MinimWatch on Windows 7 stubbornly remains grey

[chrisbridgeave]

Hi

Sorry if this is a daft question I HAVE tried but really struggled to find an answer here -

I am running MinimServer 0.8.3 successfully on QNAP 412 (Linn Kinsky happily finds and plays tracks etc) but I would really like to configure the way that album artists etc are folders are displayed - and understand this is perfectly possible with MinimServer. Truth be known I am trying to replicate Briains tree structure from Twonky 6 days.

I know that I need to use MinimWatch in order to do this and I have MinimWatch running on my Windows 7 PC. However the icon in the system tray remains stubbonly grey. I believe it is working fine - if I set the subnet incorrectly and re-start then it turns red and gives me an error - when I set the subnet to what I believe to be correct 192.168.1.0 I get no error message, but still the icon remains grey

HELP PLEASE?? Thanks in anticipation

Logfile below

MinimWatch 0.8.3 update 32, Copyright © 2012-2015 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.31-b07, mixed mode)
Platform default charset is windows-1252
OhNetService: incorrect value for property 'subnet'
Active subnet is 192.168.1.0
Startup complete
MinimWatch 0.8.3 update 32, Copyright © 2012-2015 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.31-b07, mixed mode)
Platform default charset is windows-1252
Using single subnet 192.168.1.76
MinimWatch: subnet 192.168.1.76 not found
Active subnet is 192.168.1.0
Startup complete
MinimWatch 0.8.3 update 32, Copyright © 2012-2015 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.31-b07, mixed mode)
Platform default charset is windows-1252
Using single subnet 192.168.1.0
Startup complete

[simoncn]

(06-06-2015 17:27)chrisbridgeave Wrote:  Hi

Sorry if this is a daft question I HAVE tried but really struggled to find an answer here -

I am running MinimServer 0.8.3 successfully on QNAP 412 (Linn Kinsky happily finds and plays tracks etc) but I would really like to configure the way that album artists etc are folders are displayed - and understand this is perfectly possible with MinimServer. Truth be known I am trying to replicate Briains tree structure from Twonky 6 days.

I know that I need to use MinimWatch in order to do this and I have MinimWatch running on my Windows 7 PC. However the icon in the system tray remains stubbonly grey. I believe it is working fine - if I set the subnet incorrectly and re-start then it turns red and gives me an error - when I set the subnet to what I believe to be correct 192.168.1.0 I get no error message, but still the icon remains grey

HELP PLEASE?? Thanks in anticipation

Logfile below

MinimWatch 0.8.3 update 32, Copyright © 2012-2015 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.31-b07, mixed mode)
Platform default charset is windows-1252
OhNetService: incorrect value for property 'subnet'
Active subnet is 192.168.1.0
Startup complete
MinimWatch 0.8.3 update 32, Copyright © 2012-2015 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.31-b07, mixed mode)
Platform default charset is windows-1252
Using single subnet 192.168.1.76
MinimWatch: subnet 192.168.1.76 not found
Active subnet is 192.168.1.0
Startup complete
MinimWatch 0.8.3 update 32, Copyright © 2012-2015 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.31-b07, mixed mode)
Platform default charset is windows-1252
Using single subnet 192.168.1.0
Startup complete

If the subnet 192.168.1.0 is correct, this is almost certainly a firewall issue. To confirm this, disable the Windows firewall completely on the machine running MinimWatch. This should enable MinimWatch to see MinimServer. For a permanent solution, you need to add a firewall rule to allow Java to receive inbound TCP and UDP connections from your local network.

[chrisbridgeave]

Many thanks - I felt it was a simple problem and you found it - thanks Simon

Windows 7 firewall - "Allowed" Java Platform SE binary to communicate on Private network and all is good

Now off to learn some more.....