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

airart

@sdetweil can i install npm v6 ?

sdetweil

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.

sdetweil

@matefits71 on Linux, the xwindows graphical system writes to a numbered ‘display’ , and there can be multiple.

windows doesn’t have that. which is why I’ve written to remove that part, and also run the manual npm install in vendors and go ta folders

angeldchaveza

$ npm start

magicmirror@2.16.0 start C:\Users\Tecsis\MagicMirror
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

“DISPLAY” no se reconoce como un comando interno o externo,
programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.16.0 start: DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.16.0 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\Tecsis\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2021-09-02T01_57_52_304Z-debug.log

angeldchaveza

@angeldchaveza .
im delete display of "matefits71 " error logs view

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe’,
1 verbose cli ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js’,
1 verbose cli ‘start’
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using npm@6.14.14
3 info using node@v14.17.5
4 verbose stack Error: missing script: start
4 verbose stack at run (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\lib\run-script.js:155:19)
4 verbose stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\lib\run-script.js:63:5
4 verbose stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:116:5
4 verbose stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:436:5
4 verbose stack at checkBinReferences_ (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:391:45)
4 verbose stack at final (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:434:3)
4 verbose stack at then (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:161:5)
4 verbose stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\read-package-json\read-json.js:382:12
4 verbose stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:123:16
4 verbose stack at FSReqCallback.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (internal/fs/read_file_context.js:73:3)
5 verbose cwd C:\Users\Tecsis\MagicMirror
6 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.19041
7 verbose argv “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js” “start”
8 verbose node v14.17.5
9 verbose npm v6.14.14
10 error missing script: start
11 verbose exit [ 1, true ]