HA Thread

Matter setup:

  • Installed in venv at /srv/matter
  • data directory is /home/homeassistant/.matter
  • ln -s /home/homeassistant/.matter/data /data
  • chown homeassistant:homeassistant /data
  • (for some reason, CHIP insits on using that directory)

systemd unit (/etc/systemd/system/matter.service) python3 -m matter_server.server –log-level debug –storage-path /home/homeassistant/.matter –paa-root-cert-dir /home/homeassistant/.matter/credentials

[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant Matter Server
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/srv/matter/.venv/bin/matter-server --storage-path /home/homeassistant/.matter --paa-root-cert-dir /home/homeassistant/.matter/credentials
WorkingDirectory=/srv/matter
Environment="PATH=/srv/matter/.venv/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/home/homeassistant/.local/bin"
User=homeassistant
Group=homeassistant
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

We also need a syctl file:

#Matter needs to accept RA route advertisements for Thread to work properly
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen=64

Open Thread Border Router:⌗

followed https://openthread.io/codelabs/openthread-border-router#1 need to add WEB_GUI=1 before bootstrap and setup (it’s not the default on Debian)