SSH with Home Assistant OS

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi,

Please excuse the fact I know I am posting about something there are already multiple threads about, but I am a little stumped and I think this crosses two topics. Also, I am new to HA; new Pi 4 build imaged with Home Assistant OS, with RaspBee II and Z-Wave dongle.

I have SSH working for both the software install (22) and the supervisor (22222), however when I “login” to the supervisor I don’t get the usual functions (such as sudo, apt-get) because I read they are not available to the Home Assistant OS image install method.

I want to get Bluetooth Tracker LE, and a couple of other add-ons working but I don’t see how I can do so when I am unable to run the commands needed and install the additional packages required.

Am I stuck and I don’t know what options I have, aside from restarting and dockerising HASS.IO on top of a Debian install on my PI 4.

Any helpful suggestions, or pointing to links (I have already read loads of threads but I may have missed key ones or even posts within them) are welcome.

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You don’t need those commands, you don’t need to install anything, and even if you could install those things it wouldn’t help :wink: HA runs in a Docker container, so installing packages on the host does nothing.

On your install method (or any Docker based install), integrations work without any package installs.

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Thank you, I just added the Bluetooth LE tracker to my config and it appears to be tracking devices which I define.

I do have another issue, I setup LetsEncrypt SSL and it succesfully created the certificates. However I can’t get external access working even once forwarded through my firewall, if I disable SSL it works find. This is my config:

email: [email protected]
domains:
  - xxxxxxxxxx.ddns.ms
certfile: fullchain.pem
keyfile: privkey.pem
challenge: http
dns: {}
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Update http to use the certificate and key, run a command line config check, and if it passes restart Home Assistant.

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