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Running miner while farm is idle

It’s been a while and I’m not too sure where to start with this one.
My guess is that someone might have done this already.

What I wish to do is to run a miner application when my farm is idle.
So basically start z:\map\miner.exe for everynode as long as there’s no other job to run.

Would this be a maintance job kind of thing / event plugin or custom application plugin?

all it needs to do is run the application and notice it’s running it until a real render job starts.

Event Plugin, using:
OnSlaveIdle - start the 3rd party app
OnSlaveStartingJob - stop the 3rd party app
OnSlaveStopped - stop the 3rd party app (optional)
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produ … -callbacks

great, thanks!

will have a look at it and see if I can get it to work :slight_smile:

ok… this goes over the top of my head :open_mouth:

not sure if I need to make a custom job plugin or only event plugin and how to get feedback if that event is working or not.

if someone is extremely bored and in a giving mood…

all I’d love to have is for an .exe file to run when all slaves are idle and for it to be shutdown when slaves are starting again
It can also just be a job that is ran without complex event setups

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