Auto Start on Windows 11

[DanClarkCBET3]

Does anyone know how to get Magic Mirror to auto-start on a Windows 11 based system?

[sdetweil]

@DanClarkCBET3 pm2 exists for windows.
or

[sdetweil]

@DanClarkCBET3 have to create a batch script to do the
npm run start:windows

[Krowyn]

@sdetweil what code did you use? I tried this (with and without pause at the end)

cd MagicMirror
npm run start:windows

I got the following error

This would show up for a second before disappearing. Any idea what I missed?

[sdetweil]

@Krowyn what MagicMirror version are you running? we’ve had these start options now for 2 releases

        "start:windows": ".\\node_modules\\.bin\\electron js\\electron.js",
	"start:windows:dev": "npm run start:windows -- dev",

look at package.json version

[Krowyn]

@sdetweil I can confirm I have both, it’s how I used to start it, but when running the .bat file i keep getting that message. Any clue what may have caused it?

[sdetweil]

@Krowyn only thing i can think is the cd MagicMirror failed because the current directory is not correct

where is this bat file located?

maybe it should be

cd %USERPROFILE%\MagicMirror 
npm  run start:windows