Building mirror without programing

schmo90

Hy thanks this is working very fine.
now i am trying to get it working with visual studio 2015.
has anyone expirience with that IDE and node.js?

i am able to load it, but i cannot start and debug the mm solution

amanzimdwini

Works like a charm! (except that folders constantly have the post-name _Master - which you need to remove: after installation, make sure everything “lives” in the folder C:\MagicMirror (or similar)

Notes on how to install modules - here are MY 2 cents:
Find the module you like; go to the GTT depository but select “Downloads as Zip”. Find the ZIP file and extract it into the MODULES subdirectory (in my example, C:\MagicMirror\modules). RENAME the folder you just created by removing the trailing _Master.
Presto. Works great.

cowboysdude

@amanzimdwini said in Building mirror without programing:

Works like a charm! (except that folders constantly have the post-name _Master - which you need to remove: after installation, make sure everything “lives” in the folder C:\MagicMirror (or similar)

Notes on how to install modules - here are MY 2 cents:
Find the module you like; go to the GTT depository but select “Downloads as Zip”. Find the ZIP file and extract it into the MODULES subdirectory (in my example, C:\MagicMirror\modules). RENAME the folder you just created by removing the trailing _Master.
Presto. Works great.

Well that our just use -master in your config file ;) LOL

amanzimdwini

@cowboysdude - DUH. Sorry - good point!

cowboysdude

@amanzimdwini said in Building mirror without programing:

@cowboysdude - DUH. Sorry - good point!

LOL Well I just rename them but I know how you feel. I believe they do it that way because that way the user knows it’s getting the correct branch :)

strawberry 3.141

@cowboysdude this will not work, because the js file cannot be found then

@amanzimdwini if yozu dont install the modules wuth git clone you have to redo the whole process for every update

cowboysdude

@strawberry-3.141 said in Building mirror without programing:

@cowboysdude this will not work, because the js file cannot be found then

@amanzimdwini if yozu dont install the modules wuth git clone you have to redo the whole process for every update

I am so glad we have you! :)

amanzimdwini

@strawberry-3.141

Hmm - you SURE? I must have been lucky, since it worked for me just the way I described it (though I had to rename the extracted ZIPs by removing the -master extension: that’s why I published my results: so that others would also succeed). On my Win10, I successfully installed at least

Wunderground
MMM-forecast-io
Wunderlist
Valentine

(and probably a few others - would need to check).

Like I said, probably I was just lucky. But it worked for me.

[@cowboysdude said I should rename (have not tried it, though you stated that that would not work?)]

Thanks for reading/commenting.

cowboysdude

@amanzimdwini That’s what I did too… just cut off the -master at the end when I downloaded them but now I just do:

~MagicMirror/modules/

Then I do a 'git clone… ’

That’s the easiest way actually :)

yawns

@amanzimdwini
If you download and unzip modules, you don’t have a folder called .git, and without this folder you cannot run git pull to update the specific module, when the developer releases a new version.
Everything else of course works fine.