You only need this if you are running a masternode and getting WATCHDOG_EXPIRED
Please test it and consider it to be a beta, something might fail (I don't have desire in Windows).
Pick an executable (either win/lin) from https://github.com/ZonnCash/sentinel/releases Just for reference, sentinel-win64 virustotal (3/67): https://www.virustotal.com/es/file/3a65c0df1fb89607531d8c02bb2a3070f1c39f555944d118c67d8ee616be5b18/analysis/1510697796/
Use at your own risk, it has been compiled exactly as the Github repo says
1. Make sure you are running v0.12.2.1
2. Close your wallet
3. Go to desirecore folder and delete "mncache.dat" and "mnpayments.dat"
4. Make sure your "desire.conf" contains, at least, the following data: rpcuser=someuser rpcpassword=somepass server=1 rpcport=9918 rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
Try to make rcpuser and rpcpassword hard to guess, you won't need to remember/use them for anything else, so feel free to smash the keyboard
5. Open wallet. Resync the whole wallet, from the menu "Tools" > "Wallet Repair" > "Rebuild Index"
6. Make sure the wallet is running and completely synced before continuing
To make it point to your desire.conf, you have three options:
A) Create a file sentinel.conf in the same folder as the EXE with the following content: desire_conf=C:\path\to\desire.conf
Start sentinel-win64.exe
B) From a console, execute the EXE by passing arguments sentinel-win64.exe --config=C:\path\to\desire.conf
C) By creating a shortcut
- Right click the sentinel-win64.exe, "Create Shortcut".
- Right click the shortcut, Properties
- Edit Target and, at the end, add a SPACE and then "--config=C:\path\to\desire.conf" INCLUDING the quotes "
Double click the shortcut to start sentinel.
If you have followed all the steps and still get WATCHDOG_EXPIRED when issuing "masternode status":
1. Close the wallet
2. Delete all files inside "desireconf" except for "wallet.dat" and "desire.conf". Please make sure you don't delete wallet.dat! Backup it, for real, that's your coins!
3. Restart wallet, open sentinel-win64.exe, and let it sync!
If it doesn't work, create an Issue with detailed explanations
Pick the appropiate file from https://github.com/ZonnCash/sentinel/releases
Open file sentinel.conf and change desire_conf to point to your desire configuration file
Run sentinel.exe and keep it open, that's all.
You might pass arguments to sentinel.exe, for example sentinel.exe --config="C:\path\to\desire.conf"
Install pyinstaller pip install pyinstaller
Generate output EXE/ELF: pyinstaller --onefile --paths=lib/ main.py