I am using homey self hosted server on a unraid docker and have a homey bridge, google gen2 nest is acting as the matter controller i guess, i bought an Aqara m100 hub to try to help also, but it doesn’t:( , my new ikea matter over thread switches are always going off line and i look like an idiot to my wife.
Would a homey pro solve this issue? why can’t stuff just work?
i tried putting the ikea switches into zigbee mode but homey does not see them as switches anymore, Home assistant apparently will but i don’t have any desire to use ha.
how can i make my wife ok with my home automation desires??
seriously though, buying a homey pro would not make this better would it?
The Aqara M100 is not supported by Homey yet, however, you can use IFTTT or Google Home automations + virtual devices to act as a “relay” between the Aqara Hub and the Homey.
how does that help my matter over thread switches from dropping out all the time? i added the m100 just in the hopes it would strengthen my matter network.
I don’t think getting the Homey Pro will solve (what looks like) a connectivity issue.
I’m not using Matter myself, but what do you see when navigating to “Matter” in developer tools?
If you have more zigbee accessoires that could help, most times Zigbee has more options enabled too. What’s exactly happening in this scenario? Can’t connect them to Homey via Zigbee? Can connect via Zigbee, but the device isn’t working as expected?
What’s the exact Ikea Matter Switch name? There have been several posts lately about Ikea Matter devices.
The M100 is a hub that can connect to (Aqara and maybe other brands) Matter and Thread devices and Aqara ZigBee devices and then bridge them to Aqara’s cloud so you can access them from anywhere using the Aqara mobile app. Since there’s no Aqara Cloud Homey app yet, it’s only possible to integrate it via a workaround like IFTTT
ok, i am sorry i mentioned the m100:) my nest hub is acting as the matter controller on my network, nothing is using the m100, i mentioned it as something i tried to use to help.
It is ikea bilresa switches i am trying to make reliable, matter over thread, no aqara involved.
Ikea Bilresa switches, they drop out all the time, but if i put them in zigbee mode and add them to homey they are just listed as “zigbee device” not as a switch i can add to a flow or anything.
The Google Nest hub is your Matter controller? Then it bridges your Matter devices to the Google Home app, so you can control them from anywhere. In this case, you can create Virtual devices in Homey and then make the virtual device reflect the status of the real device by creating automations in the Google Home app
The switches connect to homey just fine and work as intended right up until they don’t, sometimes its a day, and sometimes its two days, i added them to homey via the homey app. they are there, all of there functions are there and work, they just lose connection sometimes and need to be readded.
That means you connected them to Homey, not to the Nest Hub or Aqara M100.
Yes, I also have that with Matter. Most of the time it doesn’t even set up the device and if it does, it just goes offline after a few minutes. This happened with testing with Google Home, my Homey Pro 2019 does not support Matter by itself. I’ve just given up on it and will simply never use Matter devices. I recommend you to look for alternatives to Matter (zigbee, cloud, wifi, etc. are all far more stable than Matter).
As mentioned above create a better mesh.
For example i had issues with my Nuki lock dropping offline all the time - connected directly to my TBR
I added one Thread plug near by and the connection has been solid since and I can see that the lock signal hops between the plug and the TBR
Onvis make some cheap Matter Thread plugs. You can use a few of these to improve your thread mesh.
Remove the m100 it can get confusing if there are multiple thread networks.
The ikea hub can also act as a TBR and you can in its settings change which Thread network it uses and broadcasts so it will further increase your mesh and reliability
However as said above, ive seen alot of comments about the ikea devices and i dont think they are quite working as they should just yet when it comes to matter
i thought my nest gen2 and google streamer tv where TBR’s, when i set up the matter devices in homey they say they are using NEST-*** as the the connection to the network.
so another hub to buy, this was supposed to be easier then HA, lol.
also i thought the m100 was a TBR, i am getting more confused.
my HA setup went unused for 2 years because it was getting overwhelming and frustrating, with homey i got way more ahead, bathroom fan comes on with humidity, plugs i want to come on based on motion and time of day work, but man some things…
To clarify that a bit.
If you get another hub, hard wire it with ethernet right next to your main hub or router it wont help.
You need to set the ikea hub to join/use your preferred thread network so it casts that network instead and it needs to be positioned somewhere else.
Any permanently live plug or bulb will also act as a router device and may be an easier option.
A homey Pro can be a matter/thread router as it stands so if you went down that route you would add the plugs or bulbs or matter devices directly to the HP
However as your on SHS you will need a TBR - in your case google.
Providing you can set the ikea hub to use googles thread network it would expand it. You then pair any plugs or bulbs to Google so they act as mesh repeaters and then SHS will use that thread network. They must be Matter over Thread devices, not matter over wifi.
Or you keep ikea hub and ditch the google. However then you risk that you are limited to only Ikea devices (this should not be the case as the whole point of matter ans thread is to try unify all of these.
Unless anyone can add more or clarify something I may have got wrong, you need to build a solid thread/matter mesh and then add your end devices AFTER
Homey have today in a support ticket email confirmed that this is an issue they need to repair in an update and that it shouldnt affect pairing matter devices.
However ive found matter/ thread to be a very painful hit and miss experiment and seems to only add devices depending on the wind direction. Some times its instant other times it takes forever or just never adds.
Homeys reply was to make sure im on the same network.
Even when i turn 5g off so i force my phone onto 2.5g and turn smart connect off and AX mode off in my router. Its still hit and miss
