Native Install

View source on GitHub

Get OTBR code

On Raspberry Pi:

  1. Install git: 

    sudo apt install git

  2. Clone ot-br-posix from GitHub:

    git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openthread/ot-br-posix

Build and install OTBR

OTBR has two scripts that bootstrap and set up the Thread Border Router:

cd ot-br-posix
./script/bootstrap
INFRA_IF_NAME=wlan0 ./script/setup

OTBR works on both a Thread interface and infrastructure network interface (e.g. Wi-Fi/Ethernet) which is specified with INFRA_IF_NAME. The Thread interface is created by OTBR itself and named wpan0 by default and the infrastructure interface has a default value of wlan0 if INFRA_IF_NAME is not explicitly specified. If your Raspberry Pi is connected by an Ethernet cable, specify the Ethernet interface name (e.g. eth0):

INFRA_IF_NAME=eth0 ./script/setup

Verify that the otbr-agent service is active:

sudo service otbr-agent status
● otbr-agent.service - Border Router Agent
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/otbr-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-03-01 05:46:26 GMT; 2s ago
 Main PID: 2997 (otbr-agent)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/otbr-agent.service
           └─2997 /usr/sbin/otbr-agent -I wpan0 -B wlan0 spinel+hdlc+uart:///dev/ttyACM0

Mar 01 05:46:26 raspberrypi otbr-agent[2997]: Stop publishing service
Mar 01 05:46:26 raspberrypi otbr-agent[2997]: [adproxy] Stopped
Mar 01 05:46:26 raspberrypi otbr-agent[2997]: PSKc is not initialized
Mar 01 05:46:26 raspberrypi otbr-agent[2997]: Check if PSKc is initialized: OK
Mar 01 05:46:26 raspberrypi otbr-agent[2997]: Initialize OpenThread Border Router Agent: OK
Mar 01 05:46:26 raspberrypi otbr-agent[2997]: Border router agent started.
Mar 01 05:46:26 raspberrypi otbr-agent[2997]: [INFO]-CORE----: Notifier: StateChanged (0x00038200) [NetData PanId NetName ExtPanId]
Mar 01 05:46:26 raspberrypi otbr-agent[2997]: [INFO]-PLAT----: Host netif is down
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