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

[sdetweil]

@dude31222 I don’t know. those are so far out of service…

[Reila]

Heyo!
I’ve done a fresh install of MM2 (on Win10), and now I’m struggling with the blank electron screen.

I did the vendor and font install, changed the package.json to

"start":"node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js",

according to the guide on page 15, and now I’m getting

bash: line 1: node_modules.binelectron: command not found

on npm start, doesn’t start up MM.

[sdetweil]

@Reila you did not do the package.json edit correctly.

windows uses slashes leaning left

and u need 2 in each place

node-modules\\.bin\\electron  js\\electron.js

[Reila]

@sdetweil
Oh, I just copied as it was! It might have been a different guide, it was old after all… I see the backward slashes in a later post now.

So now I tried

"start": "node_modules\\.bin\\electron  js\\electron.js",

(with both the double and single space, just in case) and it’s giving me the same error still.
I tested changing the start-dev variant too.
I must be missing another step still.

[sdetweil]

@Reila I am away from my system at the moment be back in an hour or so.

what does npm -v say?

[Reila]

@sdetweil No problem! Browser version works fine for tinkering in the meantime :)

npm is 8.17.0

[sdetweil]

@Reila hm… this is what mine is set to

"start": "node_modules\\.bin\\electron js\\electron.js",

and I don’t get any errors, but electron starts full screen, black screen

but if I open edge and go to localhost:8080 it looks great and if I open electron
(the 1st part, node_modules\.bin\electron) and go to http://localhost:8080
it works…

[1a2a3a]

@sdetweil

hi i need some help here. when i ran npm start, im getting this message.

Starting MagicMirror: v2.23.0
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.647] [LOG] Loading config …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.648] [DEBUG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.650] [LOG] Loading module helpers …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.650] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.655] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.655] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.656] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.717] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.717] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.718] [LOG] No helper found for module: compliments.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.718] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.732] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.733] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.733] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.737] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.779] [LOG] Launching application.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.812] [LOG] Server started …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.818] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.818] [LOG] Starting module helper: updatenotification
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.818] [LOG] Connecting socket for: calendar
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.819] [LOG] Starting node helper for: calendar
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.819] [LOG] Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.819] [LOG] Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.820] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started …

am i supposed to do something next?

[sdetweil]

@1a2a3a there is a big in the release on windows

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/3083

you can follow the instructions to checkout the develop branch, or wait til July 1 for the next release with the fix

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/14327/testing-new-fixes-or-solving-current-problems-with-next-release-code

[1a2a3a]

@sdetweil but when i go to localhost 8080 via web browser it appears to show the screen. is that normal?