diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
index 9d96081..445601d 100755
--- a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
+++ b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-FROM python:latest
+FROM python:3.10
+
+# install order matters because of some weird dependency stuff with websocket-client
+# install appdaemon first because it's versioning is more restrictive
+RUN pip install git+https://github.com/AppDaemon/appdaemon@dev
 
 ENV CONF=/conf
-
 RUN mkdir $CONF
 COPY ./requirements.txt ${CONF}
-
-# RUN useradd --system --uid 1000 --create-home appdaemon
-# USER appdaemon
-
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip pip install -r ${CONF}/requirements.txt
-RUN pip install git+https://github.com/AppDaemon/appdaemon@dev