Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10
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Is there a way to make a desktop shortcut to start MagicMirror?
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@DanClarkCBET3 sure. create a batch file
mm.cmd
in the installers folder, and then use that for the shortcut
mm.cmd should do
@npm start
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My apologies if the answer to my question is located somewhere in this long thread. As a quick method of bringing some MM functionality to my kids in college, I’d like to install MM onto their laptops and have it autorun at start (like a batch file) and run in a small window.
I see that I can install it on their laptops and I know how to create a batch file, but what I don’t know is how to ensure that a linux program starts in a windows batch file and how to get it to autosize to a small window.
Has anyone done that?
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@CheapDad use PM2 to auto launch
this is a node application
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@sdetweil Don’t think it is an easy straight forward setup for PM2 on Windows to launch the mirror or am I mistaken? Would he have to setup
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@mumblebaj pm2 setup does all that …
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@sdetweil :thumbs_up:
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@mumblebaj I was wrong for windows, and setup
see here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42758985/windows-auto-start-pm2-and-node-appsstill pm2 is the easiest and same on every platform…
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@CheapDad Here is a great tutorial to set up PM2 on Windows.
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