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

earnestrichards

@djkj84 I had this same problem on Win7.

I searched the forum and found this post by @sdetweil…

Uwe Kretsen

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

Had enough? Lets run that MagicMirror, NOW!

Hallo there,
if you will find some free time to help :
I tried a few times to process the whole procedure of starting new MM software on PC - I am not even a newbie so it is really hard to say what I am doing wrong.
see pic - does it say to you anything?
it seems I will have to give up - programming is not for all ;-)
BR

sdetweil

@Uwe-Kretsen do not install under mingw, just open a command prompt/ powershell prompt and do the git clone/npm install

u need git of course and node/npm (google how to install)

then u need to do some more steps as the setup is for linux

cd MagicMirror
cd vendor
npm install
cd ..
cd fonts
npm install
cd ..

then edit package.json and change the start line
from

		"start": "DISPLAY=\"${DISPLAY:=:0}\" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js",

to

		"start": "node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js",

then npm start works as expected

also, you must manually copy the MagicMirror/config/config.js.sample to the initial config.js
also create the empty MagicMirror/css/custom.css

Uwe Kretsen

@sdetweil Dear Sam, thank you for the help - it start to work. I am really grateful fro support.
Now I will spend some days or weeks :-) to find out how to add /remove extra modules. hope to do my MagicMirror project to the end.
once again thank you
and stay healthy
BR Uwe

sdetweil

@Uwe-Kretsen see the links in my signature , they will help you

bhumin

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

git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git

following error arrives when start

magicmirror@2.13.0 start C:\Users\bhumi\MagicMirror
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

‘DISPLAY’ 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@2.13.0 start: DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.13.0 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\bhumi\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-12-16T05_04_47_316Z-debug.log

bhumin

@sdetweil thanks man

Humez

Thank you for your tutorial! I’m a absolute beginner. I followed the steps above but when I try to start magicmirror I get the below message:
magicmirror@2.14.0 start C:\Users\1234\magicmirror

DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

‘DISPLAY’ 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: DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/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.

sdetweil

@humez read and follow the steps here

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4089/complete-walkthrough-install-magicmirror-on-a-pc-windows-7-10/141?_=1612997713585

u have not edited package.json as required

kithaam

Hi Please help install Magic Mirror on my PC please assist with below

http://localhost:8080 is just a black screen No date and Time on

!

sdetweil

@kithaam yes, some missing steps.

do

cd MagicMirror
cd vendor
npm install
cd ..
cd fonts
npm install
cd ..

restart mm

kithaam

@sdetweil Thank you its working

kithaam

@sdetweil Hi where do i go and change the Time and date? im new to this

goEasy

@sdetweil hello, i have done as you mentioned, but i have this trouble. please Help

cd MagicMirror
cd vendor
npm install

1 package is looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

$ npm fund
magicmirror-vendors
`-- https://github.com/sponsors/jonschlinkert
  `-- picomatch@2.2.2

sdetweil

@goeasy no trouble… warnings… ignore

goEasy

@sdetweil you are a legend… btw all i had to do was

exit

then start mm again :grinning_face_with_sweat:

goEasy

@mykle1 Please Help, i am running into this ERROR…

Cowplain@DESKTOP-4IAPDRU MINGW64 ~
$ cd magicmirror

Cowplain@DESKTOP-4IAPDRU MINGW64 ~/magicmirror (master)
$ npm start

> magicmirror@2.14.0 start
> ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

sdetweil

@goeasy do NOT install under MINGW64, just straight under windows

goEasy

@sdetweil Hey, thank you for the reply…

i am new to this MM and coding, at one point everything was working then i cant remember what happened.

i think is something to do with the Electron settings…

Opening with CMD

C:\Users\Cowplain\MagicMirror>npm start

> magicmirror@2.14.0 start
> ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Cowplain\MagicMirror>

Opening with Git Bash

Cowplain@DESKTOP-4IAPDRU MINGW64 ~/magicmirror (master)
$ npm start
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Please help

sdetweil

@goeasy on windows, its support to say

node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

take off the ./

windows doesn’t use that