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

[sdetweil]

@angeldchaveza do NOT install under
MINGW64

just straight windows

[KillK]

Hi, newby here… I have reinstaled MM in my win 10 laptop… It was working well until the reinstallation…
I am having an issue, i will try to translate it, cuz my cmd is in spanish…

magicmirror@2.17.1 start
node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

“node_modules” doesn’t recognize it as an internal or external command,
program or file by executable lot.

At the same time i have notice, that “.bin” folder doesn’t contain “electron js” folder inside…

I have had to install manually npm for fonts ans vendor’s folders…

Please, help me Obi Wan Kenobi…

[mumblebaj]

@killk You have asked the same question in different posts a few times. This can be seen as spamming,

[KillK]

@mumblebaj oh sorry, i have to delete the other one… I didn’t know it.

[sdetweil]

@killk we are all volunteers here. more folks around in the evenings, weekends. but it’s all volunteer. no commitment to answer any question or solve any problem . asking in multiple places doesn’t get help any faster.

[sdetweil]

@killk I had no problem

Win 10, under Vmware

git clone

npm install
and in vendors and fonts
edit the package.json
copy the default config.js from the sample

npm start

[mounir]

@mykle1 how can i resolve this ?
‘DISPLAY’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[sdetweil]

@mounir have to scan further back
see
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4089/complete-walkthrough-install-magicmirror-on-a-pc-windows-7-10/141?_=1638708846564

[mounir]

@sdetweil no i see this
listen EACCES: permission denied 127.0.0.1:8080
can you help me fix it

[sdetweil]

@mounir where do u see that?

u are installing in cmd terminal window, right?
not PowerShell

[mounir]

@mounir yes in cmd

[sdetweil]

@mounir is this windows 10, or 11?

never seen this. installed on windows 11 last week to test

are u running any other web server apps?

[mounir]

@sdetweil i’m in windows 11 but there is no webserver running

[sdetweil]

@mounir read this
https://superuser.com/questions/1437780/how-to-fix-listen-eacces-permission-denied-on-any-port/1568476

u can change the port in MagicMirror\config\config.js

[mounir]

@sdetweil thank you it works when i’m changing the port in the config.js

[sdetweil]

Note for v ersion 2.18 a little twist
do

 npm install --only=prod

otherwise the developer dependencies will be installed too, and fail, causing electron not to be installed.

then
the additional steps are the same

cd fonts
npm install
cd ..\vendor
npm install
cd ..

and edit package.json to change the start line as shown in prior posts

new info for change of start line in package.json, with node 16
should be like this (earlier worked with node 14,)

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

[Pearce]

I went through the installation guide and got this error:

$ npm start

magicmirror@2.18.0 start

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.

[sdetweil]

@pearce further up
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4089/complete-walkthrough-install-magicmirror-on-a-pc-windows-7-10/141?_=1638708846564

[N6NG]

Hi all… Looks like a lot of people are trying this… I’m going for it myself but ran into this problem…
When I try to do the
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git

I get the following error.

N6NG@Main-Computer-in-Ham-Shack MINGW64 /
$ git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
fatal: could not create work tree dir ‘MagicMirror’: Permission denied
Anyone figured out how to change permissions… sudo isn’t recognized yet.
Dennis

[sdetweil]

@n6ng no mingw,
just normal windows prompt