Setting Up a Development Environment

An example development environment used by the VOLTTRON team would consist of a Linux VM or docker or WSL2 environment. The following guides can be used to set up a development environment starting from creating a virtual machine, fork the volttron-core repository, installing pre-requisites and installing volttron using your forked repository, and using an IDE to start volttron process and agents for debugging

• Installing a Linux Virtual Machine
  • Adding a VDI Image to VirtualBox Environment
• Forking the Repository
  • Cloning ‘YOUR’ VOLTTRON forked repository
  • Adding and Committing files
  • Pushing to the remote repository
• Setup VOLTTRON core for development
  • Prerequisites
  • Install VOLTTRON requirements
  • Environment Setup
    • Clone the forked volttron-core
    • Install VOLTTRON
    • Activated shell
• Pycharm Development Environment
  • Open Pycharm and load volttron-core
    • Pycharm Setup
  • Set the Project Interpreter
  • Running the VOLTTRON Process