Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10

[sdetweil]

@DanClarkCBET3 see
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/15778/fix-for-black-screen-in-2-16-and-later

[DanClarkCBET3]

Is there a way to make a desktop shortcut to start MagicMirror?

[sdetweil]

@DanClarkCBET3 sure. create a batch file

mm.cmd

in the installers folder, and then use that for the shortcut

mm.cmd should do

@npm start

[CheapDad]

My apologies if the answer to my question is located somewhere in this long thread. As a quick method of bringing some MM functionality to my kids in college, I’d like to install MM onto their laptops and have it autorun at start (like a batch file) and run in a small window.

I see that I can install it on their laptops and I know how to create a batch file, but what I don’t know is how to ensure that a linux program starts in a windows batch file and how to get it to autosize to a small window.

Has anyone done that?

[sdetweil]

@CheapDad use PM2 to auto launch

this is a node application

[mumblebaj]

@sdetweil Don’t think it is an easy straight forward setup for PM2 on Windows to launch the mirror or am I mistaken? Would he have to setup pm2-windows-service and then perform some other setups to get PM2 to work to launch MM on Windows at startup?

[sdetweil]

@mumblebaj pm2 setup does all that …

[mumblebaj]

@sdetweil :thumbs_up:

[sdetweil]

@mumblebaj I was wrong for windows, and setup
see here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42758985/windows-auto-start-pm2-and-node-apps

still pm2 is the easiest and same on every platform…

[mumblebaj]

@CheapDad Here is a great tutorial to set up PM2 on Windows.
https://blog.cloudboost.io/nodejs-pm2-startup-on-windows-db0906328d75