Noob, kick off project, hassio and RF sockets switches

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Okay, as the title suggests, I am a complete noob to raspberry Pi and hassio. I am trying to achieve what he has done (with all this experience) in this video

I am up to about 3 minutes 19 seconds of the video. And my 1st question is about putty.

I guess I now have to download putty? Is that right? Is putty part of my methodology of controlling hassio and the raspberry Pi? Is it worth me downloading the other programs mentioned in this video 1st?

at 5 minutes 9 seconds in that video, shows me to enable in the putty program “X11 forwarding”.

Okay let me be clear, I just have my pi on the network, I have not got it connected by network cable to my computer.

When I try to connect to my raspberry Pi using the IP address that I found on my router 192.168.1.20:8123 using Google Chrome it connects fine. But when I try connect using putty to 192.168.1.20:8123 I get the error message "network error: connection refused. "
I am a bit uncertain on this because hassio is not the same as what these 2 people were using.

Any advice appreciated, Tremulous Tetra. :slight_smile:

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I am following the same path as you in making the RF switch my first project. You probably already found the answers to your two questions but in case not (or if others find this):

  1. You’re getting the connection refused because SSH is not enabled by default. Go to the add ons in the web interface and install/activate it there. You’ll probably want to start with a password to get going but it’s less secure than using keys.

  2. Install Putty on another computer. You use this to make your SSH connection to HA as he shows in the video.

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Hassio is like an appliance. You will get very little access with ssh and you probably don’t even need that. You also won’t be able to connect on port 8123 using ssh so don’t specify a port number for that connection.

You will need to install the SSh add-on for SSH but you would probably be better off with the Configurator addon.