OpenThread Border Router in Home Assistant
otbr
part of Home Assistant since 2023.2
OpenThread Border Router is an official Home Assistant integration for Other. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Installations
- 35,485 (5.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Other
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/core
- Python packages
python-otbr-api==3.0.0
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for OpenThread Border Router.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Matching add-ons
Add-ons that declare a connection to this integration in their own configuration.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 4 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for OpenThread Border Router in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.3.2.
Open
- open Reported problem #175489
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.3.2 Bug fix #165298
- fixed in 2025.10.2 Bug fix #153940 Affects: Silabs series 2 router
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 14, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration