It would be great to receive an email when a new node joins the mining pool

[slingerbv]

If the miner id has not been seen before, it would be great if an email was sent to notifications@secureseco.org if a new miner joins. In this way we can better track community activity.

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[slingerbv]

Please note that in the portal project an email feature has already been built in. It's really simple and rudimentary and doesn't have to be more complicated.

[slingerbv]

I still need to set up the email account, btw. More later ;-).

[slingerbv]

Email is now active!

[lyledavids]

Hi Slinger,
Is there an api or way to see the mining pool?

[slingerbv]

https://secureseco.science.uu.nl/portal/

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[lyledavids]

Okay, is there portal to see when new miner joins? or api for that?

[slingerbv]

Weird, I replied by email but it never came here:
I believe these identifier entries are stored in the DB, to show the top 5 miners on the portal. As everything is decentralized, it's probably best to do the following:

1. See if this identifier has mined in the last week.
2. If not, send email from client.
3. Start mining.

After the mining starts, the portal will show the new client anyway. But only 5 clients are shown, so after a while it'll be harder to track all the identifiers.

[slingerbv]

The identifier I allude to here is the name of the worker, such as currently "dove", "turtle", on the portal.

[lyledavids]

Hi, I have the code ready to send the email. Sort of a "trigger email".
But the only stumbling block is I don't know when a node joins and not sure how many nodes there are. This info is not available on the portal.
Is the "localWorker" the amount of nodes?

[slingerbv]

Hi Lyle, the node itself needs to send the message. When it starts mining it should check: have I mined before? If no, send email. There's no central server (because decentralized) so who else can do it besides the node itself?

So it's basically at the start of SearchSECOController.

[lyledavids]

Okay, I understand that but where do I get information about the node or when a new node joins?
I was only given the link to this portal, https://secureseco.science.uu.nl/portal/

[slingerbv]

The system is fully decentralized, so there is no "get information". What you need to do is when a SearchSECO node is started, check whether it's run before (probably, because it crashes a lot). However, if it hasn't run before with that identifier, an email must be sent by the node itself.