A newbee here very confused

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@Popsal

I used to be able to goto network and find the Pi and open HA

You mean in Windows Explorer? So you’ve set up the SMB addon in Home Assistant?
Does http://hassio:8123 not work either?

@Popsal

Have been trying to make shelly devices work with no joy.

As you might already imagine, we need more info than this (please read Nr. 13 and 14 here)