Google Home - Devices Offline

[robvanoostenrijk]

After following the setup instructions, I was able to add the MatterBridge Aggregrator in Google Home.

However, even though no errors are displaying in the MatterBridge interface, the devices themselves stay offline in the Google Home app:

(For now I'm using whitelist to expose only 1 Zigbee device for testing)

MatterBridge WebUI:

I'm not sure how to debug this issue, if its a configuration problem or a bug? Happy to provide more debug logs if required.

[Luligu]

Hi, from your screenshot I see that Google Home has still not connected to Matterbridge: Active sessions: 0 I see also that it was starting to create a connection but the active subscriptions are 0. This:

is not correct too. What configuration do you have that has no macAddress and ipv6?

I use and test on all controllers but Google Home... All of them in a while (can be 1-2 minute) connect.

@tammeryousef1006 what do you do when Google Home doesn't connect?

[robvanoostenrijk]

Your response led me down the right path. I am running Matterbridge in a FreeBSD Jail on OPNSense. I did not realize that Matter as a protocol relies on IPv6 LUA connectivity.

For future reference, in a jail the following in /etc/rc.conf made LUA working:

ifconfig_igc0="inet 192.168.10.6/24"
defaultrouter="192.168.10.1"

ifconfig_lo0_ipv6="inet6 ifdisabled"
ifconfig_igc0_ipv6="inet6 auto_linklocal"
ipv6_default_interface="igc0"

After these changes Matterbridge is able to communicate with the Google Home hub and a session is established as mentioned. Matterbridge is an awesome piece of work @Luligu!

For those using FreeBSD, rc.d daemon script I am using to run Matterbridge:

#!/bin/sh

# PROVIDE: matterbridge
# REQUIRE: DAEMON NETWORKING mosquito zigbee2mqtt
# BEFORE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name=matterbridge
rcvar=matterbridge_enable
load_rc_config ${name}

: ${matterbridge_enable:="NO"}
: ${matterbridge_node:="/usr/local/bin/node"}
: ${matterbridge_script:="/usr/local/bin/${name}"}
: ${matterbridge_user:="${name}"}
: ${matterbridge_group:="${name}"}
: ${matterbridge_args:="-bridge -ssl"}

# daemon
start_precmd="${name}_prestart"
command=/usr/sbin/daemon
procname="daemon"
pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
logfile="/var/log/${name}.log"
command_args=" --change-dir --close-fds --supervisor-pidfile ${pidfile} --restart-delay 5 --sighup --output-file ${logfile} ${matterbridge_node} ${matterbridge_script} ${matterbridge_args}"

matterbridge_prestart()
{
    export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
    export HOME="/home/${matterbridge_user}"
    install -g "${matterbridge_group}" -m 664 -o "${matterbridge_user}" -- /dev/null "${logfile}"
    install -g "${matterbridge_group}" -m 664 -o "${matterbridge_user}" -- /dev/null "${pidfile}"
}

run_rc_command "$1"

[Luligu]

Hi, I'm glad you solved. Thanks for your appreciation. My best.