Unable to change keymap when directly connected to host

[friggeri]

Describe the issue you are experiencing

I have a keyboard and small monitor plugged into the NUC on which I run Home Assistant OS (that way I can directly use the CLI in the event I have a networking issue). Unfortunately there seems to be no way of selecting the keyboard layout.

The OS is built with loadkmap enabled and I have confirmed that I can manually load a new keymap by logging into the host system and running loadkmap < mykeymap.bmap.

Unfortunately this does not persist across reboots. Is there any way of making this configurable? Alternatively, as a short term fix, is there a way to get the OS to execute the above command on startup?

What operating system image do you use?

generic-x86-64 (Generic UEFI capable x86-64 systems)

What version of Home Assistant Operating System is installed?

7.4

Did you upgrade the Operating System.

Yes

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Plug AZERTY keyboard,
2. Type A
3. See Q

Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?

n/a

Anything in the Host logs that might be useful for us?

n/a

System Health information

No response

Additional information

No response

[agners]

Don't think it was the intention to make that possible really. The console is only meant for debugging.

[friggeri]

Totally get that, it's pretty hard to debug when what you type on the keyboard does not match what shows up on the screen though

[friggeri]

@agners an easy workaround would be to enable users to customize /root/.profile in a way similar to the way it works for /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

Would you be open to that?

[agners]

Is the busybox shell evaluating that by default?

I guess that would be one of the simplest approach to archive your goal.

I still feel its not worth the effort. How many times do you need to use the console, and even when, is it that big of a deal to use the US keyboard layout?

[friggeri]

Yes, ash is run as a login shell here so it will read /etc/profile/ and /root/.profile.

And sure, it's not one of those things that happens a lot, but it would really increase my quality of life (and I guess at least one other person).

I'm happy to send over a PR!

[warlordattack]

I am fighting with Hyper-V HA OS.
I swithed from docker container to hyper-v because no Add-ons store in docker

I try to debug DNS problems :
Logger: async_upnp_client.ssdp
Source: /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/async_upnp_client/ssdp.py:255
First occurred: 14:34:52 (20 occurrences)
Last logged: 14:52:52
Received error: [Errno 101] Network unreachable, transport: <_SelectorDatagramTransport fd=19 read=polling write=<idle, bufsize=0>>

My Addon-store is infinite spin.

And i need add trusted proxies in configuration.yaml (HA OS acces from the web via proxy) :
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/unable-to-connect-to-home-assistant-via-nginx-reverse-proxy/382937/3

No way to install vs-code becose no store access,
no way to edit configuration.yaml

I am stuck in command line, and i am french, so i have fu**ing french keyboard,
and no way to change keyboard to french !

All non english planet needs this !
Please do something.

And no way to copy-paste text from main PC to hyperv HA OS command line.

[Fredyy90]

any update on this issue?
I just ran into the same issue, can't debug, as keyboad input and on screen characters don't match

[precchia]

Pinging to see if there is any update on this issue?
I do not own an US keyboard either, and it is pretty frustrating when trying to access the console.

[frederickjh]

is it that big of a deal to use the US keyboard layout?

To make a touch typist to have to "hen peck" the keyboard, is a big deal, especially in a situation where you just want to concentrate on debugging not finding the next key to hit in the correct order.

We have a menu item to configure audio and several other items. There should really by a keyboard or keymap menu item in the cil to configure the keyboard layout. This issue is not the only one that has been opened for this. Others have been closed.

[frederickjh]

If the command to change the keyboard was to get added to the cli then this issues should get moved to home-assistant/cli.

[n4w4k]

What would be the simplest way to fix that? I do not want to create an insane amount of work for that, so I don't need a "pretty" way to do it, I'd be happy to manually edit files to make it work!

But as of now, not only is there no install-time option or GUI option for this, but since the filesystem is read-only for the most part, we can't even upload our own keymap and add a .profile command...

Those saying that it's not a big deal should really try using a CLI with another layout, and tell us their experience afterwards !
When you are in the CLI, it's because you are already struggling with something, there is no need to add another layer of frustration !

[bartplessers]

+1
ability to change keyboard layout will be much appreciated!