Installing Magic mirror on windows 10

[Chrisflex]

@Mykle1 @sdetweil thanks I will do that

[sojourner]

@sdetweil This is solid gold :shooting_star: for the Windoz user in me! With these finishing steps, it works as expected. Thanks again!
p.s. bonus points for suggesting notepad for editing the package.json along with the steps to quit nodepad… Too funny!

[vivian0239]

Hi, everyone!

I have a task to install Magic Mirror on Windows. And I am very happy to find here. I tried the steps, but it still has error. My pc is Windows 10.
I also changed package.json from:
“start”: “DISPLAY=”${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js",
to
“start”: “node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js”,
I am new to JS, please tell me where I am wrong. Thank you!

This is my log:
ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror
$ npm install --only=prod

magicmirror@2.12.0 install C:\Users\ssdrive\MagicMirror
echo "Installing vendor files …
" && cd vendor && npm install --loglevel=error

"Installing vendor files …

magicmirror@2.12.0 postinstall C:\Users\ssdrive\MagicMirror
npm run install-fonts && echo "MagicMirror installation finished successfully!
"

magicmirror@2.12.0 install-fonts C:\Users\ssdrive\MagicMirror
echo "Installing fonts …
" && cd fonts && npm install --loglevel=error

"Installing fonts …
"MagicMirror installation finished successfully!
audited 1050 packages in 16.723s

75 packages are looking for funding
run npm fund for details

found 3 low severity vulnerabilities
run npm audit fix to fix them, or npm audit for details

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror
$ cd vendor

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror/vendor
$ npm install
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.4 (node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.4: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“win32”,“arch”:“x64”})

added 82 packages from 57 contributors and audited 150 packages in 15.029s
found 8 vulnerabilities (7 low, 1 high)
run npm audit fix to fix them, or npm audit for details

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror/vendor
$ cd …\fonts
bash: cd: …fonts: No such file or directory

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror/vendor
$ cd …

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror
$ cd fonts

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror/fonts
$ npm install
added 1 package from 1 contributor and audited 1 package in 0.993s
found 0 vulnerabilities

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror/fonts
$ cd …

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror
$ notepad package.json

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror
$ npm start
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
npm ERR! file C:\Users\ssdrive\MagicMirror\package.json
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse json
npm ERR! JSON.parse Unexpected token ， in JSON at position 209 while parsing near ‘…tron js/electron.js"，
npm ERR! JSON.parse “server”: "node …’
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! JSON.parse package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\ssdrive\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-08-09T20_33_43_328Z-debug.log

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror
$ npm start
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
npm ERR! file C:\Users\ssdrive\MagicMirror\package.json
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse json
npm ERR! JSON.parse Unexpected token ， in JSON at position 209 while parsing near ‘…tron js/electron.js"，
npm ERR! JSON.parse “server”: "node …’
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! JSON.parse package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\ssdrive\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-08-09T20_41_40_531Z-debug.log

ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror
$

[sdetweil]

@vivian0239 said in Installing Magic mirror on windows 10:

~/MagicMirror/vendor
$ cd …\fonts
bash: cd: …fonts: No such file or directory
ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror/vendor
$ cd …
ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror
$ cd fonts
ssdrive@home MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror/fonts
$ npm install
added 1 package from 1 contributor and audited 1 package in 0.993s
found 0 vulnerabilities

there are 3 dots in the CD commands change it to 2 dots

do NOT install under min.

just open a command prompt (CMD.exe) and do npm install

[suqiqi]

‘node_moudles’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[suqiqi]

@sdetweil ‘node_moudles’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
please help me thank you

[sdetweil]

@suqiqi where do u see that?
the folder is node_modules

[rdcullis]

Hi all, I am giving this a try and running into the same errors as above, i have followed the advise but i dont get the black screen, after the error fix for display, i get new error:
$ npm start

magicmirror@2.14.0 start C:\Users\Richard\MagicMirror
electron js/electron.js

‘electron’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.14.0 start: electron js/electron.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.14.0 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! C:\Users\Richard\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2021-03-29T19_41_46_132Z-debug.log

any help here would be great, thanks