Hey everyone,
I’m completely lost as to how to implement the instructions given in the documentation beyond the basic installation and troubleshooting. The HAOS seems to be working fine after just reading the instructions for getting started, but I keep running to barriers on moving forward with automation and customization. I don’t know understand the infrastructure of the system to utilize the documentation, and I can’t find any basic “here’s how sh*t works” document to help get me on the right path here.
An example of a problem that I’m facing is that I would like to be able to view all the entities on my wifi network, but, other than my phone, nothing on the network shows up. I’ve got my PS4, a couple laptops, etc., but they don’t show up as entities either under my uPnP integration or anywhere else. Some Googling led me to a post about a similar problem in which she talks about using nMap. Sounds cool, so I check it out here. In order to add this integration, I need command line access to the HAOS, so I then install the Terminal add-on because that looked like the right thing for doing command line in HAOS. Try the sudo commands, and there is no sudo command in the terminal. I try and back up and find some basic HAOS commands like “hass --script check_configuration” and the like. Try that in the Terminal - no dice. Just try typing “help” and none of the commands look familiar. I’m clearly barking up the wrong tree, but I have no idea where the right tree is or how to access it and would really appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction here.
I’ve read up on YAML, I’ve done a lot of programming in Python and other languages, but I just don’t know how this system is setup, so I can implement any of the fixes or help outlined in the documentation. My major lacking skill, based on what I’m running into, is command line coding with OS’s like Linux, but I have some very basic knowledge. Is that level of scripting necessary to be able to use HAOS?
I’ve got File Editor and tinkered around with changing YAML files, but I can’t validate that they’re working besides knowing that they don’t break the OS, and I don’t know how different files are tied together or called to make things work. At the moment, I can’t add any integration that is not available in the Web UI, and there so many interesting things out there to try out. I’m trying not to burn out figuring this out because I’m really excited about this platform, so any help would be much appreciated 
Hi superspartan999,
I’ve started with HA about 2 month ago, so I cannot explain how “everything” works, but to get you started with dedecting your devices on the network, I would suggest reading this page: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/device_tracker/
I assume most people that use HA had an experience like this at the beginning. I remember it took me quite some time to understand what is going on and how it works.
That said, take it easy, everybody has this steap learning curve in HA, it’s the usual, not the exception. HA is a very wide system, that gives you near endless possibilities to work with mostly anything that is called “smart”.
But before we dig deeper, what system do you run? Please give some basic information about how you setup HA, on what machine, what was the way you did it? There are a few things, that are different depending on how you installed, and honestly I’m too lazy today to write about all possibilities, so please bear with me and give some more information about your system before one can answer more specific. 