Maybe old news to you but I discovered last week that all my Matter over Thread devices have a few disabled entities in Home Assistant, those are:
Thread channel
Thread network name
Thread routing role
I felt it was good to enable them so I could create a dashboard with my rooms and matter over thread devices where I could see which devices takes which role. It is also saved in the log so by incorporating the log into the dashboard I can see historically how devices switch roles in the thread network. It gives some really good insights I think.
Nice find! Just a heads-up: this is actually standard Home Assistant behavior and not specific to your devices. HA hides diagnostic entities by default so your system doesn’t get cluttered with data you usually don’t need for automation.
But setting up a dashboard for the Thread roles like you did is a really great idea for troubleshooting! Thanks for sharing.
You are right, thanks. I was not aware that for thread devices it shows the role of the device before so that was new to me and something that I think can be useful
