How to install NPM on HA

Hi there I am trying to install this automation.
I have got stuck trying to install NPM, which seems to require NODE.JS and Python as pre-requisite dependencies. I have the instructions for node and npm but not Python. I thought i had installed it already.

Any help gratefully received! Thanks.

⌘ git clone GitHub - danielwippermann/resol-vbus: A JavaScript library for processing RESOL VBus data
⌘ cd resol-vbus
⌘ npm install

What installation type are you running?
Open your Home Assistant instance and show your Home Assistant version information.

If you are running HAOS this is not supported.
You would need to find an add-on to run it.

If you are running container you would need to run this in it’s own Docker or something.

Also Automations do not require adding libraries ever. You are loading something else.

In addition to @Sir_Goodenough’s excellent points, I seem to recall that esphome has native handling for Resol.

You might wanna start there instead of some random GitHub library which warns you that it’s in maintenance mode

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