Remote control Raspberry Pi with shell_command and SSH

[ondras12345 (Ondra)]

There’s a community guide for SSH:

SSH'ing from a command line sensor or shell command

I’ve noticed there’s a significant number of posts looking for help on this topic and the posters all seem to struggle with a few common issues. I realized I’ve been almost copying and pasting my responses on these topics so it seemed like a good case for a community guide. What will this cover This guide will walk through the process of getting a command which ssh’s into another machine to get some simple data ready to be included in a command line sensor. To keep it simple I’ll use the same …

Your problems probably stem from the fact that the shell_command runs inside the Home Assistant container while you are testing your commands outside of it.