I have recently procured couple of E27 matter bulbs to experiment with open source matter controller CHIP-TOOL built from https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip. It seems that the bulb can only be set-up with predefined hubs from Alexa, Apple, Google. Can anybody please help me how to commission these bulbs directly from CHIP-TOOL software running in a laptop. In particular how to get the commissioning parameters (PIN, discriminator) of the bulbs as mentioned here: https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/blob/master/docs/guides/chip_tool_guide.md?
Can anybody please help me how to commission these bulbs directly from CHIP-TOOL software running in a laptop.
Not possible. The bulbs use Matter over Thread. You need an OpenThread Border Router:
https://github.com/openthread
Besides you need a Thread radio like Home Assistants SkyConnect.
Maybe you want to give Home Assistant OS a try:
It’s Open Source and Matter over Thread already works. But it’s considered experimental to use the SkyConnect with Multiprotocol firmware. The SkyConnect can be used for ZigBee and Thread at the same time. The Home Assistant devs recommend to use an Apple only or a Google only Thread network. That way you can also make use of TREL.
You need Home Assistant OS. The other installation types are not supported at the moment. They patched the kernel and the network manager of HAOS. If you do not know what to do, you will run into issues.
