using GUI Miner I may need a script. But I believe if I had a .bat file for cgminer it would be really easy.

Run Task Scheduler-Create new task (not basic)-run with highest privileges under general tab, name it whatever-go to triggers tab-hit new, hit on idle, click ok-hit actions tab- hit start a program- browse for your .bat file, hit ok-go to conditions tab-enter when you want to run the .bat file when your pc is idle under "start the task when the computer is idle for"-wait for idle for either never or 1 minute-then save by hitting ok. Should run your .bat file whenever your mouse is idle for the amount of time you selected.

[DrVendetta]

You can use a .bat or a .conf file for your cgminer. 

The difference is that you would use the normal cgminer.exe all the time, rather than a .bat file. They do the same thing. The advantage of a .conf file is that it makes the information more neatly organized. That's about it.

You can make cgminer make it's own .conf file from your settings (once you've ran the bat) easily. Press S for Settings, Press W for "Write Config File" Press Enter so it uses the default cgminer.conf name. 

Also, I suggest using sgminer. It's more updated than cgminer.

 

Run Task Scheduler-Create new task (not basic)-run with highest privileges under general tab, name it whatever-go to triggers tab-hit new, hit on idle, click ok-hit actions tab- hit start a program- browse for your .bat file, hit ok-go to conditions tab-enter when you want to run the .bat file when your pc is idle under "start the task when the computer is idle for"-wait for idle for either never or 1 minute-then save by hitting ok. Should run your .bat file whenever your mouse is idle for the amount of time you selected.

Alright, thanks for the advice. I started by using GUI Miner because of the basic UI, but since their is money to be gained, I will look into a miner that starts automatically when launched. I will probably set the miner to stop when activity resumes as well. Then I won't even have to think about mining, and the money keeps rolling in.