How to execute "docker exec" on HAOS

Third party integrations
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I have an HA Yellow and am running a 3rd party add-on that I need to be able to control/troubleshoot. Ideally, I would like to be able to docker exec -it in the container, but cannot figure how to do so on HAOS.

Can anyone help me with this? When I try a simple docker ps from the CLI, I get the error: -bash: docker: command not found.

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You need to ssh to HAOS itself to do that:

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Thank you!

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SSH to the CLI. Yes. Find that it has a reduced set of Linux tools available, um…

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You need to understand the critical difference between SSH’ing to the addon vs SSH’ing to HAOS itself.

Anyway, the basic principle of HAOS is that you don’t need CLI tools.
If you need them for whatever reason, you’d probably be better to manage the OS by yourself and use a Container installation of HA (i.e. in a docker environment that you manage yourself)

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