Installation problem on windows 10

rezanem · February 5, 2019, 3:27pm

Hey everybody
I’v problem with installing HA on windows 10, when
C:.…> pip3 install homeassistant
or
C:.…> py -m pip install homeassistant

after some minutes i get and error

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Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “c:\HA-Project\homeassistant\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py”, line 489, in _find_latest_available_vc_ver
return self.find_available_vc_vers()[-1]
IndexError: list index out of range
  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    File "C:\Users\NEM\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-lnmd8f48\cffi\setup.py", line 120, in <module>
      if sys.platform == 'win32' and uses_msvc():
    File "C:\Users\NEM\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-lnmd8f48\cffi\setup.py", line 98, in uses_msvc
      return config.try_compile('#ifndef _MSC_VER\n#error "not MSVC"\n#endif')
    File "C:\HA-Project\Python38\lib\distutils\command\config.py", line 225, in try_compile
      self._compile(body, headers, include_dirs, lang)
    File "C:\HA-Project\Python38\lib\distutils\command\config.py", line 132, in _compile
      self.compiler.compile([src], include_dirs=include_dirs)
    File "C:\HA-Project\Python38\lib\distutils\_msvccompiler.py", line 346, in compile
      self.initialize()
    File "C:\HA-Project\Python38\lib\distutils\_msvccompiler.py", line 239, in initialize
      vc_env = _get_vc_env(plat_spec)
    File "c:\HA-Project\homeassistant\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 185, in msvc14_get_vc_env
      return EnvironmentInfo(plat_spec, vc_min_ver=14.0).return_env()
    File "c:\HA-Project\homeassistant\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 843, in __init__
      self.si = SystemInfo(self.ri, vc_ver)
    File "c:\HA-Project\homeassistant\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 485, in __init__
      self.vc_ver = vc_ver or self._find_latest_available_vc_ver()
    File "c:\HA-Project\homeassistant\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 492, in _find_latest_available_vc_ver
      raise distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError(err)
  distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

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Command “python setup.py egg_info” failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\NEM\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-lnmd8f48\cffi\

Command “c:\HA-Project\homeassistant\Scripts\python.exe c:\HA-Project\homeassistant\lib\site-packages\pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix C:\Users\NEM\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-t2rdi0qu\overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i Simple index – setuptools wheel “cffi>=1.1; python_implementation != ‘PyPy’”” failed with error code 1 in None

Do you have any idea? i tried to google it and i did some tests, but same error all the time, btw i also installed latest Visual C++ (2017) but same error again, i tried to install it over virtual environment but same error again, and also i changed my internet because i though it is filtering or so but still same error.

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flamingm0e · February 5, 2019, 3:41pm

I would highly recommend NOT running it in Windows. Use some sort of virtualization layer and run Linux in a VM.

rezanem · February 5, 2019, 3:44pm

Thanks but actually i`m not that much good at Linux, so i though must of my time will spend to Tshoot Linux problems, but now its same on windows =))

flamingm0e · February 5, 2019, 3:45pm

Run the hassio VMDK in a virtualization software. You don’t have to manage a Linux OS then.

rezanem · February 5, 2019, 4:40pm

Refer to this post:

the Virtual version has lots of problems and i already engaged with, so i prefer to install it as an python virtual environment, i really don’t want to ignore the question /

flamingm0e · February 5, 2019, 4:43pm

weird, according to your link, they got it working by following the directions.

The problem is that the windows python version is EXTREMELY limited, so there will be a LOT of components that simply won’t work.

I wasn’t. I was offering a BETTER solution to the problem, because you will find the limitations at some point (probably fairly soon), and it would be better to just use the appropriate solution first to save time.

rezanem · February 5, 2019, 4:44pm

Sure thank you,