External API (library, dbus, socket, something else)

[caipiblack]

Hi,

We would like to control the openthread network from our software (connect/create network, execute some diag functions, ...).

Currently we start the network using external script that execute ot-ctl commands, we would like to know if there are another API's available.

We found DBUS API but is there something else ?

• Library ?
• Socket ?
• Something else ?

Do you have any documentation about it ?

Also I would like to know if it is possible to know which devices are connected on the thread network ? (not just the childs of the current router (border router))

• I know that the border router have mDNS feature on ethernet side, but it can't be used for this because it have some cache, so a device can be present in the list without being connected.

Also I have questions about the topology graph:

• How is it possible to generate a topology graph using ot-ctl commands ?
• And is it possible to know the child of another router ? How it works ?
• How the border router know the childs connected to another router ?

I know about ot-ctl router table and ot-ctl child table commands but for me it's not clear if it display all the childs or only the childs of the current router. And how it realy works "behind".

[ihidchaos]

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