Installing MagicMirror on Windows 10

[edwardbuck]

Hello,

I am attempting to install MagicMirror on Windows 10. I have followed the steps in the Complete Walkthrough found on this forum. Nodejs installed fine, as well as Git for Windows. I installed MagicMirror via git clone, installed the dependencies, installed the fonts and vendor directories, changed the package.json file, and renamed the sample config file to config.js.

But, when I try to run MM either from Git bash or from Windows CMD, I get the same errors listed below.

Is there something I need to update on the config.js file or am I missing something? Thanks for any assistance.

> magicmirror@2.26.0 start
> .\node_modules\.bin\electron js\electron.js


[16.03.2024 17:43.46.723] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.26.0
[16.03.2024 17:43.46.774] [LOG]   Loading config ...
[16.03.2024 17:43.46.836] [DEBUG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[16.03.2024 17:43.46.904] [LOG]   Loading module helpers ...
[16.03.2024 17:43.46.905] [LOG]   No helper found for module: alert.
[16.03.2024 17:43.46.990] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[16.03.2024 17:43.46.991] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[16.03.2024 17:43.46.992] [LOG]   No helper found for module: clock.
[16.03.2024 17:43.47.869] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[16.03.2024 17:43.47.869] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: calendar
[16.03.2024 17:43.47.880] [LOG]   No helper found for module: compliments.
[16.03.2024 17:43.47.881] [LOG]   No helper found for module: weather.
[16.03.2024 17:43.48.985] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[16.03.2024 17:43.48.986] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[16.03.2024 17:43.48.986] [LOG]   All module helpers loaded.
[16.03.2024 17:43.48.991] [LOG]   Starting server on port 8080 ...
[16.03.2024 17:43.50.173] [ERROR] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
[16.03.2024 17:43.50.175] [ERROR] Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use ::1:8080
    at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (node:net:1751:16)
    at listenInCluster (node:net:1799:12)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.doListen [as callback] (node:net:1948:7)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (node:dns:110:8) {
  code: 'EADDRINUSE',
  errno: -4091,
  syscall: 'listen',
  address: '::1',
  port: 8080
}
[16.03.2024 17:43.50.175] [ERROR] MagicMirror┬▓ will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[16.03.2024 17:43.50.176] [ERROR] If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

[edwardbuck]

@sdetweil

Sorry for the super long delay in replying to this post. Shortly after I posted, my wife passed way suddenly. I had to put my Magic Mirror project on hold while I dealt with everything.

I finally got back to the project and I decided to start fresh, reinstalled Windows 10, reinstalled Magic Mirror, and it is working now. Not sure what the issue was, but a reinstall seemed to fix it. I have had a few configuration changes to make/issues to fix, but I figured them out thanks to various posts here in this forum, and just trying different things until it worked.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

[sdetweil]

@edwardbuck said in Installing MagicMirror on Windows 10:

R] Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use ::1:8080

that means some other app is using that port…

did you install pm2 and use it to autostart?

if so, THAT instance is using the port…
if you installed pm2, then

pm2 status
pm2 stop all

[edwardbuck]

@sdetweil

OK, so I rebooted (should have tried that before), and that error is gone, but now I get an error that keeps repeating 30 times:

[16.03.2024 19:00.34.663] [ERROR] TypeError: first is not a function
    at attachFinishedListener (C:\MagicMirror\node_modules\on-finished\index.js:105:22)
    at attachListener (C:\MagicMirror\node_modules\on-finished\index.js:147:5)
    at onFinished (C:\MagicMirror\node_modules\on-finished\index.js:53:3)
    at SendStream.stream (C:\MagicMirror\node_modules\send\index.js:800:3)
    at SendStream.send (C:\MagicMirror\node_modules\send\index.js:703:8)
    at onstat (C:\MagicMirror\node_modules\send\index.js:725:10)
    at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (node:fs:211:5)
[16.03.2024 19:00.34.665] [ERROR] MagicMirror┬▓ will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[16.03.2024 19:00.34.666] [ERROR] If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

I do get a MagicMirror window, but it is completely blank. Any ideas? Thanks!

[sdetweil]

@edwardbuck an you confirm that you did the extra steps

npm install in the vendor and fonts folders
and that you have node version 18 or above installed

[edwardbuck]

@sdetweil

Sorry for the super long delay in replying to this post. Shortly after I posted, my wife passed way suddenly. I had to put my Magic Mirror project on hold while I dealt with everything.

I finally got back to the project and I decided to start fresh, reinstalled Windows 10, reinstalled Magic Mirror, and it is working now. Not sure what the issue was, but a reinstall seemed to fix it. I have had a few configuration changes to make/issues to fix, but I figured them out thanks to various posts here in this forum, and just trying different things until it worked.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

[sdetweil]

@edwardbuck My Condolensces… nothing more important than family

thank you for your time trying again… glad you have it working

give a shout if you need more helpw ith anything.