@sdetweil thank you for the help! it is actually displaying something now. now I can work on getting home assistant installed and anything else i can think of. thank you again for the quick responses and help.

when i first looked all this up on how to do this, the old one was the only thing that came up for me?

i believe i installed the latest one. its coming up now but so far all i have is a black screen that all says undefined.

so i followed the walkthrough below and when i do npm start i get the follow message and nothing else happens. i am attempting to run it on a mini pc i had laying around. am i missing something or is there a better way? thanks for the help

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

mindl@MagicMirror MINGW64 ~/MagicMirror (master)
$ npm start

magicmirror@2.30.0 start
npm run start:x11

magicmirror@2.30.0 start:x11
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

‘DISPLAY’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.