What Wi-Fi creds are passed when connecting a Matter over Wi-Fi device?

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Hello!

I am trying to get an understanding of what creds are being used when a Matter over Wi-Fi device is connected. I normally would keep the Homey Pro connected to Eithernet or to my primary network that is 5 GHz however most of my smart home devices that connect over Wi-Fi (namely Matter over Wi-Fi) only support 2.4 GHz networks and often do not play nice with channel steering in my experience. Is there a way to specify the network and creds to Matter over Wi-Fi devices to get them to connect to a specified network or is the device just passing through the Wi-Fi network that it is connected to?

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Using the Homey Web App, Matter over Thread devices will connect to Homey Pro’s Thread network (refer to “Thread for Homey Pro (Early 2023)” for more information). Matter over Wi-Fi devices will connect to the same Wi-Fi network as Homey Pro. If Homey Pro is not connected to Wi-Fi and only uses the Ethernet connection, it is necessary to manually select a Wi-Fi network while connecting the Matter device.

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