Add matter devices that are already in homekit | Home Assistant | Page 1

viscid grove Jun 26, 2025, 1:02 PM

I'm trying to add matter devices which are already linked to my apple homekit. Specifically an eve weather, and a switchbot matter hub.

The eve weather is connected to a thread network with multiple border routers (homepod mini, apple TV), the switchbot hub is on wifi.

I use the iOS homeassistant app, follow the prompt, put the device in pairing mode, enter the code, then it tries for a while and fails, with "Failed to add device."

My setup: Home Assistant OS 15.2, in a proxmox VM. The home assistant OS has a local ipv4 and a both a global and local ipv6 address, and has internet access.

I have a separate nginx reverse proxy running which exposes home-assistant at home.mydomain.tld, the reverse proxy has access to ipv4 and ipv6 of HA, and I configured the proxie's ipv4 and ipv6 addresses as trusted_proxies in the config yaml. The iOS app connects to HA via this reverse proxy.

I see these errors in the matter server logs:

2025-06-26 15:15:35.124 (Dummy-2) CHIP_ERROR [chip.native.CTL] Discovery timed out
2025-06-26 15:15:35.125 (Dummy-2) CHIP_ERROR [chip.native.ZCL] Secure Pairing Failed
2025-06-26 15:15:35.125 (Dummy-2) WARNING [chip.ChipDeviceCtrl] Failed to establish secure session to device: src/controller/python/ChipDeviceController-ScriptDevicePairingDelegate.cpp:96: CHIP Error 0x00000003: Incorrect state
2025-06-26 15:15:35.125 (MainThread) ERROR [matter_server.server.client_handler] [139871248968080] Error while handling: commission_with_code: Commission with code failed for node 5.

viscid grove Jun 26, 2025, 1:30 PM

A different device, eve door/window, also connected via thread, was able to be added.

For some reason I could now also add the eve weather. Next problem: I have a switchbot hub mini. For this device I get other errors:

2025-06-26 15:33:05.933 (MainThread) INFO [matter_server.server.device_controller] Starting Matter commissioning with code using Node ID 9.
2025-06-26 15:33:06.799 (Dummy-2) INFO [chip.ChipDeviceCtrl] Established secure session with Device
2025-06-26 15:33:06.799 (Dummy-2) INFO [chip.ChipDeviceCtrl] Established secure session with Device
2025-06-26 15:33:37.088 (Dummy-2) CHIP_ERROR [chip.native.CTL] Error on commissioning step 'SendAttestationRequest': 'src/app/CommandSender.cpp:344: CHIP Error 0x00000032: Timeout'
2025-06-26 15:33:37.190 (Dummy-2) CHIP_ERROR [chip.native.EM] Failed to send Solitary ack for MessageCounter:74581803 on exchange 25720i with Node: <0000000000000000, 0>:src/messaging/ExchangeContext.cpp:99: CHIP Error 0x00000002: Connection aborted
2025-06-26 15:33:37.190 (Dummy-2) WARNING [chip.ChipDeviceCtrl] Failed to commission: src/app/CommandSender.cpp:344: CHIP Error 0x00000032: Timeout
2025-06-26 15:33:37.190 (MainThread) ERROR [matter_server.server.client_handler] [139871248968080] Error while handling: commission_with_code: Commission with code failed for node 9.

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