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

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    • J Offline
      jelbear
      last edited by

      I can confirm that the folder is there

      Modules were installed using git clone command while in the MagicMirror/modules folder.

      Is there anything different you have to do when installing modules under a windows system

      Currently I’m just doing the above command and then adding the required code to the config file

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      • justjim1220J Offline
        justjim1220 Module Developer @jelbear
        last edited by

        @jelbear

        Not that I can think of

        I’m not using a RasPi either.
        If I had one, I would try it to se if any difference.

        Sorry.

        "Life's Too Short To Dance With Ugly People"
        Jim Hallock - 1995

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          bhepler Module Developer @jelbear
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          @jelbear - To my knowledge, the only difference between Windows and Linux systems is that you may have to specify the file paths slightly differently. Windows requires you to put any folder with a space in the name in quotes. This can get tricky when you’re passing in a string which is surrounded by quotes and also contains quotes.

          Is there a space in any part of your path to the exampleImages folder?

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            lavolp3 Module Developer @jelbear
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              jelbear
              last edited by

              it somehow seems to have resolved itself

              i deleted the folder and redid the git clone and it is working, not sure what happened, but it is working now,

              many thanks for taking the time to reply

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                brandonbrown
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                @Mykle1 said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:

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

                Thank you so much for this post! I’m new to the Pi and MagicMirror. Working on the PI remotely was a bit of pain and this allowed me to run MagicMirror on my main machine with VMWare Workstation.

                First off let me say these instructions were ‘spot-on’ and I was up and running immediately.

                As I added modules, I noticed some of them were not working, a.k.a. not loading any data. They would activate, say “loading…” and nothing else.

                I researched a few of the modules I was using and found one step that needs to be on your list:

                ‘npm install request’

                After that, the modules in question began updating with data.

                Thank you again for giving me a better dev environment to work in!

                Brandon

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                  Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @brandonbrown
                  last edited by

                  @brandonbrown said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:

                  I researched a few of the modules I was using and found one step that needs to be on your list:
                  ‘npm install request’

                  Well, the modules that require that package should tell you in their respective readme files but thanks for the headsup. I’m glad you found the tutorial helpful. :-)

                  Create a working config
                  How to add modules

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                    dstoianovici
                    last edited by

                    Hello, I had an EACCESS error thrown when launching the MM as directed in this thread. I was able to fix this error by changing the port number from 8080 to 9000 in config.js

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                      sdetweil @dstoianovici
                      last edited by sdetweil

                      @dstoianovici yes,if some other app is using 8080 then u have to change it… mine is on 8086. 8080-8085 are in use

                      Sam

                      How to add modules

                      learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                        CliffordW
                        last edited by

                        It should probably be easy, but I can’t seem to find it. What is the command I can use to start MM on Windows 10 startup?

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