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

justjim1220

Not that I can think of

I’m not using a RasPi either.
If I had one, I would try it to se if any difference.

Sorry.

bhepler

@jelbear - To my knowledge, the only difference between Windows and Linux systems is that you may have to specify the file paths slightly differently. Windows requires you to put any folder with a space in the name in quotes. This can get tricky when you’re passing in a string which is surrounded by quotes and also contains quotes.

Is there a space in any part of your path to the exampleImages folder?

lavolp3

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jelbear

it somehow seems to have resolved itself

i deleted the folder and redid the git clone and it is working, not sure what happened, but it is working now,

many thanks for taking the time to reply

brandonbrown

@Mykle1 said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:

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

Thank you so much for this post! I’m new to the Pi and MagicMirror. Working on the PI remotely was a bit of pain and this allowed me to run MagicMirror on my main machine with VMWare Workstation.

First off let me say these instructions were ‘spot-on’ and I was up and running immediately.

As I added modules, I noticed some of them were not working, a.k.a. not loading any data. They would activate, say “loading…” and nothing else.

I researched a few of the modules I was using and found one step that needs to be on your list:

‘npm install request’

After that, the modules in question began updating with data.

Thank you again for giving me a better dev environment to work in!

Brandon

Mykle1

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

I researched a few of the modules I was using and found one step that needs to be on your list:
‘npm install request’

Well, the modules that require that package should tell you in their respective readme files but thanks for the headsup. I’m glad you found the tutorial helpful. :-)

dstoianovici

Hello, I had an EACCESS error thrown when launching the MM as directed in this thread. I was able to fix this error by changing the port number from 8080 to 9000 in config.js

sdetweil

@dstoianovici yes,if some other app is using 8080 then u have to change it… mine is on 8086. 8080-8085 are in use

CliffordW

It should probably be easy, but I can’t seem to find it. What is the command I can use to start MM on Windows 10 startup?

CliffordW

Thanks for a great guide, got me up and running quickly. Can you guide me where do I insert the commands to rotate the display to portrait mode?

bdream

@Mykle1 Many thanks for this description!

Just got it run under Windows 7. That will help to play and learn how to get own modules :nerd_face:

Two questions I have.
My MM is version 2.6.0. I planned to run updatescript from @sdetweil but failed. Yahe you any idea?

Is there an option to run MM in a window being able to shrink and move over the desktop?

sdetweil

@bdream come talk in the Updated Installer topic

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10171/anyone-want-to-try-updated-installer

sdetweil

@bdream F11 will take a window from full screen to not

Mykle1

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

Is there an option to run MM in a window being able to shrink and move over the desktop?

Your F11 key should toggle between full screen MM and MM in a window

Mykle1

Damn Sam, you’re just too fast!

bdream

F11 seems to be a got hint, even it comes from @Mykle1 or @sdetweil.

Will try it this evening - thanks!

OldShaterhan

For me setup running MagicMirror on Windows 10 worked by:

cloning the repository
then edit package.json by changing following line:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "./run-start.sh",

to:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "bash ./run-start.sh",

Simple change, works in every location on my PC.

jagdambasoft

$ npm start

magicmirror@2.10.1 start C:\Users\Office\MagicMirror
./run-start.sh

‘.’ 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@2.10.1 start: ./run-start.sh
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 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\Office\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-02-25T06_03_03_308Z-debug.log
What Will I DO

jagdambasoft

@jagdambasoft as above i post an error
Now in package.json change a line under scripts

    "start": "./run-start.sh",
to
    "start": "run-start.sh",

aab142

I’m using Windows 10 and got the previous message as well. Changing to “run-start.sh” just opens the file with my text editor. I’m missing something.