How to run Open Thread Border router on another machine.
I know a small number of people have been interested in this.
Typically this is needed if you don't run haos or your haos machine/vm is a place thats not idea for radios for things like thread / zwave / zigbee
For example i run my haos VM in my lab at one end of the house, but i have a rPi powered by PoE in the center of the house for zwave / zigbee / matter
There are two options for this scenario:
- run OTBR add-on on your proxmox machine and use the network function to connect to where you have the skyconnect and ser2net container (i was using this)
- run OTBR add-on on your remote node (rPi in my case) and have the OTBR integration connect to it, removing the ser2net (or equivalent) from the equation - that is what this post is about.
The basic overal configuration is documented here https://github.com/orgs/openthread/discussions/10311#discussioncomment-14076944 and i would like to thank the openthread team and all the people on that question thread who helped get this working. Hope this helps someone.
Posted Aug 12, 2025, 5:44 PM UTC
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