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Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10
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hi i need some help here. when i ran npm start, im getting this message.
Starting MagicMirror: v2.23.0
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.647] [LOG] Loading config …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.648] [DEBUG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.650] [LOG] Loading module helpers …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.650] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.655] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.655] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.656] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.717] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.717] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.718] [LOG] No helper found for module: compliments.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.718] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.732] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.733] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.733] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.737] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.779] [LOG] Launching application.
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.812] [LOG] Server started …
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.818] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.818] [LOG] Starting module helper: updatenotification
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.818] [LOG] Connecting socket for: calendar
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.819] [LOG] Starting node helper for: calendar
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.819] [LOG] Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.819] [LOG] Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[28.06.2023 13:36.52.820] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started …am i supposed to do something next?
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@1a2a3a there is a big in the release on windows
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/3083
you can follow the instructions to checkout the develop branch, or wait til July 1 for the next release with the fix
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@sdetweil but when i go to localhost 8080 via web browser it appears to show the screen. is that normal?
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@1a2a3a yes, just the initial electron browser startup was broken
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@sdetweil so i used your fix with the link that you provided and i can go into MM.
there is something i dont get though… The MM app itself is ‘electron’?
and my git cmd is ‘terminal’?
when i want to install module etc, i have to close the terminal and reopen and npm start again? is there a way to work continuously on the terminal without closing and opening?
right now im working on windows and subsequently i will shift to raspberry PI. how do i transit everything over to the PI? or do i have to resetup everything?
and if im working on the windows, can i ‘cast’ the MM to anywhere else other than a web browser?
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@1a2a3a said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:
there is something i dont get though… The MM app itself is ‘electron’?
yes… mm uses a browser to display
electron, chrome, edge, firefox, Midori,…and my git cmd is ‘terminal’?
when i want to install module etc, i have to close the terminal and reopen and npm start again? is there a way to work continuously on the terminal without closing and opening?
no, mm only loads modules on start. u can install all you want at once, but you have to restart to load them
yes, just stop MagicMirror, ctrl-c to stop the app and back to command line… work and npm start again
right now im working on windows and subsequently i will shift to raspberry Pi, how do i transit everything over to the PI? or do i have to resetup everything?
yes
install loads different binaries for mm. and for some modules.
I have scripts for Linux to Linux, but not for windows.
and if im working on the windows, can i ‘cast’ the MM to anywhere else other than a web browser?
if you can cast a application… been years since I used windows.
but you can open a browser from anywhere to mm
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@sdetweil thanks so much bruh. Couple of more questions if you don’t mind…
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so I can use my tv, go into the browser and enter local host:8080 and I’m in? Assuming they are on the same network. Otherwise what would the web link be? I don’t suppose being on a different network works?
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in future when I setup the pi, I’ll have to install everything on the sd card and put into the pi. And the pi is behind the wall display… so assuming 1 fine day I would like to make changes, how do I go about doing it since I can’t use the terminal on my pc to make the changes?
Do I have to take the pi out from the wall display, connect the pi to another monitor and do my edits in the other monitor? Or does the pi on the wall display allow me to do edits? How do people go about doing this, I just can’t wrap my head around this…
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- maybe. we are using more and more of the latest JavaScript level es6. most tvs don’t provide that and are not updateable, so the code will fail.
problem seen recently on Samsung frame tv.
- you can connect remotely to the pi ( and windows) w ssh (which i use for all mm work on my pis all over the house)
you can also use a graphical remote connection, vnc.
there is a xrdp server for Linux too for window rdp connection.I use that on one of my Linux machines w no keyboard or display
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@1a2a3a said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:
- so I can use my tv, go into the browser and enter local host:8080 and I’m in? Assuming they are on the same network. Otherwise what would the web link be?
Localhost won’t work on your TV because localhost in that case is the TV’s local host (server). You’ll want to use the IP address of your Raspberry Pi. Likely
http://192.168.1.xxx:8080wherexxxis the final numbers for your Pi. -
@bhepler yes, you need to change the config.js address: setting to something other than localhost
localhost means only applications inside the same machine can connect.
you can specify the local machine address, as long as it doesn’t change.
or use “0.0.0.0”, which means any address on any adapter.a server application has to specify what network address it will listen on for incoming requests.
“0.0.0.0”. is a shortcut that means any address on any active network interface…(your mm could be on wifi and Ethernet at the same time )
