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

barnosch

great tutorial. Will give it a try later on.
I made the complicated way around it and created a VirtualMaschine with Debian, with a standalone MM installation.

This natively running thing is way better. Thanks

Mykle1

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

great tutorial. Will give it a try later on.
I made the complicated way around it and created a VirtualMaschine with Debian, with a standalone MM installation.
This natively running thing is way better. Thanks

You’re welcome.

Yes, MM runs beautifully on a PC running windows. Alternately, if you prefer Linux, you can install uBuntu on a PC. That also runs beautifully.

barnosch

Runs perfect on a Win 10 x64.
One thing for me is, i don’t like the fullscreen, because i want to test some stuff before i bring it to the real MM.
Try instead of
“npm start” a
“node serveronly”
This launches the MM not in full screen. You can point now to your browser and type
localhost:8080
This will show your MM installation in your favourit browser.
In my case, the better option :)

Wominator

Hi Mykle1!
Great job! I installed it on an older Lenovo Miix 8 tablet as my “kitchen mirror” and it works smooth.
Have you or anyone else tried to make a “start.bat” or something like that to auto start it with windows or by a shortcut on the desktop?
That would be a great improvement.
Thanks in advance and regards
womi

Mykle1

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

That would be a great improvement.

Well, I never did, but you can try this. I can’t test at the moment, but it should work. Save this as a .bat file and put it on your desktop.

:: This should work if this bat file is on the desktop
:: Also, CMD window needs ability to run bash commands (done during install of GIT)

:: Start CMD window
start cmd.exe /k

:: cd back one directory
cd ..

:: cd to MM directory
cd MagicMirror

:: start MM
npm start

Wominator

@Mykle1
Hi!
Thanks for the quick reply!
It didn’t work out that way. I found a documentation on:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21564275/windows-shortcut-to-run-git-bash-script

So, I generated a script C:\Users\USER\npmstart.sh with

cd ..
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start

Afterwards I generated a shortcut on the desktop with following path:
"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh.exe" -l -i "C:\Users\USER\npmstart.sh"

And it works. It starts the Bash and runs MagicMirror and leaves the Bash open in the background, so I can get back to it by pressing the Windows-Button. (remember, I run the MagicMirror on a tablet without keyboard and mouse)
In the Bash, I can stop MagicMirror with the onscreen keyboard by pressing Ctrl+C.

Regards
womi

Mykle1

@Wominator

Well done!

Henrik

@Mykle1 Fantastic, thanks!

Mykle1

@Henrik

You’re welcome, mate! Enjoy your mirror. :-)

Peace!

Henrik

@Mykle1 I fully am. :) Now the time has come to develop my first module.