I am running the Open Thread Border Router container (not the add-on) but the web ui doesn't really work when I try to look at details about my thread network. Integrations with HA work fine, and I can even use the CLI to get details about the network, but was wondering if there was some alternate UI for Thread networks out there (not impressed with what I have seen so far with what was incuded with the OTBR).
#Thread UI
potent walrus
potent walrus
Seems the javascript is trying to access a wrong port in the OTBR UI
feral heath
otbr uses two ports, one for the ui and one for the api. some operations in the ui will make requests to the api port.
it's likely that a better otbr visualization/monitor will end up be built into home asistant itself at some point, interacting with otbr via its api.
potent walrus
Yah seems the rest api might be inaccessable or the port isn't set properly
potent walrus
Wow, finally got the topology page working it working and it's horrible. Really hope someone comes up with an alternative... the Z2m UI is so great compared to this
I wish I knew more about thread networks, I'm sure I could come up with something in a few days of work
feral heath
If you want to play around with the available data a bit, assuming you've enabled the rest api port, http://homeassistant.local:8081/diagnostics will dump a bunch of interesting information as json. (note that the api endpoint and data format is expected to change when the otbr addon is updated to thread 1.4)
it's also possible to run ot-ctl inside the container and it has some useful diagnostic commands. Start by running debug which will just dump out everything the otbr knows :)
potent walrus
Yah, I have been using ot-ctl and it meets my needs, but just discouraged by the discrepency of how polished Zigbee infrastructure is compared to Thread... although I did have to reboot just now because of failing Zigbee infra 🤷