Building mirror without programing

[yo-less]

Glad to see I could help you :). The community spirit is what I love about this place…

If you want to automate your setup so that the laptop boots to the mirror on startup, you would probably have to run a batch file at startup which both runs the “node serveronly” command as well as starts up a browser in fullscreen mode. Haven’t looked into it, but do share your setup, should you get that to work as well.

And make sure to showcase your mirror once it’s done ;)
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/category/12/show-your-mirror

Have fun piecing it together ^^

[Argentum]

Sou. I tweakt liddle with my sacrafichal laptop so it runs on Win 10 and automaticly runs MM and node serveronly

What to do so MM runs on win10

Before You start to follow Yo-Less instructions you shoult prepare your laptop so it can run this way that you dont need to use keypoard and mous…

You should install MM in to public folder like C:\Users\public\Magicmirror\

And you should sheer that folder in your home network (right klick on folder and then properties, then sharing, then your username and pemissions give read/write)
If you do that then you can tweak config and add/remove modules with other computer

Then you should remove login for windows

1. perss WIN+R and type netplwiz
2. remove check mark from “user must enter username and pasword…”
3. apply
4. type in ur password for conferming ur settings

Now your windows should login without pasword and username

if thats done… you should tweak power settings…

1. right klick on battery symbol on taskbar and choose “power options”
2. klikc on “change when the computer sleeps”
3. Both “turn of the display” and “put the computer to sleep” when plugged in choose “never”
   Now your computer doesnt sleep and turns of ur display

Allmost in da end…

You can follow now Yo-Less insturctions about installing node.jt and MM

If thats done then theres final steps to setup chrome and final autorun

In chrome set your homepage as “localhost:8080” in chrome settings

1. Then make chrome shortcut in to desktop
2. right klick and properties
3. In Target… at the end of adress write -kiosk Like (“C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” -kiosk ) This opens chrome in fullscreen
4. aplly

Now need all run atomaticly. For that we make .bat fail

Make new text dokument in to desktop

1. In there you write first line your MM location Like: cd C:\Users\public\Magicmirror\
2. second line is: node serveronly

.bat fail reads in cmd line by line sou your text file should look like:

cd C:\Users\public\Magicmirror
node serveronly

3. Save as
4. Save as type choose all files
5. name it like “1bootmm.bat”
6. Save

Why theres 1 in name is cos it should be first thing what starts to boot when windows is logged in. In startup folder files, shortcuts start in order

Last moves…

1. Win+R
2. type: shell:Startup
3. copy your freshly made .bat fail and modified chrome shortcut in to startup folder

Now it should run automaticly… It can happen that chrome starts faster than server is created so first 10-15 sec you see chrome offline screen. But moment MM starts it pops nicely…
And now you dont neet to touch your MM laptop in normal restarts and when you want to modify MM fails

I think topic should be changed “installing and setting up MM for Win 10”

Hope its not to complicated writeing. Not my native language ;)

Best regards
Silver

[zam]

@yo-less Thanks for the tips But unfortunately i am getting an error on windows 10 PC

[Mitchfarino]

@yo-less You’re a hero!

I didn’t know this was possible either, but I’m gonna get it installed on my laptop.

It’s annoying when I have a spare 30 minutes, but I have to get the pi/monitor out and set it all up before getting started!

Now I can mess around and tinker on my laptop!

Cheers

[cowboysdude]

This method is no longer working… it’s throwing errors like crazy. Latest version of nodejs and npm still throws errors and won’t install.

[f0084r]

Just in case someone bumps into this like I did, I just followed the directions yo-less posted above and it worked fine for me on windows 10.

[schmo90]

Hy thanks this is working very fine.
now i am trying to get it working with visual studio 2015.
has anyone expirience with that IDE and node.js?

i am able to load it, but i cannot start and debug the mm solution

[amanzimdwini]

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.

[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!