TopShelf service and userland idle monitor for easy crypto mining.

This is an idle miner software; it should detect whether your computer is idle or locked and mine accordingly based on your settings. Most features are implemented and (should be) working with the current release.

First, download the newest version from the Releases page, or compile it yourself. VS 2017 recommended.

Run MiningService.exe once, so it can generate the default MinerService.json configuration file. Open MinerService.json in a text editor (Notepad ++ recommended), and edit the settings to your liking.

After modifying the settings, you can test them by running MiningService.exe. This will cause it to run as a Console window. After you are satisfied that your settings work, run install.bat to install MiningService as a Windows service, and then run start.bat to start the MiningService. If things went well, you should see a notifaction above your taskbar icons telling you that it is running.

If you want to stop the service, run stop.bat. You can also use an elevated command prompt for all of these. MiningService.exe start MiningService.exe stop MiningService.exe uninstall. Or with the Service Control manager built into Windows: sc start MiningService sc stop MiningService.

Below CPU miner is XMRIG, and GPU miner is EWBF.

{
  "ignoredFullscreenApps": [
    "explorer",
    "LockApp"
  ],
  "cpuMiners": [
    {
      "executable": "C:\\Miners\\xmrig.exe",
      "idleArguments": "-o SERVER:PORT -u WALLET -p x -k --safe",
      "activeArguments": "-o SERVER:PORT -u WALLET -p x -k --max-cpu-usage=50",
      "mineWhileNotIdle": true,
      "minerDisabled": false
    }
  ],
  "gpuMiners": [
    {
      "executable": "C:\\UMiners\\EWBFMiner.exe",
      "idleArguments": "--server SERVER --port PORT --user WALLET --pass x --cuda_devices 0 --fee 0",
      "activeArguments": "--server SERVER --port PORT --user WALLET --pass x --cuda_devices 0 --fee 0",
      "mineWhileNotIdle": false,
      "minerDisabled": false
    }
  ],
  "enableDebug": false,
  "enableLogging": true,
  "monitorFullscreen": true,
  "preventSleep": false,
  "monitorCpuTemp": false,
  "mineWithCpu": true,
  "maxCpuTemp": 60,
  "cpuUsageThresholdWhileNotIdle": 90,
  "monitorGpuTemp": false,
  "mineWithGpu": true,
  "maxGpuTemp": 75,
  "mineIfBatteryNotFull": true,
  "verifyNetworkConnectivity": false,
  "urlToCheckForNetwork": "http://google.com",
  "minutesUntilIdle": 10
}

You can enter your own apps here, or right-click on the tray icon to ignore the last fullscreen app that was detected.

Runs as a Windows Service, and starts user-defined (crypto ideally, but anything, really) programs in the SYSTEM user's context. This allows us easy access to large pages (necessary for fast CPU mining with Monero), as well as easily hiding the mining software from display. If no logged in user is found, it will launch the user-defined software for the appropriate condition.

Runs in the current logged in user's Desktop environment, automatically started by the MiningService using CreateProcessAsUser. IdleMon starts a NamedPipe server which MiningService connects to and, using that pipe, tells the service whether the user is idle or if the user chooses, through a task tray icon, to pause mining.

Visual Studio 2017 is required. It should be as simple as opening the MiningService solution and doing a Build. You may need to restore Nuget packages by right-clicking on the solution and selecting "Restore nuget packages" if it does not restore them automatically on build.

• Most things work!
• Load configuration from JSON file
• Load user-defined programs for different conditions
• MiningService -> IdleMon communcation and notifications
• Stealth mode, which hides the task tray options (you must recompile it with the stealthMode option set to true in IdleMon)
• Debug/Log output, configurable from configuration JSON
• Monitor for fullscreen programs with IdleMon and stop mining if detected
• Whitelist for fullscreen apps loaded from configuration
• Monitor CPU usage and stop non-Idle mining if over a set threshold
• Average the CPU usage over a period of time longer than 1s, and stop programs if usage is too high while not idle
• GUI to easily modify configuration JSON
• Monitor GPU temperature and stop programs if over a threshold (experimental, not in release)
• Monitor CPU temperature and stop programs if over a threshold (experimental, not in release)

https://github.com/acdvorak/named-pipe-wrapper (I've modified it to keep CPU usage lower, check the PRs for example) https://github.com/murrayju/CreateProcessAsUser (I was not able to get command args working on Win10) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3743956/is-there-a-way-to-check-to-see-if-another-program-is-running-full-screen Newtonsoft.Json TopShelf And probably one or two I'm not thinking of.

I worked a lot on this, but there is no fee for using it! If you appreciate my efforts, you can send a donation to any of these addresses.

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