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  • I litteraly had exactly the same issue last week.

    It seems like the subsystem for adding matter devices on Android is part of Play services and not supported in Graphene.

    I read around a bit and there are supposed to be ways of adding your phone or a laptop as bluetooth proxies and use them to pair the devices. If that works for you, great! I mearly wasted a few hours trying to get any of that to work and then gave up. What did work for me instead was going to the store, buying a 10€ bluetooth dongle and plugging that into homeassistant.

    Whatever route you go, once you HA-instance has access to bluetooth (and you have anabled the bluetooth integration), go to the matter server app and in the configuration toggle “Enable BLE proxy” on.

    Then restart the server and you can add your devices in the Matter Server by clicking on comission node -> new thread device and entering the key (including hyphens, found that out the hard way :|…). It does take a bit longer then adding zigbee devices but works and has been stable so far.









  • What country are you in? If you are in one where college is affordable and you truly enjoy CS (not the same as software engineering) or think you may will; just try it for a bit.

    Live is not all about money and careers and if you are talented enough you will find something after your degree and have fun with it, even if it might not be the absourdly overpaid positions of the past.

    Otherwise, if you already have some experience and are not interested in the acedemic side of computers or can’t afford to “just try” college, (software) engineering is a great place for starting without a degree, be it an entry level position, or an apprenticeship. Although these might actually be hard to find for the next few years :|…