You will need to explicitly load HostKeys

I get this error tryining to connect:

Connecting to 5.XX.XX.XX…
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\RemoteTree\pysftp_init_.py:61: UserWarning: Failed to load HostKeys from C:\Users\username.ssh\known_hosts. You will need to explicitly load HostKeys (cnopts.hostkeys.load(filename)) or disableHostKey checking (cnopts.hostkeys = None).
warnings.warn(wmsg, UserWarning)
Exception: Error reading SSH protocol banner

[stardeltapower]

Hi, I've got exactly the same issue.

Unable to connect to XXXXXX
Connecting to XXXXXX…
Exception: Error reading SSH protocol banner
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\RemoteTree-master\paramiko\transport.py", line 1952, in _check_banner
buf = self.packetizer.readline(timeout)
File "C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\RemoteTree-master\paramiko\packet.py", line 354, in readline
buf += self._read_timeout(timeout)
File "C:\Users\Ryan Smith\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\RemoteTree-master\paramiko\packet.py", line 547, in _read_timeout
raise socket.timeout()
socket.timeout

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\RemoteTree-master\paramiko\transport.py", line 1805, in run
self._check_banner()
File "C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\RemoteTree-master\paramiko\transport.py", line 1957, in _check_banner
'Error reading SSH protocol banner' + str(e)
paramiko.ssh_exception.SSHException: Error reading SSH protocol banner

Unable to connect to XXXXXX