"can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost:5600"

I’ve been using activity watch since early 2024, and I recently reset my computer.

After I installed activity watch again, every time I try opening the dashboard, the page won’t open, as shown in the screenshot.

log file says:

2025-11-21 15:52:14 [INFO ]: Started aw-qt… (aw_qt.main:53)
2025-11-21 15:52:14 [INFO ]: Found 0 bundled modules (aw_qt.manager:85)
2025-11-21 15:52:15 [INFO ]: Found 0 system modules (aw_qt.manager:119)
2025-11-21 15:52:15 [ERROR]: Module aw-server not found (aw_qt.manager:273)
2025-11-21 15:52:15 [ERROR]: Module aw-watcher-afk not found (aw_qt.manager:273)
2025-11-21 15:52:15 [ERROR]: Module aw-watcher-window not found (aw_qt.manager:273)
2025-11-21 15:52:15 [ERROR]: Manager tried to start nonexistent module aw-server (aw_qt.manager:265)
2025-11-21 15:52:15 [ERROR]: Manager tried to start nonexistent module aw-watcher-window (aw_qt.manager:265)
2025-11-21 15:52:15 [ERROR]: Manager tried to start nonexistent module aw-watcher-afk (aw_qt.manager:265)
2025-11-21 15:52:15 [INFO ]: Creating trayicon… (aw_qt.trayicon:208)
2025-11-21 15:52:15 [INFO ]: Initialized aw-qt and trayicon successfully (aw_qt.trayicon:264)

sorry for the late reply, Are you on windows? It seems like the watchers are missing for some reason. Try reinstalling ActivityWatch, should fix that.