HomeAssitant OS - SSH Wonkiness

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I have Home Assistant OS on NUC hardware, and I’m trying to SSH in to find and clear the pycache folder. (fighting with zigbee quirks with cheapo hardware I regret buying)

When I try access the terminal in either Advanced SSH & Web Terminal, or the official SSH addon, I get this:

(Note: I blurred two items on the menu, but the rest of the screenshot is untouched.)

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When I ssh in using putty, I get this prompt::

putty-ssh

… no welcome message or anything.

I’ve removed all SSH addons, completely rebooted, reinstalled Advanced SSH and the issue remains.

I’m stuck for things to try. Does anyone have suggestions?

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Hi,
I’m seeing two separate oddities:

  1. A buggy video driver, which is odd as usually the HA Terminal & SSH Add-On is rendered on the client via HTTPS.
  2. An incorrect $TERM setting in PuTTY.

I’m starting to wonder if there is a bug in an update or something as someone else had a similar weird terminal:

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Hi FloatingBoater,

You are a wise man.

  1. It looks like the graphical error is Firefox-specific; Advanced SSH works just fine using both Brave, as well as the Home Assistant app my Android.

  2. I installed the latest version of PuTTY. (0.81, coming from 0.69). The same issue remains. I tried another system on my network (using KiTTY), and I get the same prompt. ([\e]0;\u@\h:\w\a]\W $)

I can also use WinSCP to navigate the directory structure. PuTTY has always worked for me in the past.

I have options now, so I’m not going to spend any time figuring out why PuTTY no longer works. Somewhat interesting I’m not alone though…

Thanks again, FloatingBoater.
AutoRobo

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For the prompt, see here Shell prompt regression after latest 19.0.0 update · Issue #788 · hassio-addons/addon-ssh · GitHub

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To return to a normal prompt, disable ZSH in the configuration of add-on “Advanced SSH & Web Terminal”.

Details see here: