Building mirror without programing

[cowboysdude]

@amanzimdwini said in Building mirror without programing:

Works like a charm! (except that folders constantly have the post-name _Master - which you need to remove: after installation, make sure everything “lives” in the folder C:\MagicMirror (or similar)

Notes on how to install modules - here are MY 2 cents:
Find the module you like; go to the GTT depository but select “Downloads as Zip”. Find the ZIP file and extract it into the MODULES subdirectory (in my example, C:\MagicMirror\modules). RENAME the folder you just created by removing the trailing _Master.
Presto. Works great.

Well that our just use -master in your config file ;) LOL

[amanzimdwini]

@cowboysdude - DUH. Sorry - good point!

[cowboysdude]

@amanzimdwini said in Building mirror without programing:

@cowboysdude - DUH. Sorry - good point!

LOL Well I just rename them but I know how you feel. I believe they do it that way because that way the user knows it’s getting the correct branch :)

[strawberry 3.141]

@cowboysdude this will not work, because the js file cannot be found then

@amanzimdwini if yozu dont install the modules wuth git clone you have to redo the whole process for every update

[cowboysdude]

@strawberry-3.141 said in Building mirror without programing:

@cowboysdude this will not work, because the js file cannot be found then

@amanzimdwini if yozu dont install the modules wuth git clone you have to redo the whole process for every update

I am so glad we have you! :)

[amanzimdwini]

@strawberry-3.141

Hmm - you SURE? I must have been lucky, since it worked for me just the way I described it (though I had to rename the extracted ZIPs by removing the -master extension: that’s why I published my results: so that others would also succeed). On my Win10, I successfully installed at least

Wunderground
MMM-forecast-io
Wunderlist
Valentine

(and probably a few others - would need to check).

Like I said, probably I was just lucky. But it worked for me.

[@cowboysdude said I should rename (have not tried it, though you stated that that would not work?)]

Thanks for reading/commenting.

[cowboysdude]

@amanzimdwini That’s what I did too… just cut off the -master at the end when I downloaded them but now I just do:

~MagicMirror/modules/

Then I do a 'git clone… ’

That’s the easiest way actually :)

[yawns]

@amanzimdwini
If you download and unzip modules, you don’t have a folder called .git, and without this folder you cannot run git pull to update the specific module, when the developer releases a new version.
Everything else of course works fine.

[strawberry 3.141]

@amanzimdwini it works, but I said putting -master in the config will not work, because then you have several problems

The only thing is without having the ability to use git you have to redo the whole process for every update, the correct installation steps are mostly in the readme of the module itself

[amanzimdwini]

@yawns
Upvote.

Sorry that I seem to have kicked a hornet’s nest – I was just reading that people had had problems, and found a way that worked for me. But yes, updating etc is not going to work. And yes, GIT pulls are best…

BUT for real Noobs (been there, done that), GIT might be a bit “weird”, while ZIP is recognized.

Bottom line:
This all works - use @yo-less instructions, then either go the ZIP route (where you have to remove the -master) OR the GIT route (nice & easy).

Thanks everyone for finding all the problems. Let’s leave this with the conclusion that THIS AWESOME MAGIC MIRROR works on Win-boxes too!