From 61591bc0e485ae74b5ea00e2f5bfe82455f6d5f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jdegraef Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:17:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] added note on windows pycrypto install (#1625) --- source/_components/sensor.broadlink.markdown | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.broadlink.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.broadlink.markdown index 1a03b94c694..a61a90932eb 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.broadlink.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.broadlink.markdown @@ -57,3 +57,12 @@ sensor: monitored_conditions: - temperature ``` + +**note**: The pycrypto library needs to be available on your platform. +on a typical windows sysytem `pip install pycrypto` will fail, as a compiler needs to be installed. + +The quickest way around this is to use a pre-built binary, e.g. from here: +https://github.com/sfbahr/PyCrypto-Wheels + +be sure to get the correct 64 or 32-bit binary for your system, the full commandline will look someting like this (64bit): +`pip install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links=https://github.com/sfbahr/PyCrypto-Wheels/raw/master/pycrypto-2.6.1-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl pycrypto`