(Newbie) Fresh installation - cannot install add-ons

Installation Home Assistant OS
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(Newbie here)

Hey there,

I just installed a fresh HA environment on a Raspberry Pi 4, following the official guide.

At first I wanted to access the underlying Linux OS but when connecting a monitor and a keyboard to the Pi, I only have access to the Home Assistant CLI which I cannot exit.
So after some research it looks like I could do this remotely with the SSH & Web Terminal addon, but when I click on the button to install it, I get the following message

This redirect is not supported by your Home Assistant installation. It needs either the Home Assistant Operating System or Home Assistant Supervised installation method.

Since I took the official Raspberry Pi image, isnā€™t it Home Assistant Operating System? I donā€™t get it.

Thanks,
Ben

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which installation method have you choosen on that linked guide?
As far as I can see, it provides installation steps for ALL methods (OS, Docker, Core, ā€¦)

If you go to your HomeAssistant frontend and then to the ā€œAboutā€ page, you should get more informationā€¦
For HA OS it should look similar to this:
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Well, I just followed the Installation guide by clicking on ā€œRaspberry Piā€ here, which leads you to the Raspberry Pi installation manual, and then, when you reach Get the URL for your Raspberry Pi - you have only 1 choice.

Hereā€™s what I get from the About page (looks exactly the same):

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  1. Go to Settings > Add-ons
  2. Click the Add-on Store button
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Back to basics.

You have been here http://homeassistant.local:8123 and setup an account and the basics of HA, havenā€™t you?. If not it wont work.

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Looks like the default raspberry pi installation is sort of locked for that kind of operations.
I formatted and installed Raspbian + HA Docker, and everything works now.

Thanks!
Ben

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Hello again,

A few months laterā€¦ I still get that silly message, which is very frustrating.
There is no (longer?) a setting ā†’ add-ons menu. Whenever I click on a repository link ā€œadd-on storeā€, I get that message:

This redirect is not supported by your Home Assistant installation. It needs either the Home Assistant Operating System or Home Assistant Supervised installation method.

This is particularly annoying. How am I supposed to proceed?
HA is running on an Rpi4 with Raspbian and Home Assistant Docker.

Thanks,
Ben

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Install HA OS ? Be sure to make a backup first.

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Thatā€™s what I did at the very first beginning, but I didnā€™t figure out how to access to the underlying Linux to add some other stuff alongside HA (esp. Caddy to expose HA through HTTPS) - so I switched to the Docker-based installation.

Looks like my only remaining option is the ā€œSupervised HAā€ using the supervised installer, I will look into this.
Thanks!
Ben

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There is a caddy add-on for HA OS

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