I’m all for saving time and taking shortcuts. When you first start to get into Home Assistant, you’ll be logging into your command prompt using Putty a lot. Here is a simple shortcut that will automatically log you into your Raspberry Pi.
- Right click on the Putty.exe program and click “Create Shortcut”
- Right click on the shortcut you created and click “Properties”
- In the “Target” field, you should see your path to Putty.exe, at the end of that you can insert the following:
USER@RP_IP_ADDRESS -pw YOURPASSWORD
You will need to fill in your own information in the areas that are in all caps. The default user for a Raspberry Pi is “pi” and the default password is “raspberry”. If you have not done so already, please consider changing your default password.
I’ve provided a full example of the target field below.
C:\putty.exe pi@192.168.1.102 -pw hunter2