Ploto

A basic Windows PowerShell based Chia Plotting Manager. Cause I was tired of spawning them myself.

Consists of a PowerShell Module that allows to spawn, manage and move plots.

PlotoSpawn

• Get-PlotoOutDrives
• Get-PlotoTempDrives
• Invoke-PlotoJob
• Start-PlotoSpawn

PlotoManage

• Get-PlotoJobs
• Stop-PlotoJob
• Remove-AbortedJobs

PlotoMove

• Get-PlotoPlots
• Move-PlotoPlots
• Start-PlotoMove

PlotoFarmer

• Get-PlotoFarmLog

PlotoSpawn

TLDR: It plots 1x plot on each TempDrive (if you have 6x TempDrives = 6x parallel Plot Jobs) as long as you want it to and as long as you have OutDrive space.

Ploto checks periodically, if a TempDrive and OutDrive is available for plotting. If there is no TempDrive available, or no OutDrive, Ploto checks again in 300 seconds.

When there is one available, Ploto determines the best OutDrive (most free space) and calls chia.exe to start the plot. Ploto iterates once through all available TempDrives and spawns a plot per each TempDrive (as long as enough OutDrive space is given). After that, Ploto checks if amount Spawned is equal as defined as input. If not, Ploto keeps going until it is.

You can specify several vital parameters to control when and where plots are spawned, temped and stored. PlotoSpawner identifies your drives for temping and storing plots by a common denominator you specify.

IMPORTANT: Ploto Assumes you Plot in the root of your Drives and that the Drives are dedicated to plotting. So make sure you do that aswell. It may work when the drives contains other data but, but Ploto was designed for empty, plot-only drives. EDIT: I noticed I have a folder in my Q:\ drive with some data. So it seems to work.

For reference heres my setup:

• CPU: i9-9900k
• RAM: 32 GB DDR4
• TempDrives:

Name	DriveLetter	Type	Size
ChiaPlot 1	I:\	SATA SSD	465 GB
ChiaPlot 2	H:\	SATA SSD	465 GB
ChiaPlot 3	E:\	SATA SSD	465 GB
ChiaPlot 4	Q:\	SATA SSD	1810 GB
ChiaPlot 5	J:\	NVME SSD PCI 16x	465 GB

• OutDrives:

Name	DriveLetter	Type	Size
ChiaOut 1	K:\	SATA HDD	465 GB
ChiaOut 2	D:\	SATA HDD	465 GB

So my denominators for my TempDrives its "plot" and for my destination drives its "out". If I'd want to use jost for example 2x drives as TempDrives, I'd rename those and adjust my denominator. For example to "plotThis"

By default, Ploto spawns only 1x Plot Job on each Disk in parallel. So when I launch Ploto with default amount to spawn:

Start-PlotoSpawns -BufferSize 3390 -Thread 2 -InputAmountToSpawn 36 -OutDriveDenom "out" -TempDriveDenom "plot" -WaitTimeBetweenPlotOnSeparateDisks 15 EnableBitfield $true -MaxParallelJobsOnAllDisks 5

the following will happen: If there is enough free space on the temp and out drives, Ploto spawns 1x job on each disk with the specified wait time between jobs. For each job, it calculates the most suitable out drive anew, being aware of the plot jobs in progress on that disk.

Using the Parameter "-MaxParallelJobsOnAllDisks", you can define how many Plots Jobs overall there should be in parallel. So this will be your hard cap. If there are as many jobs as you defined as max, PlotoSpawner wont spawn further Jobs. This keeps your system from overcommiting. Using the Parameter "-BufferSize", you can define RAM used per process, the default value is 3390MB. Using the Parameter "-Thread", you can define threads used per process the default value is 2 threads.

So in our example:

• Ploto will pause spawning, when there are 5x jobs spawned, and continues when one job finishes. It keeps going until it has spawned 36 plots or the script is cancelled by the user/system.

I need more parallelization

Using "-MaxParallelJobsOnSameDisks" you can define how many PlotsJobs there should be in parallel on a single disk. This param affects all Disks that can host more than 1 Plot. Ploto checks each disk for free space and determines the amount of plots it can hold as a tempDrive. Also being aware of the jobs in progress. It will spawn as many jobs as possible by the disk until it reached either the hard cap of -MaxParallelJobsOnAllDisks or -MaxParallelJobsOnSameDisk

If I launch PlotoSpawner with these params like this:

Start-PlotoSpawns -BufferSize 3390 -Thread 2 -InputAmountToSpawn 36 -OutDriveDenom "out" -TempDriveDenom "plot" -WaitTimeBetweenPlotOnSeparateDisks 15 -WaitTimeBetweenPlotOnSameDisk 60 -MaxParallelJobsOnAllDisks 7 -MaxParallelJobsOnSameDisk 3 -EnableBitfield $true

PlotoSpawner will at max spawn 7 parallel jobs, and max 3 Jobs in parallel on the same disk. This means for my temp drive setup the following:

Name	DriveLetter	Type	Size	Total Plots in parallel
ChiaPlot 1	I:\	SATA SSD	465 GB	1
ChiaPlot 2	H:\	SATA SSD	465 GB	1
ChiaPlot 3	E:\	SATA SSD	465 GB	1
ChiaPlot 4	Q:\	SATA SSD	1810 GB	3
ChiaPlot 5	J:\	NVME SSD PCI 16x	465 GB	1

So there will be 7x Plot jobs running in parallel with defined wait time in minutes betwen jobs on each disk and the same Disk. Drive Q:\ will never see more than 3x Plots in parallel as defined by -MaxParallelJobsOnSameDisk 3

When a job is done and a temp drive becommes available again, PlotoSpawner will spawn the next jobs, until it has spawned the amount you specified as -InputAmountToSpawn or it reaches it max cap.

PlotoSpawner redirects the output of chia.exe to to the following path:

• C:\Users\me.chia\mainnet\plotter\

And creates two log files for each job with the following notation:

• PlotoSpawnerLog_30_4_0_49_49ab3c48-532b-4f17-855d-3c5b4981528b_Tmp-E_Out-K.txt (chia.exe output)
• PlotoSpawnerLog_30_4_0_49_49ab3c48-532b-4f17-855d-3c5b4981528b_Tmp-E_Out-K'@'Stat.txt (Additional Info from PLotoSpawner)

Prereqs

The following prereqs need to be met in order for Ploto to function properly:

• chia.exe is installed (version is determined automatically)
• You may need to change PowerShell Execution Policy to allow the script to be imported.

You can do it by using Set-ExecutionPolicy like this:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

How to

If you want to use Ploto follow along.

Spawn Plots

1. Make sure your Out and TempDrives are named accordingly
2. Download Ploto as .ZIP from here
3. Import-Module "Ploto"

Import-Module "C:\Users\Me\Downloads\Ploto\Ploto.psm1"

4. Launch PlotoSpawner

Start-PlotoSpawns -BufferSize 3390 -Thread 2 -InputAmountToSpawn 36 -OutDriveDenom "out" -TempDriveDenom "plot" -WaitTimeBetweenPlotOnSeparateDisks 15 -WaitTimeBetweenPlotOnSameDisk 60 -MaxParallelJobsOnAllDisks 7 -MaxParallelJobsOnSameDisk 3 -EnableBitfield $true

PlotoSpawner @ 4/30/2021 3:19:13 AM : Spawned the following plot Job:
JobId :           ad917660-9de9-4810-8977-6ace317d7ddb
ProcessID         : 13192
OutDrive          : K:
TempDrive         : Q:
ArgumentsList     : plots create -k 32 -t Q:\ -d K:\ -e
ChiaVersionUsed   : 1.1.2
LogPath           : C:\Users\me\.chia\mainnet\plotter\PlotoSpawnerLog_30_4_3_19_ad917660-9de9-4810-8977-6ace317d7ddb_Tmp-Q_Out-K.txt
StartTime         : 4/30/2021 3:19:13 AM

PlotoManager @ 4/30/2021 3:49:13 AM : Amount of spawned Plots in this iteration: 6
PlotoManager @ 4/30/2021 3:49:13 AM : Overall spawned Plots since start of script: 6

5. Leave the PowerShell Session open (can be minimized)

Get Jobs

1. Open another PowerShell session
2. Import-Module "Ploto"

Import-Module "C:\Users\Me\Downloads\Ploto\Ploto.psm1"

4. Launch Get-PlotoJobs and format Output

Get-PlotoJobs | ft

JobId                                PlotId                                                           PID   Status       TempDrive OutDrive LogPath
-----------------                    ------                                                           ---   ------------ --------- -------- -------
49ab3c48-532b-4f17-855d-3c5b4981528b xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11856 3.6          E:        K:       C:\Users\me\.chia...
8a0cc01e-37e7-4507-ad6e-cad9401c1381 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 9184  3.6          F:        K:       C:\Users\me\.chia...
95c7cd61-bd88-45a3-a6a2-c243338de480 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1604  3.5          H:        D:       C:\Users\me\.chia...
465355ef-7da6-4691-8137-3eeba98976d5 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 16280 3.4          I:        K:       C:\Users\me\.chia...
2120b771-2376-49f5-8d47-99a411865ec9 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 14228 3.3          J:        D:       C:\Users\ne\.chia...
ad917660-9de9-4810-8977-6ace317d7ddb xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 13192 2.2          Q:        K:       C:\Users\me\.chia...
2b8596cd-3369-4e8c-a04f-26c85acdfd82 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 9752  2.1          Q:        K:       C:\Users\me\.chia...
cfff29b8-fdee-4988-ae89-9db035d809bc xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11176 1.6          Q:        K:       C:\Users\me\.chia...

Check Jobs With PerformanceCounters:

Get-PlotoJobs -PerfCounter 

JobId                 : 10e6deb5-6a13-4a0d-9c77-8c65d717bf6b
PlotId                : 332f93247b707d3bcf977889edff9bcbc9f0c3d3e30bfd941328bd7bf424f03a
PID                   : 6648
Status                : 3.6
TempDrive             : Q:
OutDrive              : D:
LogPath               : C:\Users\me\.chia\mainnet\plotter\PlotoSpawnerLog_30_4_19_12_10e6deb5-6a13-4a0d-9c77-8c65d71
                        7bf6b_Tmp-Q_Out-D.txt
StatLogPath           : C:\Users\me\.chia\mainnet\plotter\PlotoSpawnerLog_30_4_19_12_10e6deb5-6a13-4a0d-9c77-8c65d71
                        [email protected]
PlotSizeOnDisk        : 48.03 GB
cpuUsagePercent       : 0.49
memUsageMB            : 2676
CompletionTimeInHours : Still in progress

To get a better Overview, select the Proprties you want to see and use Format-Table:

Get-PlotoJobs -PerfCounter | ? {$_.Status -ne "Completed"} | select PID, Status, TempDrive, OutDrive, cpuUsage, memUsageMB, PlotSizeOnDisk | ft

PID  Status       TempDrive OutDrive cpuUsagePercent memUsageMB PlotSizeOnDisk
---  ------------ --------- -------- --------------- ---------- --------------
8144 3.5          Q:        K:                  0.58       2130 89.46 GB
6648 3.6          Q:        D:                  6.24       2676 48.03 GB
5444 3.6          Q:        D:                  3.29       2676 48.03 GB

Stop Jobs

1. Open a PowerShell session and import Module "Ploto" or use an existing one.
2. Get PlotJobSpawnerId of Job you want to stop by calling "Get-PlotJobs"
3. Stop the process:

Stop-PlotoJob -JobId cfff29b8-fdee-4988-ae89-9db035d809bc

or if you want to Stop all Jobs that are aborted:

Remove-AbortedPlotoJobs

Move Plots

As you may have noticed in my ref setup: I have little OutDrive storage capacity (1TTB roughly). This is only possible as I continously move the final Plots to my farming machine with lots of big drives.

I do this by moving plots to a external drive and plug that into my farmer, and sometimes I also transfer plots across my network (not the fatest, thats why I kind of have to do the running around approach)

PlotoMover helps to automate this process.

If you want to move your plots to a local/external drive just once:

1. Launch a PowerShell session and Import Ploto Module
2. Launch Move-PlotoPLots

Move-PlotoPlots -DestinationDrive "P:" -OutDriveDenom "out" -TransferMethod Move-Item

If you want to move your plots to a UNC path just once:

1. Launch a PowerShell session and Import Ploto Module
2. Launch Move-PlotoPLots

Move-PlotoPlots -DestinationDrive "\\Desktop-xxxxx\d" -OutDriveDenom "out" -TransferMethod Move-Item

Please be aware that if you use UNC paths as Destination, PlotoMover cannot grab the free space there and just fires off.

But I want it do it continously!

Sure, just use Start-PlotoMove with your needed params:

Move-PlotoPlots -DestinationDrive "\\Desktop-xxxxx\d" -OutDriveDenom "out" -TransferMethod Move-Item

Please be aware that if you use UNC paths as Destination, PlotoMover cannot grab the free space there and just fires off.

Check Farm Logs

If you want to peek at your farm logs you can use Check-PLotoFarmLogs:

1. Launch a PowerShell session and Import Ploto Module
2. Launch Check-PlotoFarmLogs with your desired LogLevel. It accepts EligiblePlots, Error and Warning.

Get-PlotoFarmLog -LogLevel error

2021-05-03T23:34:45.532 full_node full_node_server        : ERROR    Exception:  <class 'concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError'>, closing connection {'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 8449}. Traceback (most recent call last):
concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError
2021-05-03T23:34:48.454 full_node full_node_server        : ERROR    Exception:  <class 'concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError'>, closing connection {'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 8449}. Traceback (most recent call last):
concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError
2021-05-03T23:34:52.548 full_node full_node_server        : ERROR    Exception:  <class 'concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError'>, closing connection {'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 8449}. Traceback (most recent call last):
concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError
2021-05-03T23:35:03.845 full_node full_node_server        : ERROR    Exception:  <class 'concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError'>, closing connection {'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 8449}. Traceback (most recent call last):
concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError
2021-05-03T23:35:08.720 full_node full_node_server        : ERROR    Exception:  <class 'concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError'>, closing connection {'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 8449}. Traceback (most recent call last):
concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError
2021-05-03T23:35:15.360 full_node full_node_server        : ERROR    Exception:  <class 'concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError'>, closing connection {'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 8449}. Traceback (most recent call last):
concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError

FAQ

Can I shut down the script when I dont want Ploto to spawn more Plots?

Yep. The individual Chia Plot Jobs wont be affected by that.

Knowns Bugs and Limitations

Please be aware that Ploto was built for my specific setup. I try to generalize it as much as possible, but thats not easy-breezy. So what works for me, may not ultimately work for you. Please also bear in mind that unexpoected beahviour and or bugs are possible.

These are known:

• Only works when plotting in root of drives
• Only works when Drives are dedicated to plotting (dont hold any other files)
• Can only display and stop PlotJobs that have been spawned using PlotoSpawner
• Using the -PerfCounter param on Get-PlotoJobs takes a while to load
• PlotoMover is very limited right now, may break copy jobs at times (Bits)
• PlotoMover does not check for available free space on network drives as its unaware of it (only does for local drives)
• If you have more than 1x version of chia within your C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\chia-blockchain folder, Ploto wont be able to determine the version and will fail. Make sure theres only one available folder with chia.exe (eg. app-1.1.3)

Get-PlotoOutDrives

Gets all Windows Volumes that match the -OutDriveDenom parameter and checks if free space is greater than 107 GB (amount currently used by final chia plots). It wraps all the needed information of the volume like DriveLetter, ChiaDriveType, VolumeName, a bool IsPlootable, and the calculated amount of plots to hold into a object and returns the collection of objects as the result of that function.

Example:

Get-PlotoOutDrives -OutDriveDenom "out"

Output:

DriveLetter         : D:
ChiaDriveType       : Out
VolumeName          : ChiaOut2
FreeSpace           : 363.12
IsPlottable         : True
AmountOfPlotsToHold : 3

DriveLetter         : K:
ChiaDriveType       : Out
VolumeName          : ChiaOut3
FreeSpace           : 364.24
IsPlottable         : True
AmountOfPlotsToHold : 3

Parameters:

Name	Required	Type	Description
OutDriveDenom	Yes	String	A common denominator for all your drives used as out drives. All drives with that denom in name will be used to store done plots.

Get-PlotoTempDrives

Gets all Windows Volumes that match the -TempDriveDenom parameter and checks if free space is greater than 270 GB (amount currently used by chia plots as temp storage). It wraps all the needed information of the volume like DriveLetter, ChiaDriveType, VolumeName, a bool IsPlootable, and the calculated amount of plots to temp, whether it has a plot in porgress (determined by checking if the drive contains any file) into a object and returns the collection of objects as the result of that function.

Example:

 Get-PlotoTempDrives -TempDriveDenom "plot"

Output:

DriveLetter             : E:
ChiaDriveType           : Temp
VolumeName              : ChiaPlot 3 Evo 860 512GB
FreeSpace               : 437.28
TotalSpace              : 465.76
hasFolder               : False
IsPlottable             : True
HasPlotInProgress       : False
AmountOfPlotsInProgress : 0
AmountOfPlotsToTempMax  : 1
AvailableAmountToPlot   : 1
PlotInProgressID        :

DriveLetter             : F:
ChiaDriveType           : Temp
VolumeName              : ChiaPlot4 NVME FullDisk 1
FreeSpace               : 446.76
TotalSpace              : 465.75
hasFolder               : False
IsPlottable             : True
HasPlotInProgress       : False
AmountOfPlotsInProgress : 0
AmountOfPlotsToTempMax  : 1
AvailableAmountToPlot   : 1
PlotInProgressID        :


## Invoke-PlotoJob
Calls Get-PlotoTempDrives to get all Temp drives that are plottable. For each tempDrive it determines the most appropriate OutDrive (using Get-PlotoOutDrives function), stitches together the ArgumentList for chia and fires off the chia plot job using chia.exe. For each created PlotJob the function creates an Object and appends it to a collection of objects, which are returned upon the function call. 

#### Example:

```powershell
Invoke-PlotoJob -BufferSize 3390 -Thread 2 -OutDriveDenom "out" -TempDriveDenom "plot" -WaitTimeBetweenPlotOnSeparateDisks 0.1 -WaitTimeBetweenPlotOnSameDisk 0.1 -MaxParallelJobsOnAllDisks 2 -MaxParallelJobsOnSameDisk 1 -EnableBitfield $true -Verbose

Output:

PlotoSpawnerJobId : 49ab3c48-532b-4f17-855d-3c5b4981528b
ProcessID       : 9024
OutDrive        : D:
TempDrive       : H:
ArgumentsList   : plots create -k 32 -b 3390 -r 2 -t H:\ -d D:\
ChiaVersionUsed : 1.1.2
LogPath           : C:\Users\me\.chia\mainnet\plotter\PlotoSpawnerLog_30_4_0_49_49ab3c48-532b-4f17-855d-3c5b4981528b_Tmp-E_Out-K.txt
StartTime       : 4/29/2021 1:55:50 PM

Start-PlotoSpawns

Main function that nests all else. Continously calls Invoke-PlotoJob and states progress and other information. It runs until it created the amount of specified Plot by using the -InputAmountToSpawn param.

Example:

Start-PlotoSpawns -BufferSize 3390 -Thread 2 -InputAmountToSpawn 36 -OutDriveDenom "out" -TempDriveDenom "plot" -WaitTimeBetweenPlotOnSeparateDisks 0.1 -WaitTimeBetweenPlotOnSameDisk 0.1 -MaxParallelJobsOnAllDisks 2 -MaxParallelJobsOnSameDisk 1 -EnableBitfield $true 

Output:

PlotoManager @ 4/29/2021 1:45:38 PM : Amount of spawned Plots in this iteration: 2
PlotoManager @ 4/29/2021 1:45:38 PM : Overall spawned Plots since start of script: 2

PlotoManage

Allows you to check status of your current plot jobs aswell as stopping them and cleaning the temp drives.

Get-PlotoJobs

Analyzes the plotter logs (standard chia.exe output redirected, enriched with additional data) and shows the status, pid and drives in use. The function only pick up data of plot logs that have been spawned using PlotoSpawner (as it deploys initial data like PID of process and drives use). The additional logs are stored in the same location as the standrad logs. If you delete those, this function wont be able to read certain properties anymore.

Status Codes and their meaning

See below for a definition of what phase coe is associated with which chia.exe log output.

"Starting plotting progress into temporary dirs:*" {$StatusReturn = "Initializing"}
"Starting phase 1/4*" {$StatusReturn = "1.0"}
"Computing table 1" {$StatusReturn = "1.1"}
"F1 complete, time*" {$StatusReturn = "1.1"}
"Computing table 2" {$StatusReturn = "1.1"}
"Computing table 3" {$StatusReturn = "1.2"}
"Computing table 4" {$StatusReturn = "1.3"}
"Computing table 5" {$StatusReturn = "1.4"}
"Computing table 6" {$StatusReturn = "1.5"}
"Computing table 7" {$StatusReturn = "1.6"}
"Starting phase 2/4*" {$StatusReturn = "2.0"}
"Backpropagating on table 7" {$StatusReturn = "2.1"}
"Backpropagating on table 6" {$StatusReturn = "2.2"}
"Backpropagating on table 5" {$StatusReturn = "2.3"}
"Backpropagating on table 4" {$StatusReturn = "2.4"}
"Backpropagating on table 3" {$StatusReturn = "2.5"}
"Backpropagating on table 2" {$StatusReturn = "2.6"}
"Starting phase 3/4*" {$StatusReturn = "3.0"}
"Compressing tables 1 and 2" {$StatusReturn = "3.1"}
"Compressing tables 2 and 3" {$StatusReturn = "3.2"}
"Compressing tables 3 and 4" {$StatusReturn = "3.3"}
"Compressing tables 4 and 5" {$StatusReturn = "3.4"}
"Compressing tables 5 and 6" {$StatusReturn = "3.5"}
"Compressing tables 6 and 7" {$StatusReturn = "3.6"}
"Starting phase 4/4*" {$StatusReturn = "4.0"}
"Writing C2 table*" {$StatusReturn = "4.1"}
"Time for phase 4*" {$StatusReturn = "4.2"}
"Renamed final file*" {$StatusReturn = "4.3"}

Example:

Get-PlotoJobs | ft 

Output:

JobId                                PlotId                                                           PID  Status       TempDrive OutDrive LogPath
-----------------                    ------                                                           ---  ------------ --------- -------- -------
2e39e295-ccd9-4abf-94e9-01a854cbfa24 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx None Completed    E:        K:       C:\Users\...
ed2133b0-018c-44db-81e7-61befbda8031 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx None Completed    F:        D:       C:\Users\...
bc3b44b1-b290-4487-a552-c4dda2e11366 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx None Completed    H:        K:       C:\Users\...
10e6deb5-6a13-4a0d-9c77-8c65d717bf6b xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx None Completed    Q:        D:       C:\Users\...
f865e425-ada4-44f0-8537-23a033aef302 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx None Completed    Q:        D:       C:\Users\...
b19eaef4-f9b3-4807-8870-a959e5aa3a21 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx None Completed    I:        D:       C:\Users\...
278615e9-8e4d-4af4-bfcc-4665412aae89 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx None Completed    Q:        K:       C:\Users\...

Remove-AbortedJobs

Gets all Jobs from Get-PlotoJobs that are aborted (where no process runs to PID) and foreach call Stop-PlotoJob

Example:

Remove-AbortedJobs

Output:

PlotoRemoveAbortedJobs @ 5/1/2021 6:42:24 PM : Found aborted Jobs to be deleted: 6cfb4e4a-cb71-4f2a-9387-17a8049ce625 85b08573-054d-46f0-b7e3-755f9ce021bc cbab519c-2f26-41c9-b3fa-8bcb0ba36d3a 2b0ab204-3b0e-4e8c-b04c-a884859ae637 f639cb35-23a8-4010-a1db-ab6186bd117c
PlotoRemoveAbortedJobs @ 5/1/2021 6:42:24 PM : Cleaning up...
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:24 PM : ERROR:  Cannot bind parameter 'Id'. Cannot convert value "None" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Input string was not in a correct format."
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:24 PM : Found .tmp files for this job to be deleted. Continue with deletion.
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:24 PM : Removed temp files on F:
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:24 PM : Removed log files for this job.
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:25 PM : ERROR:  Cannot bind parameter 'Id'. Cannot convert value "None" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Input string was not in a correct format."
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:25 PM : Found .tmp files for this job to be deleted. Continue with deletion.
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:25 PM : Removed temp files on H:
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:25 PM : Removed log files for this job.
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:25 PM : ERROR:  Cannot bind parameter 'Id'. Cannot convert value "None" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Input string was not in a correct format."
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:25 PM : Found .tmp files for this job to be deleted. Continue with deletion.
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:25 PM : Removed temp files on E:
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:25 PM : Removed log files for this job.
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : ERROR:  Cannot bind parameter 'Id'. Cannot convert value "None" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Input string was not in a correct format."
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : Found .tmp files for this job to be deleted. Continue with deletion.
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : Removed temp files on J:
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : Removed log files for this job.
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : ERROR:  Cannot bind parameter 'Id'. Cannot convert value "None" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Input string was not in a correct format."
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : Found .tmp files for this job to be deleted. Continue with deletion.
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : Removed temp files on I:
PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : Removed log files for this job.
PlotoRemoveAbortedJobs @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : Removed Amount of aborted Jobs: 5

The Error below is known and only says that the process is already closed. This is expected. In the future this error may be surpressed.

PlotoStopJob @ 5/1/2021 6:42:26 PM : ERROR:  Cannot bind parameter 'Id'. Cannot convert value "None" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Input string was not in a correct format."

PlotoMove

Continously searches for final Plots on your OutDrives and moves them to your desired location. I do this for transferring plots from my plotting machine to my farming machine.

Get-PlotoPlots

Searches defined Outdrives for Final Plots (file that end upon .plot) and returns an array with final plots.

Example:

Get-PlotoPlots -OutDriveDenom "out"

Output:

Iterating trough Drive:  @{DriveLetter=D:; ChiaDriveType=Out; VolumeName=ChiaOut2; FreeSpace=59.04; TotalSpace=0; IsPlottable=False; AmountOfPlotsToHold=0}
Checking if any item in that drive contains .PLOT as file ending...
Found a Final plot:  plot-k32-2021-04-30-18-52-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot
Found a Final plot:  plot-k32-2021-04-30-19-02-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot
Found a Final plot:  plot-k32-2021-04-30-19-12-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot
Found a Final plot:  plot-k32-2021-04-30-19-42-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot
Iterating trough Drive:  @{DriveLetter=K:; ChiaDriveType=Out; VolumeName=ChiaOut3; FreeSpace=262.86; TotalSpace=0; IsPlottable=True; AmountOfPlotsToHold=2}
Checking if any item in that drive contains .PLOT as file ending...
Found a Final plot:  plot-k32-2021-04-30-18-57-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot
Found a Final plot:  plot-k32-2021-04-30-19-12-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot
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FilePath                                                                                           Name
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D:\plot-k32-2021-04-30-18-52-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot plot-k32-2021-04-...
D:\plot-k32-2021-04-30-19-02-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot plot-k32-2021-04-...
D:\plot-k32-2021-04-30-19-12-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot plot-k32-2021-04-...
D:\plot-k32-2021-04-30-19-42-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot plot-k32-2021-04-...
K:\plot-k32-2021-04-30-18-57-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot plot-k32-2021-04-...
K:\plot-k32-2021-04-30-19-12-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot plot-k32-2021-04-...

Move-PlotoPlots

Grabs the found plots from Get-PlotoPlots and moves them to either a local/external drive using Move-Item cmdlet or to a UNC path using Background Intelligence TRansfer Service (Bits). You can define the OutDrives to search for Plots, TransferMethod and Destination.

Make sure TrasnferMethod and Destination match.

Example:

Move-PlotoPlots -DestinationDrive "\\Desktop-xxxxx\d" -OutDriveDenom "out" -TransferMethod BITS

Output:

PlotoMover @ 5/1/2021 7:08:09 PM : Moving plot:  D:\plot-k32-2021-04-30-18-52-dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx00454fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx64.plot to \\Desktop-xxxxx\d using BITS