Hi all,
Trying to convert my ZBDongle-E to openthread and have had a hell of a time.
Flashed with the sonoff webbased flasher to OpenThread 2.4.4
Connected to HA Green via the bottom USB port (w/ extension)
Installed add-on OpenThread Boarder Router 2.14.0
Config -
device: >-
/dev/serial/by-id/usb-Itead_Sonoff_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_V2_74e66b868bc2ef1180b0c3138148b910-if00-port0
baudrate: “460800”
flow_control: true
otbr_log_level: notice
firewall: true
nat64: false
Boot fail log
Add-on: OpenThread Border Router
OpenThread Border Router add-on
Add-on version: 2.14.0
You are running the latest version of this add-on.
System: Home Assistant OS 16.2 (aarch64 / green)
Home Assistant Core: 2025.10.3
Home Assistant Supervisor: 2025.10.0
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s6-rc: info: service banner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service otbr-agent: starting
[20:58:08] INFO: Setup OTBR firewall…
[20:58:09] INFO: Starting otbr-agent…
[NOTE]-AGENT—: Running 0.3.0-b067e5ac-dirty
[NOTE]-AGENT—: Thread version: 1.3.0
[NOTE]-AGENT—: Thread interface: wpan0
[NOTE]-AGENT—: Radio URL: spinel+hdlc+uart:///dev/serial/by-id/usb-Itead_Sonoff_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_V2_74e66b868bc2ef1180b0c3138148b910-if00-port0?uart-baudrate=460800&uart-flow-control
[NOTE]-AGENT—: Radio URL: trel://end0
[NOTE]-ILS-----: Infra link selected: end0
49d.21:58:41.431 [W] P-SpinelDrive-: Wait for response timeout
49d.21:58:43.433 [W] P-SpinelDrive-: Wait for response timeout
49d.21:58:45.436 [W] P-SpinelDrive-: Wait for response timeout
49d.21:58:45.436 [C] Platform------: Init() at spinel_driver.cpp:83: Failure
49d.21:58:47.438 [W] P-SpinelDrive-: Wait for response timeout
[20:58:47] WARNING: otbr-agent exited with code 1 (by signal 0).
I’ve tried reflashing the dongle, reinstalling openthread, changing pretty much every setting (not baudrate come to think of it)
I’ve tried to do a search on the topic but haven’t come to anything that I can make work for me.
Cheers.