diff --git a/poetry.toml b/poetry.toml
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+[virtualenvs]
+in-project = true
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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+[tool.poetry]
+name = "watt42-view"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Watt42 View, a browser-based app to visualize a Watt42 system, and to interact with it"
+authors = ["Chris Oloff <chris@uber5.com>"]
+readme = "README.md"
+
+[tool.poetry.dependencies]
+python = "^3.12"
+
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["poetry-core"]
+build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
+
+[tool.basedpyright]
+venvPath = "."
+venv = ".venv"
+# verboseOutput = true
+# include = ["."]
+# extraPaths = ["."]
+reportMissingTypeStubs = false
+
+[basedpyright.analysis]
+extraPaths = ["."]
+autoImportCompletions = true