How to enable ssh and samba access?

I just installed hassio on my raspberry pi 3 b (install version 1.9) using etcher. Every video shows that you can just ssh into the raspberry, but i can not. As far as i can tell, there is even no real terminal client with a keyboard attached.

How can i install components or at lest just edit the configuration files using an web-browsing interface. As far as i can see, there is no place to edit the configuration files.

Whatever videos youā€™re watching about hassio should also explain how to get SSH running on itā€¦or you could just read the documentation

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Go to the Hass.io screen, then the Add On store, and install, configure and start samba. For security, you should setup a user and password.

Now you should have a working samba. You can go to the hassio/config directory and edit yaml files

If you installed the hassio image, you are not running rasbian, so you cant login as pi through ssh.

flamingm0e:
Then please refer me to the correct documentation, because i canā€™t find it. I can find lots of documentation of which settings to have, but there is no documentation on HOW to install the add-on!

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The Hass.io screen is just a white blank page. So, thatā€™s tough!

Can I use the terminal with an attached screen to do this?

If you select the three horizontal bar icon in the upper left, then Hass.io, and you get a blank, white screen, Iā€™d guess your installation has a problem.

Have you tried to reset? Maybe even a hard power cycle, and see if that helps.

Randy

Really?

Well, thereā€™s your problem.

Thanks flamingm0e: This was due to the fact, that I used this site documentation and the links to the page on ssh and sambaā€¦ which tells NOTHING about how to install the add-on. That was so f***** frustrating.

Itā€™s the second page of the ā€˜Getting Startedā€™ link from the home page.

randytsuch: I have tried to reboot and a hard power cycle!

1.7 image: would not get IP from dhcp server
1.9 image: seems to have no Hass.io-screen

Is this normally so, that every new release has so many flaws.

flamingm0e: yeah, i see, a link from the installation ā€œtutorialā€ to that site would probably be better than the other links!

Im a newbie too, and I was frustrated yesterday too so I get it.

Not sure what image I used, it was from a couple of weeks ago so Iā€™d guess 1.8. Guess it could have been 1.7

I have my router set to provide a static ip to my piā€™s, so maybe thatā€™s why I didnā€™t see a dhcp issue?

OK, one more unofficial suggestion

Install stretch lite on a sd card, and bring up ssh with user pi as normal.

Gohere
and follow the instructions, which is basically one line.

I used it, and it works. And then youā€™ll have the normal ssh stuff through user pi.
Path to the files is
/usr/share/hassio/homeassistant

Little more advice on my previous post.

I had to do a reinstall last night, and hereā€™s what I did.

Install stretch lite to sd using etcher, and setup with ssh.

Perform a apt-get update and a upgrade

reboot (this is important I think)

follow the instructions from the link I have to install hass.io

wait. If it works correctly, you should see a message at the end how to connect to home assistant with the http addresses.