Man, I’m hoping someone can help as I’m pulling my hair out…
I am trying to set up a new ZBT-1 as an OTBR in Home Assistant. I followed the instructions here for a new Connect ZBT-1.
The process appears to have partially succeeded, in that OpenThread has been installed, and I have an OpenThread-based border router. HOWEVER, I don’t have a preferred network (see below).
On my IOS companion App I try to make that my Preferred Network via “Send credentials to Home Assistant” in the integration. It fails saying Error: No preferred network found.
From your posted image the OTBR #92DF should have a (i) symbol which means it has credentials, and it should have a “3-dots” which gives you a way to set it as the “preferred network”. I don’t see either in the image, so it probably means your HA is only getting mDNS advertisements from your OTBR and not actually communicating with the API socket to your OTBR. If this is the case and you are using HAOS based HA, then it is difficult to tell why this is happening. I can only suggest you reboot the entire system and see if those symbols show up.
This technique is generally used say when you have an Apple based Thread network and you have already used your iPhone to add devices to that Apple network (and thus the iOS device has the Apple Thread credentials), and HA sees this Apple network but doesn’t have its Thread credentials; then you would have your iOS HA Companion App “Send Credentials to HA” as a way for HA to get those Apple Thread credentials. Most likely your iOS device does not have any Thread credentials, and thus why you are getting that error. Since you only have one Thread network (HA’s OTBR), then don’t use the “Send Credentials to HA”.
I’m now struggling to to add a thread over matter device. I’ll do some looking around and will post a new question if I don’t find a answer, but on the chance you might have some insight, here’s what I’m seeing…My attempts to add as a new device (through the companion app via QR scan and manual code entry) have all failed. I was, however, able to add it through the indirect path of first adding to Apple Home, then putting into pairing mode, then adding through the companion app.
