CHIP/Matter Adapter

[benfrancis]

Starting an issue to discuss creating a CHIP (Connected Home over IP) adapter.

Starting points:

• CHIP GitHub repo
  • Source
    • Controller API
    • Android CHIP demo app
  • Documentation
    • CHIP TLV (Lightweight JSON-like encoding format for structured data)
  • Examples
    • chip-tool (example CHIP client)
    • shell (example CHIP shell)

[mrstegeman]

Moving to the addon-list repo...

[rzr]

Hi I also have interest into CHIP,
FYI, I sent a (trivial) patch to see how open is its community and it was merged.

[benfrancis]

As far as I know there's still no public specification of Matter available to implement, but if anyone finds one please report back here.

A working open source library that could form the basis of a Matter adapter add-on, which works with a publicly available hardware dongle, would be even better.

[benfrancis]

See also:

• Candle Matter adapter
• HomeAssistant Python Matter server
• Official Matter SDK

Ideally we can build directly on the SDK. We could re-use HomeAssistant's server like the Candle adapter is doing but we'd be bridging from one WebSocket subprotocol to another which isn't as efficient. One approach could be to fork HomeAssistant's server and change the WebSocket sub-protocol it exposes to the WebThings Gateway add-on IPC sub-protocol.

[benfrancis]

See also (for Ubuntu/Ubuntu Core):

• Matter on Ubuntu blog post
• Matter controller snap

[benfrancis]

Note that the Open Home Foundation Matter Server (AKA the HomeAssistant Python Matter server) now has Matter certification.