plotman VS farmr

Yes, see https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter for plotting with a ramdisk and https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman to automate everything.

Plotman is what you want. You can plot on multiple drives (tmp), then cache the completed plots on destination drives/directories (dst). Then the archive function can rsync them to an array of archive drives. Very easy to modify the config .yaml file then run "plotman plot" and "plotman archive". https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman

Plotman: v0.5.1

Yeah. Plotman config guide shows you how to set it up for madmax. Its as easy as changing the "type" variable in the config file from "chia" to "madmax" and then changing your other plotting variables to what they should be be for madmax.

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).

The v0.5 plotman includes support for madmax plotting as well as chia pool plotting. If you're feeling brave, update your plotman with: pip install --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman@main

from the default config:

# upgrading chia to the latest version cd chia-blockchain/ . ./activate chia stop -d all deactivate git fetch git checkout latest git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD git status sh install.sh . ./activate chia init edit file: nano /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/setup.py change the chiapos==1.0.2 to chiapos # resolving all config problems sudo apt install aptitude sudo aptitude -f install build-essential aptitude install cmake sudo aptitude install cmake (first type n, then type y) sudo aptitude install python3-dev (first type n, then type y) cd git clone --branch combined https://github.com/pechy/chiapos.git cd chiapos mkdir -p build && cd build # configuring flags to compile CFLAGS="-mtune=native -march=native" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=native -march=native" cmake ../ 1241 cmake --build . -- -j 6 # compiling cmake --build . -- -j 6 . ~/chia-blockchain/activate cd ~/chiapos && python setup.py install # finding all old chiapos files to replace find / -name chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so # removing old chiapos rm /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so rm /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chiapos-0.0.0-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so cp /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chiapos/build/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so cp /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chiapos/build/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chiapos-0.0.0-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so # reinstall plotman pip install --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman@development plotman interactive in plot logs you should be able to see Using optimized chiapos - 24288eb

They are referring to farmr which is a 3rd party web dashboard for monitoring your farm.

There is also https://github.com/gilnobrega/farmr which is discord based. Though I assume you'd be sketched out with that as well.

Check Farmr

As for the notification system that tells you ohni time if you have won a block (it does it through Discord) you can use Farmr and this is the link: Website: https://farmr.net/ Program For Notification: https://github.com/joaquimguimaraes/farmr

Hey, that definitely sounds like something's wrong. If you'd be interested in debugging, could you check: (1) whether the farming destination address is the receive address of your wallet? If you created a new key when you first started Flax, it defaults to the receive address of that new wallet. You can check whether that address on the explorer https://flaxexplorer.org/. (2) if you are using NFT plots -- need to be on 0.1.1 or above, and (3) if you are using a tool like Farmr https://github.com/joaquimguimaraes/farmr, it can show effort and other statistics like proof times, and whether proofs are getting found but not blocks (which would mean a network problem).

It is possible that your peers happen to be "far away" from the timelords, and connecting to the official nodes should prevent that. I recommend using Farmr (https://github.com/joaquimguimaraes/farmr) or flaxharvestgraph to monitor proofs.