Some Matter examples for the development kits from Nordic Semiconductor include a command-line interface that allows access to application logs and Zephyr shell.
To access the CLI console, use a serial terminal emulator of your choice, like Minicom or GNU Screen. Use the baud rate set to 115200.
For example, to start using the CLI console with Minicom, run the following command with /dev/ttyACM0 replaced with the device node name of your development kit:
$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0 -b 115200
When you reboot the kit, you will see the boot logs in the console, similar to the following messages:
uart:~$ I: nRF5 802154 radio initialized I: 8 Sectors of 4096 bytes I: alloc wra: 0, ff0 I: data wra: 0, 0 *** Booting Zephyr OS build v2.4.0-ncs1 *** I: Init CHIP stack ...
This means that the console is working correctly and you can start using shell commands. For example, issuing the kernel threads command will print information about all running threads:
uart:~$ kernel threads Scheduler: 277 since last call Threads: 0x20006518 CHIP options: 0x0, priority: -1 timeout: 536896912 state: pending stack size 8192, unused 7256, usage 936 / 8192 (11 %) 0x20004ab0 SDC RX options: 0x0, priority: -10 timeout: 536890152 state: pending stack size 1024, unused 848, usage 176 / 1024 (17 %) ...
To list all available commands, use the Tab key, which is normally used for the command completion feature.
Pressing the Tab key in an empty command line prints the list of available commands:
uart:~$ clear date device flash help history kernel nrf_clock_control ot resize shell
Pressing the Tab key with a command entered in the command line cycles through available options for the given command.
OpenThread commands are also accessible from the shell. However, they must preceded by ot. For example:
uart:~$ ot masterkey 00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff Done
The nRF Connect examples let you use several Matter-specific CLI commands.
These commands are not available by default and to enable using them, set the CONFIG_CHIP_LIB_SHELL=y Kconfig option in the prj.conf file of the given example.
Every invoked command must be preceded by the matter prefix.
See the following subsections for the description of each Matter-specific command.
Handles a group of commands that are used to manage the device. You must use this command together with one of the additional subcommands listed below.
Performs device factory reset that is hardware reset preceded by erasing of the whole Matter settings stored in a non-volatile memory.
uart:~$ matter factoryreset Performing factory reset ...
Handles a group of commands that are used to view information about device onboarding codes. You can use this command without any subcommand to print all available onboarding codes or to add a specific subcommand.
uart:~$ matter onboardingcodes QRCode: MT:W0GU2OTB00KA0648G00 QRCodeUrl: https://dhrishi.github.io/connectedhomeip/qrcode.html?data=MT%3AW0GU2OTB00KA0648G00 ManualPairingCode: 34970112332
The onboardingcodes command can also take the subcommands listed below.
Prints the device onboarding QR code payload. Takes no arguments.
uart:~$ matter onboardingcodes qrcode MT:W0GU2OTB00KA0648G00
Prints the URL to view the device onboarding QR code in a web browser. Takes no arguments.
uart:~$ matter onboardingcodes qrcodeurl https://dhrishi.github.io/connectedhomeip/qrcode.html?data=MT%3AW0GU2OTB00KA0648G00
Prints the pairing code for the manual onboarding of a device. Takes no arguments.
uart:~$ matter onboardingcodes manualpairingcode 34970112332
Handles a group of commands that are used to view device configuration information. You can use this command without any subcommand to print all available configuration data or to add a specific subcommand.
VendorId: 9050 (0x235A) ProductId: 20043 (0x4E4B) HardwareVersion: 1 (0x1) FabricId: PinCode: 020202021 Discriminator: f00 DeviceId:
The config command can also take the subcommands listed below.
Prints the PIN code for device setup. Takes no arguments.
uart:~$ matter config pincode 020202021
Prints the device setup discriminator. Takes no arguments.
uart:~$ matter config discriminator f00
Prints the vendor ID of the device. Takes no arguments.
uart:~$ matter config vendorid 9050 (0x235A)
Prints the product ID of the device. Takes no arguments.
uart:~$ matter config productid 20043 (0x4E4B)
Prints the hardware version of the device. Takes no arguments.
uart:~$ matter config hardwarever 1 (0x1)
Prints the device identifier. Takes no arguments.
Prints the fabric identifier. Takes no arguments.
Handles a group of commands that are used to control the device Bluetooth LE transport state. You must use this command together with one of the additional subcommands listed below.
Prints help information about ble commands group.
uart:~$ matter ble help help Usage: ble <subcommand> adv Enable or disable advertisement. Usage: ble adv <start|stop|state>
Enables Bluetooth LE advertising.
uart:~$ matter ble adv start Starting BLE advertising
Disables Bluetooth LE advertising.
uart:~$ matter ble adv stop Stopping BLE advertising
Prints the information about the current Bluetooth LE advertising status.
uart:~$ matter ble adv state BLE advertising is disabled
Handles a group of commands that are used to control the device NFC tag emulation state. You must use this command together with one of the additional subcommands listed below.
Starts the NFC tag emulation.
uart:~$ matter nfc start NFC tag emulation started
Stops the NFC tag emulation.
uart:~$ matter nfc stop NFC tag emulation stopped
Prints the information about the NFC tag emulation status.
uart:~$ matter nfc state NFC tag emulation is disabled
Handles a group of commands that are used to trigger performing DNS queries. You must use this command together with one of the additional subcommands listed below.
Browses for DNS services of _matterc_udp type and prints the received response. Takes no argument.
uart:~$ matter dns browse Browsing ... DNS browse succeeded: Hostname: 0E824F0CA6DE309C Vendor ID: 9050 Product ID: 20043 Long discriminator: 3840 Device type: 0 Device name: Commissioning mode: 0 IP addresses: fd08:b65e:db8e:f9c7:2cc2:2043:1366:3b31
Resolves the specified Matter node service given by the and .
uart:~$ matter dns resolve <fabric-id> <node-id> Resolving ... DNS resolve for 000000014A77CBB3-0000000000BC5C01 succeeded: IP address: fd08:b65e:db8e:f9c7:8052:1a8e:4dd4:e1f3 Port: 5540