Swar-Chia-Plot-Manager VS chiadog

(https://github.com/swar/Swar-Chia-Plot-Manager)

Madmax plotter, Swar plot manager, and Plotman plot manager all support portable plots for pools now. Others probably do, but I'm not as familiar with them. Update to the latest versions for the best results, and double-check your configuration files as some settings may have changed since your last update. And you can also use plot managers with Madmax these days, if you want to take advantage of workflow management (multiple destination drives, parallel plotting on bigger plotters, less scrolly logs, etc).

I stumbled across this command line manager and viewer that was very easy to setup and get going with highly configurable parallel plots. I'm fairly new to all this, but I've found the Swar-Chia-Plot-Manager to be quite good in my short time using it. The readme is also quite good to help you configure the config.yaml file for your particular system's needs. I think it's fairly similar to plotman for linux, as far as I know. I'm running this program to manage my plots on my Windows 10 5950X build. I also open the Chia GUI (not plotting through GUI) and refresh plots occasionally to see the new plots as "farming," once they are ready.

I've already adapted Swar's Chia Ploter Manager to work with it: https://github.com/swar/Swar-Chia-Plot-Manager/pull/1198

Use any other plot manager like Swar Chia Plot Manager, its easy to learn and much much better for your tests

Chiadog is a monitoring program for people who solo and dont want to manually check the log file. I have mine set up to ping into a discord room should there be any issues. From memory it was a pain to set up, but feel free to check it out here: https://github.com/martomi/chiadog - not really needed if pooling IMO.

It’s chiadog.

Check Chiadog , it has a lot of features to monitor and notify events like reduced plot count, hdd disconnect, node out of sync, etc.

Good idea! I created a feature request for Chiadog: https://github.com/martomi/chiadog/issues/322

This would be a neat thing to roll up into a monitoring system like chiadog

You can get chiadog for that, it distills the messages down into more human-readable info. FlexFarmer only makes a huge difference when you're farming on a weak system like a Pi. Solo farming isn't that scary.