I'm using the Docker version of Home Assistant on Unraid. I recently bought Inovelli White light switches and I'm trying to connect them to HA using Matter and my Google Nest Hub as a Thread border router. When adding the Matter integration to Home Assistant, it's asking for a URL. I don't know what this is and can't find documentation to explain it. I try submitting with the default value and it says Failed to connect. Any suggestions here?
#Matter Integration URL?
red shard
main cairn
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/matter/#supported-installation-types
If you're running the container, you need to run the server yourself
Really not recommended to run that on a NAS though
red shard
Can I just connect them to the Google Nest Hub, connect Thread to HA, and then control them that way?
Not sure if that works. I don't know anything about Thread/Matter. Only using it for Inovelli.
red shard
Really not recommended to run that on a NAS though
Is there a better setup for what I'm trying to do?
frank otter
Is there a better setup for what I'm trying to do?
I mean, if you already have the HA container running, you should be able to pull the matter server alongside it pretty easily https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/python-matter-server/pkgs/container/python-matter-server
frank otter
Really not recommended to run that on a NAS though
Any specific reason for that? I'm currently in the process of building a "vaguely-NAS-like" server with the plan of transferring HA to it as well; and while I don't have any Matter devices for now, I'd like to hear if I'm building myself into a trap there...
main cairn
That's mainly due to the specific OS requirements: https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/python-matter-server/blob/main/docs/os_requirements.md
This is specifically for the Matter server itself. If you ran it in a VM, then there'd be no issue