Hello, I had a few bulbs and ZigBee plugs but I bought matter over wifi bulbs. I was thinking of using the 2 protocols with the same sonoff dongle e.
So I was trying to install multipan container with no luck, and I even flashed my dongle with firmware for it.
Just moments ago I was informed that multiprotocol will be deprecated.
What dongle do you suggest for matter use?
And if using dongle e for ZigBee and another for matter only what containers will I need for the second dongle?
It's a basic question i know, but I would appreciate your suggestions.
#What dongle to use with matter?
junior cipher
snow barn
matter over wifi bulbs?
you don't need any dongle for that, they connect to your wifi
you will need the matter server, which is available either for HAOS as the "Matter Server" add-on (recommended) or running python-matter-server yourself (kinda difficult to set up due to the complexities of matter networking, and you won't get much support)
cedar oar
'Multiprotocol' pertains to Zigbee and thread, which isn't what you need anyway
junior cipher
you will need the matter server, which is available either for HAOS as the "Matt...
i succesfuly installed the matter server container but it asks me for websocket url
junior cipher
'Multiprotocol' pertains to Zigbee and thread, which isn't what you need anyway
so i just need a dongle for matter over thread devices? didnt know that.
snow barn
thread is a different radio protocol, so you need a radio that can talk to thread devices to use it
for wifi devices... you already have a device that can do wifi protocol :)
junior cipher
didnt figured it out, seems i was overcomplicating
iam having trouble with the integration cause it asks me for url (i have ipv6 enabled on router already)
snow barn
regarding the websocket, are you seeing that when trying to set up the matter integration in home assistant? it needs to be able to talk to the python-matter-server, so you'll have to tell it how to connect to that.
with the haos add-on this is automatically detected/configured.
junior cipher
yes exactly that
snow barn
https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/python-matter-server/blob/main/docs/docker.md are the instructions for your use case. I don't have any personal experience with setting it up like this.
doesn't seem to cover the websocket stuff, but it'll be port 5580 and the hostname depends on how you set up the docker stuff
junior cipher
i was looking into that but it doesnt explain the websocker (let me google what is a websocket)
i have a tricky set up because it is behind traefik and authelia and using domain
cedar oar
None of that really matters inside your network
snow barn
this should be more or less local communication between home assistant and python-matter-server
doesn't involve any external access at all
junior cipher
ill setup the container without that stuff
snow barn
specifically, the home assistant server docker container needs to be able to connect to the websocket port on the python-matter-server container, which should be local communication (on the same physical machine)
junior cipher
ill try to set it up
snow barn
note that the python-matter-server itself does also have a web ui, but access for that is not required for operation (it's a debug tool, mostly)
you should ensure that the python-matter-server port is not accessible from outside your home assistant machine, since it doesn't have any authentication.