Get an alert when your Bitaxe goes offline (on any pool)
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How to get an alert when your Bitaxe goes offline
A Bitaxe can’t warn you by itself: AxeOS, its built-in software, has no email, Telegram or push alerts. It shows its state on its own web page and small screen, and waits for you to look. To get an alert, something outside the miner has to watch it. If you mine on SoloLuck, Public Pool, solo.ckpool or OCEAN, SoloLuck Watch reads your pool’s public stats and messages you in Telegram when a miner goes quiet. On any other pool, a monitor on your home network can check the Bitaxe directly.
This page covers why a quiet miner matters, what AxeOS and the pools offer today, how to set up Watch, the home-network option, and how to test that an alert really arrives.
Why a quiet miner costs you
Solo mining is a lottery in which every hash is a ticket. A miner that has stopped buys no tickets, and nothing tells you unless you go and look. It can stop for ordinary reasons: the Wi-Fi drops, the power goes off, the pool stops answering.
The odds are small, but they are what you’re mining for. At Bitcoin’s difficulty on 9 November 2026, a 1.2 TH/s Bitaxe Gamma has about a 1 in 6.1 million chance of finding a block on any given day (odds calculator). Each day offline is one of those days gone, and if the miner is still powered while it’s stuck, you pay for electricity that buys nothing.
An outage doesn’t hurt your luck afterwards: every hash is an independent draw. It only loses time.
What AxeOS and the pools offer today
Checked on 9 November 2026:
| Where | What you can see | Does it message you? |
|---|---|---|
| AxeOS (on the Bitaxe) | The miner’s state on its own web page and screen. The Swarm page can list all your Bitaxes and refreshes every few seconds, but only while it’s open in your browser. | No. The latest release, v2.15.4 (21 October 2026), contains no email, Telegram, webhook or MQTT code, and neither does the development code of 5 November. |
| Public Pool | Your address’s dashboard shows each worker’s Last Seen time. | Only for blocks. Its published code has a Telegram bot: send it /subscribe and your address, and it messages you when that address finds a block. Nothing in that code watches for a miner going quiet. |
| solo.ckpool | Your statistics at raw.stats.ckpool.org/users/ followed by your address. A slow miner can take a while to appear there, because the pool has a minimum difficulty of 10,000 (its FAQ). | Its page lists no alert service. |
| OCEAN | Its stats page for your address lists each worker with its status and last share. | Its home page says a worker name after your address lets you “see stats for each miner in the dashboard as well as receive alerts”, without saying how they are sent. Check with OCEAN. |
| SoloLuck | Your address’s public statistics page: enter the address on /setup. | Yes: SoloLuck Watch, in Telegram, free (below). |
SoloLuck Watch: alerts in Telegram
SoloLuck Watch is the alert service in SoloLuck’s Telegram bot, @SoloLuckIOMining_bot. You give it your address, and it reads your pool’s public stats for that address. It reads SoloLuck’s Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and DigiByte pools, and for Bitcoin also Public Pool, solo.ckpool and OCEAN. On SoloLuck it messages you:
- when a worker has sent no share for 20 minutes, and again the moment it’s back;
- when your best share reaches a new milestone (each time it doubles);
- when the SoloLuck pool you mine on finds a block.
| Plan | For | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoloLuck miners | Miners on SoloLuck's pools | Every Watch alert, including the Pro ones | Free |
| Free | Miners on Public Pool, solo.ckpool or OCEAN | Offline and back-online alerts for one miner | Free |
| Pro | Miners on Public Pool, solo.ckpool or OCEAN | Any number of miners, best-share and “closest to a block” alerts, and a weekly digest | US$1.99 per 30 days or US$15 per 365 days, paid in bitcoin over Lightning |
Pro is paid on sololuck.io/watch, never inside Telegram. Lightning payments don’t renew by themselves, so the bot reminds you three days before a pass runs out.
Watch only needs your address, which your pool already shows publicly on its stats page. It never asks for a seed phrase or private key, and SoloLuck never messages you first. Send /stop to end all alerts.
Set up Watch
- Open Telegram and start a chat with @SoloLuckIOMining_bot.
- Send
/watch, a space and your address:/watch your-address. Use the address at the start of your Bitaxe’s User field, without the dot and worker name after it. - The bot replies that it is watching the address.
/listshows everything you watch. - For Pro, send
/pro. The bot gives you a one-time code. Open sololuck.io/watch, enter the code and pay the Lightning invoice it shows. The bot confirms when Pro is on.
Two settings make the alerts clearer:
- Give each miner its own worker name after your address, such as
your-address.gamma1. Watch tracks each worker name, so two miners sharing one name look like a single miner. - If SoloLuck is your fallback pool, use the worker name
backupthere, as /backup suggests. Watch sends no offline alerts for a worker named backup, because a fallback slot sits idle by design.
Any pool: a monitor on your home network
If your pool isn’t one that Watch reads, watch the Bitaxe itself. AxeOS answers http://your-bitaxe-ip/api/system/info with its live state, including hashRate, sharesAccepted and uptimeSeconds. It answers only devices on your own network: its code refuses addresses outside the private ranges 10.x, 172.16–31.x and 192.168.x.
A monitor running on a computer at home can check that address and message you when it stops answering. One open-source example is Uptime Kuma: it checks as often as every 20 seconds, can read a JSON field such as hashRate, and sends alerts by Telegram, email and many other services.
The trade-off: a home monitor sees what the Bitaxe reports, not what the pool receives, and it goes down with your power or internet, so a power cut silences the alert too. Watch runs on SoloLuck’s servers and keeps watching through a home outage. Using both covers both.
Test that the alert arrives
- Start Watch while the Bitaxe is mining normally. Watch first learns the state of each worker and only alerts on a change.
- Unplug the Bitaxe, or switch it off at the wall.
- On SoloLuck, the offline alert arrives once the worker has sent no share for 20 minutes.
- Plug it back in. Soon after its shares reach the pool again, you get the back-online message.
Test a home monitor the same way. If no alert comes, check that the address you sent the bot matches the start of your Bitaxe’s User field, and that the worker shows up on your pool’s stats page.
An alert tells you something stopped. When the pool is the problem, a fallback pool keeps the Bitaxe mining by itself, and pool status shows which Bitcoin solo pools are answering right now.
FAQ
Does AxeOS send a notification when my Bitaxe goes offline?
No. AxeOS v2.15.4, the latest release (21 October 2026), shows the miner's state on its own web page and screen, and has no email, Telegram, webhook or MQTT alerts. To get a message, use a watcher outside the miner: one that reads your pool's stats, such as SoloLuck Watch, or a monitor on your home network that checks the Bitaxe's API.
Does Public Pool alert me when my miner stops?
Not in its published code. Public Pool's dashboard shows each worker's Last Seen time, and its open-source code has a Telegram bot that messages you when your address finds a block, but nothing in that code watches for a miner going quiet. SoloLuck Watch covers one Public Pool miner free.
How quickly will Watch tell me my Bitaxe is offline?
On SoloLuck, once a worker has sent no share for 20 minutes. You get a second message the moment it's back.
Is SoloLuck Watch free?
Yes for miners on SoloLuck, with every alert included. For Public Pool, solo.ckpool and OCEAN, the free plan sends offline alerts for one miner. Pro adds any number of miners, best-share and closest-to-a-block alerts and a weekly digest, for US$1.99 per 30 days or US$15 per 365 days, paid in bitcoin over Lightning at sololuck.io/watch.
Does Watch need my private key or seed phrase?
No. It only needs your Bitcoin address, which your pool already shows publicly on its stats page. SoloLuck never asks for a seed phrase or private key and never messages you first. Send /stop to end all alerts.
What if the pool is down, not my Bitaxe?
Set a fallback pool in AxeOS so the Bitaxe switches by itself (see the Bitaxe fallback pool guide), and check SoloLuck's pool status page, which tests every 10 minutes whether the Bitcoin solo pools are answering. If Watch can't read your pool's stats, it tells you so instead of calling your miner offline.
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