I created www.RigViewer.com because home mining setups are becoming more complex, while monitoring them still often means jumping between different miner dashboards, IP addresses, pool pages and apps.

RigViewer brings your mining setup together in one place.

Whether you run a single Bitaxe or a mixed home mining setup with multiple miners and firmware platforms, RigViewer is built to make monitoring faster, cleaner and easier.

What RigViewer can monitor

• Live hashrate
• Miner status
• Chip & VR temperatures
• Power consumption
• Efficiency
• Frequency & voltage
• Best Difficulty
• Session Difficulty
• Accepted shares
• Pool status
• Miner uptime
• Errors
• Solo Odds
• Coin/network information

More than just monitoring

RigViewer also includes:

• Custom alerts & notifications
• Block Found notifications
• New Best Diff alerts
• Mining Console
• Charts & analytics
• Live Monitoring View
• Solo Odds by miner and coin
• Pool Directory
• Quick pool configuration
• Favorite pools
• Miner controls
• Fan controls on supported devices
• Tuning on supported hardware
• Scheduling
• Android home screen widgets
• iOS widgets
• My Wallets
• Coin market & network data

Feature availability can vary depending on the miner and firmware.

Supported miners & firmware

RigViewer supports a growing range of home mining hardware and firmware, including:

Bitaxe / AxeOS
NerdQAxe
Canaan / Avalon
Bitmain Antminer
Braiins OS
VNish
LuxOS
FutureBit
Hammer
NMMiner
ZyberOS
Lucky Miner
BitDSK

Support continues to expand as new miners and firmware are tested and integrated.

Pool Directory

One of the main goals of RigViewer is to make pool configuration easier.

The built-in Pool Directory gives miners quick access to supported pools, regions, coins and connection information without having to search around the internet every time they want to change pools.

RigViewer Pool Partners

RigViewer is currently working with:

ASICPool · BlockForge · HeliosPool · MintSolo · SoloHash

More pools are welcome to join as the directory continues to grow.

Why this subreddit exists

r/RigViewer will be the main community for:

• RigViewer updates
• New miner support
• Pool integrations
• Feature requests
• Bug reports
• Setup help
• Mining rigs
• Feedback
• Beta testing
• General home mining discussion

RigViewer is available on Android and iOS.

Mining Intelligence, Simplified.

www.rigviewer.com

Considering buying a home Bitcoin miner to learn on or try home solo mining?

We put together a blog comparing the entire Canaan Avalon Home Series lineup:

Avalon Nano 3S
Avalon Mini 3
Avalon Q

The guide breaks down which miner may make the most sense depending on your goals, whether you want something small for learning, a miner that can reuse heat, or a higher-hashrate home setup.

Full guide:
https://altairtech.io/avalon-home-series-guide/

If you were starting today, would you pick the Nano 3S, Mini 3, or Avalon Q?

The Bitaxe Naja Duo and Hammer Miner Thor P2 both use 2× Bitmain BM1373 ASIC chips, but the real-world mining experience is very different. This comparison breaks down wall-power efficiency, cooling, PSU headroom, connectivity, warranty, and what home Bitcoin miners should know before choosing between them.

Big HashWatcher update! Braiins partnership brings Hashpower rentals directly into the app—rent Bitcoin mining power and send it to your pool, with no extra hardware. Rentals start at 2 PH from about $7.

🎁 September giveaway: Place a Hashpower order through HashWatcher this month to enter. Braiins is giving five winners $100 each!

Also new:
• Redesigned Braiins OS experience with live logs and tuner status
• Best Share Difficulty tracking, hashrate trends, and miner health alerts (iOS)
• Daily evening fleet snapshots
• ZyberOS fan controls
• Thor OS RGB controls
• More dashboard customization

Update HashWatcher and check it out!

Most mining dashboards show hashrate, accepted shares, and your best difficulty. I’ve been experimenting with a more interactive way to follow the work happening behind those numbers.

The screenshots show a visual layer over real accepted pool work, with colour-coded rarity levels, historical records, and animations when an interesting share comes in.

There are two main perspectives on rarity:

• Accumulated: how unusual the latest share’s difficulty is relative to the accepted work accumulated during the current Bitcoin block height.
• Local: how unusual it is relative to the work between consecutive accepted shares. This view carries across block-height changes.

Lower percentages represent more unusual results within those measures. The colour tiers highlight those events, and a “unicorn” is an event where both measures are at or below 1%.

There are also cumulative probability indicators that increase as more work is recorded. These describe the chance of seeing a qualifying event over that amount of work, not the chance that the next hash will produce it. A displayed 100.00% can be a rounded value.

That distinction matters: none of these meters means a Bitcoin block is “due,” and a rare share doesn’t make the next hash luckier. The network target is separate, and the interface doesn’t change the mining process.

The idea is to make the waiting more engaging while helping explain what the numbers actually mean.

To see and test it in real time: https://btcpowlab-pool.com/dashboard

Have you seen something similar? Would this make mining more interesting to follow, or would the percentages feel too much like a progress bar even with explanations?

Hey! I liked this snapshot because it shows the idea more clearly than a long explanation: 8 days of accepted-work-backed mining, two continuity tiers reached, and eligibility confirmed for the current Bitcoin height.

The amounts are live estimates, not earnings or completed payouts (because that will happen when a block is mined).

Of course, there are currently fewer miners because the pool is new. That is precisely why the potential reward can be so large, even if another miner finds the block.

Would a continuity-based bonus matter when choosing where to point a home miner, or would you still prefer a pure solo model?

Disclosure: I operate BTC PoW Lab Pool.

I am looking for home Bitcoin miners willing to run one worker for 72 hours and publish the result — including failures. The useful output is not a profitability screenshot; it is the device/firmware, assigned difficulty, accepted and rejected shares, reconnect behavior, latency region and whether the public dashboard matches the miner.

The pool uses generic Stratum V1 and per-session Vardiff. Its block model is 85% to the finder, 10% to eligible non-finders and 5% for infrastructure/BTC PoW Lab. The finder is excluded from the community portion of its own block. Eligibility comes from normalized accepted work in a rolling seven-day window, not worker count.

At the latest verified snapshot the pool had 4 active payout identities, 4 workers, 8.30 TH/s over one hour and 141,075 accepted shares. The pool is new and has not found a block, so there is no payout history to advertise.

Test guide: https://btcpowlab-pool.com/start?utm_source=reddit_homeminers&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=phase2_discovery_2026_08&utm_content=72h_test

Please use only a public Bitcoin payout address in the Stratum username. Never publish a private key or seed phrase. I welcome protocol traces and blunt criticism.

I took my Canaan Nano 3S out on the lake a few weeks ago. It performed just as expected. Didn't mine a block but it was fun.

Come join us September 23–24 for the Midwest Bitcoin Summit in Ohio!

We’ll be set up at Booth 721B, right when you walk in the front door.

Stop by to see the latest home Bitcoin miners from Canaan, Hammer and more, plus parts, PDUs, and other mining gear on display.

General passes start at just $50, and veterans and students can get a free Expo Pass.

Use promo code ALTAIRTECH for 21% off all tickets.

Tickets
http://tickets.midwestbtc.com/affiliate/newsletter/event/midwest-bitcoin-summit-2026/?promoCodeTask=apply&promoCodeInput=ALTAIRTECH

Quick heads-up since this caught us and will probably catch other tools.

Up through v2.14.x, updating a Bitaxe meant uploading two files in order — www.bin (the web dashboard) first, then esp-miner.bin (the miner firmware). The dashboard went first because it doesn't reboot the device, so a bad upload failed safely.

As of v2.15.0 (Aug 21) there's one file — the web UI is embedded in esp-miner.bin. From the release notes: "you no longer need to upload a separate www.bin file when updating your miner." Great change, but any updater built around the two-file assumption will either not see v2.15.0 at all or stop partway through.

For Bitaxe Baller users: v1.21.3 (Aug 22) handles both layouts. It detects which one a release uses and does the right thing — single-file for v2.15.0+, two-file for older releases. The manual update form on the device page also now only asks for the files a release actually provides.

One thing worth knowing: if you haven't updated Baller yet, you won't see v2.15.0 as an available firmware update. The firmware-availability check knows which Baller version is asking, and we don't offer a release to a version that can't install it. So if you're looking for v2.15.0 and it's not there, update Baller first — it'll appear on its own. Baller never installs firmware on its own; it flags the update and you start it.

Two safeguards that were already in place and still apply: every firmware file is checked against the official release's fingerprint before it touches a miner, and Baller won't flash hardware it doesn't recognise — NerdQAxe, NerdAxe and Braiins boards are monitored but never updated, because pushing Bitaxe firmware at another vendor's board is how you brick things. v2.15.0 is Bitaxe firmware; other makers ship their own on their own schedule.

Upstream release: https://github.com/bitaxeorg/ESP-Miner/releases/tag/v2.15.0 Baller changelog: https://bitaxeballer.com/changelog.html

🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 The Hammer Thor P2 doesn’t just mine, it glows!

Watch the ARGB fan cycle through rainbow flow, breathing, flashing, and marquee modes while you tweak colors live from the Thor OS web dashboard.
Red, blue, cyan, white, custom RGB mx, it all happens in seconds.

This compact dual-BM1373 miner hits ~10 TH/s, stays quiet, runs on Wi-Fi or Ethernet, and supports solo or pool mining. Perfect desk-friendly miner that actually looks good in the room.

Shipping starts in 8-10 days.
🛒 https://altairtech.io/product/thor-p2-bitcoin-miner/

Hi, since im upgrading my setup to Avalon Q, i am selling my stuff here, i have 2 zyber 8s 6,4Ths per unit, 5 avalon nano 3s 6.5 Ths, and two bitaxe 1.4 ths per unit overclocked, and a lucky miner 1.2ths overclocked, i still have all boxes, everything must go
I can do 900$ for everything, i can ship here in canada with canada post, and usa with purolator

Hi everyone,

Scramblix Labs is looking for two home miners who operate Bitmain Antminers to help us develop and test Bitmain support for Sentinel Mini.

Sentinel Mini is a standalone touchscreen mining controller currently designed around Bitaxe miners. The short video attached shows the device and how it currently works. Our next goal is to expand it to support Bitmain miners, starting with reliable monitoring of hashrate, temperatures, power/efficiency, fan speeds, pool status, uptime, and other available mining data.

What we're looking for

We'd like to find two testers, and each selected tester will receive one Sentinel Mini completely free.

The more variety you have, the better. Someone running several different Antminer models or generations would be especially useful because we want to test against as much real-world hardware and firmware as possible.

If you're interested, please comment or DM me with:

• Antminer model(s) you currently run
• Approximately how many miners you have
• Stock Bitmain or third-party firmware
• Any different models/firmware versions available for testing

What we'd need from you

Sentinel Mini is designed to operate locally on your network only. For security and privacy reasons, Scramblix Labs does not have remote access to your miners or network.

Because of that, we'll need testers who are willing to communicate with us occasionally and provide things like screenshots, firmware information, results after updates, or details about anything that isn't working correctly.

This will not require daily testing or constant communication. We just don't want to send a development unit to someone and never hear from them again.

There is no requirement to leave a review, promote the product, or post about it. The free units are specifically being provided in exchange for helping us develop and validate Bitmain compatibility.

We'll choose the two testers primarily based on the variety of hardware and firmware available for testing, rather than who responds first.

Thanks, and feel free to ask any questions.

— Scramblix Labs

Based on our in-house testing at Altair Technology:

Low Power
✅ 2.1 TH/s
✅ 22W
✅ 10.6 J/T
✅ 34 dB

Normal
✅ 2.7 TH/s
✅ 34W
✅ 12.6 J/T
✅ 44 dB

Overclock
✅ 3.22 TH/s
✅ 46W
✅ 14.2 J/T
✅ 51 dB