Can't run with pm2

[JCM-m]

Hi, I had an issue with the program not running and I am not the brightest when it come to programming or coding.

So firstly I did tried to download both the nvm and node.js and node.js seem to be running at version 22.x.x something. Then I installed npm install -g steam-hour-farmer in cmd prompt. After that I made a folder called "Farm" just to stored this .env file (I did name it ".env" ) then inside the file I wrote
{
ACCOUNT_NAME="my_steam_username"
PASSWORD="my_steam_password"
GAMES="game-id"
}

Finally I type:
"steam-hour-farmer" and it responded

C:\Users\USER\Desktop\package\Farm>steam-hour-farmer
Documentation: https://github.com/tacheometry/steam-hour-farmer
Environment variable "ACCOUNT_NAME" should be provided, but it is undefined.

so I check the issue to see how others that has the same issue with mine and I came up with conclusion to try running using pm2 to run it. So I did npm install pm2 -g command and then go to my directory and do "pm2 start steam-hour-farmer"

and it seem to show status: stopped
So I looks at other who had the same issue as I do. Eventually I disable to steam guard and it still displayed the same error as before.

C:\Users\USER\Desktop\package\Farm>pm2 start steam-hour-farmer
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [steam-hour-farmer](ids: [ 0 ])
[PM2] steam-hour-farmer ✓
[PM2] Process successfully started
┌────┬────────────────────┬──────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name │ mode │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ memory │
├────┼────────────────────┼──────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0 │ steam-hour-farmer │ fork │ 61 │ stopped │ 0% │ 0b │
└────┴────────────────────┴──────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

here is what my folder looks like after thaat:

[tacheometry]

Hello,

If steam-hour-farmer errors, then adding pm2 won't be able to solve it, that's a step for convenience, after ensuring the program is working properly.

I notice that in your comment you placed curly braces { } around the content of the .env file. Are those characters in the .env file as well?

[JCM-m]

No, The content inside the .env file has no bracket inside it. It was purely this:
ACCOUNT_NAME="my_steam_username"
PASSWORD="my_steam_password"
GAMES="game-id"

[tacheometry]

Let me know what happens if you try this:

1. Restart everything: create a new folder, make a new .env file, and type everything by hand, then run steam-hour-farmer there.
2. If that doesn't work, install the package locally, in that folder, npm i steam-hour-farmer, then go and edit node_modules/steam-hour-farmer/index.js such that line 11 reads: require("dotenv").config({ debug: true }). Then run it with node node_modules/steam-hour-farmer/index.js.