I'm running into some cyclical mesh crash / reform behavior. I'm not quite sure what is causing it, but I suspect the problem is the size of my mesh and distance to some outside edge routers. mostly inovelli switches. I have noticed some home-wide voltage drops to something like 115v at times during the day, and it occurs to me that might be a problem, but I'm leaning towards some kind of mesh/rf congestion. Is anyone using multiple HA greens as border routers running ZBT-1 radios to beef up a mesh? Is that even possible?
#multiple home assistant greens as border routers?
dense lagoon
tropic nova
115V shouldn't be an issue assuming you're talking about 120V nominal mains power
junior quarry
OK, there are multiple facettes to this:
a) Even if you could make use of the thread border router in the second Green, you have a full blown second HA now in your network. Make sure they won't interfere since they probably both are going to announce their services to your network.
b) HA Green is maybe an expensive TBR, if you use it only for that.
That said: What would be needed for this to work: Both BR should form a single Thread PAN. So you would have to control the second TBR from your main HA. For this the OpenThread Border Router integration exists, and it should be able to connect to more than one OTBR. What you would have to make sure is that the management API of the second OTBR is accessible from your network and not just locally inside your second HA. You might find something in the OTBR Add-on's configuration options.
You could of course check if the port is open by default. It's just REST probably on port 8081.
alpine oracle
tbh, adding more 1.3 otbr won't help much. You can add basic routers like Eve Plug, or Eve Outlet; or wait for more a powerful Thread 1.4 BR