Changing the crontab editor in Home Assistant SSH terminal
Here is how to change the default editor on an Home Assistant OS installation. When you SSH to a Linux machine and want to edit crontab, there is an environmental variable which decided which text editor to use. I personally like to use nano as the editor. On my Home Assistant I have set up the SSH Web Terminal for terminal access to the system. After connecting with an SSH client (such as PuTTY ) one can edit crontab with the command: crontab -e The default editor for HA OS seems to be vim(?). In order to quit editing the crontab with vim, press ESC and then :q and press enter. Now to change the editor. Edit the .zshrc file: nano ~/.zshrc Add the following line to .zshrc: export EDITOR='nano' Exit nano by pressing Ctrl-X and then selecting Yes to save modified file. You can then try which editor opens when you again type: crontab -e