OTBR in docker - Failed to connect? | Home Assistant | Page 1

autumn sandal Sep 21, 2023, 6:46 PM

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I'm only getting the "Failed to connect" message, and I'm unable to find any documentation which could help me point to what I'm doing wrong

fiery wyvern Sep 21, 2023, 6:46 PM

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Are you using the upstream docker image?

autumn sandal Sep 21, 2023, 6:47 PM

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Yes

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  # OpenThread Border Router
  otbr:
    container_name: otbr
    image: openthread/otbr:latest
    privileged: yes
#      - IPC_LOCK
#      - NET_ADMIN
    sysctls:
      - net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0
      - net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1
      - net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
    ports:
      - 20180:80
    dns:
      - 127.0.0.1
    volumes:
      - /dev/ttyAMA1:/dev/ttyAMA1
    command:
      - --radio-url
      - spinel+hdlc+uart:///dev/ttyAMA1

fiery wyvern Sep 21, 2023, 6:48 PM

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The otbr integration is written for the OTBR builds that are packaged for HAOS

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There are eg at least 3 patches to the REST API in this one https://github.com/home-assistant/addons-development/tree/master/openthread_border_router

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While not probably the root cause of the error, what you are doing is hard mode and multiple steps away from working

autumn sandal Sep 21, 2023, 6:50 PM

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…that should probably be documented somewhere, none of the documentation implies upstream won't work, or even mentions any patches

fiery wyvern Sep 21, 2023, 6:51 PM

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Ive seen core members say that running this stack without haos is not supported

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Because there are so many moving pieces

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Haos even carries kernel patches to make thread work reliably

autumn sandal Sep 21, 2023, 6:51 PM

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…thread radio on the yellow is a dud then.

fiery wyvern Sep 21, 2023, 6:52 PM

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I thought the yellow was designed for the appliance use case (ie haos)

autumn sandal Sep 21, 2023, 6:53 PM

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…or just a Pi with a M.2 slot and integrated Thread/ZigBee radio?

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My main reason for switching to the Yellow was getting rid of the noisy USB3 SSD for a M.2 disk in stead, and also the nice case. The Thread/ZigBee radio was a nice bonus, but I've already got a ZigBee stick running with zigbee2mqtt, so I figured it'd be fun to get started with Thread, as the ESP32-C6 looks interesting, and getting it, and the nRF52 chips connected and working ESPHome would've been fun

fiery wyvern Sep 21, 2023, 7:08 PM

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I’m sorry that isn’t going to work out for you. Right now (from watching discord, I’m no better off than you other than having been in this channel for a year, I’m not staff) the preference is to run thread from HomePods or the google equivalent. The (not stock) thread firmware for the SkyConnect and Yellow being “preview” or experimental.

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There are patches for the kernel, network manager, OTBR, etc. many of these have been sent upstream but eg no one even acked the network manager ones yet.

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None haos systems running systemd-networkd may have thread problems too. And none-systemd, none-network-manager systems need to have kernels built with certain ipv6 features. And sysctls fiddled with.

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Because of all of that and not being Apple or google in terms of dev power the priority seems to be haos

autumn sandal Sep 21, 2023, 8:14 PM

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I would've been quite content with a warning on the integration page, pointing at the patches, because currently the docs don't mention any special requirements other than an "open thread border router"

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That would've pointed me in the right direction, or saved me from wasting time on even attempting.

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