Sytone's Ramblings

The occasional posts of a guy who plays with technology.

Developing Home Assistant on Windows using the Subsystem for Linux

2017-03-04 3 min read Home Automation
I love Home Assistant and use it to control my house. I run it on a Pine64 board and it handles everything. However for developing and modifying it I want to have a slightly better environment than nano and a console screen :) So using the Subsystem for Linux I have a Linux based setup to run the hass instance in and can use Visual Studio code to develop the modules as I go, best of both worlds. Continue reading