Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10
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@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
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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?
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@CheapDad use PM2 to auto launch
this is a node application
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@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
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@mumblebaj pm2 setup does all that …
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@sdetweil :thumbs_up:
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@mumblebaj I was wrong for windows, and setup
see here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42758985/windows-auto-start-pm2-and-node-appsstill pm2 is the easiest and same on every platform…
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@CheapDad Here is a great tutorial to set up PM2 on Windows.
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When following your instructions on both Windows 7 and 10 machines, I get the following error message:
magicmirror@2.20.0 start C:\Users\Admin\MagicMirror
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
‘DISPLAY’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.The error log gives the following:
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe’,
1 verbose cli ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js’,
1 verbose cli ‘start’
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using npm@6.14.4
3 info using node@v13.14.0
4 verbose run-script [ ‘prestart’, ‘start’, ‘poststart’ ]
5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.20.0~prestart: magicmirror@2.20.0
6 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.20.0~start: magicmirror@2.20.0
7 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.20.0~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.20.0~start: PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin;C:\Users\Admin\MagicMirror\node_modules.bin;C:\Users\Admin\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\local\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Users\Admin\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\php;C:\Program Files\Calibre2;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\vendor_perl;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\core_perl
9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.20.0~start: CWD: C:\Users\Admin\MagicMirror
10 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.20.0~start: Args: [
10 silly lifecycle ‘/d /s /c’,
10 silly lifecycle ‘DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js’
10 silly lifecycle ]
11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.20.0~start: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
12 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.20.0~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.20.0 start:DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:315:20)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1026:16)
13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:286:5)
14 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.20.0
15 verbose cwd C:\Users\Admin\MagicMirror
16 verbose Windows_NT 6.1.7601
17 verbose argv “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js” “start”
18 verbose node v13.14.0
19 verbose npm v6.14.4
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error magicmirror@2.20.0 start:DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.20.0 start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ] -
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@Mykle1 First off, thanks so much for a great guide. I’m having what is likely a simple issue, but I can’t figure out how to resolve it. I am getting the following error message with the npm start command. Not concerned about the warnings, but how do resolve the DISPLAY issue?
$ npm start npm WARN config global `--global`, `--local` are deprecated. Use `--location=global` instead. > magicmirror@2.20.0 start > DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js 'DISPLAY' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. cliff@BNC-LAB01 MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror (master) $ -
@Cliff365 see the end of the post I just linked to in the prior post
also, do not run under mingw… just cmd.exe
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@Mykle1 Thanks for your help on the DISPLAY issue. I changed the line in packages.json file to:
“start”: “node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js”,
I get the following error message back:
> magicmirror@2.20.0 start > node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js 'node_modules' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. -
@Cliff365 you didn’t follow all of the last line of
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4089/complete-walkthrough-install-magicmirror-on-a-pc-windows-7-10/225?_=1660158299123ps, I’m not @Mykle1
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@sdetweil Oops! Thanks sdetweil
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Hey! @sdetweil i’ve spend more than 10 hours whit this because i didn’t read the entire thread. I’ve finally installed mm2 on a 32bit laptop whit w7 and node v16.6 but when i run npm start i just got a black screen. any ideas on how to find a solution? my cmd here:
[08.01.2023 06:58.14.001] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.22.0 [08.01.2023 06:58.14.151] [LOG] Loading config ... [08.01.2023 06:58.14.201] [LOG] Loading module helpers ... [08.01.2023 06:58.14.231] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert. [08.01.2023 06:58.14.361] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... [08.01.2023 06:58.14.371] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification [08.01.2023 06:58.14.395] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock. [08.01.2023 06:58.17.473] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... [08.01.2023 06:58.17.477] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar [08.01.2023 06:58.17.497] [LOG] No helper found for module: compliments. [08.01.2023 06:58.17.497] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather. [08.01.2023 06:58.17.839] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... [08.01.2023 06:58.17.839] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed [08.01.2023 06:58.17.849] [LOG] No helper found for module: facts. [08.01.2023 06:58.17.849] [LOG] All module helpers loaded. [08.01.2023 06:58.19.559] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 ... [08.01.2023 06:58.23.451] [LOG] Launching application. [08.01.2023 06:58.29.838] [LOG] Server started ... [08.01.2023 06:58.29.848] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification [08.01.2023 06:58.29.848] [LOG] Starting module helper: updatenotification [08.01.2023 06:58.29.848] [LOG] Connecting socket for: calendar [08.01.2023 06:58.29.848] [LOG] Starting node helper for: calendar [08.01.2023 06:58.29.858] [LOG] Connecting socket for: newsfeed [08.01.2023 06:58.29.858] [LOG] Starting node helper for: newsfeed [08.01.2023 06:58.29.858] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started ... [3460:0108/070022.937:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(523)] Passthrough is not supported, GL i s disabled, ANGLE is -
@dude31222 never tried win7 myself… this topic was created a while ago…
you can TRY setting an environment variable in the cmd.exe window before executing npm start
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@sdetweil still having an empty screen but no more error messages in cmd
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@dude31222 that usually means u didn’t do the fonts install step or vendor install step
those are extra for windows install
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@sdetweil i did. Now i’ve upgraded to windows 8.1. still a black screen but a new error```
[0110/062053.181:ERROR:_trace_logging_minimal.win.cc<78>] provider resistration failure
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