Installing modules on windows

[sdetweil]

@vintage89 also, after installing python, did you close and re-open the command prompt? the path is set only when the window opens

[vintage89]

@sdetweil Tried installing this module https://github.com/Thlb/MMM-synology-ds

[sdetweil]

@vintage89 said in Installing modules on windows:

https://github.com/Thlb/MMM-synology-ds

ok, that installed, fine, but has an embedded component that is electron version sensitive

so

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron-rebuild
cd modules/MMM-synology-ds
../../node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start

[vintage89]

@sdetweil
Thanks :)
I´ve run the script, but when I tried to start it gave me this:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

> magicmirror@2.11.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> electron js/electron.js


(electron:8589): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:59:29.032: cannot open display: 
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.11.0 start: `electron js/electron.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.11.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-04-11T12_59_29_059Z-debug.log

I changed the package.json to this - like you said in my other post:

[sdetweil]

@vintage89 do

export DISPLAY=:0

then
npm start

these two steps are what the original code did, would have worked on linux… just not on Windows…
windows doesn’t have ‘xwindows display’

[vintage89]

@sdetweil
Gave me this, did I do something wrong? :)

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ export DISPLAY=:0
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd MagicMirror/
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

> magicmirror@2.11.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> electron js/electron.js


(electron:813): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:08:03.027: cannot open display: :0
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.11.0 start: `electron js/electron.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.11.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-04-11T13_08_03_102Z-debug.log

[vintage89]

@sdetweil ahh, sorry - forgot to mention that I got my rassberry today, so I’m on a raspberry now. My bad!!

[sdetweil]

@vintage89 how are u connected to the pi? ssh, vnc, on the monitor?

and you are using the graphical desktop version of Raspian, right?? u must to display on the pi…

[vintage89]

@sdetweil
I’m connected via ssh and vnc. I managed to start it with the original config.json. It’s after I put in the synology-module that everything went out the window.

[sdetweil]

@vintage89 eh… I cut/pasted the sample config for that module into config.js at the end of the module list and it came up just fine