How to set up Discord mining notifications
Link Discord to your mining wallet: copy the verify command from your dashboard, send it to the bot, choose your events and use the chat commands.
How do you link Discord, in short?
You link Discord from your own miner dashboard. There is no account to create and no password to remember.
- Open Notifications in the Settings tab of your miner dashboard.
- Confirm the address is yours.
- Copy the verify command for Discord.
- Send it to the pool bot in a direct message.
- Confirm on the dashboard, then pick your events.
Where are the notification settings?
Open the pool site for the coin you are mining. Paste your wallet address into the search box on the miner page. Then open the Settings tab and choose Notifications.
Not every HeroMiners pool sends notifications yet. If your pool's Settings tab has no Notifications section, that pool does not offer them for now.
Did you start from the HeroMiners hub? Its panel has a button that opens your dashboard on the pool site. Open the Settings tab there and choose Notifications as above.
Notifications belong to one pool at a time. So they are always set up on the site of the coin you are mining.
How does the pool check the address is yours?
Anyone can look up any address. So before you change a setting, the pool checks the request comes from a machine that is mining to that address. The same check guards your payout threshold.
Most of the time it passes on its own. That is because you open the dashboard from the same 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. The page says so.
If the check does not pass, the page asks for the IP address of the network your rigs mine from. You can 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 get the verify command?
Press Discord in the notification panel, then press Link Discord. It shows a short verify command with a six digit code in it. A copy button sits next to it. Copy the whole line, not just the digits.
The code works once and expires after ten minutes. If you take too long, press Get a new code under it. So there is no way to get stuck.
Where do you send the code?
Open Discord and start a direct message with the pool bot. Paste the line you copied and send it there.
The bot reads direct messages only. A code posted in a server channel gets no answer. Your alerts arrive in that same direct message.
Sending the code from your own account proves the chat is yours. That is why it goes to the bot and not into the web page. The bot replies as soon as it accepts the code.
How do you finish and choose events?
Go back to the dashboard and press the button confirming you sent the code. Discord now shows as linked. The link button is replaced by a switch for each event.
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. They all start switched on, so turn off the ones not worth an interruption.
A reply to a support ticket is not switched here. You choose its channels on the ticket itself when you open it.
Which commands does the bot understand?
Once the chat is linked, you can talk to the bot without opening the dashboard.
- Send /stats to get your current hashrate and balance back.
- Send /help to see everything the bot understands. It also states the longest mute and the default length.
- Send /mute followed by a number of hours for a quiet period. With no number, it uses the default length.
- Send /unmute to end a mute early.
- Send /stop to switch the channel off entirely.
- Send /unlink to remove the link.
A mute silences every channel linked to your address, ntfy and browser push included.
A channel stopped with /stop shows as paused on the dashboard, with a button to resume it. The bot has no command to start it again. So resume it from the dashboard.
How do you stop alerts or unlink?
Turning a single event switch off stops that event straight away. Unlinking the channel stops all of them and removes the link. The bot then no longer knows which address the chat belongs to.
You can unlink from the dashboard, or by sending /unlink to the bot. Linking again later takes the same few steps with a fresh code. Nothing about your mining changes either way.