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johndoyle
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2 months ago

IKEA Matter over thread devices

I would like to be able to use some of the new IKEA smart home products, but it looks like the Telus router might be making this difficult. I am running an open thread border router on home assistant...
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FuzzyLogic
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2 months ago

I'm not sure what router you have but on the T3200M I believe it doesn't broadcast the SSID. You will need the information that is displayed for the SSID and Password when you enable the Smart Device function to connect your devices.

Additionaly my understanding is that this is 2.4GHz only.

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    johndoyle
    Neighbour
    2 months ago

    Thanks for the reply and for the inspiration to keep trying! I managed to get a provisioning phone on the router's smart device network. Unfortunately, the IKEA device commissioning process is still hanging on the step of connecting to the thread network. The fact that there are no logs indicating what's happening on the open thread border router suggest that the router is not permitting the connection. I can't confirm this because these new Telus routers do not allow me to view its logs.

    2.4 GHz is not a problem as these devices use that frequency exclusively, afaik. It's access to multicast that seems to be the issue.

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