I recently bought a silicon dev20270 board which I hoped I could connect to my homey pro using Matter. After uploading the first code on the board and trying to connect the board I got a message the device cannot be added because it is not certified. Does someone know a way to add uncertified devices(which I made myself) so I can play around with it. I know there are apps which allow you adding your Arduino boards using wifi but would like to use Matter if possible. Also not sure if you could maybe add those devices if you would make a app?
So if someone has any idea if and how it’s possible let me know. Thanks
I am waiting for their response yet… I’ve said that homekit and Google home support uncertified devices
To be honest I bought homey to have more freedom than homekit so let’s see
I also bought a Arduino nano with thread. It will need a thread border router. Are you saying the homey pro won’t be able to connect to this once I put it together? What is the point of it being a thread border router? Shoot.
Is there a way to get another thread border router and then connect it to homey pro as a hub? Could that be a workaround?
I would suggest opening a ticket, that Homey should allow uncertified devices. I think this is something that will only change if they see that there is enough demand by the customers.
For whatever reason, Athom went a different route with Matter than they did for Zigbee and Z-Wave: instead of allowing apps to implement support for devices, everything related to Matter is handled by Homey’s core.
This resulted in the Matter limitations that Homey has, like not accepting uncertified devices, and not supporting certain non-standard, yet much-used, clusters (for instance related to energy reporting).
I guess the main reason for this is to limit support requests for unsupported devices, now they can just tell everyone that “your device isn’t certified, too bad”, thereby limiting Homey’s Matter implementation even more.
Another reason could be that more flexible Matter support apparently isn’t a priority for LG’s own Homey, and most work that Athom is doing on Matter seems to be in support of that device (just look at the new device types that were added to Homey’s Matter implementation, all are devices that LG makes themselves).
I mean I get all that but I’m not even asking for custom clusters, just to allow uncertified Matter devices in a similar way that even Apple allows you to add them. And if they just add it as one of their “experiments” settings then so be it.
That’s already possible, but devices between the Apple border router and Homey are still shared over Matter, and Homey will still refuse to pair uncertified devices that way.
