Just starting writing little integration within hassio - failing at first hurdle

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Followed the docs through to this page and when I try and issue this command it fails:

python3 -m script.scaffold integration

command not found

apt and sudo aren’t there either.

I’ve tried this from terminal and ssh web page and directly connected via ssh ( ssh root@…)

How do I get started with " Creating your first integration"

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To me it sounds like it goes wrong here if python wasn’t installed…

sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev python3-venv

You should use it on the command line of Linux, and not in SSH (as that addon runs in a docker), sudo and apt are not available in HA OS itself, only in the host (which is linux)

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So I plugged in a keyboard and screen to my rapberrypi and I still get an ha prompt, but I can type login and I seem to be in a shell at /.

but apt (for example) is still not there.

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Ah. Home Assistant OS is built specifically for running Home Assistant, not developing home assistant, or anything else. It is very limited.

The manual environment instructions are for developing on a full blown Linux OS.

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Was beginning to suspect that, what a PITA. Seems a weird decision, I would have thought a container would make an ideal development environment for working on integrations.

If I install Raspberry Pi OS plus docker and do this, will that give me a suitable environment, or do I need to go full monty and start with home assistant core?

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Developing on your production system is also not the best idea.

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I’m not, gonna run prod on a synology

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I found out the hard way that hassio does not properly support developing integrations. Which type of install should I use?

It seems I cannot use visual studio (doesn’t run on arm - and I wouldn’t particularly want a full blown IDE like that anyway on a small arm machine), so I started on this setup, and it fails as this a very limited environment (no python and no way to install it)

I want to follow some sort of getting started tutorial so I learn what all the parts are and where they live and inter-relate, and the one linked above looks like a good way to start

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have a look at the current integrations?

No better example as the real thing :wink: