RuntimeError: Could not connect to Ollama

[rkclimate20]

Testing streamlit app for Zoom Daily Summary Editor

The zoom transcript was loaded to the app

C:\Users\ADMIN\Documents\Zoom\2026-02-26 14.32.56 semantic climate\meeting_saved_closed_caption.txt

Loaded 1998 cleaned transcript lines.

Output message from Generate Summary

RuntimeError: Could not connect to Ollama at 'http://localhost:11434'. Start Ollama and retry (for example: ollama serve).

Traceback:

File "C:\Users\ADMIN\Desktop\semantic_toolkit\chatbot\climate_streamlit\zoom_daily_summary_app.py", line 227, in <module>
    main()
File "C:\Users\ADMIN\Desktop\semantic_toolkit\chatbot\climate_streamlit\zoom_daily_summary_app.py", line 178, in main
    verify_ollama_server(ollama_url=ollama_url, timeout_s=int(timeout_s))
File "C:\Users\ADMIN\Desktop\semantic_toolkit\chatbot\climate_streamlit\zoom_daily_summary.py", line 419, in verify_ollama_server
    raise RuntimeError(