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

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    • blake_northrupB Offline
      blake_northrup @dphotograph
      last edited by

      @dphotograph Hey dphotograph, I had somehow copied the bottom part twice, and that was my problem. I just copied the config sample again, and built all of my modules, one by one.

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        djkj84
        last edited by

        Hey guys,
        Really new to this so i’m doing my best… But i am stuck… Any help with this please?
        I’m on Windows 10 Pro.
        Thanks in advance.

        npm start

        magicmirror@2.12.0 start C:\Users\Smart Mirror\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@2.12.0 start: DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
        npm ERR! Exit status 1
        npm ERR!
        npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.12.0 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\Smart Mirror\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-08-19T10_14_26_713Z-debug.log

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        • earnestrichardsE Offline
          earnestrichards @djkj84
          last edited by earnestrichards

          @djkj84 I had this same problem on Win7.

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

          fix

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            Uwe Kretsen @Mykle1
            last edited by

            @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? 18f689c8-c4ec-4f15-9558-c554ee194971-image.png
            it seems I will have to give up - programming is not for all ;-)
            BR

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              sdetweil @Uwe Kretsen
              last edited by 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

              Sam

              How to add modules

              learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                Uwe Kretsen @sdetweil
                last edited by

                @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

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                  sdetweil @Uwe Kretsen
                  last edited by

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

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

                  learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                  • B Offline
                    bhumin
                    last edited by

                    @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

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                      bhumin @sdetweil
                      last edited by

                      @sdetweil thanks man

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                        Humez
                        last edited by

                        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.

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