MinimWatch greyed out

[Rowan]

(19-08-2022 10:17)simoncn Wrote:  MinimWatch and MinimServer have full support for M1 Macs.

It sounds like the Mac firewall might be blocking incoming network connections to MinimWatch. There are a few reasons why this might be happening.

The instructions for installing MinimWatch on a Mac are in this section. If you haven't dragged MinimWatch to your Applications folder before launching it (see step 4), this can cause the problem you are seeing.

To check your Mac firewall settings, do the following:
1) In System Preferences, open Security and Privacy
2) Select the Firewall tab
3) Click the lock and enter your password
4) Click Firewall Options
5) Check that Block all incoming connections is not selected
6) Check that Automatically allow downloaded signed software to receive incoming connections is selected

This should be sufficient but to make absolutely sure that MinimWatch is receiving incoming connections, you could add it to the list of applications manually by clicking + and selecting MinimWatch.

Thank you for the reply.
I originally did not have the firewall turned on.
I turned it on and made sure that Block all incoming connections is not selected.
Automatically allow downloaded software to receive incoming connections is selected.
I uninstalled minimWatch, downloaded and installed it again, making sure that I dragged it to the applications folder.
I then removed and added MinimWatch to the Allow incoming connections list.

I then started MinimWatch and it is still grey. Restarted, still grey.

I followed the instructions to install Java. I have version 8 Update 341.

MinimWatch is still grey.