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Open the Control Panel

The Control Panel is the app. It runs only on this computer, and it needs the launcher window left open.

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What it is

A small page in your browser — usually http://127.0.0.1:8788/ — that runs on this machine only. It is where you set your Discord webhook, connect email auto-ingest, and start Keep checking. No terminal skills are required after the launcher.

Open it

  1. Unzip the download

    The release zip unzips to a self-contained GuruWatcher-v0.1.3/ folder.

  2. Launch
    • Mac: double-click scripts/Open-GuruWatcher.command (if Mac blocks it: right-click → Open → Open)
    • Windows: double-click scripts/Open-GuruWatcher.bat
    • Linux: bash scripts/open-guruwatcher.sh
  3. Wait for the first run

    A terminal window opens. The first run may take a few minutes while it installs the Python bits.

  4. Use the panel

    Your browser opens the local panel, usually http://127.0.0.1:8788/. If the browser says it can’t connect, double-click the launcher again.

Leave the terminal / launcher window open. Closing it stops the panel.

Command line (optional)

If you installed the CLI, the same panel is python3 -m guru_watcher app (the data folder defaults to ./gw-data). Want the panel behind a menu-bar / system-tray icon instead of a Terminal window? Install the desktop extra once, then python3 -m guru_watcher app --tray.