I am a newbie to HA. I am trying to use rsync to make backups of camera videos to a server hosted by another pi. I am able to use rsync in the terminal integration and it copies files over. I was able to use ‘ssh-keygen -t rsa’ to connect to the destination pi without entering a password. I was als…

I have learned the hard way that rsync does not work in the hassio environment. For my purpose, I have resorted to mounting the remote folder onto the hassio, and then calling a shell script that will copy the files to the mounted folder. I have the camera videos stored daily on specific date format…

Try adding single quotes do_rsync: ‘rsync -avz --delete /config/www/ pi@192.168.1.xxx:/PiServer/videos/‘

Thank you for your response. I tried that, and did not seem to work. :frowning: Also, the documentation does not show quotes. Shell Command - Home Assistant

Any hints in the logs? What about adding this after —delete (edit as needed): -e ‘ssh -p 59333 -i /YOUR_PATH/.ssh/id_rsa’

The log says that rsync is not found. “rsync: command not found” I am able to use this in the terminal with no issues.

Shell commands run in a restricted environment. See the last section of the first post here: [image] SSH'ing from a command line sensor or shell command Community Guides I’ve noticed there’s a significant number of posts looking for help on this topic and the p…

Thank you. I looked through the article. I get that rsync is not available readily in HA per se. Do you have any pointers in using the rsync addon? I was able to mount the external drive to the media folder. However, I am still not able to use the rsync. Is there no workaround for this?

You need a shell_command script that will SSH into the Advanced SSH & Web Terminal add on and then run the commands from there.

Thank you! I feel like I am so close! I tried the following automation. I am not seeing any output. Can you help me? alias: Test_rsync description: '' trigger: - platform: time at: 00:00:00 condition: [] action: - service: hassio.addon_stdin data: addon: core_ssh …

I also tried with no luck: shell_command: ssh_to_terminal: ssh -p 22 hassio@192.168.1.40 "/bin/bash /config/mnt_rsync_script.sh"

This thread helped me. [image] Running a shell command from Home Assistant to remote linux PC Configuration I am attempting to run a shell command to raise/lower the volume on my HTPC. shell_command: volume_up: ssh username@192.168.x.x pactl – set-sink-volume 0 +5% The …

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iamjosh February 20, 2024, 5:05pm 11

This thread helped me.

This is the SSH command I use in my script.
ssh -tt -i /config/.ssh/id_ed25519 [email protected] -p 22222 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no