Instead of WSL I used a VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu 22.04 on a Windows 10 machine that's on all the time for our backup system. I followed @vmsman's instructions at Echo Speaks / Heroku end anxiety support group. See one solution below. 🙂 - #58 by vmsman to get the Echo Speaks server running. It's been ages since I have used Linux, but it only took a little more than an hour to get everything working. Since ES is the only thing running on the VM I did not bother with an LXD container. Using VirtualBox I was able to give the VM a dedicated IP.