yes that did the trick! Able to set the temperature from hassio and all other features from hassio.
One last question and then I will stop bothering you 
Will this be sorted by hassio anytime soon so this is unnecessary. For example in a month or two when the official release of hassio gets released for the raspberrypi 3b+ you may not get access to a Linux terminal?
Thanks for all your help in getting me up and running.