First install with Visual Studio errors

Hi everyone

I hope someone can help with my issue. I’ll preface this by saying that I am brand new to Home Assistant and pretty much a beginner at python. I am trying to install Home Assistant on a Windows Servers 2012 R2 box. When I first installed it I thought it went fine but then when I loaded up HA the home page looks like this:

ha_homepage

I started with Googling the Discovery error and that led me to try to install it manually with this command:

pip3 install netdisco

But this then led to another error:

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": 
http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools

The full output can be found here.

So from the error, it seems pretty obvious what the issue is. So first I installed the latest Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools. The tools look to be v15 but in a couple of forum posts some people said that this version worked fine even though the install is asking for v14. I added the location to the PATH variable manually but still no dice:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC

So next step was to try the actual Visual Studio Build Tools v14 but the trouble was I coudln’t find these anywhere. I saw some people with similar issues saying to just install the full Visual Studio 2015 so that’s what I have done. Plus I have added this path to the PATH variable:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC

No dice! So that is where I am, I have the full version of VS 2015 installed, I can see the folder references v14 so that’s good. But the install still throws the same ‘install Visual Studio Build Tools 14.0’ error. (Are my paths right?!).

If anyone can provide any help it would be appreciated! Thanks for reading.

Craig