Installing MinimWatch 2 on Mac
Installing Java on Mac
Installing or updating MinimWatch 2 on Mac
Uninstalling MinimWatch 2 on Mac
Installing Java on Mac
MinimWatch is written in Java and needs the Java runtime to be installed. For details of how to install Java on your Mac, see this page.
Installing or updating MinimWatch 2 on Mac
[NEW] Important: macOS Sequoia has introduced a new permission to allow apps to access the local network. If this permisssion is not enabled, MinimWatch will not be able to find instances of MinimServer on your local network. For local network acess to work correctly, you need to be running MinimWatch 2.2.r4 (or later) and you need to follow points 10 and 11 below to ensure local network permission is enabled.
To install MinimWatch , follow the instructions below.
- Before installing MinimWatch, install the Java runtime if it isn't already installed. For installation instructions, see the Installing Java on Mac section.
- If a previous version of MinimWatch is installed, click Exit from the minim icon and drag the MinimWatch application to the trash.
- On the MinimServer 2 Downloads page, find the macOS row in the table of MinimWatch downloads and click the 'Intel and Apple Silicon' download link. This link selects a "universal" macOS download that can run on Intel-based Macs and also on Apple Silicon-based Macs.
- Accept the license and download the installation package. The downloaded file is .
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Open your Downloads folder and double-click the file you have just downloaded.
This opens a window containing two files: LICENSE.txt and MinimWatch.
Drag the file named MinimWatch from this window into your Applications folder.
Note: The MinimWatch file must be dragged into the Applications folder before you try to run it. If you try to run it from inside the .dmg window, it will not work correctly.
- Start MinimWatch by double-clicking the MinimWatch application in your Applications folder. You might see a message saying '"MinimWatch" is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?'. If you see this message, click Open to confirm that you want to run MinimWatch.
- You might see a message saying 'Do you want the application "MinimWatch" to accept incoming network connections?'. If you see this message, click Allow and then click Refresh from the minim icon on the menu bar (see below).
- Yyou might see a pop-up saying that MinimWatch wants access to control SystemUIServer. If you see this, click Allow.
- You might see a pop-up saying that MinimWatch notifications may include alerts, sounds and icon badges. Click X to close this pop-up.
- [NEW] On macOS Sequoia or later, you might see a pop-up asking if you want to allow MinimWatch to find devices on local networks. If you see this, click Allow.
- [NEW] If MinimWatch does not have local network access permission, MinimWatch will not be able to find instances of MinimServer on your local network and will show a grey menu bar icon (see below). If you see this, select "Privacy & Security" from System Settings, scroll down to the Local Network section and check that local network access for MinimWatch is enabled, then exit and relaunch MinimWatch.
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The MinimWatch icon (a musical minim note) will appear towards the right of the menu bar.
If you click on this, you will see a menu with various selections. There might be more
than one of these minim icons.
Note: You can't interact with MinimWatch via normal menu bar selections such as Edit and View. Also, there isn't a MinimWatch application icon in the Dock. Instead, you need to use menu selections from the minim icon in the menu bar.
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You should see a minim icon for each MinimServer
instance that's running on another computer or NAS on your local network.
The colour of the minim icon shows the status of the MinimServer instance:
- If the icon is pale yellow, MinimServer is starting
- If the icon is transparent, MinimServer is running normally
- If the icon is red, MinimServer has detected an error
- If the icon is white (pale blue on some versions of macOS), MinimServer is stopped
- If the icon is dark grey, no instances of MinimServer were detected
Note 1: If MinimWatch can't see MinimServer, it might be blocked by the Mac firewall. To resolve this, you might need to delete MinimWatch from the Mac firewall list of applications allowed to receive incoming connections and add it back again.
Note 2: A MinimServer instance running on the same computer isn't displayed as a MinimWatch minim icon. This would be confusing because it's already displayed as a MinimServer minim icon.
- For each minim icon that isn't dark grey, you can use the icon's pop-up menu to configure and manage the MinimServer instance that the icon represents. See the Controlling MinimServer using the minim icon section for details of the available menu selections.
Uninstalling MinimWatch 2 on Mac
Before uninstalling MinimWatch, make sure MinimWatch isn't running.
To uninstall MinimWatch, drag the MinimWatch application to the trash.
Uninstalling MinimWatch doesn't delete your MinimWatch configuration settings. This is useful if you want to reinstall MinimWatch or move up to a newer version.