On a lark I decided to buy a Nanoleaf Essentials kit with a light strip and two bulbs. These are matter over thread. I've read that they can be set up in Hubitat but I don't seem to be able to do it.
I have the light strip working in HomeKit, and per the Hubitat app instructions, I use the Home app to put it in pairing mode, and it gives me a code to copy. On the Hubitat, if I add a device via the matter button it asks for the code. I paste it in, and it just spins and eventually says it cannot connect. Am I doing something wrong?
Ah, I saw this rigamorole mentioned in my initial search. I thought it had to be a workaround or beta testing or something like that. I was hoping it would have been 'fixed' by now. I can't believe this is how Matter integration is supposed to go. Why is it this complicated? Is it a problem with the Nanoleaf device or Hubitat's Matter support?
If it is a matter device and not just wifi it's it's simpler
Since you have it onboarded onto homekit, simply generate a matter code from the devices's page then on the hub from a web browser go to devices>>add device>>add matter device and type in the code.
After I added it to HomeKit I configured it in the Nanoleaf app and updated the firmware. This was about a week ago. It is still the latest. The screenshot shows what happens if I try to add it to Hubitat. It just spins. I have a C7 if that makes a difference.
I just went through this dance for an hour or so with a Nanoleaf Thread/Matter bulb. I paired it easily with my C7. Then decided I wanted it on the C8. First I tried it with hub mesh but that was a little inconsistent for some reason. Unfortunately I had not written down the pairing code so no worries, deleted it from the C7 and reset the bulb. No way after an at least six attempts would it pair to the C8. Since the bulb and the Echo v4 as a Thread border router was an experiment I bailed and installed a free Kasa WiFi color bulb in a couple of minutes and got on with the day. Life's too short for matter at the moment. ZigBee, Z-wave and the occasional WiFi integration work easily and reliably for me. The're numerous directions stating that you can use the same pairing code that was provided for the initial pairng. That would have been the C7 but I could not find anything on the device page with that code. That C7 is on the most current 2.4.0.125 beta. @rlithgow1 posted in another thread that a matter device should be able to be connected to more than one hub.
Yeah I have given up on getting it connected to Hubitat. I have mostly Z-Wave and this was my first foray into attempting to connect a Thread device via Matter to Hubitat. I'll just employ a workaround: either use HomeKit for the automation logic or do the virtual switch thing.
