I have a Home Assistant Blue stuck with a bad supervisor version and the correct SSH add-on was not installed. I hooked up to a TV via HDMI, but I cannot figure out on the Blue devices how to get a shell open! It is stuck in the HA homeassistant CLI tool.
Is there a way to get a shell open via HDMI on these?
On linux you can usually access shell with ctrl+f1 to f7
Yes, I tried that but it wasn’t working…figured there might be another way.
Aha! Found the solution buried in the original thread. You can type ‘login’ in the Home Assistant HA CLI to get a shell prompt.
In case someone else runs across this, the following worked:
ha > login
# curl -o - https://version.home-assistant.io/update-supervisor.txt | sh
Strangely ‘login’ is not listed in the HA CLI help as a valid command…but it works.