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

swvalenti

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

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

openweather forecast still doesn’t work no error in console

sorry, no idea there

sam whatever you told me to not which step I got it all working. Only issue now is two modules are not centered correctly even when using top_center…how or if you can use css for that?

sdetweil

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

how or if you can use css for that

maybe… depends on the module

see https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/14862/help-with-a-couple-css-issues?_=1647717794860

swvalenti

@sdetweil any ideas on this one just showed up…It asked me that npm needed major update now it doesn’t work

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>npm start

> magicmirror@2.18.0 start
> ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>

sdetweil

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

./node_modules

yes, you cannot have the ./ in front… windows doesn’t understand that …

read the instructions again

sdetweil

@swvalenti you shouldn’t update things unless u know why you are doing it…

we test with certain runtimes and release every 3 months

swvalenti

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

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

./node_modules

yes, you cannot have the ./ in front… windows doesn’t understand that …

read the instructions again

now I get this error…will never update again lesson learned

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>npm start

> magicmirror@2.18.0 start C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror
> electron js/electron.js

'electron' 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@2.18.0 start: `electron js/electron.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.18.0 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\Svale\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2022-03-21T21_48_27_176Z-debug.log

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>

sdetweil

@swvalenti come on

remove the display and the leading

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

swvalenti

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

“start”:“node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js”,

I did that sam still doesn’t work sorry to be a bother

sdetweil

@swvalenti and what is the message?

what npm version are u running?

npm -v

swvalenti

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

@swvalenti and what is the message?

what npm version are u running?

npm -v

this is what i get and below is version

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>npm start

> magicmirror@2.18.0 start C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror
> electron js\electron.js

'electron' 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@2.18.0 start: `electron js\electron.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.18.0 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\Svale\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2022-03-21T22_10_23_329Z-debug.log

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>npm -v
6.14.0

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>