Hi, newbie here… I am struggling with understanding the basic ‘architecture’ of running HA on a Raspberry Pi. I have one Pi and a micro SD card with Raspbian (ip address: 10.0.0.111) and a micro SD card with HA (ip address: 10.0.0.222). In my mind this means that I either run the OS Raspbian or I run HA, but when i watch the various HA video’s you all use Linux (e.g. Sudo) commands while you have HA up and running. When I run HA, I can not SSH into Raspbian on my PI, I can only SSH into HA. Any hints or tips on how these two environments are integrated while the PI has the HA SD card, is very much appreciated!
There’s a community-sourced open-source SSH/Terminal add-on. To install it, you need a certificate and private key file available and installed in the /ssh directory.
The confusion is self inflicted by HA.
There are two basic flavors of HA that can be installed on a Pi - Hassbian and Hassio.
Hassbian is a standard raspbian stretch linux with HA pre-installed. Hassio is HA installed in it’s own kind of hybrid OS.
Depending on which version you burned onto your SD card determines how you move forward from here.
the problem lies in the fact that most people assume that everyone is using their install method when talking about different ways of doing things. A lot of times it will work on both types of install. A lot of times it won’t. And confusion for new people ensues from there.
Thank you FredTF, as mentioned very new and with community-sources SSH/Terminal add-on I assume you mean e.g. PUTTY. This is working fine, but I can either logon to Hassio or Raspbian and when I SSH into Hassio none of the Linux commands are recognized, hence my original question or do you know the architecture used by the people that are creating the educational videos? I would like to learn and understand, but without having the same or similar setup it’s hard to follow.
Thank you finity your response is really helpful! I am pretty sure I installed Hassio (not knowing any better or the difference). Let me start over with Hassbian and see whether this makes it for me a little bit easier to follow the educational videos.