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

[airart]

nothing to do, it doesn’t seem to find the electron file and folders

[sdetweil]

@airart i don’t understand, I installed on windows 10 without trouble… but it was npm v6.

I just installed and used npm 7.14…

I had to use the full path to electron

here is my package.json start line

"start": "/Users/sdetw/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js",

this is due to a change in npm… my prior instance will not start now without the full path

[sdetweil]

this is because npm 7.14 is trying to launch from the MagicMirror folder instead of the module folder…

[airart]

@sdetweil can i install npm v6 ?

[sdetweil]

@airart yes,

npm install -g npm@6.14.0

after this completes

cd MagicMirror
rd /s/q node_modules
npm install

[airart]

@sdetweil in which folder it should be installed

[sdetweil]

@airart -g means global

[airart]

@sdetweil it works ! I am so moved, evidently that was the problem.
Does CMD remain active how do I leave the MM? fn + f11 reduces to window
I also noticed some warnings

[sdetweil]

@airart ctrl-c in ther terminal window will stop the active program

ignore warnings

[matefits71]

Thanks for the tutorial, i’m running magicmirror on a surface pro 4,

The installation worked perfectly but when i tried to run npm start it throw an error “> DISPLAY=”${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js"

To bypass the error i edited the package.json by removing the DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0} at the begining, tried npm start and it worked.

I’m not sure for what is that display option.