Executing Terminal Commands remote SSH

[312elements (mike)]

I’ve got two problems (related) that I hope can be solved easily.

Problem 1: I want to execute a terminal command remotely (SSH) via a button on my HA installation. The terminal command itself is working from the HA terminal, I just don’t understand the process of integrating into HA. Do I need to create a script that executes the terminal command?

Problem 2: When I do execute the terminal command remotely I am prompted for my password. I assume the best way to do this is going to be via secrets.yaml, but I don’t really understand how to call that.

thanks in advance for your help. I really appreciate it.

[VDRainer]

Here’s a good community guide.

SSH'ing from a command line sensor or shell command

I’ve noticed there’s a significant number of posts looking for help on this topic and the posters all seem to struggle with a few common issues. I realized I’ve been almost copying and pasting my responses on these topics so it seemed like a good case for a community guide. What will this cover This guide will walk through the process of getting a command which ssh’s into another machine to get some simple data ready to be included in a command line sensor. To keep it simple I’ll use the same …