OpenThread Border Router Network device only configuration could not be saved

[drstil]

Describe the issue you are experiencing

I want to create a OpenThread Border Router with a Smlight SLZB-06M stick via ethernet on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. I have no serial device attached, so in the configuration of the Add-On nothing is shown under Device. But I set the connection as a Network Device. When I want to save the settings I got the following error message:

Fehler beim Speichern der Add-on Konfiguration, Missing required option 'device' in OpenThread Border Router (core_openthread_border_router). Got {'device': None, 'baudrate': '460800', 'flow_control': False, 'autoflash_firmware': False, 'otbr_log_level': 'notice', 'firewall': True, 'nat64': False, 'network_device': '192.168.1.107:6638'}

This is the configuration I want to save in YAML.

device: null
baudrate: "460800"
flow_control: false
autoflash_firmware: false
otbr_log_level: notice
firewall: true
nat64: false
network_device: 192.168.1.107:6638

How could I use this Add-On with an only ethernet bound device?

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Which operating system are you running on?

Home Assistant Operating System

Which add-on are you reporting an issue with?

OpenThread Border Router

What is the version of the add-on?

2.6.0

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Do. not attach any serial device to your HA Hardware.
2. Configure OpenThread Border Router with network device.
3. Save the configuration.

System Health information

System Information

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timezone	Europe/Berlin
config_dir	/config

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Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Anything in the add-on logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

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[Sam01101101]

Also interested in this, I dont believe this is possible yet.

The OTB add on in HA is the rest API, the SLZB-06M is a coordinator which is required by the add on.

[tl-sl]

The addon works with SLZB-06M connected over network. However documentation was only just updated recently
https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/blob/master/openthread_border_router/DOCS.md

For it to work:

• You need to select a dummy device from the list of serial ports (doesnt matter which as this setting gets overwritten at runtime, with the network settings)
• You need to make sure to set baudrate to 460800 on the ZHA/Z2M page of slzb-06m SMLIGHT web ui

[drstil]

The addon works with SLZB-06M connected over network. However documentation was only just updated recently https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/blob/master/openthread_border_router/DOCS.md

For it to work:

• You need to select a dummy device from the list of serial ports (doesnt matter which as this setting gets overwritten at runtime, with the network settings)
• You need to make sure to set baudrate to 460800 on the ZHA/Z2M page of slzb-06m SMLIGHT web ui

I have no other real/dummy device than only this stick. And it works correctly over ethernet, if the stick is still attached to my hardware by USB/Serial. But I have to detach it to have it at another location, but then there is no device anymore.
Is there a way to somehow simulate a serial device for this case?

[tl-sl]

How do you run HA? On both HAOS and Supervised, you should have a bunch of ports like /dev/ttyS1?

[drstil]

How do you run HA? On both HAOS and Supervised, you should have a bunch of ports like /dev/ttyS1?

Only HAOS on Raspberry Pi 3+. Here is my device list:

When I go into the HA Docker container, I got a lot more (but not in the device list of the thread router):

[tl-sl]

Not reaally sure about this, but do you have advanced mode enabled under your user settings? perhaps that is hiding them in the UI?

[drstil]

Not reaally sure about this, but do you have advanced mode enabled under your user settings? perhaps that is hiding them in the UI?

Yes, I have enabled the advanced mode:

[tl-sl]

Not sure then, why they are not showing.

[drstil]

Do you know how the addon is getting the device list? With which code, so that we could check if there is maybe some kind of setting/restriction?

[tl-sl]

not exactly, it would be handled via the supervisor API I guess:

addons/openthread_border_router/config.yaml

Line 40 in fd92775

device: device(subsystem=tty)

From a quick look there is an example of device filtering in the Supervisor tests:

https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor/blob/130efd340c312657c699e3bdcd66a55eb51a0db6/tests/hardware/test_module.py#L127

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[drstil]

Any news here? Is there a way to disable/skip device check when 'Network Device' is selected?

[tl-sl]

no its not possible to disable the device check, due to the hack used to make the device setting visible even when it is unused.