IKEA Grillplats and Home Assistant Green

So, I went shopping at the IKEA and ran into some really neat home automation gadgets. The Grillplats plug especially interested me as I would like to track power consumption of devices, and I did not yet find a good solution for that. One impulse buy later I was home with my new Grillplats plug. Of course I did a quick google search in the store to see if it was compatible with home assistant, and I found some articles explaining how to add it to your setup. So I was unworried when I started tinkering. That soon changed. It turns out that one requires a Thread border router for these devices. Of course IKEA sells them, but would I rather no add another device to my network. Home Assistant it self has a connector that can be used, the connect zbt-2, which just plugs into the USB port of my Home Assistant Green. I bought the ZBT-2 and connected it. Followed the instructions on screen and configured it for Threads. This is a well thought out integration. And that is it, right? No. Here…