URL for open thread board router integration

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I followed this guide to setup my sky connect as a thread board router Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1

I can see the device but the integration isn’t set up. It is asking for a URL but I’m not sure we’re to find it?

I have read in a few places that it is http://homeassistant.local:8081 but I already have something else running on that port.

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Go to your OpenThread Border Router addon and select the configuration page and then click the Show disabled ports.
Now change the port to something else, save and restart the addon.

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Excellent thank you

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Well yhis dont work. So stop lying as to what the rest api url is. I dont have a iphone or other hacking device. I want the url too and its not documented anywhere. Will someone be honest and tell us people where this url is for open thread borders. All i find is lies.

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I’m curious too, I don’t get why it’s such a hidden thing. Like I flashed the stick with the Thread firmware manually on the website, now when I add the integration it asks for a url? Huh??

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The URL is not a hidden thing. The URL is what your Thread dongle is set up to use.
Since that can be individually configured, then it is impossible to say what it is.

If you have connected USB dongle directly to HAOS/HA Supervised, then the serial port should be enough.

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Using the OTBR AddOn (on HAOS) as the example, what generally happens, is the OTBR AddOn boots up and sends discovery information to the HA OTBR Integration.

From the OTBR AddOn Log:

[13:15:56] INFO: Successfully sent discovery information to Home Assistant.
s6-rc: info: service otbr-agent-rest-discovery successfully started

Through magical means through various HA Integrations, this is indeed hidden to the user, and the OTBR Integration is suppose to also auto-discover the URL without having to have user tell it.

This URL is what the OTBR Integration uses to talk to the OTBR AddOn’s REST API port. For the OTBR AddOn, this is normally:http://core-openthread-border-router:8081. If you goto the OTBR AddOn’s Info web page you’ll see there is a “hostname” core-openthread-border-router. It is this hostname that is used in the URL. BTW, if you are using multiprotocol (which is no longer recommended) it would be: core-silabs-multiprotocol:8081.

If your OTBR Integration is popping up a box asking you to supply a URL, it is probably because it didn’t auto-discover a URL, or whatever URL it has it tried to contact the OTBR but it failed. The main purpose of having to manually enter a URL is for cases where someone has rolled their own OTBR.