OTBR Web service is not started?

[olavt]

I'm following the steps here: https://openthread.io/guides/border-router/build to install OTBR on a Raspberry Pi 4.

At step 5 where one issue the command "sudo systemctl status" the documentation mentions that the otbr-web.service should be started. This not the case for my 2 attempts do perform this.

[EskoDijk]

The sudo systemctl status is to check the status of all servies. Did you mean 2 attempts to perform all the steps (1-4) ?
If otbr-web.service wasn't started, did you try the final bit in step 5:

otbr-web is enabled by default for most platforms
If otbr-web is not installed, try passing the WEB_GUI flag:
....

[olavt]

I wasn't aware that the WEB_GUI flag wasn't on by default. I have later been made aware that one need to set that flag.

[jwhui]

I believe the default for WEB_GUI is 1 for all the example platforms:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenthread%2Fot-br-posix+WEB_GUI+path%3A%2F%5Eexamples%5C%2Fplatforms%5C%2F%2F&type=code

Maybe the setup scripts are not properly capturing your platform?

[olavt]

Not sure. I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspberry Pi OS (latest).

[araemo]

I ran into the same problem on my pi 4 with RasPi OS.

Fixes were:
add WEB_GUI=1 to bootstrap and setup commands:

WEB_GUI=1 ./script/bootstrap
INFRA_IF_NAME=eth0 WEB_GUI=1 ./script/setup