# Node red inside Home assistant with Raspberry pi 3 sees GPIO pins as Not available or NA

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**Category:** Hardware\
**Tags:** home-assistant, gpio\
**Created:** [15 March 2023 14:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-inside-home-assistant-with-raspberry-pi-3-sees-gpio-pins-as-not-available-or-na/76600 "2023-03-15T14:33:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![aswathstorm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/aswathstorm/32/77561_2.png) [@aswathstorm](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aswathstorm)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2023 14:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-inside-home-assistant-with-raspberry-pi-3-sees-gpio-pins-as-not-available-or-na/76600/1 "2023-03-15T14:33:08Z")

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I have installed Home assistant in my Raspberry pi 3 and have add on Node red.

then in the Manage pallet installed "node-red-node-pi-gpio"

but after that if i use Gpio Out or In, i always see them as "Not applicable" or "NA"

no matter which tutorial i follow from youtube, for them its shows as OK or 0 or 1 but for me it always shows as NA

GPIO pins dont work for me

but i tried installing pure Raspian and wrote a small python script which successfully invokes the GPIO and eventually triggers the relay board switch.

but in Node red none of the GPIO pins work

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2023 14:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-inside-home-assistant-with-raspberry-pi-3-sees-gpio-pins-as-not-available-or-na/76600/2 "2023-03-15T14:43:25Z")

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Home Assistant installs Node-RED inside a container so it doesn't have full access to the host hardware. You may need to consult the HA forum folk to see if they offer a way to enable access. The other way is to install Node-RED direct on the Pi without using HA.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [14 May 2023 14:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-inside-home-assistant-with-raspberry-pi-3-sees-gpio-pins-as-not-available-or-na/76600/3 "2023-05-14T14:43:34Z")

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