How to set up browser push mining notifications
Turn on browser push alerts for the wallet you mine with, learn why each browser and device is linked on its own, and choose the events that alert you.
Where do you turn on push notifications?
You set everything up from your own miner dashboard. There is no account to create and no password to remember.
- Open the pool site for the coin you are mining.
- Paste your wallet address into the search box on the miner page.
- Open the Settings tab and choose Notifications.
Not every HeroMiners pool sends notifications yet. If the Settings tab on your pool's dashboard has no Notifications section, that pool does not offer them for now.
Do this in the browser where you actually want the alerts. Browser push is tied to one browser on one device. Setting it up on a desktop does not put alerts on your phone.
What is different on an iPhone or iPad?
There is one extra step first. Safari only offers push to sites that have been added to the home screen. On an ordinary tab, the permission prompt below never appears.
The How to install the pool as an app on your phone guide takes a minute. Push works normally once it is done.
How does the pool check the address is yours?
Anyone can look up any address. So before you can change a setting, the pool checks that the request comes from a machine that is actually mining to it. The same check guards your payout threshold.
Most of the time it passes on its own, because you open the dashboard from the connection your rig uses. So open the page from the network you mine on.
Some HeroMiners pools ask for real work first. There, a rig that has just started counts once it has sent enough accepted shares, and the page says so.
If the check does not pass, the page asks for the IP address of the network your rigs mine from. Paste it in. The How to find your worker IP address guide shows where to read that number on Windows, Linux and HiveOS.
How do you link push in your browser?
- Choose the Push option in the notification panel.
- Press Link Push.
- Allow notifications when the browser asks.
The browser asks only once. When you allow it, the link is finished immediately. There is no code to send and no address to copy.
If the prompt never appears, the browser has already blocked notifications for the site. Open your browser's site settings and clear that block. Then reload the page and press Push again.
Which events can alert you?
Once push is linked, the link button is replaced by a switch for each event. They all start switched on, so turn off whatever is not worth a notification.
These are the events on offer:
- A block found by the pool.
- A block you found solo.
- A payment sent to you.
- A worker that has gone quiet.
- A meaningful drop in your hashrate.
- A pool announcement.
Only the events that apply to how you mine are listed. A reply to a support ticket is not switched here. You choose its channels on the ticket itself when you open it.
The switches belong to this browser alone. So a laptop can carry every event while a phone carries only the urgent ones.
How do you get alerts on another device?
Push reaches the browser you allowed it in and nowhere else. For the same alerts on another computer, open the dashboard in that browser and repeat the permission step there.
On a phone, install the site first and turn on push inside the installed app. Or link one of the chat channels instead, so a single link covers every device you carry.
How do you turn push off?
Turning off one event switch stops that event straight away. Unlinking push on the dashboard stops all of them.
Revoking the notification permission in the browser also stops them arriving. Unlinking on the dashboard is the cleaner way, though, because then nothing is sent at all.