I have the Matter integration enabled, and I have the matter-server container running. I would like to rename the home from "Matter Test Home" to something else. Nothing in the data directory appears to be relevant, and web searching has come up dry. Am I missing something?
#How to rename Matter Test Home?
limpid vault
feral kindle
Running Matter as container is not a supported and certified installation route. So the answer is simple; if you dont want it to display Matter Test (instead of Home Assistant) you need to run the officially certified matter server, which is HAOS + Matter add-on.
limpid vault
That's a simple answer to a different question that I didn't ask. Using the matter-server container and the Matter integration, how do I change the name of the home?
feral kindle
You can't if you are not running the official add-on, sorry.
Matter Test = name of the uncertified fallback org name
Home = name of your HA instance.
So what you can do is in HA settings change the name of home to something else, so it would become "Matter Test something else" but you cant get rid of Matter Test.
limpid vault
Where is the uncertified fallback org name defined?
(I'm asking because I'm not sure if it's in HA or in the matter-server container)
The only references in the python-matter-server repository are in the tests so they're not quite right.
feral kindle
Where is the uncertified fallback org name defined?
CSA
Its the name of the test vendor id
This is not a freeform name but part of the certification and trust process
feral kindle
The official certified addon starts with the nabucasa vendor id, but that is not allowed for a random docker container ofc so it falls back to the test vendor. Ofcourse you can just use another vendor id if you want but it will still not be customizable.
limpid vault
It's possible I may be facing an XY problem, where I'm asking for one thing but needing another. What I'm hoping to do is replicate the functionality I see with Apple Home and Lutron where I can name the home whatever I want, in order to differentiate between multiple homes, and I'm not sure how to do this here. Are you saying that if I happened to be running HAOS + Matter add-on, instead of the container approach, that I could arbitrarily rename the home?
limpid vault
Right but if I understand you correctly, I'm limited to Matter Test This and Matter Test That, not something like Production or Monkey
feral kindle
correct
limpid vault
That's somewhat disappointing, but it's only visible when I add devices so far so it's not too heartbreaking
feral kindle
so you can make it matter Test PROD and Matter Test BLAH
feral kindle
That's somewhat disappointing, but it's only visible when I add devices so far s...
Yes, its just a identifier under the hood.
Nothing user facing
limpid vault
I think I will get over it, then, since it's nothing users will see
Thank you for the detailed explanation
feral kindle
you're welcome
For the record, if you were running the official addon you would have the same issue
limpid vault
Weird that it looks like a single HAOS can't manage multiple Matter homes
Right I was guessing that based on what you said
feral kindle
but then it would be NabuCasa PROD and NabuCasa BLAH
feral kindle
Weird that it looks like a single HAOS can't manage multiple Matter homes
Correct, its single instance.
feral kindle
Wait no, it would manage both
Matter itself can be multi admin so you can connect multiple HA instances to one device but you cant run multiple matter controllers/instances in one HA
But I guess you ar etalking about multiple HA instances here
limpid vault
Yeah, I've taken advantage of that to access some devices from HA that were originally added to Apple Home