Visual Studio
Visual studio on Windows host os
Visual Studio 2019 community or newer is recommended. You need to have dotnet 5 installed. Download .NET 5 here or check the minimal version of Visual Studio supported.
Fork and clone your net-daemon/netdaemon.
Debug
The debugging can be pointed to the exampleapps folder. please turn off the entity generation by "generate_entities": false.
Setup the configuration
Setup the environment vars
Easiest is to setup environment varables for your Home Assistant instance in the host. The HOMEASSISTANT__HOST, HOMEASSISTANT__TOKEN is required to debug. You may have to restart Visual Studio after setting the environment vars.
| Environment variable | Description |
|---|---|
| HOMEASSISTANT__TOKEN | Token secret to access the HA instance |
| HOMEASSISTANT__HOST | The ip or hostname of HA |
| HOMEASSISTANT__PORT | The port of home assistant (defaults to 8123 if not specified) |
| NETDAEMON__GENERATEENTITIES | Generate entities, recommed set false unless debugging |
| NETDAEMON__APPSOURCE | The folder/project/dll where it will find daemon. Set this to empty "" to debug apps local. If needed to debug the dynamic source compilation, set to /workspaces/netdaemon/Service/apps |
Use src/Service/apps as starting point to debug your stuff!
## Visual studio using containers
Will be supported at a later time