Beginners • Totally new user having trouble using SSH command.

Hi folks,

I purchased a Raspberry Pi 5 and a PiDog robot kit. I'm working on building it while watching the video. I've got the Raspberry Pi Imager installed and written the image to the SD card. I'm at the point where I insert the SD card into the Pi 5 and try to load the data onto it. The video says to use Windows PowerShell and type the command ssh name@hostname.local. Every time I try it, I get this message:

SSH : The term 'SSH' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

I'm stumped, and would appreciate some help.

Thank you!

Statistics: Posted by jpollman — Sun Jun 07, 2026 3:22 am

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