diff --git a/recipes-musicians/nekobee/nekobee.bb b/recipes-musicians/nekobee/nekobee.bb
index c9a9eca..20eda4a 100644
--- a/recipes-musicians/nekobee/nekobee.bb
+++ b/recipes-musicians/nekobee/nekobee.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/gordonjcp/nekobee"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 
-inherit wafold pkgconfig
+inherit wafold pkgconfig python3native
 
 DEPENDS += " \
     gtk+ \
@@ -17,6 +17,49 @@ SRCREV = "593d4be0ff6b4279e1b2b1bacbd5b6b02221358a"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 PV = "0.2+git${SRCPV}"
 
+waf_preconfigure() {
+}
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    cd ${S}
+
+    # link python -> python3
+    ln -sf `which python3` ${B}/python
+    export PATH="${PATH}:${B}"
+
+    # dummy call -> unpacks waf
+    ./waf configure -o ${B} --prefix=${prefix} ${EXTRA_OECONF} || true
+
+    # add unpacked modules to pypath
+    echo `find ${S} -type d -name wafadmin` > ${B}/PYTHONPATH
+    export PYTHONPATH=`cat ${B}/PYTHONPATH`
+
+    # -> python3
+    2to3 -w -x import `find .waf3-* -name '*.py'`
+
+    # hmmm
+    #sed -i 's:from . import:import:g' `find .waf3-* -name '*.py'`
+    #sed -i 's:from .:from :g' `find .waf3-* -name '*.py'`
+
+    ./waf configure --prefix=${prefix} ${WAF_EXTRA_CONF} ${EXTRA_OECONF}
+}
+
+do_compile()  {
+    export PATH="${PATH}:${B}"
+    export PYTHONPATH=`cat ${B}/PYTHONPATH`
+
+    # waf breaks but gets far enough to build what's necessary
+	${S}/waf build ${@oe.utils.parallel_make_argument(d, '-j%d', limit=64)} || true
+}
+
+do_install()  {
+    install -d ${D}${libdir}/dssi/nekobee
+    install -m 0644 ${B}/build/default/nekobee.so ${D}${libdir}/dssi/
+    install -m 0755 ${B}/build/default/nekobee_gtk ${D}${libdir}/dssi/nekobee/
+    install -m 0644 ${B}/extra/knob.png ${D}${libdir}/dssi/nekobee/
+    install -m 0644 ${B}/extra/switch.png ${D}${libdir}/dssi/nekobee/
+}
+
 FILES_${PN} += " \
     ${libdir}/dssi \
 "